Franzi Graef

PhD Cand. @UBC Experimental Medicine. Researching #fasting #microbiome #diet #IBD. Motivating myself and others to live #healthy & #sustainably 👩🏻‍🔬🥦🍏🥤🌍🧘🏻‍♀️

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

Yay! Our new article on fasting and infection is live!! My last 7 years of work summed up below 👇

[PLOS Pathogens @PLOSPathogens]

Fasting may help ward off infections, study in mice suggests

Featured research from @BruceVallance and colleagues @UBC
Press release here: https://t.co/iQB2yfmqkt
Full article here: https://t.co/JiyGN3ZYgl

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

@inanna_nalytica Great! Thank you for this review ☺️

[Meghan O'Rourke meghanor.bsky.social @meghanor]

An important new study suggests a strong link between Epstein-Barr virus and MS. As I argue in my forthcoming book, many often-dismissed chronic illnesses may in fact be infection-associated conditions: https://t.co/MQW2jD3V4J 1

[Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab]

The number of major conferences asking me to give a presentation about #LongCovid to a large audience but are refusing to provide virtual options because they don’t want to “diminish the experience for in-person attendees”. Know what else will diminish their experience? One guess

[Emily Porter, M.D. @dremilyportermd]

I have never been to a New Year’s party worth getting a hangnail over, let alone COVID, even if “mild.” I’m 368 days out from my diagnosis of “mild”
COVID and still dealing with chronic migraines, fatigue, insomnia and decreased exercise tolerance. And I never even had a fever.

[Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab]

Soooo…full transparency and all jokes aside: if one of my team gets #COVID19, for the safety and wellbeing of our patients we will NOT be following CDC guidelines for safe return to work.

We will be following the science.

*sigh*

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

Yayy! New Paper out! So much hard work by Dr. Yu and the Vallance Lab - proud to be a small part of this amazing project!! Check it out!!

[Hongbing Yu @hongbing_yu]

Delighted to share our work published @PNASNews on how enteric nervous system regulates the intestinal immune system and host defense against enteric pathogen infection. https://t.co/iCTobfyimQ

[UBC Media Relations @UBCNews]

A study led by @UBCmedicine professor Dr. Bruce Vallance suggests that fasting may help to protect us from infection. via @sciencefocus https://t.co/xEda6fLLva

[BC Children's Hospital Research Institute @BCCHresearch]

Fasting may ward off bacterial infections, finds new research published today in @PLOSPathogens. Read more: https://t.co/5jHve7A2e8
@UBCmedicine @BCChildrensHosp @BruceVallance @PHSAofBC #bacteria #Salmonella #microbiome

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

Thanks to all my wonderful colleagues and friends for all your help: @lsceliberto @JoannieAllaire @ElseBosman @hongbing_yu @VerduLab and everyone else who contributed but is not on Twitter!

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

Yay! Our new article on fasting and infection is live!! My last 7 years of work summed up below 👇

[PLOS Pathogens @PLOSPathogens]

Fasting may help ward off infections, study in mice suggests

Featured research from @BruceVallance and colleagues @UBC
Press release here: https://t.co/iQB2yfmqkt
Full article here: https://t.co/JiyGN3ZYgl

[Etienne @eraimondeau]

new update! I corrected few bits and the delay between the doses for the Ox/Az vaccine

[Mark Gubrud 🇺🇸 @mgubrud]

@EricTopol Annotated. Any disagreements?

[University Affairs @UA_magazine]

Although it was overshadowed by the pandemic, two important Canadian research institutions marked a significant milestone in 2020 – the @CRC_CRC program and @GenomeCanada both celebrated their 20th anniversaries this year. https://t.co/rRklD4L3cI #CdnPSE

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

Neat!!!

[Theo Sanderson @theosanderson]

Do you weigh out compounds to make buffers/media? 🧑‍🔬 I made a tool to help you, and me.

Mixology interconverts all sorts of units. It will tell you what mass / volume you need for a certain molarity, without looking up a molecular weight. Have a play:

https://t.co/JzwbcgdpRI

[osbornelab_ubc (Lisa = she/her/hers) @OsborneLab_UBC]

Are you interested in mucosal immunology & host-microbiome interactions? If so, we're looking for a postdoc! Preferably someone with flow and disease modeling expertise. Lots of open projects! Intestinal epithelial cells, neuroimmunology, helminths, viruses...and great colleagues

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

Ohhh thank you!!! Definitely will be using this zoom hack! @ElseBosman @JoannieAllaire @lsceliberto

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

The single most useful thing I've learned this year is that you can trick Zoom into letting you use presenter view!

Share screen -> advanced -> portion of screen. Change the size of the green box so it only captures the presentation. RT to make someone's day 😃

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

I don't know the implications, but I now have 6 months of very clear data demonstrating that the same force that previously consumed single socks is now consuming masks.

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

@hongbing_yu However, as he pointed out in the tweet I shared, they published their approach and describe exactly how they validated the primer! (Of course!!). It’s maddening seeing people just spread wrong information and not looking into the actual research/data. 😔

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

If only people would actually read the publications before making stupid, uniformed comments!

[Christian Drosten @c_drosten]

Diejenigen, die öffentlich behaupten, unsere SARS-CoV-2 PCR sei nicht gegen menschliche Coronaviren und Erkältungsviren validiert, sollten sich einfach mal die Mühe machen, die Publikation zu lesen. Auch Herr #Wodarg und Frau #Kämmerer. Tabelle 2. https://t.co/7gNsUfRWAy

[Franzi Graef @FranziGraef]

@hongbing_yu Prof. Drosten and his group did a great job designing one of the first primers for SARS-CoV2 testing in Germany. But he constantly gets attacked from people - including MDs and the occasional PhDs - regarding the quality and validity of the test.