
Melanie Rutkowski (she/her)
@rutkowskilab
Mother, wife, daughter, scientist. Working to define how interactions between the microbiota, immune cells and tumors influence cancer outcomes.
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23-10-2017 21:23:45
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Revealing the unseen! Check out our newest work on noninvasive imaging of gut bacteria in live animals out now in CellChemicalBiology. This project was in collaboration with Melanie Rutkowski (she/her). Congratulations to Alexis, Mahendra, Sree, and Brianna! bit.ly/3Wg1CGv

Congratulations to our THREE research teams competing for the title of 2022's biggest biomedical advances! STAT Madness, the annual NCAA bracket style competition, is back. Vote daily! John Lukens Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) UVA Cancer Center STAT #STATMadness ow.ly/2g6v50N60WW

Researchers at UVA Cancer Center found a disrupted gut microbiome can trigger changes in breast tissue that can cause breast cancer to spread. Vote daily for this research and TWO other #UVA projects for #STATMadness. #BreastCancerResearch ow.ly/nUlH50N8fts

Your votes helped push our research to the next round of #STATMadness! Keep voting to help one UVA project get closer to the title of 2022βs biggest biomedical advancement. John Lukens Hannah Ennerfelt Hoos For Memory #HeartFailure #MedTwitter ow.ly/Yt8K50Njc4R


Happy to share our latest collaborative work with KammLab and Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social Nature Communications where targeting an epigenetic factor in tumor vasculature augments IFN response; blood vessels thus become like "honey to a fly" and permit CD8+ T-cell entry. rdcu.be/c9SFy


Congratulations to Dr. Sepideh Dolatshahi Sepideh Dolatshahi, as the 2023 Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Award Recipient! aai.org/Awards/Travel/β¦!


Congratulations to this exceptional group of UVA School of Medicine faculty We are so excited our great PhD mentors have been recognized! melissa kendall Bimal Desai Mete Civelek Rebecca Pompano Lazzara Lab Ishan Williams, PhD! π§‘π news.virginia.edu/content/new-feβ¦

Congrats to MIC Faculty member Melissa Kendall melissakendall4 news.med.virginia.edu/research/threeβ¦



Excited to share our new story explaining how macrophages use nitric oxide derivatives to shut down Toxoplasma evasion of cell-autonomous immunity. Congrats to Xiaoyu Zhao and the team! link.springer.com/10.1038/s41467β¦


Congratulations Simona Bajgai - she passed her qualifying exam like a total rockstar!!! So excited to see what she will uncover about mast cells and breast cancer!



Very excited to share that Uday @snowkaryote and I will be joining the Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Bio Dept UVA-MIC UVA School of Medicine as Assistant Professors this Fall! π My lab will study protein secretion in Gram-positive bacteria and its impact on host barriers & immunity.
