Elizabeth McCarthy

UCSF MSTP/Bioinformatics Graduate Student working on Computational Systems Immunology. #BlackInImmuno

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

A thread 🧵 on our recent paper on ZIKV in @CellReports! (My first first-author paper of graduate school!!)
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https://t.co/uZNMrGEhSy

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

@ElizabetsCrouch My lab used Mendeley Data for CyTOF data and I think you can store/shar flow cytometry data as well!

[U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General]

I'd like to highlight Dr. Justin Bullock (@jbullockruns), a research fellow in the nephrology program at the University of Washington (@UWNephrology) who advocates for greater #MentalHealth support for our nation’s health workers. Let's celebrate him this #BlackHistoryMonth. 1/3

[UCSF Immunologists for Gender Equity @IgEquity]

Additionally, talks by @MihoTanakaMT and @em_immuno were super exciting in groundbreaking cancer. Awesome to see trainee contributions!

[@IAmSciComm - On a Break! @iamscicomm]

I have 10+ years of university-level education.

But no lecture taught me how to create good visualizations.

These things are crucial for communication but are often not part of the training.

So, let's have a crash course on visualization guidelines anyone can implement. 🧵

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"It was always my hope that, as a scientist, I could make some contributions that would benefit human health."

Listen to our conversation with 2022 chemistry laureate @CarolynBertozzi, where she shares why she wanted to become a scientist and the importance of chemistry:

[Devika Bhushan, MD @DrDevikaB]

I'm CA's Acting Surgeon General. Today, I'd like to publicly share my journey with bipolar disorder.

Stigma festers in the dark and scatters in the light.

By speaking out, I hope to help dispel stigma. To help anyone struggling know they’re not alone — and to have hope. 1/

[Dominic Grün @dominic_grun]

Rahul @satijalab giving a visionary keynote lecture at our @Wue_SI #SystemsImmunology symposium.

[Joyce Lee @joycevlee]

Why do some triple negative breast cancer patients respond to anti-PD-L1/PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade, while others do not?
We investigated this question https://t.co/PE3rQJ4yIs
@goga_lab @UCSFcancer #breastcancer Tweetorial 👇

[Kiran Clair @kiranclairMD]

Abortion is not just health care, it is a human right. Beyond infringing on bodily autonomy, there are conditions in pregnancy that result in death without safe abortion care. This is a calling for all in medicine to stand on the side of justice https://t.co/8FdGtvwI2L

[Cell Reports @CellReports]

A cytotoxic-skewed immune set point predicts low neutralizing antibody levels after Zika virus infection https://t.co/ZebYWV9PqD

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

1/ I'm surprised that people are realizing only now that you can get COVID every 3-4 months even if you have immunity from vaccination or prior infection.

What's important to remember is that vaccination is highly protective against severe COVID.

https://t.co/DDNdHCrp21

[Leigh Kimberg @LeighKimberg]

I do not have words that are powerful enough to describe how important this movement & article are. This is healing-justice care. Please read carefully. #medtwitter

Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. - The New York Times https://t.co/2zOCtiuhGp

[Shematologist, MD @acweyand]

FDA authorizes Pfizer #Covid19 booster shots for children ages 5 to 11

CDC meets Thursday.

Grateful for the chance to protect my babies. Now where is that under 5 EUA? https://t.co/ScOdex6V0r

[Alex Cagan @ATJCagan]

Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature.
https://t.co/a68IkkTt33
An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]

[Kathleen Morrill Pirovich @morrilleen]

A pinch of pinscher, a dash of 'shund... a pint of pittie for good measure, and what kind of #dog do you get?
Ulti-mutt-ly: a distinct individual.

Happy to share our article on dog genomes, behavior, and MUTTS in @ScienceMagazine! @UMassChan @broadinstitute #ScienceResearch 1/n

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

@r_rutishauser @UCSF_MSTP @rdhernand Key support also from Peter Hunt and @FeeneyLab from @UCSF_EXPM Also see orig pre-print here: https://t.co/jOKo8Ollde

[Rachel Rutishauser (moving to bsky: rrutishauser) @r_rutishauser]

Excited to share our pre-print exploring the cellular immune response to acute ZIKV infection by CyTOF and signatures associated with high vs low neutralizing antibody titers. With @UCSF MSTP trainee Elizabeth McCarthy, @SpitzerLab, Pam Odorizzi, others! https://t.co/1sHJtvVirQ

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

A thread 🧵 on our recent paper on ZIKV in @CellReports! (My first first-author paper of graduate school!!)
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https://t.co/uZNMrGEhSy

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

Huge thanks to @r_rutishauser and Pam Odorizzi for being amazing collaborators, mentors, and role models during this project and beyond! Also of course thanks to my training programs @UCSF_MSTP led by Dr. Aimee Kao and the bioinformatics PhD program led by ​​@rdhernand.
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[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

Panels designed by @r_rutishauser, Pam Odorizzi, and @SpitzerLab ; Big thanks to @CarolynSmullin and Emma Lutz as well

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

We designed two mass cytometry panels focused on profiling multiple activation and differentiation markers on broad immune cells (mono/DC/NK/B/T) to gain a comprehensive assessment of how acute ZIKV infection impacts cellular immune phenotypes.
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[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

@VitalantCA Thank you to Mike Busch, Mars Stone, Graham Simmons, Philip Norris at @VitalantCA

[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

We collaborated with scientists @VitalantCA who collected longitudinal samples from viremic blood donors in Puerto Rico during the 2015-2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in order to follow VL/Ab responses.
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[Elizabeth McCarthy @em_immuno]

Also hugely appreciative of both my PIs @yimmieg and @SpitzerLab (extra thanks for starting me on this project during my lab rotation). And of course have to shout out the Black/underrepresented community at UCSF and beyond @BlackInImmuno @BESTEM_UCSF @ImmunoDiverse

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