The Nixon Lab

Members of the Division of Infectious Diseases within Weill Cornell Medical College 🔬🧬👨🏽‍🔬

[Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @KingsIoPPN]

New research out in @NatureComms, funded by @NIHRMaudsleyBRC & @NIH, has found that #DNA sequences which originate from ancient viral infections contribute to susceptibility for psychiatric disorders like #schizophrenia, #bipolar disorder & #depression.

👉https://t.co/YunLpGxiUY

[Rodrigo Duarte @3RDuarte]

@powell_tim_r, @TheNixonLab and myself wrote a piece for the @ConversationUK to explain what our research on human endogenous retroviruses mean for Psychiatry (and also what it DOESN'T mean!) We hope you enjoy it! https://t.co/Etc5As6DVL

[Jonas Heymann @HeymannJonas]

Some good news heading into a solemn weekend - earlier this week I received a letter signed by @HeartBobH informing me of my promotion to Associate Professor of Clinical #Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. @wcmcpathology 1/4

[NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC): Maudsley @NIHRMaudsleyBRC]

'@KingsIoPPN researchers Dr Tim Powell @powell_tim_r and Dr Rodrigo Duarte @3RDuarte join Prof Douglas Nixon to discuss their new study into ancient viral DNA sequences known as HERVs, and psychiatric disorders: https://t.co/ALm7v9FsXC @ConversationUK

[Manvendra Singh (Manu) - @manusingh.bsky.social @manvendr7]

poster 118 - Our upcoming work of how TEs can make some human “Elite” - spontaneous controller of HIV, which goes long way if we think how our ancestors eventually repressed the retroviruses (Endogenous now)
An odyssey from @CedricFeschotte and @TheNixonLab lab
#EMBOMobileGenome

[Rodrigo Duarte @3RDuarte]

🙌 Thank you, @thenixonlab, @mlbendall, and @cellstoshell, for organizing such an incredible workshop!👏 It's inspiring to witness the power of interdisciplinary research at its best! Thanks to @WCM_ID & @WeillCornell for fostering such collaborations! @powell_tim_r @KingsIoPPN

[The Nixon Lab @TheNixonLab]

Congratulations to our newly minted MSc, Phoebe Fei! Phoebe has been doing some excellent work looking at HERVs in uveal melanoma and metastasis, and we are so proud of her!

[Ndhlovu Lab @ndhlovulab]

Welcoming Dr. Fauci @WeillCornell with Dr. Ndhlovu, Dr. Nixon, and our ID Division Chief Dr. Gulick for the 2023 Ralph Nachman MD Distinguished Visiting Professor 🎉🎉

@ndhlovulab @TheNixonLab @WCM_ID #HIV #COVID

[Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte @CedricFeschotte]

Super proud + super excited about Sabrina Leddy’s work on the role of TEs in elite control of HIV! In collab with @TheNixonLab and @manvendr7. Sabrina presented to fellow graduate field members today and knocked it out of the park! #proudPI

[Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte @CedricFeschotte]

Day 0 of our first annual meeting on collab project HERVxHIVxLymphoma with @TheNixonLab,
Ethel Cesarman, & host Fabio Leal in Ipanema 🇧🇷☀️ #lifeisgood

[The Nixon Lab @TheNixonLab]

Naso-oropharyngeal microbiome from breast cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 @GisCurty @cellstoshell @mlbendall @WeillCornell @WCM_ID https://t.co/S3fKRJ1TUk

[The Nixon Lab @TheNixonLab]

Newest from the lab - great work from Nicholas Dopkins, @cellstoshell, @JezMarston, @_pfei, @mlbendall! @WeillCornell @mbiojournal @WCM_ID https://t.co/ydC4kDLVSJ

[paleovirology @paleovirology1]

Endogenous Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition Attenuates TLR5-Mediated Inflammation https://t.co/CbSMAwya2l

[Gan Lab @LiGanLab]

Check out our new review with @TheNixonLab on transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease. We discuss new data that link dysregulated TE expression to AD pathogenesis.
https://t.co/Ulj8xi9bjh

[Agingdoc🩺Dr David Barzilai🔔MD PhD MS MBA DipABLM @agingdoc1]

Transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

@LiGanLab & @TheNixonLab

https://t.co/ugFIxblPy3

@TrendsNeuro

[Trends in Neurosciences @TrendsNeuro]

'Transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis'

by Teresa Evering, Jez Marston, @LiGanLab & Douglas Nixon @TheNixonLab

https://t.co/DQvk7YPwRd

[matthew bendall - mlbendall.bsky.social @mlbendall]

How do our cells silence the thousands of endogenous retroviruses that have colonized the human #genome?

Nicholas Dopkins of @TheNixonLab has compiled a field guide describing known mechanisms:

https://t.co/gEVINdP0WW

Thanks @HOPEforHIVCure @WCM_ID
#transposon #bioinformatics

[Enrique Hernández-Lemus @Iehchel]

Kudos to @hamarillo_ on presenting her work on scRNSeq to assess HERVs together with the great team from @TheNixonLab

[matthew bendall - mlbendall.bsky.social @mlbendall]

@hamarillo_ is presenting our new tool, Stellarscope at #Singlecellgenomics2022 Nice work Helena! @TheNixonLab