Silvia Galvan Pena
@galvanpenas.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UMass Chan Medical School 👩🏻🔬 | Program of Microbiome Dynamics 🦠 | Immunologist | Mom 👶 | From 🇮🇨 🇪🇸
https://www.umassmed.edu/galvanpenalab/
https://www.umassmed.edu/galvanpenalab/
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
Open postdoc positions in my lab! Highly competitive salary/benefits and access to excellent resources! Come join the amazing scientific communities at @umasschan.bsky.social and @hhmi.org ! Located approx 1 hr west of Boston by car or train in beautiful Central Massachusetts :)
Postdoctoral Scientist - Watson Lab
Primary Work Address: 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA, 01605 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Watson Lab The Watson Lab at UMass Chan Medical School...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Open postdoc positions in my lab! Highly competitive salary/benefits and access to excellent resources! Come join the amazing scientific communities at @umasschan.bsky.social and @hhmi.org ! Located approx 1 hr west of Boston by car or train in beautiful Central Massachusetts :)
Congratulations to my amazing colleagues and collaborators 🎉
Faculty in the Program in Microbiome Dynamics at UMass Chan Medical School have received $3 million from the Gates Foundation to conduct research aimed at improving pregnancy outcomes and gut health in women: direc.to/nyBt
#WomensHealth #MaternalHealth #GutHealth #gut #microbiome #GlobalHealth
#WomensHealth #MaternalHealth #GutHealth #gut #microbiome #GlobalHealth
Gates Foundation awards $3 million in grants to UMass Chan to study gut health in pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries
The two awards will help fund research aimed at improving pregnancy outcomes in women from low- and middle-income countries.
direc.to
August 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Congratulations to my amazing colleagues and collaborators 🎉
Thankful to live and work in a state that recognizes the value of research 👏
BIG NEWS: I’m announcing the DRIVE Initiative – Discovery, Research, and Innovation for a Vibrant Economy. It’s a $400M investment in world-changing research and the tens of thousands of jobs it creates.
Let’s keep Massachusetts the #1 state for innovation.
Let’s keep Massachusetts the #1 state for innovation.
July 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Thankful to live and work in a state that recognizes the value of research 👏
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Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).
July 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).
Double congratulations for Shika!! Well deserved award 👏👏
Congratulations to Salk Assistant Professor, Deepshika Ramanan, who has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The distinction comes with funding for up to five years to support her research on the mechanism of maternal immunity transmission through breastmilk. 🧪
Salk Institute scientist Deepshika Ramanan named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LA JOLLA—Salk Assistant Professor Deepshika Ramanan has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar, a distinction given to early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptio...
www.salk.edu
July 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Double congratulations for Shika!! Well deserved award 👏👏
Delighted to finally see this story out - Congratulations to Shika and the rest of the team!
We helped show that gut T cells migrate to the mammary gland during late pregnancy and lactation to help turn it into a mucosal tissue.
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We helped show that gut T cells migrate to the mammary gland during late pregnancy and lactation to help turn it into a mucosal tissue.
rdcu.be/eywRz
Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes and intestinal inputs shape T cell dynamics in lactogenesis
Nature Immunology - Here Ramanan and colleagues provide an analysis of mammary T cells during late pregnancy and lactation. This revealed an increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes in the lactating...
rdcu.be
July 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Delighted to finally see this story out - Congratulations to Shika and the rest of the team!
We helped show that gut T cells migrate to the mammary gland during late pregnancy and lactation to help turn it into a mucosal tissue.
rdcu.be/eywRz
We helped show that gut T cells migrate to the mammary gland during late pregnancy and lactation to help turn it into a mucosal tissue.
rdcu.be/eywRz
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🎉 We’re launching BIOMS! The One Health Microbiome Center just received a $2.6M NIH T32 grant to train the next generation of microbiome scientists across human, environmental, and agricultural microbiome research.
Full story 👉 shorturl.at/uKk0P
Full story 👉 shorturl.at/uKk0P
$2.6M NIH grant to fund new microbiome sciences training program at Penn State | Penn State University
The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support ...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🎉 We’re launching BIOMS! The One Health Microbiome Center just received a $2.6M NIH T32 grant to train the next generation of microbiome scientists across human, environmental, and agricultural microbiome research.
Full story 👉 shorturl.at/uKk0P
Full story 👉 shorturl.at/uKk0P
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
May 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
Our lab is excited to hire a postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanisms that viruses use to ‘hijack’ TAM receptors in viral spread. We are looking for someone who is excited to learn new techniques and work in a highly collaborative team! Please share!
