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Hi everyone, my wonderful former PhD student Vladimir Diaz-Ochoa (@vdiazochoa) was diagnosed with ALS. Vlad and his family need our help and support. Please consider donating. Thank you, and happy Thanksgiving. You can read more here: gofundme.com/f/vlad-flor-di…

Ko lab holiday party with secret Santa and cookie decorating

Congratulations to David @TobinLab from DukeMGM and lIB for their election as a fellow of the AAM. Well deserved honor and recognition of Dr. Tobin for his work on tuberculosis. immunobiology.duke.edu/news/david-tob…

Ko Lab art team visiting the NasherMuseum on a beautiful day in Durham

Broad-ranging and thoughtful article by Hannah Thomasy, PhD about genetic susceptible/resistance to infection. Fun to see our work put in perspective with others including @EllenLeffler 's brilliant malaria work. More “superpower” human genetic variants coming soon from Hi-HOST

SO excited to share our recent work! To better understand the molecular impacts of human genetic variation, we need models that offer access to MANY more cell types and cell states. Here, we’re using a system called heterogeneous differentiating cultures (HDCs) to do this (1/n)

Ko lab mini-golf (and taco-eating) team

Ko lab grad students Rachel Keener, Trisha Dalapati, and Margaret Gaggioli at #ASMMicrobe2024 Say hi if you see them around and want to learn more about Salmonella effectors, human genetics of plague, or shared genetics of COVID and IPF

Finally out! We found ferroptosis inhibition reverse aging-exacerbated liver damage, and a gene signature tracks MASLD liver fibrosis and severity, and dysfunction of multi-organs, kidney, heart and pancreatic islet. A nice collab with KUO DU, @Anna_Mae_Diehl, Dennis Ko