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Ruth Montgomery
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Immunologist at Yale School of Medicine
Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs @YaleMed
Innate immunity ❤️
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Congratulations to our wonderful colleague Dr. Erica Herzog @yalemed.bsky.social, we look forward to continuing to work with you and all of yoru section!
kaminskimed.bsky.social KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 8d
Exciting!!!
Dr. Erica Herzog is the new Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Yale!!
Congratulations from all of us in #YalePCCSM & #CurePF4All community!!
#AcademicBliss
#BestInPulm
#ThisIsYalePCCSM

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September 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Amazing new dimensions of multiplex tissue analysis--congratulations Lingyan Shi and my Yale colleagues! @rongfan8.bsky.social @yalemed.bsky.social
August 31, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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2 genetically identical mice. Same infection, same bacterial load, but only 1 lives. Why? #HHMIInvestigator Janelle Ayres spent decades finding out, & her answer — survival can come through cooperating w/pathogens, not just killing them — could reshape how we treat infectious disease: bit.ly/4qsuWJW
Janelle Ayres in her lab.
August 23, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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The most pressing questions in immunology — why do people respond differently to infection, vaccination or therapy? Why do some develop chronic inflammatory disease while others remain resilient? See high-dimensional public data resources.
@hipcproject.bsky.social @yalemed.bsky.social rdcu.be/fAwms
From data to discovery: a unified framework for human immunology
Nature Immunology - High-throughput, high-dimensional profiling technologies have transformed the ability to generate and test hypotheses of human immunology. Investment in infrastructure has...
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August 18, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Hi @msmacrophage.bsky.social wishing you a great march and great discoveries to all
msmacrophage.bsky.social Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · Aug 13
I've been on an immunologic side-quest lately supporting my @machealthsci.bsky.social colleague's research on immunotherapies for multiple myeloma. It's remarkable watching these transform care & outcomes. I'm #MyelomaMarch -ing w/them to raise funds -sponsor me here? tinyurl.com/4rtennff
AI image (don't hate me) of me standing at my lab bench with my favourite immune cells - macrophages and the caption "I'm just an immunogist standing in front of a formidable cancer foe, asking immunotherapies release a can of whoop-ass.Please sponsor me at the Myeloma March and let’s make it happen."
August 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure.

Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. She was born #OTD in 1920. #WomenInSTEM 🧵
A classic, black-and-white studio portrait of a young Dr. Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), the pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose data was foundational to uncovering the double-helix structure of DNA. Captured from the chest up, Franklin sits in a three-quarter pose, her body angled slightly toward the left while her gaze directly meets the viewer. She possesses a calm, intelligent, and subtly enigmatic expression, with her dark hair neatly parted on the side and styled back away from her face. She wears a dark, long-sleeved button-down blouse with structured shoulders, a sharp collar, and fabric buttons down the front placket. The background is a soft, minimalist studio gradient of neutral grays that creates a gentle vignette effect, casting a soft light on the right side of her face. The composition is clean, formal, and balanced, evoking a mood of quiet determination, dignity, and brilliant intellectual poise characteristic of the early 20th-century scientific vanguard.
July 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Another red alert for American science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Another red alert for American science
Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
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June 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Yale Physician-Scientists Pioneer Fetal Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
David Stitelman, MD, has received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute to advance his collaborative research on a novel fetal therapy approach
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May 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Can eating less help us age better?

Research has long shown that cutting calories can improve lifespan in some species, but it’s not always practical or healthy for people. Now, a study from immunobiologist Vishwa Deep Dixit is exploring how we might get those same benefits without the risks.
Cutting Calories to Slow Aging--Without Compromising Health
Scientists found a potential target for achieving the healthy longevity that can come with calorie restriction, without the negative effects it can have on the
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May 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Excited to announce our new study (w/ @maxkrummel.bsky.social) published today @nature.com: Macrophages “hold our living identities” by taking tiny bites from living cells and presenting this information to CD8 T cells.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#immunology #cellbiology @immunox.bsky.social
Submicrometre sampling of living cells by macrophages - Nature
Macrophages can sample antigens from living cells through a trogocytosis-like mechanism that routes ingested material away from degradation, a finding that delineates a previously unknown pathway...
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April 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Thank you to the incredible panel of researchers who presented at the Immune Development in Early Life Hot Topic Symposium at @pasmeeting.bsky.social #PAS2026

