Mother, wife, daughter, scientist. Working to define how interactions between the microbiota, immune cells and tumors influence cancer outcomes.
Joined October 2017
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
31 May 2024
Very excited to share that Uday @snowkaryote and I will be joining the Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Bio Dept @UVA_MIC @MedicineUVA as Assistant Professors this Fall! 🎉 My lab will study protein secretion in Gram-positive bacteria and its impact on host barriers & immunity.
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
15 May 2024
The Cliffe lab is hiring a lab specialist or technician. Our current technician is leaving for grad school 👏. The post is well-suited for anyone who would like a few years of experience before grad school or for someone who would like to stay in a position for longer.
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26 Apr 2024
Congratulations @SimonaBajgai - she passed her qualifying exam like a total rockstar!!! So excited to see what she will uncover about mast cells and breast cancer!
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
9 Apr 2024
Our lab's first paper is official! Super proud of and grateful to the team for everything that went into this project. Check out the video to learn more about how the microbiome contributes to growth and immunity during intergenerational undernutrition.
9 Apr 2024
Excited to share my first-author publication! Delving into the complexities of intergenerational undernutrition. Our gnotobiotic model sheds light on the importance of intergenerational colonization in shaping growth and immune responses at maturity. @Ccowardin #Microbiome
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
27 Mar 2024
Excited to share our new story explaining how macrophages use nitric oxide derivatives to shut down Toxoplasma evasion of cell-autonomous immunity. Congrats to @zhaoxyu6 and the team! link.springer.com/10.1038/s4…
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
19 Oct 2023
CIC member, Dr. Kristin Anderson @immunegirl , explains her lab’s super cool research and its importance to treating cancer!
19 Oct 2023
"My research is focused on modifying immune cells, specifically T cells, to recognize and kill cancer more effectively.” — Kristin Anderson, PhD, Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology @immunegirl @UVA_MIC @uvahealthnews #ResearchInMotion #UVASchoolOfMedicine
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5 Sep 2023
Our department @UVA_MIC is hiring! UVA and MIC are super supportive of junior faculty. We are collaborative and lucky to recruit outstanding students through the BIMS graduate program! A fantastic place to begin your independent academic career!
5 Sep 2023
JOB POST: Assistant Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis available in our Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology department at the University of Virginia @UVA @UVA_MIC.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/130811
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Congrats to MIC Faculty member Melissa Kendall @melissa_lulu_k
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
26 May 2023
Congratulations to this exceptional group of @MedicineUVA faculty
We are so excited our great PhD mentors have been recognized! @KendallMicroLab @bimald @mete_civelek @PompanoLab @LazzaraLab @iscwilliams! 🧡💙
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
18 Apr 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Sepideh Dolatshahi @sepiddsh, as the 2023 Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Award Recipient! aai.org/Awards/Travel/Chambe…!
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
14 Apr 2023
Happy to share our latest collaborative work with @kamm_lab and @ChiappinelliLab @NatureComms 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
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
4 Apr 2023
Boosting. Please RT and share! Looking forward to finding our next colleague. A PhD background in anything from immunology to bioanalytical chemistry to immunoengineering would be a good fit for this position. It's a very cool project, in my admittedly biased opinion. 😊
14 Mar 2023
We are recruiting! 🎉 Exciting project on spatially resolved protein detection in live tissue, esp. lymph node. Join as a Research Scientist (staff position) or Postdoc, depending on your career goals. We are inclusive, collaborative, & interdisciplinary.
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
15 Mar 2023
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 2022’s biggest biomedical advancement. @LukensJohnR @EnnerfeltHannah @HoosForMemory #HeartFailure #MedTwitter ow.ly/Yt8K50Njc4R
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
4 Mar 2023
Researchers at @UVACancerCenter 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
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
1 Mar 2023
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! @LukensJohnR @RutkowskiLab @UVACancerCenter @statnews #STATMadness ow.ly/2g6v50N60WW
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
14 Dec 2022
Revealing the unseen! Check out our newest work on noninvasive imaging of gut bacteria in live animals out now in @CellChemBiol. This project was in collaboration with @RutkowskiLab.
Congratulations to Alexis, Mahendra, Sree, and Brianna!
bit.ly/3Wg1CGv
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
18 Nov 2022
Please RT. The Pompano Lab is recruiting for a Lab Technician/Specialist in Bioanalytical Chemistry and/or Immunology, to help conduct experiments and keep the lab running smoothly! Two levels are available depending on experience. Come join our team!
tinyurl.com/yc48t7n9
ALT Photo of the group, outside on a sunny day at UVA.
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
18 Nov 2022
My lab is hiring at all levels. We are looking for talented and motivated people to work on Chlamydia-host interaction related projects. Please RT and email me directly if interested.
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Melanie Rutkowski (she/her) retweeted
28 Jul 2022
Congratulations to my wonderful @UVABIMS student @nadi_immunology and the new class @HHMINEWS #GilliamFellows! Honored and excited to bring insights from this creative community of scientists and DEI advocates back to @UVASOM & @DiversityUVASOM
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26 Jul 2022
I am so proud of my first PhD student, Dr. Feng @AlkaidTY - who successfully defended her thesis today!! She is the most brilliant mentee one could ask for! So nice celebrating with old and new lab members! @francie_azar @UVAimmunology @UVA_MIC
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26 Jul 2022
I cannot wait to share her paper soon, on mast cells and metastatic breast cancer!!
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