Mackenzie J Bender

PhD Student @YaleIBio in the @lucasite_lab | Aspiring immunologist interested in fundamental T cell biology.

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

Excited to share my first co-first author publication with @AlexCMcPherson from the @mesiellab published in @CellCellPress! This work highlights the importance of unraveling the mechanistic basis by which commensals impact #cancerimmunotherapy responses. https://t.co/t8ot77y1s3

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

And if you’re curious about bridges between transcriptional and translational control of immunity feel free to stop by my other talk on Monday at 12:30-12:45pm room 320 🌴

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

Thank you so much to the organizers of #AAI2025 for selecting me as a recipient of the AAI Thermo-Fisher Trainee Achievement Award! And I’m not complaining that I got to receive it in the beautiful state of Hawaii 🌺 (1/2) @ImmunologyAAI

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

If you’re here and interested in hearing about how we are utilizing an interactive board game to convey meaningful immunological interactions to the public, come to my talk on Tuesday at 9:45-10am room 319!

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Is there anything more fun than starting your talk with a walk-up song?! Thank you to the brilliant 3rd year Immunobiology PhD students at Yale who organized the '12th Yale Immunobiology Student Symposium' today.

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

@ItaiYanai Thanks so much for coming Itai!

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

If you’re interested in how monogenic diseases can lead to insights on human immunobiology, check out this review I wrote with @lucasite_lab !
https://t.co/6DZ6ipLNyn

[Lena Wirth @lena__wirth]

1/Excited to share our latest work published in @CD_AACR. Led with #MiyaHugaboom, #KellyStreet, we show that the presence of tertiary lymphoid structures and exhausted tissue-resident T cells determines clinical response to PD-1 blockade in #RCC patients: https://t.co/Apw81TaY0Q

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

Had a great time at my first ever @ImmunologyAAI meeting with @lena__wirth @LotusLumphocyte and the many friends we made along the way! #AAI2024

[Lena Wirth @lena__wirth]

Had such a great time and learned so much at my first @ImmunologyAAI conference! #AAI2024

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

@lena__wirth @ImmunologyAAI @BraunMDPhD Such a great talk Lena!

[Mario Peña-Hernández 🇲🇽 @marioph13]

Kicking off Day of Immunology, which is a fantastic event organized by @S_Tabachnikova and @YalePathways to expose high school students to science and #Immunology. Our Keynote speaker is @David_RMartinez 💪

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

@rafaeldaipra Thanks Rafael!

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

Grateful to have received an NSF GRFP award! A reflection of the amazing mentorship I have been lucky to continually receive from inspiring #WomenInSTEM

[Lena Wirth @lena__wirth]

Had a great time judging at the New Haven Science Fair and talking to future scientists about their exciting projects! @nhsciencefair

[Lena Wirth @lena__wirth]

Spent the day teaching local high school students all about cancer immunology with an interactive board game @MackJBender and I made for @YaleIBIO #DayOfImmunology!! @ImmunologyAAI #cancerimmunology

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

Had a blast seeing local high students play the cancer immunology-themed board game @LenaWirth22 and I made for @YaleIBIO’s #DayOfImmunology! @ImmunologyAAI

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

@mmglacialgeo @ice_uva congratulations!!

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

@propionylCoA Haha love that- and thanks so much!

[Mackenzie J Bender @MackJBender]

Excited to share my first co-first author publication with @AlexCMcPherson from the @mesiellab published in @CellCellPress! This work highlights the importance of unraveling the mechanistic basis by which commensals impact #cancerimmunotherapy responses. https://t.co/t8ot77y1s3

[Cell @CellCellPress]

Now online! Dietary tryptophan metabolite released by intratumoral Lactobacillus reuteri facilitates immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment https://t.co/AdeM8Q7TBs

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The potential and a mechanism for diet and probiotics to rev up immunotherapy vs cancer and improve clinical outcomes
https://t.co/zvyKyaFDYr @CellCellPress @MeiselLab @MackJBender @AlexCMcPherson