Kerry Hilligan
@kerryhilligan.bsky.social
Immunologist with an interest in respiratory infectious disease 👩🔬🔬 🫁
Team Leader @ Malaghan Inst 🇳🇿 🥝
Sher lab alum @ NIH 🇺🇸
Proud dog & cat mum🐱🐶🐶
Views are my own
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eRLabRcAAAAJ&hl=en
Team Leader @ Malaghan Inst 🇳🇿 🥝
Sher lab alum @ NIH 🇺🇸
Proud dog & cat mum🐱🐶🐶
Views are my own
she/her
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eRLabRcAAAAJ&hl=en
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Our @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social "Highlights of 2024: Germinal Centers" is now out. Led by Theresa Pankhurst, we discuss some (there's never enough space for all!) neat germinal centre papers that were published in 2024, and whose findings are moving the field forward. doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this article for the Highlights of 2024 series, we review the latest advances in the biology of the germinal center response. These discoveries provide key insights into germinal center function a...
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Our @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social "Highlights of 2024: Germinal Centers" is now out. Led by Theresa Pankhurst, we discuss some (there's never enough space for all!) neat germinal centre papers that were published in 2024, and whose findings are moving the field forward. doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
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@kerryhilligan.bsky.social et al @niaidnews.bsky.social review the evidence that both the mycobacterial-specific & off-target nonspecific effects of BCG immunization require the interplay of innate & adaptive responses, the elucidation of which could improve #TB vaccines rupress.org/jem/article/...
March 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@kerryhilligan.bsky.social et al @niaidnews.bsky.social review the evidence that both the mycobacterial-specific & off-target nonspecific effects of BCG immunization require the interplay of innate & adaptive responses, the elucidation of which could improve #TB vaccines rupress.org/jem/article/...
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Ever wondered how gut microbes control immune responses at extra-intestinal locations?
Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria.
@cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria.
@cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 19, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Ever wondered how gut microbes control immune responses at extra-intestinal locations?
Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria.
@cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria.
@cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Lungs primed by past infections, like enriched soil, resist COVID-19 better, revealing why outcomes vary.
@mayerbarber.bsky.social @pauljbaker.bsky.social @kerryhilligan.bsky.social @danbarberphd.bsky.social @niaidnews.bsky.social @sciimmunology.bsky.social
t.co/5L7vmTbsNN
#ImmunoSky 🧪
@mayerbarber.bsky.social @pauljbaker.bsky.social @kerryhilligan.bsky.social @danbarberphd.bsky.social @niaidnews.bsky.social @sciimmunology.bsky.social
t.co/5L7vmTbsNN
#ImmunoSky 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Lungs primed by past infections, like enriched soil, resist COVID-19 better, revealing why outcomes vary.
@mayerbarber.bsky.social @pauljbaker.bsky.social @kerryhilligan.bsky.social @danbarberphd.bsky.social @niaidnews.bsky.social @sciimmunology.bsky.social
t.co/5L7vmTbsNN
#ImmunoSky 🧪
@mayerbarber.bsky.social @pauljbaker.bsky.social @kerryhilligan.bsky.social @danbarberphd.bsky.social @niaidnews.bsky.social @sciimmunology.bsky.social
t.co/5L7vmTbsNN
#ImmunoSky 🧪
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Had a great time presenting my poster at ASI2024 Sydney Australia! We’re studying how the lung’s cellular landscape shifts during infection and influences future infections, using high-dimensional flow cytometry to profile and characterise pulmonary cells at steady state and during infection! 🫁
December 11, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Had a great time presenting my poster at ASI2024 Sydney Australia! We’re studying how the lung’s cellular landscape shifts during infection and influences future infections, using high-dimensional flow cytometry to profile and characterise pulmonary cells at steady state and during infection! 🫁
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Excited to share this paper from my post-doc at @niaidnews.bsky.social out now in Science Immunology! We show that recent or ongoing 🫁 infections or other pulmonary environmental exposures at the time of infection with SARSCoV2 can vastly influence early replication of the virus in mice.
