Ya'el Courtney, PhD

Jane Coffin Childs Fellow & postdoc in immunology @ Stanford Robinson lab 🦠🧬| 2024 Harvard neuro PhD @LehtinenLab • @HHMINews Gilliam ‘21 • 85/100📚 in 2026

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

🧬 With biomedical PhD applications open now, I often get asked for advice. I created a guide filled with tips from my own journey to Harvard & insights from others. I use it to lead workshops & it’s ready to help you too! ✨

Dive in and share! ⬇️

https://t.co/CZUSewsW2Y

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@x3r0gx4 He does also fund ME research, to be fair.

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@JasonSynaptic Will be there in a couple of weeks for my honeymoon!

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

That COVID can wake up the EBV is old news - one of the most repeated findings in long COVID. A new preprint asks the next question.
What does the woken virus do to your B cells?
It rebuilds them into a state we've mostly seen in lupus and multiple sclerosis - and that state tracks with autoantibodies.🧵

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

Institute for Systems Biology, 309 COVID-19 patients.

EBV+ B cells shifted toward glycolysis and away from fat burning, while signaling to activate B and CD4+ T cells.

Higher levels tracked with autoantibodies and later symptoms.

https://t.co/WbCkWs0iHz

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@ImmunoFever @jvpluv We’re thinking about this a lot too!!! (I have one project on myelopathies separate from my PAIS work and this particular connection is so fascinating….)

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@zacharylhertz You’re missing OUT on mango passionfruit (orange supremacy so true though)

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@bryan_johnson @AlpacaAurelius effects mostly land after reproductive age and were therefore invisible to selection?

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@bryan_johnson @AlpacaAurelius Re: the evolutionary sidr. We've cooked meat over open fire for a 200K yr+, & carry machinery that seems ready to deal w combustion byproducts (AhR/CYP1A1 induction by PAHs, glyoxalase-1 for methylglyoxal).

was ancestral dose was much lower than a modern grill, or do these

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@GeauxGabrielle You look beautiful!

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@ThosVarley If you’re a reader, I recommend “Empire of AI” by Karen Hao

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@michaelmoran I care!

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@gram_krackr @nurserantzz @Kodyopolis @_4u2nv

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

ahhhhhhh so I'm hiring a tech to help me out in lab and screening applications now and THE KIDS ARE USING PROMPT INJECTION!!!!!! 2.25 pt white text, here's what I've found so far

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@nurserantzz @scorpiobb888 To then enable me to consider every human fairly and quickly! I read each accompanying cover letter, invite and myself interview ~15 top candidates, finalize top 3 so my boss can interview them. Over the course of 80hrs from pdf application dump to boss completing his interviews

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@nurserantzz @scorpiobb888 Every candidate! Is pulled into a central spreadsheet where EVERY FIELD from their resume is populated! Including a “notes” and “additional column” where anything uncategorizable falls, including the aforementioned prompt injections

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@zenxv Amazing use case

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@YourFavMAGAGirl @Kodyopolis @_4u2nv I am on day 3 of back to back 12 hour plus days doing experiments, interacting with patients, and doing SCIENCE! I’m expected to evaluate these applications on top of that, and on a VERY quick timescale. Thus, I am using the tools available to me to efficiently centralize data.

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@YourFavMAGAGirl @Kodyopolis @_4u2nv oh don't worry i'm excellent in the kitchen, but thanks for weighing in

[Shan Meltzer @shanmeltzer]

📢📢We’re hiring! My lab at Vanderbilt is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to study developmental neuroscience & somatosensory circuits for touch and pain. Retweets appreciated! 😀

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

@bridgesvernon @ImmunoFever I do!