Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social

Investigator at the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@parkerici @GladstoneInst @aaas Thank you so much @parkerici for the kind shout-out! Being part of the PICI community has been truly transformative for me and my lab!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Huge congrats @hanimal725 @madhavanvvs and @TheodorisLab !!! We can't wait to put your new model to work 😃

[Theodoris Lab @TheodorisLab]

We are excited to share work led by @hanimal725 and @madhavanvvs developing a quantized multitask learning strategy for network biology, built on a foundation model pretrained on ~95M single-cell transcriptomes.

Manuscript: https://t.co/prZmTVIq7z
Model: https://t.co/AsF5MIBhTV

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@j_eyquem @pewtrusts Woohoo, huge congrats @j_eyquem 🎉 I'm sure there are many more prestigious awards to follow!!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Huge congrats @AmelieFranken to a beautiful story and cover!! My postdoc dream team @alisa_dietl and @RalserAnna really enjoyed highlighting your work in their @ImmunityCP preview!

[Amelie Franken @AmelieFranken]

Embracing the fusion of science and creativity!
Grateful to be featured on the cover of the latest Immunity issue - a delightful surprise to top it all off! 🧬🎨

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@BingxuL @MichelsonPhils @ScienceMagazine Woohoo, huge congrats @BingxuL, so well deserved!!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Really awesome paper, huge congrats to everyone involved!!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@RalserAnna @GladstoneInst So excited to have you here!!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@SanjeevRanade Thank you, Jeeves! Super excited for the adventures ahead of us!!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

First impromptu Pelka Lab pic🎉 🥳 So excited to be working with all of you and couldn't wish for a better inaugural group 🤩💪🚀

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Don't know anything about football, but @dak is indeed a truly incredible and fun person! Still endlessly grateful to him and the @FFFfoundation4 for the #SU2C Peggy Prescott Award for Colorectal Cancer research! It had such a huge impact on my science and career path!

[Faith Fight Finish Foundation @FFFfoundation4]

“I hope that when I finish this game they can say he was a hell of a player, but he was a much better person." - @dak

We are so proud of our founder on winning this years 2022 @NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year award! #faithfightfinish

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Awesome work as always, congrats @mgentili_ !!

[Matteo Gentili @mgentili_]

ESCRT-dependent STING degradation inhibits steady-state and cGAMP-induced signalling
https://t.co/l6lvP8GkbD

Great to see this work in its published form at
@NatureComms.

See tweetorial below from our preprint.

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

So inspired after meeting @carlhjune and the Whiteheads at the #SU2CSummit2023 and so grateful to @SU2C and all donors for enabling amazing and much needed cross-disciplinary research to keep pushing the boundaries!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@BernardAFox @GladstoneInst @UCSF @SU2C @FightCRC @HKennecke @CCAlliance @colortheory Thank you so much, such an honor to be here!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Very lucky to have Aditya as my first employee 😃

[Gladstone Institutes @GladstoneInst]

Aditya Naik describes how visiting his mother working in a hospital impacted his interest in science. #MeetGladstone

https://t.co/nSqbPdWsvc

[Kole Roybal @KoleRoybal]

Congrats to my close colleague and friend @j_eyquem! This opens up so many important avenues of research - a sign of a great body of work.

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

@LarisaLabzin @HugePossum @meaghan_scanlon Congrats, Larisa!!

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Huge congrats to amazing work 👏🎉

[Julia Carnevale @jccarnevale]

Very excited to share that our work was published in @Nature today! RASA2 ablation in T cells boosts antigen sensitivity and long-term function https://t.co/q6SC7php89

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

Go Frankie 💪She has the best parents in the world for sure ❤️

[Stacie Dodgson, PhD @StacieDodgson]

Big fan of immunology, genomics, and cell therapy but not such a fan of the bench? Join us @GladstoneInst @UCSF as a Scientific Grant Writer: https://t.co/7zfPdSiIg8

[Karin Pelka 🦋 @pelkalab.bsky.social @PelkaLab]

The Pelka Lab is hiring a #ResearchAssociate position @GladstoneInst to assist with our efforts to systematically dissect multicellular interaction networks in human tumors to improve immunotherapy. Learn more here: https://t.co/HPNeaVtbbS #Hiring