The Carl Atkinson Lab at Northwestern @NUFeinbergMed. Focuses include transplant immunology, complement biology, innate immunity, & more. Views are our own.
Joined August 2021
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11 Sep 2023
As always, it was great to spend time with fellow complement scientists at #ICW2023. Proud of PhD candidate @dianna_nord for winning a "best oral presentation" prize for her work on complement in neutrophils. Thanks to @ComplementSoc for a great meeting in Newcastle.
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The Atkinson Lab retweeted
27 Jul 2023
In our latest forum article, @trendscancer, we discussed the critical roles of sphingolipids and the complement system in promoting cancer growth/survival. Check it out authors.elsevier.com/c/1hUGV….
Thanks, @AtkinsonLab
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6 Jun 2023
Fantastic day at #ATC2023SanDiego! Dr. Atkinson delivered two incredible presentations sharing some of the lab's work on 1) complement inhibition in organ Tx and 2) strategies for targeted immunosuppression to the endothelium in lung Tx.
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4 Jun 2023
Congratulations to lab alumnus Dr. Danh Tran whose PhD dissertation work has won the AJT Basic Science Paper of the Year Award! @DanhTTran @SatishNadig #ATC2023SanDiego
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25 Apr 2023
Our laboratory had an excellent time at #ISHLT2023 in Denver last week! PhD students @dianna_nord and Blake Gill presented some of the lab's work. Always great to learn from and catch up with the @ISHLT community.
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24 Oct 2022
We are currently recruiting Post-Doctoral Associates with backgrounds in immunology, complement biology, or transplantation to join our team! Interested candidates - please email your CV to carl.atkinson@medicine.ufl.edu to learn more.
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The Atkinson Lab retweeted
24 Oct 2022
A @UF team led by Andrew Judge, Ph.D., Carl Atkinson, Ph.D., & Sarah Judge, Ph.D. has received a $2.3 million grant from the @NIH_NIAMS to investigate strategies to treat muscle wasting and weakness caused by #PancreaticCancer.
#CancerCachexia
Read more: go.ufl.edu/u9czh7e
ALT Andrew Judge, Ph.D., Carl Atkinson, Ph.D., & Sarah Judge, Ph.D.
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15 Jul 2022
We are excited to share our latest publication in the Journal of Immunology @J_Immunol. The work, led by Dr. Jennifer Mulligan, reveals a novel regulatory relationship between complement activation and local vitamin D metabolism in airway epithelial cells. jimmunol.org/content/early/2…
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6 Jun 2022
2 days into #ATC2022! Yesterday evening, our surgical research fellow Dr. Leah Plumblee presented the lab’s work utilizing ex-vivo treatments to stabilize cell junctions and improve outcomes in a porcine renal transplant model. #ATC2022Boston
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5 Jun 2022
Hello from Boston! Our lab members are at #ATC2022 this week to learn & collaborate with others in the transplant field. Today PhD candidate @dianna_nord presented the lab’s work on mitochondrial transplantation in #LTx.
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26 Apr 2022
Another patent for @AtkinsonLab and our lab @NM_Transplant on donor organ pre treatment with nanotherapy. One more step closer to the bedside. #sciencerocks
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1 Mar 2022
To all early-career complement biology researchers - fill out the ECCO survey! Doing so will help us understand our members' needs and to suggest ideas that will improve the field of complement research for all.
1 Mar 2022
1.) ECCO represents and supports early-career researchers in the field of #complementbiology!
In order to do that to the best of our abilities, we want to conduct a survey to identify ECCO members’ interests and needs:
bit.ly/3poFv2n
Please fill in our 10min-survey!🙏
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14 Dec 2021
More evidence supporting the efficacy of targeted complement inhibition! We recently collaborated with Stephen Tomlinson at @MUSChealth to show that P-selectin targeted complement inhibitors specifically localized to reperfused tissue and reduced injury in a murine limb Tx model.
25 Nov 2021
New Research: Characterization of Novel P-Selectin Targeted Complement Inhibitors in Murine Models of Hindlimb Injury and Transplantation: The complement system has long been recognized as a potential druggable target for a variety of… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #immunology
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2 Nov 2021
We are excited to share our latest publication in collaboration with Dr. @SatishNadig on the immunoprotective effects of altering donor mitochondrial fission/fusion during cardiac transplantation! @amjtransplant
doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16882
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After contracting COVID-19, Dr. Sean Devine's lungs were scarred & unable to work on their own. He was flown to @UFHealth, one of two places in the U.S. at the time that had successfully performed a COVID-19 double lung transplant. Hear his story of strength, recovery and love.
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22 Aug 2021
We recently showed that VCA donor graft treatment pre-transplantation with CR2-Crry provided protection from IRI and delayed graft rejection. The results are published in our new paper with collaborators at @MUSChealth in the lab of Stephen Tomlinson:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3439…
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20 Aug 2021
We are extremely proud to annonce that lab member Alexander McQuiston successfully defended his PhD Dissertation earlier this month and will be starting as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford later this fall. Congrats, Dr. McQuiston! You will be missed!
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The Atkinson Lab retweeted
16 Aug 2021
Important work by Sommer et al. showing organ-specific differences in tolerance induction in #transplantation.
Why is this important? A “one-size-fits-all” approach in transplantation is unsuccessful, and we can't assume that all organs benefit from the same immunosuppression.
28 Jul 2021
Although the clinically applicable protocol showed success in #kidney transplantation, the study by Sommer et al. did not show long-term survival in a #lung transplant model, highlighting the organ-specific differences in tolerance induction. bit.ly/3eDBCRM
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“This surge is actually much bigger than anything that we've seen before.”
Dr. Hiren Mehta describes the unbearable conditions inside UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen across much of the South. abcn.ws/2W0QTGe
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15 Aug 2021
COMPLEMENT ON THE PIPELINE: complement activation seems to add morbidity to inflammation and pro-thrombotic status in pts on hemodialysis. ⚡️💥Intradialytic Complement Activation Precedes the Development of Cardiovascular Events in Hemodialysis Patients ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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