After a decade of dedicated work, long-term experimental designs (with some experiments spanning over a year!), our team has uncovered a promising therapeutic approach for leishmaniasis - a neglected tropical disease that currently lacks effective treatments.
Do you want to know what happens to #bone during visceral #Leishmania infection? You can find out in the first paper of Chaobo Lai, a full collaborative work with @AlineBozec @UniFAU.
Leishmania Research Group Erlangen (Prof. Christian Bogdan/PD Dr. Ulrike Schleicher) is attending @WLeish7@FAU_Germany
Our Journey To Cartagena already started. Many more exciting update to follow.
Would be great to know participants who is attending @WLeish7 in Cartagena, Columbia from Germany or Europe. Happy to discuss about travelling schedule or we can travel together. I am final year PhD student ( Leishmania Lab from Prof Christian Bogdan, Erlangen, Germany.)
Me: I can’t believe Uncle Sam is taxing my @NobelPrize. Not taxable in most other countries…
18-year-old: Hasn’t Uncle Sam funded a big chunk of your research?
Me: 😑
Some key takeaways on our latest (in separate tweets, over days):
(i) Acute stress reorganizes the distribution of all major leukocyte types in the body -- within minutes!
More context here soon:
https://t.co/sPPPBnqHfq
Paper:
https://t.co/cMJKq12pkO
I’ve now lived in the USA more than in any other country (3 total) but I still feel like that monocyte that engrafts in the brain and no matter how close to (or even better than ���) microglia it gets, it will never become a “real”microglia… #ForeverImmigrant
1/ Hi twitter academia. This is a 🧵on an experience I had at a conference recently. After my oral presentation, I was TOLD that it was not reasonable to pose and test a hypothesis in mice based on observations made in the clinic. I was TOLD this was the WRONG way to do it.
Happy that our review on barrier function in skin #inflammation is out now in @SkinHealthDis
Thanks to Heike and Padraic @FallonL and Caoimhe @RUHBath
Break on through: The role of innate immunity and barrier defence in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis https://t.co/SUxMBRTZon