Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Ph.D.
@berrienelliottlab.bsky.social
Scientist, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, NK cell therapy. Opinions are my own.
Celebrating our Knowledge Ninja, Carly!
April 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Celebrating our Knowledge Ninja, Carly!
Reposted by Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Ph.D.
Highlighting the upcoming 21st meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity, June 8-11, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia!
Premier meeting on NK cell, ILC, biology and immunotherapy!
Early bird registration available through March 7, spread the word!
www.nk2025.au
Premier meeting on NK cell, ILC, biology and immunotherapy!
Early bird registration available through March 7, spread the word!
www.nk2025.au
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Highlighting the upcoming 21st meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity, June 8-11, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia!
Premier meeting on NK cell, ILC, biology and immunotherapy!
Early bird registration available through March 7, spread the word!
www.nk2025.au
Premier meeting on NK cell, ILC, biology and immunotherapy!
Early bird registration available through March 7, spread the word!
www.nk2025.au
Reposted by Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Ph.D.
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Terrifying and confirmed by my SRO
Canceling study sections will have real consequences for life-saving research, meaning it won’t be able to get to the people who need it most.
Call your congress representatives, your governor, and tell your communities about the importance of science funding—and join us on March 7th. ☀️
Call your congress representatives, your governor, and tell your communities about the importance of science funding—and join us on March 7th. ☀️
🚨This should be amplified!!
Study sections and council meetings are still being cancelled despite the court order unblocking NIH freezes, effectively halting any new research grant from being funded: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Study sections and council meetings are still being cancelled despite the court order unblocking NIH freezes, effectively halting any new research grant from being funded: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
February 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Terrifying and confirmed by my SRO
Reposted by Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Ph.D.
Dynamic trajectories of human peripheral immune cells from birth to old age
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natimmunol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Integrating single-cell RNA and T cell/B cell receptor sequencing with mass cytometry reveals dynamic trajectories of human peripheral immune cells from birth to old age - Nature Immunology
In this Resource, authors profile peripheral immune cells from a total of 220 healthy volunteers from birth to over 90 years. This revealed that T cells were most affected by aging with divergent agin...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Dynamic trajectories of human peripheral immune cells from birth to old age
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Ph.D.
SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in previously vaccinated individuals are characterized by reduced activation of innate immune responses
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@blishlab.bsky.social
Prior vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during COVID-19 breakthrough infection
SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in previously vaccinated individuals are characterized by reduced activation of innate immune responses.
www.science.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in previously vaccinated individuals are characterized by reduced activation of innate immune responses
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@blishlab.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@blishlab.bsky.social
I had the honor and privilege to attend a class with Elie Wiesel at Eckerd College and was just thinking of him today and the lessons he taught me. How do we combat fascism and fanaticism? We listen to the silence of those who are no longer able to speak.
“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”
—Elie Wiesel
—Elie Wiesel
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I had the honor and privilege to attend a class with Elie Wiesel at Eckerd College and was just thinking of him today and the lessons he taught me. How do we combat fascism and fanaticism? We listen to the silence of those who are no longer able to speak.
Reposted by Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Ph.D.
RNase T2 plays an important role in limiting self-RNA recognition by preventing erroneous activation of TLR13
@jem.org @v-hornung.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
@jem.org @v-hornung.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
January 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
RNase T2 plays an important role in limiting self-RNA recognition by preventing erroneous activation of TLR13
@jem.org @v-hornung.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
@jem.org @v-hornung.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
Don’t let people gaslight us into thinking what’s happening at the NIH is normal. It is in fact unprecedented
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Don’t let people gaslight us into thinking what’s happening at the NIH is normal. It is in fact unprecedented
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...