Mtb cell biologist @UofMaryland #tuberculosis
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volker briken retweeted
19 Sep 2024
"da_tracker" is out ! Our workflow for quantitative single cell and single bacterium/phagosome tracking is now published and still available for you to try. Please reach out if you need assistance for installing the tools and running it.
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volker briken retweeted
16 Sep 2024
*please distribute widely*
My department is searching for a new assistant professor in the immune engineering space with a keen interest in cancer applications.
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Please reach out if you’re interested or know of someone we should proactively reach out to!
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17 Sep 2024
Staggering study @TheLancet showing antimicrobial resistance will become an important global health challenge in the 21st century.#AMR thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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volker briken retweeted
13 Sep 2024
📢 postdoc opportunity!
We’re a team of innate immunity enthusiasts working at the exciting interface of immunology & biochemistry. If you’re passionate about how the immune system recognizes non-self, we’d love to hear from you!
Interested? Apply here 👇
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volker briken retweeted
9 Sep 2024
We would love your feedback on the preprint, which you can find here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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volker briken retweeted
10 Sep 2024
This is a fantastic PhD program!
We’re recruiting up to 2 PhD students in the upcoming round.
Make sure to apply here 👇
Today is the day: Our application portal is now open! 📣
Contact your referees, get your documents ready, and submit your application by 13 October!
↪️ More info here: imprs-ml.mpg.de/5103/How-to-…
@MPI_Biochem @MPIforBI @LMU_Muenchen @TU_Muenchen
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volker briken retweeted
10 Sep 2024
🎉 This #JI_TopRead from the @Vbriken lab reveals a role of the #inflammasome in DC responses to #infection with a mutant #Mycobacterium. #ReadTheJI #immunology
Find out about the key pathways involved here ➡️ ow.ly/SYTj50TgRmN
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volker briken retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Are you interested in the proteins that enable macrophages to eat, kill, and digest bacteria, apoptotic cells, or other debris? Here, we present PhagoID, phagosome proximity labeling we used to profile human and mouse phagosomes with quantitative mass spec! (1/ 11)
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volker briken retweeted
6 Sep 2024
We’ve just finalized the program for our EMBO Inflammasome Workshop.
🙌 Next to many amazing short talks, we have an incredible lineup of poster presentations featuring lots of unpublished work.
Check out the full agenda on our website—there’s still time to register!
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21 Apr 2024
Our official poster is out 🪧
EMBO workshop "The inflammasomes - 2024".
September 24 - 27, 2024 | Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- 4 keynote lectures
- 20 talks
- 15 short talk slots
- many networking opportunities
- 🎡 & 🥨 & 🍻
Register here 👇
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⚡️Great coincidence! First day of the lipidomics forum @FZBorstel, our first paper with lipidomics is peer-reviewed at @iScience_CP! Congratulations to first author @ListianSA! 🎉cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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volker briken retweeted
29 Aug 2024
Happy to share authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… @CellPress Immunity. CD4 T cells contribute to protection against #TB in a reinfection macaque model by interacting with CD8s to generate an anti-inflammatory granuloma environment. Kudos to first authors Sharie Ganchua and @joshuabromley21
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volker briken retweeted
26 Aug 2024
TB Keystone in February 2025 is going to be great. Please join us. Abstracts for short talks due November 12. Here’s a video where I discuss the meeting (cringe!). nam12.safelinks.protection.o…
Details are on the #keystone website keysym.us/KSTB25.
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volker briken retweeted
21 Aug 2024
Researchers from the Crick, @SickKidsNews and @JohnsHopkins have discovered a recycling mechanism that’s essential for keeping mitochondria healthy.
It could become a future target to diagnose and treat conditions related to mitochondrial dysfunction.
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volker briken retweeted
15 Jul 2024
#OpenBiology is delighted to announce our latest competition, celebrating innovation in cell and #MolecularBiology through our unique article type, Open Questions. Submit your article before 31 October 2024 for the chance to win £1000 ow.ly/vGWm50SBxKu #CellBiology
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volker briken retweeted
15 Aug 2024
Working with a great team to organize @KeystoneSymp #Tuberculosis : Heterogeneity from Models to Human Disease, this August! Join us to explore emerging research in Boston! keysym.us/KSTB25 #KSTB25
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volker briken retweeted
15 Aug 2024
New preprint! We have developed an experimental system to induce organelle damage in a spatiotemporal manner. Congratulations, Nagashima-san!
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volker briken retweeted
5 Aug 2024
Lovely kickoff to our new science neighborhood (3rd floor!!!) in Ragon 2.0. Lots of us are recruiting for new lab members at the @ragoninstitute — get in touch!
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volker briken retweeted
5 Aug 2024
Septins promote macrophage pyroptosis by regulating gasdermin D cleavage and ninjurin-1-mediated plasma membrane rupture
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