Big Boost to India's Fight Against COVID-19! Bharat Biotech's ChAd36-SARS-CoV-S COVID-19 (Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vectored) recombinant nasal vaccine approved by CDSCO_INDIA_INFO for primary immunization against COVID-19 in 18+ age group for restricted use in emergency situation.

We discovered that the type II interferon (IFN) receptor (IFNGR1) is the key IFN receptor in lung disease and lymph node development in STING gain-of-function (SAVI) mice. This was a great team effort of multiple trainees and research specialists. insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

The first WUSTL Immunology Research Seminar of the year kicked off by Dr. Felipe Almeida de Pinho Ribeiro Felipe A Pinho Ribeiro presenting his work on “Sensory Control of Immunity.” 🙌🙌🙌

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WiSTEM’s Community Outreach and Mentoring & Networking Committee are having a networking/mentoring event with WUSTL Scientista (a WashU undergraduate Women in the STEM student group.) If you are interested, please DM us for a signup link!

Efficient R programming refers to increasing the efficiency of tasks with R. This encompasses both computational efficiency and programmer productivity. Check out this awesome #bookdown to learn more - it's free! bookdown.org/csgillespie/ef… #rstats #rmarkdown #quartopub #rstudio

🎉Congratulations to Gary Grajales-Reyes @garygrajales on his NIH Director's Early Independence Award! He was a @WUSTLmstp and went on to join the @wusm_pathology PSTP for his residency WashU Medicine Division of Physician-Scientists. He performed his PhD thesis in the Murphy Lab and postdoc work in The Colonna Lab!🎉

Carolyn Bertozzi – awarded the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.

I'm immensely grateful to #ASTRO22 for the opportunity to give my first national conference research talk! The audience engagement and interest in surgical drain fluid (SDF) #ctdna 🧬 based detection of post-op MRD in HPV(+) OPSCC was humbling and rewarding! Can't wait to return!

What will you all be this year? 👻

Matthew Vogt (Matthew R. Vogt) is our 2022 Hall Award for Clinically Innovative Research Paper recipient. The award is for a jr or midcareer investigator who is 1st or sr author of a paper that illustrates Dr. Hall's innovative approach to clinical research. pids.org/2022/11/10/202…

Congratulations to Chieh-Yu Liang for successfully proposing her thesis last week! Chieh-Yu is a third year immunology PhD student in lab studying the #humoral immune response following heterologous #SARSCoV2 #vaccination🦠💉

Congratulations Samantha Rae !🎉

Very excited to share our new work led by ⭐️ Nicolas Ledru of @WUSTLmstp describing RENIN, a tool for REgulatory Network INference from single cell multiomic datasets - funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 🧬🔥biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Big turnout at the WUSTL Immunology GSA Fellowships and Grants Info Session this week! Grateful to our student panelists for providing invaluable advice and tips! Mandy Chan Melissa Cook @IrinaShchukina_ Sasha Dmytrenko Maegan Murphy Aisha Lee Jenn Tran Natasha Kafai !

Interested in #alphavirus entry receptors? Check out the new review from members of the lab: Ofer Zimmerman, Autumn Holmes, Natasha Kafai and Lucas Adams jci.org/articles/view/…

We wished a fond farewell to two fabulous labmates @_emadden and Stefanie Muraro who are leaving us and heading off to new adventures! We wish them all the best and look forward to seeing what they get up to next!

me and the gang heading to do some BSL-3 work

Congratulations Melissa! Great job at your thesis defense! It has been a joy to have you in the lab.