Arya Ökten

@YaleIBIO PhD candidate thinking about antibodies & norovirus (and sometimes SARS-2) w @WilenLab and CraftLab / @BrownUniversity '20

[Arya Ökten @aryaokten]

A huge thank you to all the collaborators that made this work possible! Grateful to STM for publishing our story and @Ella_Maru for the incredible cover design! Click to read about the (somewhat unconventional) way we used mRNA-LNPs to completely block norovirus infection!

[Craig Wilen @WilenLab]

Excited to share our paper just out: IgA is necessary and sufficient to prevent norovirus infection in mice | Science Translational Medicine https://t.co/H4Ww19cb5k

[John Lukens @LukensJohnR]

Innervation of nociceptor neurons in the spleen promotes germinal center responses and humoral immunity: @CellCellPress https://t.co/VLVgmopq9G

[Madison (Maddi) Strine, PhD @madisonstrine]

The number of people congratulating this former PI really speaks to how deep the misogyny in academia runs. Scientific contributions should never outweigh the duty to moral and scientific integrity. Second chances shouldn’t be given at the expense of past and future trainees

[Arya Ökten @aryaokten]

Recently, I had the privilege of competing in the 3 Minute Thesis competition at Yale. Truly honored & humbled by all the support, and thank you again to everyone who came out! If by any chance you want to hear me talk about my favorite virus, please check out the link below. 💜

[Craig Wilen @WilenLab]

Check out 27:05 for CHAMPION @aryaokten's thesis at the Yale 3-Minute Thesis Final Competition 2024 https://t.co/tK8kt7ajVz via @YouTube

[Madison (Maddi) Strine, PhD @madisonstrine]

Happy to share the last story from my thesis work! Privileged to have worked with such great collaborators and to stand on the shoulders of giants

Check out the tweetorial from @WilenLab👇🏼:

[João Victor Gomes @jvic_gomes]

Yale News published a very nice piece about the first paper from the @butterwicklab now in @Nature, check it out! Big thanks to @MalloryLocklear for the opportunity to talk about our work.
@Yale @CAPES_Oficial
https://t.co/TPnY4YtiW0

[Arya Ökten @aryaokten]

best valentine’s card ever — straight @ilzeOliviGomes’s dish!

💜

[João Victor Gomes @jvic_gomes]

Check out the first structure of a sweet taste receptor bound to a sugar molecule! The @butterwicklab found out how an insect chemoreceptor achieves very narrow tuning by coupling binding pocket stereochemistry and allosteric activation. https://t.co/gvwvwHw02N🧶Our findings:

[Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim]

Heartbreaking. Enraging.

Deaths from measles surged 43% to 136,000 last year https://t.co/F08R0yNy66 via @upi

"...prompted by a wave of infections among unvaccinated children..."

"The increase in measles outbreaks and deaths is staggering..."

#VaccinesWork

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

[Dave @Metabo_Dave]

Today is a good reminder that nobody can predict the future. Scientists who ramble on about what work is or isn't important are chatting shit. Ignore them and stay focused.

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

You desk rejected their seminal paper.

[Daniel Czyz, PhD @360Science]

I found these messages to be needed by graduate students as much as they are in grade school.

[Craig Wilen @WilenLab]

Great paper from @baldridge_lab showing that murine norovirus RNA is sensed by uninfected enterocytes leading to IFN-λ production which then acts on tuft cells to restrict infection. https://t.co/tzPibdvpMt

[Ola Synowiec @OlaaSynowiec]

I'm delighted to present our new article published today in the Journal of Virology. It demonstrates how feline herpesvirus 1 (FHV-1) 🐈‍⬛🦠enters host cells! 🧪
I'm so proud! 🥰
More details below 👇
https://t.co/kZUfhFnsbH

@k_pyrc @MCB_UJ @JagiellonskiUni @MEIN_GOV_PL

[Mario Peña-Hernández 🇲🇽 @marioph13]

@WilenLab retreat day full of cool science, pizza, and wine. 🍷🥂🍕

[Pascal Geldsetzer @PGeldsetzer1]

Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!

We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!

Hear me out & see preprint: https://t.co/25f5XFQj8R
🧵1/

[Craig Wilen @WilenLab]

Excited to share our paper out today in @plospathogens: The KDM6A-KMT2D-p300 axis regulates susceptibility to diverse coronaviruses by mediating viral receptor expression. https://t.co/4pGrvaGMZw

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[Arya Ökten @aryaokten]

Had an absolutely fabulous time at #ASV2023! Made so many new friends, talked so much cool science, and even managed to snag a selfie with the virus king himself @profvrr 🤩 Thank you to the organizers & I might even have to stop saying “I’m an immunologist, not a virologist”…