Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen

Postdoc in the Gommerman lab @UofT. Fascinated by microbiota-neuro-immune communication | PhD from @McMasterU 🇨🇦 Also @kcjorgensen.bsky.social

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

So grateful to @UofTSchmidt_AI for the opportunity to work with incredible scientists @BoWang87 and @JenGommerman on novel machine learning approaches to understand how microbes influence (neuro)immunity.

[UofT Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship @UofTSchmidt_AI]

Please give a warm welcome to our newest #SchmidtAIinSci Fellow, @kcjorgensen ! Kevin has joined our second cohort since the start of May, and is investigating how microbes promote neuro-immune homeostasis.

Learn more here: https://t.co/EZ5ifXE69Y

[Cell Host & Microbe @cellhostmicrobe]

Assessing #phage-host population dynamics by reintroducing virulent viruses. @EmmaAllenVercoe shows colony isolation removes virulent viruses from gut #bacteria. Reintroducing virulent #virome to bacteria has specific impacts on community & prophages https://t.co/vFqwGZT1r2

[Dr. Jen Gommerman @JenGommerman]

Another beautiful paper from @QuintanaLabHMS and colleagues. You can read the spotlight article that @kcjorgensen and I contributed on how Astrocytes “ACLYmate” to inflammation and adopt trained immunity. Cool beans!

https://t.co/xF0ZkdLb2z

[Angela Wang @angeanr]

Excited to share a big part of my #PhD work in
@JenGommerman lab at @UofT, now available in
@ScienceTM🎊

We find a fascinating role of BAFF in autoimmune brain inflammation🔥 What happens when your usual patrons (B cells) are gone? 🫥

Read more here: https://t.co/5aflnRxKvk

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

@SiddiquiLab Thanks so much Tabrez! I owe a ton to what I learned in your lab (almost a decade ago!)

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

I am incredibly honoured to receive the 2023 Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine. Huge thanks to @OntUniv for this award, to @McMasterU for support through my PhD, and to @UofT and especially @JenGommerman for creating a fantastic environment to do postdoctoral research!

[ON Colleges, Universities, Research & Security @ONtrainandstudy]

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen from @UofT, winner of the 2023 Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine!

Learn more about their award-winning research:
https://t.co/emuRSqBsGB

#ONpse #UofT @kcjorgensen

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

@jfekoenig Thanks so much Josh!

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

@jfekoenig @allyssaphelps @KellyBruton_ @ALK_net This is such a cool story! Congrats Josh and team! Fantastic cover art too

[Michael Fischbach @mfgrp]

Today we report a detailed map of interactions between the immune system and the gut microbiome. @MicrobiomeTcell led the charge w/ help from Aishan Zhao and Kat Atabakhsh. @Nature 1/40
https://t.co/S7eKIQfMY6

[Ryan Cook @RyanCookAMR]

Had a great first day at @vom2023 and am looking forward to the rest of the week. Come speak to me at today's poster session if you're interested in my viromics work with @milja001 (poster C2-056)

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

@jfekoenig Congrats Josh! Psyched to see some awesome science coming out of the Koenig lab soon. And trainees: see here for a fantastic mentor!

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

Big props to @scientiff for Illustrator wizardry and great writing (along with @DoinItDarby) and of course @DwayneR0ACH for making it all happen. Shout out also to @RyanCookAMR for some brilliant suggestions. More from us on this soon!

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

Really pleased to share this from @phage_bio! Tons of fantastic work recently in the therapeutic and commensal phage fields, so we thought it was worth a deep dive review into how these bugs impact the mammalian host. Our takeaway?

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

Immunogenicity of bacteriophages

https://t.co/FhgbHQaaay

@scientiff @kcjorgensen @DwayneR0ACH

[Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen]

Immunologically, phages seem to be "seen" like any other viruses! Context and phage structural characteristics seem to be important factors determining immunogenicity - but more work needed on this front.

[Marina Chulkina @MarinaChulkina]

Spatial transcriptomic analysis of intestinal inflammation in dynamic. One of the best and most detailed analyses of fibroblasts in DSS colitis.
#IBD & #MERFISH #SpatialTranscriptomics #IBDfibroblasts https://t.co/1KmH8fsmTk

[Dr. Natalia Pikor @natalia_pikor]

Congratulations to the whole team @ImmunobiologySG ! Our study, supported by the @snsf_ch , showing how immune cell-provided cues support B cell niches and humoral immunity is out in @NatImmunol today: https://t.co/0j9gCLez2p

[Dr. Jen Gommerman @JenGommerman]

A big moment for me: I started as an u/g then grad student in Immunology @UofT. After 20 years of running my lab @uoftmedicine, alongside my friends and colleagues I am now excited to lead the Dept as Chair. Thank you all my mentors, family and friends for support along the way.

[Dr. Jen Gommerman @JenGommerman]

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[Greg German MD PhD FRCPC DTM&H @DrGregGerman]

#phagetherapy alert! This Tuesday at Noon ET @uoftmedicine 45 min YouTube session with myself @picardonhealth @UofTEPIC Esteemed Professor and Queen of the Fungal Kingdom @BrightAngelTx #ammicanphage @AMMICanada @esgnta @UnityHealthTO register with link!

https://t.co/iyO5KQBxU5

[Lei Dai @leidai_CAS]

Our collaboration with Yingfei Ma's group on gut phage culturomics is published in Cell Host&Microbe! The Gut Phage Isolates Collection (GPIC) expands the diversity of cultured gut phages and provides a valuable resource for human microbiome engineering.
https://t.co/ulVv8lwvXt