Samantha Garcia C

mx 🇲🇽 living in 🇬🇧 | Virologist researcher 🦠🧫👩🏻‍🔬

[Stephen Griffin @SGriffin_Lab]

Sometimes, viruses don't have to be the bad guys...
Sometimes we can use one to treat another!

Chuffed to present excellent work from @samanthagco showing how the innate immune system can be "rewired" by a benign Reovirus to eliminate SARS2 infection.

https://t.co/ncKTVt1AYZ

[Rosario in Paris ᥫ᭡ @chayito09]

Hoy les contaré una historia y de cómo nuestro sistema nervioso se convierte en cómplice para la propagación del cáncer.

En 1998, Gustavo Ayala, un joven patólogo, llegó a la Facultad de medicina en Baylor, Houston, Texas, listo para comenzar a ver pacientes. Pero su licencia
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©️McKenzie Prillaman.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

⚠️ BREAKING:

Unknown disease kills 143 in southwest Congo, local authorities say

Infected people had flu-like symptoms, including high fever and severe headaches.

[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

How to scare a researcher!

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

I’d like to talk about my Dad.

He came to England from India at age 17.

He had a brutal childhood- he’s refused to talk us kids about it but part of his childhood involved living on the streets as a child in India

Coming to England saved his life. Literally.

He has worked - shop keeper, then taxi driver & has contributed to tax his whole life here. He refused to charge people for his taxi service when they visited hospitals, students who felt unsafe walking at night etc. He worked 7 days a week, and we lived month to month.

My Mum, at the age of 64, still works full
time as an insurance broker & has also paid tax her entire working life.

My Dad retired at the age of 70 during the pandemic as he was diagnosed with cancer. Thankfully he’s currently in remission 🙏

As soon as he was given the “all clear” he could finally pursue his dream - to feed those in need.

At the age of 70 he asked my Mum to teach him how to cook.

Every Tuesday he buys food to feed about 100/200 homeless people a week. He wakes up at 3am every Wednesday to cook the food, package & distribute it with a team of volunteers who also provide them warm clothing, cut their hair etc with nothing but love.

The volunteers are from all backgrounds, all colours, all ethnicities as are the people they serve.

He is the kindest, most compassionate person I know. To have people judge him based on the colour of his skin breaks my heart beyond measure.

[Rosario in Paris ᥫ᭡ @chayito09]

La OMS ha enlistado los patógenos que podrían provocar la próxima pandemia actualizando su lista de virus y bacterias más peligrosos. El número de patógenos ha aumentado a más de 30, y ahora incluye el virus de la influenza A, dengue y de la viruela símica. Esta lista de
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©️Kateryna Kon.

[Stephen Griffin @SGriffin_Lab]

Chuffed to update our work on using #oncolyticvirus immunotherapy to treat liver cancer...
This is a new take that we hope will improve outcomes for those unresponsive to checkpoint immunotherapies.

The trick is, kill your #oncolyticvirus first!

https://t.co/ctHjjd9wRn

[Mario Peña-Hernández 🇲🇽 @marioph13]

Thrilled to share the first publication of my Ph.D. thesis today in @naturemicrobiol with @wilenlab and @virusesimmunity. Here we synthesized, recovered, and studied two of the closest known relatives of SARS-CoV-2 from bats that were recently discovered in Laos to assess their zoonotic potential 👇 (1/)
https://t.co/yb4D5MXS2S

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

@marioph13 @NatureMicrobiol @WilenLab @VirusesImmunity Yayyyy felicidades Mario!!

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

If you told me 10 years ago Saudi Arabia would allow commercials like this, I would laugh and call you crazy.

Despite all their issues, this is a monumental shift.

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

@AnaChacon1245 @tugoverta JAJAJAJAJA SI SON

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

I had such a great time sharing my PhD project at the #Microbio24 Thank you to the @MicrobioSoc for the opportunity, it was a really good day of science 🧬

[Clive McKimmie (VHIT) 🦟🦠🐁 @VHIT_Mckimmie]

@_AMcCafferty delivered her final PhD talk today at #Microbio24 . What a showcase of fantastic science from a dedicated researcher. A bright future awaits this rising star.

[Nickstalgia @nickstalgiatv]

"¿Qué no entiendes? Para que Angélica triunfe en una estructura dominada por el varón tiene que comer, beber, respirar y sudar autovaloración."
-Carlota Pickles (1993)

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

#NiUnaMenos #NiUnaMás #8Marzo

Cindy, otro 8 de marzo sin ti, otro 8 de marzo por ti 💜💚

Te extraño cada día

[Evelyn Juárez @EvyBelleth]

¡Por ti, por mi, por TODAS!
#8marzo2024
#DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer
#NiUnaMenos

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

Feliz será el dia que no falte ninguna 💜💚

[.⋆｡⋆𝓦𝓮𝓪𝓼 𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ˚｡⋆. @M1ni0n_sad]

FELIZ será el día que no falte ninguna, por mi y todas mis compañeras 💜💚
#8marzo #8M2024

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

🦠🦠

[Stephen Griffin @SGriffin_Lab]

So, when are viruses NOT the bad guys?
When they treat cancer, of course!

Our latest on ⏫️ #LiverCancer survival via antigen independent cytotoxic CD4+ T-Cells, after TKI-conditioned therapy with uv-inactivated oncolytic reovirus.
Supported by @The_MRC

https://t.co/F3QeFni1sZ

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

📌China lists SARS-CoV-2 as the second-highest deadly infectious disease after HIV/AIDS

[Samantha Garcia C @samanthagco]

@EduardoZ_L @Veektor_ @EsDeMamador Jajajaja si soy