1. One of the most delightful surprising things I learned as I progressed through my scientific training was realising that storytelling was a major & essential part of being a scientist. Whether writing papers, grants, or presenting a poster/talk, storytelling was a core skill.

This week, the U.S. COVID death toll surpassed the population of #SLC Imagine that for a moment, our entire community gone. I raise this sobering point to say we must stay vigilant. Utah is spiking. Now is the moment to wear a mask, stay socially distanced, and be cautious #utpol

Excited to participate in the 3rd Yale Center for Immuno-Oncology symposium on Friday. It rivals any #immunooncology meeting this year w/ Rafi Ahmed, Max, Amanda Lund Lab, Crystal Mackall, Steve Rosenberg, Padmanee Sharma, Arlene Sharpe, Aaron Ring, E. John Wherry and me! Free to join, link below.

A moving anecdote. This brought tears to my eyes....

In the third Covid-19 surge, people are becoming infected not just at big gatherings but during daily routines or in smaller social settings they thought of as safe on.wsj.com/3kA7uHt

Printed papers on my desk x.com/TooSatisfied/s…

I got the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine yesterday. I asked the nurse charting my vaccine if they plan to give people the prime and the boost in the same or opposite arm and she simply answered “it doesn’t matter”. I disagree, I think it does matter! Thread

Well, that's a nice surprise! What happens if you have had COVID infection before and you get a COVID vaccine?

Here's some good news: Our Conte Center Neuroimmune Meeting is back ON March 24-25 2021 in Virtual format. Same Amazing speakers plus interactive posters sessions, Hoping to gets lots of participation from all over... esp from Trainees. REGISTRATION neuroimmune-conte-harvard.org/index.php/symp…

I for one think it’s an outrage that we are writing about the progress of (checks notes) what the White House chief of staff has been trying to call attention to for weeks

Our lab's current grad students really enjoyed learning from alumni Dr. Mandy Ford! Her talk about Fgl2-FcgRIIB-mediated control of CD8 T cells was intriguing! #AAI2021

Fantastic and highly informative session on "Immunity to SARS-Cov-2 infection"!! E. John Wherry Prof. Shane Crotty Bali Pulendran Ignacio Sanz #AAI2021

Honored to be a part of his team! Brian is a great mentor anyone could ask for :)

Our latest publication detailing TCR:pMHC interaction in T cell signaling is out in Science!! Congrats Elizabeth M Kolawole Canonical T cell receptor docking on peptide-MHC is essential for T cell signaling pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34083463/

[4:36 PM] 106°F. We just official hit a temperature NEVER before seen in the month of June at Salt Lake City all 147 years of records. We are only 1 degree away from tying the all-time all-time record of 107°F. #utwx

In #Utah and nationwide, we have experienced a decrease in blood donations since the onset of the #COVID19 pandemic. University of Utah Health and ARUP Laboratories ask Utahns to please donate during this critical shortage. All blood types needed, especially O- and O+. bit.ly/3ywJLPx

Our work detailing #metabolic control of #GSDMD oligomerization is now online. Cell Boston Children's Harvard Immunology Harvard Micro Harvard Medical School Harvard University #pyroptosis #immunometabolism #ros cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 1/

We've finished part II of the SARS-CoV-2 lifecycle, showing early translational events (by Margot Riggi) and transcription within double-membraned vesicles (by Ann (Hui Liu)). A short (very truncated!) preview below; check out the full version at animationlab.utah.edu/cova

I'm just so tired of this shit. These are just the obvious ones- a thread lest we forget. David Sabatini- 2021 MIT/Whitehead/HHMI the-scientist.com/news-opinion/c…

1) Boston University researches have made a SARS-CoV-2 virus that has the spike of Omicron BA.1 and the remaining genome of the ancestral SARS-CoV-2. Now they got in trouble because this research was funded by the US government (NIH) but they did not ask the NIH...