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Chancellor's Award for RPW lab alum UMass Chan MD/PhD Program student Nicholas Peterson !!! MassGeneral Medicine is so lucky to have him as an intern!!

A huge and special day for the lab. Nicholas Peterson accomplished so much as an UMass Chan MD/PhD Program student, culminating in the Chancellor’s award for the top medical student in his class. He is bound for astronomical success as a physician-scientist. I am beyond proud #UMassChan2024

This is SO HUGE!! An incredible story from a super talented graduate student. I have loved watching the story come together at our monthly Innate Immunity Data club. Congratulations Pooja Parameswaran and Megan Orzalli UMass Chan Program in Innate Immunity is very proud of you both!!

Warming up on the Union Terrace for #MAPSS2024 The best worm meeting on Planet Earth!!

Kicking off #MAPSS2024 in Madison! Many thanks to the organizers @phillips_lab Pukkila-Worley Lab is also @rpwlab.bsky.social Peter Douglas for all their efforts to bring us together. Looking forward to connecting with old friends and hearing some fantastic science over the next few days!

So much fun to have the entire Pukkila-Worley Lab is also @rpwlab.bsky.social crew at #MAPSS2024!! Proud of this group!!

Join us! My lab UMass Chan Medical School is seeking postdocs and research associates who are passionate about how changes in metabolism and epigenetics contribute to cancer development and immune system evasion. DM me for a chat and apply at ummsjobs.com/job/10593/ (postdoc position)

SARM - an enzymatic TIR protein. Perhaps the most ancient immune regulator in the Tree of Life and the origins of innate immunity itself. But, is it an immune sensor in animals?

Online now: Intestinal immunity in C. elegans is activated by pathogen effector-triggered aggregation of the guard protein TIR-1 on lysosome-related organelles dlvr.it/TDP14w

Sharing a nice write-up from UMass Chan Medical School highlighting Sammy Tse and her recent companion papers from my lab that were published last week in Immunity and Cell Reports . umassmed.edu/news/news-arch…

Welcome Karthik!!!

Looking for an up to date review on dna sensors and their role in autoinflammatory diseases check out this review from Mingqi Dong 👇

Absolutely bursting with C. elegans, UMass Chan Medical School , Dept. of Molecular Biology, MGH , Simches 7 pride this morning!!! Congrats Victor and Gary!!!!

Back-to-back UMass Chan Medical School Dept of Medicine Halloween Party Costume Award Winners!!!

Excited to share our recent review out in Nature Rev Immunol . We discuss mechanisms that identify patterns of pathogenesis -- specific ligands or symptoms in the host that indicate active infection with an infectious microorganism. UMass Chan Medical School

Excited to share another review from the lab, out this week in Trends in Immunology . Join us for a fun tour of what we think are the coolest proteins in all of innate immunity! cell.com/trends/immunol…

Incredibly proud of Mohamad Nasrallah , a UMass Chan Medical School UMass Chan MD/PhD Program graduate from my lab. So much fun to celebrate his accomplishments and those of his classmates this weekend. #UMassChan2025

Check out the cover of Trends in Immunology !! Art by lab alumna Sammy Tse to highlight our lab's review in the issue by Khursheed Wani on enzymatic TIR proteins in innate immunity!!! cell.com/trends/immunol…