The inflammatory microenvironment of the lung at the time of infection governs innate control of SARS-CoV-2 replication
Recent or ongoing respiratory inflammation in the lung regulates antiviral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2.
www.science.org
December 7, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Excited to share this paper from my post-doc at @niaidnews.bsky.social out now in Science Immunology! We show that recent or ongoing 🫁 infections or other pulmonary environmental exposures at the time of infection with SARSCoV2 can vastly influence early replication of the virus in mice.
Super privileged to have been apart of this amazing tour-de-force study from @pauljbaker.bsky.social, @mayerbarber.bsky.social and team showing how inflammatory history of the 🫁 alters susceptibility to #covid19.
Congrats team!! 🎉🎉
Congrats team!! 🎉🎉
Best #Nikolaus 🎅! Our paper on how the 🫁 microenvironment can shape #innate immunity against #viruses is out @sciimmunology.bsky.social This was a herculean effort brilliantly led by @pauljbaker.bsky.social who singlehandedly established the model in the lab during the pandemic. 🧪 #Immunosky 1/9
December 6, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Super privileged to have been apart of this amazing tour-de-force study from @pauljbaker.bsky.social, @mayerbarber.bsky.social and team showing how inflammatory history of the 🫁 alters susceptibility to #covid19.
Congrats team!! 🎉🎉
Congrats team!! 🎉🎉
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Best #Nikolaus 🎅! Our paper on how the 🫁 microenvironment can shape #innate immunity against #viruses is out @sciimmunology.bsky.social This was a herculean effort brilliantly led by @pauljbaker.bsky.social who singlehandedly established the model in the lab during the pandemic. 🧪 #Immunosky 1/9
December 6, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Best #Nikolaus 🎅! Our paper on how the 🫁 microenvironment can shape #innate immunity against #viruses is out @sciimmunology.bsky.social This was a herculean effort brilliantly led by @pauljbaker.bsky.social who singlehandedly established the model in the lab during the pandemic. 🧪 #Immunosky 1/9
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Recent or ongoing respiratory inflammation in the lung regulates antiviral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@sciimmunology.bsky.social @mayerbarber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@sciimmunology.bsky.social @mayerbarber.bsky.social
The inflammatory microenvironment of the lung at the time of infection governs innate control of SARS-CoV-2 replication
Recent or ongoing respiratory inflammation in the lung regulates antiviral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2.
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Recent or ongoing respiratory inflammation in the lung regulates antiviral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@sciimmunology.bsky.social @mayerbarber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@sciimmunology.bsky.social @mayerbarber.bsky.social
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Resharing this for those new to bluesky. If you are interested in #innateimmunity or #inflammation, here’s a starter pack or researchers to follow! Leave a comment if you wanna be added too. #immunosky #academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
December 6, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Resharing this for those new to bluesky. If you are interested in #innateimmunity or #inflammation, here’s a starter pack or researchers to follow! Leave a comment if you wanna be added too. #immunosky #academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
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A starter pack for PhD students and Postdocs in Immunology to connect 🔽
Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list.
Let's build the upcoming immuno community!
#ImmunoSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/RABVXY4
Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list.
Let's build the upcoming immuno community!
#ImmunoSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/RABVXY4
December 4, 2024 at 7:14 AM
A starter pack for PhD students and Postdocs in Immunology to connect 🔽
Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list.
Let's build the upcoming immuno community!
#ImmunoSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/RABVXY4
Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list.
Let's build the upcoming immuno community!
#ImmunoSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/RABVXY4
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go.bsky.app/7zMmwNY
Hi all, so nice to cross over to the light. Here is a starter pack for all things Mucosal Immunology! Exciting to create a MI community here. Let me know if you would like to join 👍
Hi all, so nice to cross over to the light. Here is a starter pack for all things Mucosal Immunology! Exciting to create a MI community here. Let me know if you would like to join 👍
November 20, 2024 at 9:51 AM
go.bsky.app/7zMmwNY
Hi all, so nice to cross over to the light. Here is a starter pack for all things Mucosal Immunology! Exciting to create a MI community here. Let me know if you would like to join 👍
Hi all, so nice to cross over to the light. Here is a starter pack for all things Mucosal Immunology! Exciting to create a MI community here. Let me know if you would like to join 👍
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I’ll take this opportunity to announce that I’ll have multiple postdoc positions opening early next year.
Come join us in Melbourne! 🇦🇺🐨🦘
If you’re interested in mucosal immunology, microbiology, parasitology, vaccine design or bioinformatics, get in touch ✉️!
#ImmunoSky #MicroSky #IDSky
Come join us in Melbourne! 🇦🇺🐨🦘
If you’re interested in mucosal immunology, microbiology, parasitology, vaccine design or bioinformatics, get in touch ✉️!
#ImmunoSky #MicroSky #IDSky
December 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I’ll take this opportunity to announce that I’ll have multiple postdoc positions opening early next year.
Come join us in Melbourne! 🇦🇺🐨🦘
If you’re interested in mucosal immunology, microbiology, parasitology, vaccine design or bioinformatics, get in touch ✉️!
#ImmunoSky #MicroSky #IDSky
Come join us in Melbourne! 🇦🇺🐨🦘
If you’re interested in mucosal immunology, microbiology, parasitology, vaccine design or bioinformatics, get in touch ✉️!
#ImmunoSky #MicroSky #IDSky
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Strong new evidence for T cell exhaustion in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) reflecting chronic viral infection, relevant to #LongCovid, and possible path to treatment candidates
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... @pnas.org
December 2, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Strong new evidence for T cell exhaustion in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) reflecting chronic viral infection, relevant to #LongCovid, and possible path to treatment candidates
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... @pnas.org
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Friends, it's fun to see the #immunology community continue to grow! I created a 4th Starter Pack to help folks find each other. If you're an immunologist and you don't see yourself on the lists, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
go.bsky.app/QSEPDoj
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
go.bsky.app/QSEPDoj
Friends, the second #immunology starter pack filled in 3 days! I started a third to help folks new to BlueSky rebuild their network
Below are the links
If you're an immunologist and I have missed you so far, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
Below are the links
If you're an immunologist and I have missed you so far, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
Wonderful to see the #immunology community growing here.
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
November 29, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Friends, it's fun to see the #immunology community continue to grow! I created a 4th Starter Pack to help folks find each other. If you're an immunologist and you don't see yourself on the lists, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
go.bsky.app/QSEPDoj
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
go.bsky.app/QSEPDoj
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Fascinating new paper about how commensal #fungi can promote #type2 responses in mice, a process involving fungal induction of #IL-33 🍄 🧪 #ImmunoSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity - Nature
Kazachstania pintolopesii is a highly prevalent fungal symbiont that can trigger type 2 immunity and influence the composition of the gut mycobiome, as well as immune and disease phenotypes.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Fascinating new paper about how commensal #fungi can promote #type2 responses in mice, a process involving fungal induction of #IL-33 🍄 🧪 #ImmunoSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The measles vaccine is given as a shot but it is surprisingly good at inducing protective immunity in the respiratory tract (mucosal IgA). Our new study provides some clues about why...a thread (1/8) #IDSky #MedSky #lungs #immunology #ImmunoSky academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
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November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
The measles vaccine is given as a shot but it is surprisingly good at inducing protective immunity in the respiratory tract (mucosal IgA). Our new study provides some clues about why...a thread (1/8) #IDSky #MedSky #lungs #immunology #ImmunoSky academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
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Hi Bluesky! 👋
Dipping my toes here given the dumpsterfire over at X. I am Editor in Chief of #PLOSBiology, interested in all things #science.