L to R: Dr. Xiaobin Wang, Dr. Ofer Levy, Dr. Oluwabunmi Olaloye, Dr. Octavio Ramilo, Dr. Paolo Palma.
#vaccines #IDEAL #EarlyLifeImmunity
April 29, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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We focus on human immunology to understand the effects of #aging. Great science being shared at @hipcproject.bsky.social annual meeting by @adamtanguay.bsky.social from @yalemed.bsky.social
April 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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After the HIPC Symposium, meet some of our researchers and speakers at our Immunology Superbooth in the exhibition center! At booths #736 #738 @aai.org
April 18, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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@skleinstein.bsky.social presenting on @immportdb.bsky.social and @hipcproject.bsky.social work at #AAI2026 💡
April 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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We have age-associated macrophages in visceral fat making C3a and increasing inflammation. C'mon macrophages, we need your help here. Wonderful new paper from Dixit lab @yalemed.bsky.social #SenNet
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Exoproteome of calorie-restricted humans identifies complement deactivation as an immunometabolic checkpoint reducing inflammaging - Nature Aging
Applying proteomics to longitudinal plasma samples from calorically restricted participants of the CALERIE trial, Mishra, Kim and colleagues link complement protein C3a to inflammaging. In aged mice, ...
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April 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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#AAI2026: Besides our #HIPC Guest Symposium, we will have two presentations from members of our #ImmuneSpace team (
@skleinstein.bsky.social & Jian Xing) on Saturday, April 18th! Hope to see you there at @aai.org 💬💡🙂
April 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Members of our Data Management and Analysis team had a great time at NextGenOmics, Spatial & Data US! Joann Diray Arce, PhD gave a talk on ImmuneVISTA and MultiOMICs in #vaccine research

#NGOUS2026 #OGPREMED #vaccines
April 2, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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Congratulations to my wonderful Yale colleagues!
yale.edu Yale University @yale.edu · Apr 2
Five Yale faculty members and affiliates have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest scientific societies.

The new @aaas.org fellows are Susan Baserga, Kenneth Nelson, Jacqueline Tanaka, Qin Yan, and Julie Zimmerman.
Five Yale affiliates named AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected five members of the Yale community as part of its latest class of fellows.
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April 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Working together to advance understanding of human immunology. Well said Holden! @hipcproject.bsky.social
immunome.bsky.social Human Immunome Project @immunome.bsky.social · Mar 30
Stanford's HIMC has been at the frontier of systems immunology since Mark Davis founded it in 2007. But as HIMC Director Holden Maecker says, decoding the immunome is beyond the scope of any 1 lab.

HIP is the global movement to change that.

🎥 youtu.be/yiFj3m4m3MU

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HIP Banbury — Prof. Holden Maecker
YouTube video by Human Immunome Project
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March 30, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.
March 26, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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🎉 Congrats to #AGE2026 Early Career Scholar Awardee Piper Wilburn- #IndianaUniversitySchoolOfMedicine.
Recognized by the #AmericanAgingAssociation, her research studies how the bone marrow niche shapes stem cell function and transplant outcomes in aging.
#Geroscience #AgingResearch
March 25, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Good discussion of the disappearing NIH Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs).

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The NOFO Graveyard
A Response to NIH's Defense of Its Vanishing Funding Opportunities
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March 25, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on air purifier filters in university spaces without symptomatic or confirmed cases
Understanding the seasonality and prevalence of respiratory viruses in indoor environments is essential for protecting public health in the post-pandemic era. This study investigated the presence o...
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March 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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I love phagocytosis- the most ancient form of immunity (estimated at 1 billion yrs old!). Lucky to geek out with all the other macrophage and neutrophil geeks at beautiful Keble college, Oxford.
Sign of the European Phagocyte Workshop Me surrounded by the ridiculous beauty that is every Oxford college.
March 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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New clues to understand #HealthyAging from @yalemed.bsky.social studying longevity in nature. #SenNet www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Immunometabolic resistors of aging in long-lived golden spiny mice
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February 26, 2026 at 2:23 PM