Dominik Awad
@awaddomi.bsky.social
Postdoc in Lyssiotis and Daley labs at University of Michigan Medicine. Pancreatic cancer metabolism and microbiome. Michigan Pioneer fellow. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow. 🇦🇹
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"Postdoc in the job market"
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Postdoc in the job market"
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“Preliminary data center”
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Preliminary data center”
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When I delete slide 137 from my presentation because I might run out of time
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
When I delete slide 137 from my presentation because I might run out of time
PancMidwest 2025 was truly fantastic! Two days of science, catching up with old friends and getting to know more amazing people across the Midwest. Thank you so much for organizing @mpm-lab.bsky.social and Dr. Tim Frankel! @umich.edu @henryfordhealth.bsky.social 🧪 @lyssiotislab.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
PancMidwest 2025 was truly fantastic! Two days of science, catching up with old friends and getting to know more amazing people across the Midwest. Thank you so much for organizing @mpm-lab.bsky.social and Dr. Tim Frankel! @umich.edu @henryfordhealth.bsky.social 🧪 @lyssiotislab.bsky.social
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Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligands Drive Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression through Protumorigenic T Cell Polarization - by Brian Griffith, Timothy Frankel, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @umich.edu
September 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligands Drive Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression through Protumorigenic T Cell Polarization - by Brian Griffith, Timothy Frankel, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @umich.edu
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Super excited to share new review on metabolic stress and adaptations in pancreatic cancer to these stresses from @cssheehan.bsky.social
jci.org/articles/vie... 1/6
jci.org/articles/vie... 1/6
JCI -
What’s on the menu?: metabolic constraints in the pancreatic tumor microenvironment
jci.org
July 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Super excited to share new review on metabolic stress and adaptations in pancreatic cancer to these stresses from @cssheehan.bsky.social
jci.org/articles/vie... 1/6
jci.org/articles/vie... 1/6
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So grateful and excited to partner with the Stephenson Global Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute to advance our collaborative program targeting lysosome and Kras metabolism in pancreatic cancer!
michmed.org/rwVDK
michmed.org/rwVDK
Lyssiotis awarded Stephenson Global Scholar Grant for pancreatic cancer research
Costas Lyssiotis, Ph.D., co-director of the Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer at the Rogel Cancer Center, was one of six researchers to receive inaugural grants from the Stephenson Global ...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So grateful and excited to partner with the Stephenson Global Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute to advance our collaborative program targeting lysosome and Kras metabolism in pancreatic cancer!
michmed.org/rwVDK
michmed.org/rwVDK
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This is wild!
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is wild!
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @drbadbug.bsky.social @teresaomeara.bsky.social Overall, our findings illustrate non-canonical IRE1α activation during infection and a function for IRE1α in supporting organelle contact sites to safeguard against rapidly growing microbes.
IRE1α promotes phagosomal calcium flux to enhance macrophage fungicidal activity
The mammalian endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensor inositol-requiring enzyme 1α (IRE1α) is essential for cellular homeostasis and plays key roles …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @drbadbug.bsky.social @teresaomeara.bsky.social Overall, our findings illustrate non-canonical IRE1α activation during infection and a function for IRE1α in supporting organelle contact sites to safeguard against rapidly growing microbes.
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🔥Smoking hot new paper and tweetorial from @djcalebc.bsky.social (collab with Chinnaiyan Lab)! 🔥
We are over the moon about this new work and its therapeutic implications for pancreatic cancer. Please have a read and share your thoughts/feedback! 🙏🏼
We are over the moon about this new work and its therapeutic implications for pancreatic cancer. Please have a read and share your thoughts/feedback! 🙏🏼
Beyond grateful to share that my main PhD thesis project, Targeting PIKfyve-driven lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer (@lyssiotislab.bsky.social + Arul Chinnaiyan lab), has just been published in @nature.com!
April 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🔥Smoking hot new paper and tweetorial from @djcalebc.bsky.social (collab with Chinnaiyan Lab)! 🔥
We are over the moon about this new work and its therapeutic implications for pancreatic cancer. Please have a read and share your thoughts/feedback! 🙏🏼
We are over the moon about this new work and its therapeutic implications for pancreatic cancer. Please have a read and share your thoughts/feedback! 🙏🏼
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Beyond grateful to share that my main PhD thesis project, Targeting PIKfyve-driven lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer (@lyssiotislab.bsky.social + Arul Chinnaiyan lab), has just been published in @nature.com!
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Beyond grateful to share that my main PhD thesis project, Targeting PIKfyve-driven lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer (@lyssiotislab.bsky.social + Arul Chinnaiyan lab), has just been published in @nature.com!
