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I’ve decided to try spending more time at the other place 🦋 sunnyshinlab.bsky.social. Hope to see you over there!
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@biorxivpreprint Environmental Amino Acid Sensing Regulates the Rate of ASC Translation and NLRP3 Inflammasome Assembly @BrianGoldspiel @pennmedicine @mikelhaggadone
@SunnyShinLab @PennMicro @metaBailism
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Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by @SunnyShinLab grc.org/microbial-toxins-and…
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Honored to receive the 2026 ASBMB Ruth Kirschstein Award for Maximizing Access in Science. @RTAatPennMed @Penn_CBIO.
Congratulations to the 2026 ASBMB Award Winners!
Through their pioneering work, these scientists are advancing discovery, driving innovation, and shaping the future of molecular life sciences.
Read more about their work: ow.ly/x05f50WSbax. #ASBMB26 #MakeItPossible
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19 Jun 2025
#NoTimeToDie! @SunnyShinLab Vasques &co show @ASMicrobiology journal that dendritic cells (#DCs) die upon encountering Legionella initially via caspase-11 dependent pyroptosis & later on by effector-triggered apoptosis, restricting Legionella replication! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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17 May 2025
Congratulations @Ipiricyao and Eugene Rudensky for publishing this story! Big 🙏to NIH for making this work possible. Here’s a brief summary of this fascinating finding about a gene variant that YOU🫵most likely have 1/n
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16 May 2025
Looking fwd, I am honored for this privilege of returning to MSK, working w immense talent to advance their mission of ending cancer. Looking back, I am indebted to Penn, all my colleagues, and to the organizations supporting the research of all who tirelessly share this mission.
We're excited to share that Dr. Andy Minn will return to MSK as the inaugural Chair of MSK’s new Immuno-Oncology Program in August.
This is a full-circle moment for Dr. Minn, a renowned physician-scientist, who completed his postdoctoral training with Dr. Joan Massagué, Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI), and his residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology, both at MSK, in 2003 and 2005 respectively.
Learn more about Dr. Minn: bit.ly/3YLjxZi
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Congratulations to I3H members, Susan Weiss, (Vice Chair and Professor, @PennMicro), Dennis Discher (Robert D. Bent Professor, @PennEngineers), and our other esteemed Penn colleagues on being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 👏
12 May 2025
Congratulations to @weisssr (@PennMicro), Dennis Discher, Cherie Kagan (@PennEngineers), Michael Jones-Correa & Sophia Rosenfeld (@PennSAS) on their election to @americanacad! tinyurl.com/rtdecs92
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15 May 2025
CHOP & @PennMedicine have delivered the first-ever personalized gene editing therapy for a patient with CPS1 deficiency, marking a major milestone in the application of CRISPR-based treatments.
Learn more about KJ & the future of personalized medicine: ms.spr.ly/6015SZLAx.
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8 May 2025
”If I get an award, I have an opportunity to thank people. I also thank the people who tried to make my life miserable because they made me work harder and become more resilient.”
Next week, our podcast returns with conversations featuring our 2024 laureates.
In the meantime, have a listen to one of our favourite episodes from last season with 2023 medicine laureate Katalin Karikó: bit.ly/3yQkJQN
ALT Official Nobel Prize portrait of Katalin Karikó. Next to the image is a burgundy text box with the quote: "I also thank the people who tried to make my life miserable because they made me work harder."
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9 May 2025
Trump terminated $1.8B in science funding in 40 days. A loss of ~$4.6B in future economic activity. Means a higher fraction of new discoveries will be overseas. We'll be buying our future drugs from other countries...and, oh - they'll have tariffs on them.
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6 May 2025
A huge thank you to Brian’s partner in crime @mikelhaggadone and the world’s best collaborator @SunnyShinLab on this work, along with the rest of his committee: @henricksonlab, Mark Goulian, & Ed Behrens
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6 May 2025
The best start to a week: @BrianGoldspiel’s phenomenal thesis defense today. For the last 5 years, it’s been a true joy getting to know the brilliant, multi-talented person Brian is. His infectious passion has transformed the lab and he’ll be deeply missed. Could not be prouder🥲
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4 May 2025
Brian Goldspiel (@BrianGoldspiel) in the @metaBailism lab defends his thesis tomorrow!
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30 Apr 2025
Congratulations to @kkariko (@PennNSG), Virginia Lee (@PennPathLabMed), @EJohnWherry (@PennSysPharmATT) & Mark Devlin (@physatpenn) on their election to @theNASciences! tinyurl.com/5eehdtms
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27 Apr 2025
Eric Skaar is accepting the 2025 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for pioneering work at the intersection of nutrition and infectious diseases! Watch now: ow.ly/gBh350VIsgv #microbiology #NASaward #NAS162
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26 Apr 2025
What can evolution teach us about immunity to infection? 🧬 Microbiologist and #NASmember K. Heran Darwin takes the #NAS162 stage to explain how her studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are helping reveal the answer. Tune in now: ow.ly/sZH250VImNS
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26 Apr 2025
How does M. tuberculosis resist clearance by our immune system? K. Heran Darwin shares how connecting insights from plant biology, metabolism, aldehyde chemistry, and other areas led her team to an answer in her #NAS162 Research Briefing. Watch now: ow.ly/jzZq50VImcM
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