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our lab is excited to hire a postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanisms that viruses use to ‘hijack’ TAM receptors in viral spread. We are looking for someone who is excited to learn new techniques and work in a highly collaborative team! Please share!
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...
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An exciting talk is waiting for you next Thursday 12pm EST. 🎙️ Speaker @mmr2.bsky.social
will be taking about new roles of Treg in health and disease from the Diane Mathis & Christophe Benoist Lab
@HarvardMed Registration👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/889479660. hms.harvard.edu/news/regulat...
will be taking about new roles of Treg in health and disease from the Diane Mathis & Christophe Benoist Lab
@HarvardMed Registration👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/889479660. hms.harvard.edu/news/regulat...
Regulatory T Cells Found To Safeguard Brain Health, Memory Formation
Research identifies guardian cells dwelling in the protective layers of the brain
hms.harvard.edu
March 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
An exciting talk is waiting for you next Thursday 12pm EST. 🎙️ Speaker @mmr2.bsky.social
will be taking about new roles of Treg in health and disease from the Diane Mathis & Christophe Benoist Lab
@HarvardMed Registration👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/889479660. hms.harvard.edu/news/regulat...
will be taking about new roles of Treg in health and disease from the Diane Mathis & Christophe Benoist Lab
@HarvardMed Registration👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/889479660. hms.harvard.edu/news/regulat...
On my way home from a fantastic meeting. Feeling re-energised, with new ideas and ready to keep fighting for science! Congratulations to all the awardees
Exciting developments from Banff, Canada, as we celebrate our award recipients at the joint meeting on Human Microbiome and Host-Microbe Co-Evolution in Human Health. Join us in applauding these exceptional scholarship winners!
#KSHumanMicro25 #KSHostMicrobe25 #keystonesymposia
#KSHumanMicro25 #KSHostMicrobe25 #keystonesymposia
February 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On my way home from a fantastic meeting. Feeling re-energised, with new ideas and ready to keep fighting for science! Congratulations to all the awardees
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Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
YouTube video by Association of American Universities
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February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current
@cp-cell.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current
@cp-cell.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
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If you're doing innovative research about #microbiota and received an MD &/or PhD in last 10 years don’t miss out on applying for the NOSTER & @science.org Microbiome Prize!
Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: https://buff.ly/4gS29ZH
Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: https://buff.ly/4gS29ZH
January 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you're doing innovative research about #microbiota and received an MD &/or PhD in last 10 years don’t miss out on applying for the NOSTER & @science.org Microbiome Prize!
Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: https://buff.ly/4gS29ZH
Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: https://buff.ly/4gS29ZH
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well.
Please send leads, please amplify!
Please send leads, please amplify!
January 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well.
Please send leads, please amplify!
Please send leads, please amplify!
The Galvan-Pena lab is hiring a postdoc! If you know of any PhD students who will graduate soon or have recently graduated, and are interested in gut immunology and systemic effects of the microbiome - please send them my way!
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Galvan-Pena lab is hiring a postdoc! If you know of any PhD students who will graduate soon or have recently graduated, and are interested in gut immunology and systemic effects of the microbiome - please send them my way!
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
New: Lee et al. @harvardmed.bsky.social provide a compendium of early transcriptional responses to major inflammatory #cytokines across all major immunocyte lineages of the mouse, highlighting unappreciated relationships btwn these cytokines and with other cytokine families https://buff.ly/4gn71Fg
January 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New: Lee et al. @harvardmed.bsky.social provide a compendium of early transcriptional responses to major inflammatory #cytokines across all major immunocyte lineages of the mouse, highlighting unappreciated relationships btwn these cytokines and with other cytokine families https://buff.ly/4gn71Fg
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1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
The meninges host a distinct compartment of regulatory T cells that preserves brain homeostasis
Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis.
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
Congrats to my friend and former colleague @mmr2.bsky.social on publishing his work on Tregs in the meninges.
A #Science #Immunology Instant Release:
@mmr2.bsky.social, Diane Mathis, & colleagues at @harvard.edu & @institutocajal.bsky.social describe specialized meningeal #Treg subsets that promote #homeostasis of the mouse #brain #meninges & #parenchyma!
@mmr2.bsky.social, Diane Mathis, & colleagues at @harvard.edu & @institutocajal.bsky.social describe specialized meningeal #Treg subsets that promote #homeostasis of the mouse #brain #meninges & #parenchyma!
The meninges host a distinct compartment of regulatory T cells that preserves brain homeostasis
Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis.
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Congrats to my friend and former colleague @mmr2.bsky.social on publishing his work on Tregs in the meninges.
Reposted by Silvia Galvan Pena
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.