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ONLINE NOW! Subcellular mitochondrial heterogeneity enables opposing metabolic demands, by @brandontwchen.bsky.social, Yatrik Shah and @lyssiotislab.bsky.social, discussing the recent work by @keunwooryu.bsky.social et al.
Read it for free until March 19th at:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWLq3jDgW...
Read it for free until March 19th at:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWLq3jDgW...
January 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
ONLINE NOW! Subcellular mitochondrial heterogeneity enables opposing metabolic demands, by @brandontwchen.bsky.social, Yatrik Shah and @lyssiotislab.bsky.social, discussing the recent work by @keunwooryu.bsky.social et al.
Read it for free until March 19th at:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWLq3jDgW...
Read it for free until March 19th at:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWLq3jDgW...
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The end of an era. @brandontwchen.bsky.social brought us kicking & screaming into cell biology, and what an exciting journey it’s been. We are so very proud of everything he’s accomplished! Join us 1/17 for his defense. Thereafter… watch out NYC, here he comes!!
January 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The end of an era. @brandontwchen.bsky.social brought us kicking & screaming into cell biology, and what an exciting journey it’s been. We are so very proud of everything he’s accomplished! Join us 1/17 for his defense. Thereafter… watch out NYC, here he comes!!
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My family: Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
Me: 2.6 Å
Me: 2.6 Å
January 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My family: Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
Me: 2.6 Å
Me: 2.6 Å
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New TrendsinBiotech w/ Shea Lab, led by Kate & Michael. We cover concepts bridging nano/materials and immunity; e.g., nanoparticles can be designed with immune-modulatory metabolites (poly-lactate) 😎
t.co/3FQRYgsMvv
t.co/3FQRYgsMvv
December 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM
New TrendsinBiotech w/ Shea Lab, led by Kate & Michael. We cover concepts bridging nano/materials and immunity; e.g., nanoparticles can be designed with immune-modulatory metabolites (poly-lactate) 😎
t.co/3FQRYgsMvv
t.co/3FQRYgsMvv
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Our Paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social with correct link www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Our Paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social with correct link www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new preprint is now online! Here we describe in detail our strategy to isolate bacteria and fungi from pancreatic cancer patients. We also characterized a newly isolated Klebsiella oxytoca strain (UMKO1) in more detail. Thank you to all the co-authors and mentors! @lyssiotislab.bsky.social
Isolation and characterization of microbiota from human pancreatic tumors and small intestine https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.625762v1
Isolation and characterization of microbiota from human pancreatic tumors and small intestine https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.625762v1
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has a unique tumor microbiome and the systemic depletion of bacteri
www.biorxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Our new preprint is now online! Here we describe in detail our strategy to isolate bacteria and fungi from pancreatic cancer patients. We also characterized a newly isolated Klebsiella oxytoca strain (UMKO1) in more detail. Thank you to all the co-authors and mentors! @lyssiotislab.bsky.social
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Hi #immunosky @rafrancescone.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc candidate interested in immunology, with experience in flow cytometry, to run projects exploring mechanisms of immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer. Come to beautiful Michigan! Official announcement soon. DM us
November 30, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Hi #immunosky @rafrancescone.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc candidate interested in immunology, with experience in flow cytometry, to run projects exploring mechanisms of immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer. Come to beautiful Michigan! Official announcement soon. DM us
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#PancreaticCancer research starter pack.
65 of 150. Room for 85 more on this 1st starter pack.
Who did I miss?
go.bsky.app/FDafAW
65 of 150. Room for 85 more on this 1st starter pack.
Who did I miss?
go.bsky.app/FDafAW
November 23, 2024 at 9:52 PM
#PancreaticCancer research starter pack.
65 of 150. Room for 85 more on this 1st starter pack.
Who did I miss?
go.bsky.app/FDafAW
65 of 150. Room for 85 more on this 1st starter pack.
Who did I miss?
go.bsky.app/FDafAW
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If you want to learn something on Friday, please join us in person or virtually for the 4th annual Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Symposium! To see the program and to register, go to hfhs.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
4th Annual Pancreatic Cancer Center Symposium 2024 - Henry Ford Health - Continuing Education (CE)
Henry Ford Health, 4th Annual Pancreatic Cancer Center Symposium 2024, 11/15/2024 8:00:00 AM - 11/15/2024 4:45:00 PM, <p>The Pancreatic Cancer Center hosts national leaders in the field to report on t...
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November 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM
If you want to learn something on Friday, please join us in person or virtually for the 4th annual Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Symposium! To see the program and to register, go to hfhs.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...