
Dr Helen Dooley
@hdooley13
Immunologist, educator, shark-obsessive. Heading a research team studying immune evolution @UMmedschool @IMET_USMD (own views). #immunology #evolution #sharks
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07-11-2015 21:30:09
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Massive thanks to AWIS Baltimore for asking me to talk about our shark work at their "sips and science" event last night. It was SO much fun, and fantastic questions from the audience!! 🦈🍻#comparativeimmunology #immunology #WomenInSTEM #womeninscience

How are antigens retained in germinal centres after immunisation? Our paper is out in Nature Immunology. We show that antigens centralise on the FDC network concomitantly with the formation of the GC. rdcu.be/dgL3K



Basking sharks are what now?! New paper led by Dr Haley Dolton (she/her) where we document regional endothermy in our favourite giant filter feeding sharky 🔥. Interesting implications for evolution and ecological advantages of regional endothermy; we thought it was only seen in apex 🦈&🐟1/3



New open access review from my team, led by the fabulous Dr. Hanover Matz



“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (Katalin Kariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her

Our hammerhead shark development story DevelopmentalDynamic made it into Science Magazine today, featuring our image of the cleared and alcian blue stained Bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo) baby! 🔨🦈🔥 University of Florida News UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences UF Department of Biology Florida Museum


Congratulations to Seth, Pao, Ben, and team on their new multiparatopic downregulating antibody article in CellChemicalBiology! Huge thanks to our fantastic collaborators as well! Dr Helen Dooley Sridhar Nimmagadda doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…

Multiparatopic antibodies induce targeted downregulation of programmed death-ligand 1 by Seth Ludwig, Jamie Spangler SpanglerLab, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center University of Maryland School of Medicine Univ. of New Mexico Johns Hopkins ChemBE dlvr.it/T4j2df #chembiol

👀Preview of Ludwig et al.: Sharks give a handle to potent anti-tumor multiparatopic antibodies inducing membrane depletion of PD-L1 by Gordana Wozniak-Knopp and Veronica Natale at BOKU University @acibGmbH dlvr.it/T6znCd