#virologist, passionate about #OpenScience & making #publication process constructive & transparent.
I look forward to rebuilding community here!
Dipping my toes here given the dumpsterfire over at X. I am Editor in Chief of #PLOSBiology, interested in all things #science.
#virologist, passionate about #OpenScience & making #publication process constructive & transparent.
I look forward to rebuilding community here!
November 22, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Hi Bluesky! 👋
Dipping my toes here given the dumpsterfire over at X. I am Editor in Chief of #PLOSBiology, interested in all things #science.
#virologist, passionate about #OpenScience & making #publication process constructive & transparent.
I look forward to rebuilding community here!
Dipping my toes here given the dumpsterfire over at X. I am Editor in Chief of #PLOSBiology, interested in all things #science.
#virologist, passionate about #OpenScience & making #publication process constructive & transparent.
I look forward to rebuilding community here!
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we love #tcell #immunology but are steadily starting to swoon in the world of lung #macrophages. is no marker sacred? 😂
Ly6G+ macrophages? CD64+ #neutrophils?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39093958/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38844208/
Ly6G+ macrophages? CD64+ #neutrophils?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39093958/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38844208/
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
we love #tcell #immunology but are steadily starting to swoon in the world of lung #macrophages. is no marker sacred? 😂
Ly6G+ macrophages? CD64+ #neutrophils?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39093958/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38844208/
Ly6G+ macrophages? CD64+ #neutrophils?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39093958/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38844208/
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👋 fellow immunologists, it’s a pleasure to be with you all on bsky! I work on type I #interferons, I figured it would be neat to have a starter pack for those of us working on all things IFN! I’ll keep adding to it, let me know if you want to be included! #immunology #immunosky go.bsky.app/71vKZJA
November 20, 2024 at 7:36 AM
👋 fellow immunologists, it’s a pleasure to be with you all on bsky! I work on type I #interferons, I figured it would be neat to have a starter pack for those of us working on all things IFN! I’ll keep adding to it, let me know if you want to be included! #immunology #immunosky go.bsky.app/71vKZJA
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🦋 We're in the process of moving here from X. Join us, follow & share your research & publications (cytokine related or outside the boundaries, published or pre-pub), job openings, meetings & informal gatherings where great ideas are born & cultivated @cytokinesociety.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 5:26 PM
🦋 We're in the process of moving here from X. Join us, follow & share your research & publications (cytokine related or outside the boundaries, published or pre-pub), job openings, meetings & informal gatherings where great ideas are born & cultivated @cytokinesociety.bsky.social
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Friends, the second #immunology starter pack filled in 3 days! I started a third to help folks new to BlueSky rebuild their network
Below are the links
If you're an immunologist and I have missed you so far, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
Below are the links
If you're an immunologist and I have missed you so far, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
Wonderful to see the #immunology community growing here.
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
November 19, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Friends, the second #immunology starter pack filled in 3 days! I started a third to help folks new to BlueSky rebuild their network
Below are the links
If you're an immunologist and I have missed you so far, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
Below are the links
If you're an immunologist and I have missed you so far, let me know 🧪
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS
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go.bsky.app/2bqX3T7 - please send me your @bsky.app handles to include in this growing community.
November 17, 2024 at 10:05 PM
go.bsky.app/2bqX3T7 - please send me your @bsky.app handles to include in this growing community.
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I’ve made a Starter Pack of #innateimmunity and #inflammation researchers to follow! Please contact me to get added or to suggest others to add. We are just getting started 😎
#immunosky
#academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
#immunosky
#academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
November 16, 2024 at 10:10 PM
I’ve made a Starter Pack of #innateimmunity and #inflammation researchers to follow! Please contact me to get added or to suggest others to add. We are just getting started 😎
#immunosky
#academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
#immunosky
#academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB