Kim Good-Jacobson
@kimljacobson.bsky.social
👩🏻🔬 Immunologist; Head of B cells, Antibody, Memory lab at Monash University
Studying B cells, immunity, epigenetics, viral infections (including Long COVID)
https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/jacobson-lab
Non-lab life alias: Kim Jacobson
Studying B cells, immunity, epigenetics, viral infections (including Long COVID)
https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/jacobson-lab
Non-lab life alias: Kim Jacobson
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Save the date! It may be a while to go yet, but I’m very excited for our B-cellapalooza in 2026!
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Our B cell Keystone is getting closer! Short talk abstracts and scholarship applications are due on November 13 - get to it! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Our B cell Keystone is getting closer! Short talk abstracts and scholarship applications are due on November 13 - get to it! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Our B cell Keystone is getting closer! Short talk abstracts and scholarship applications are due on November 13 - get to it! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Our B cell Keystone is getting closer! Short talk abstracts and scholarship applications are due on November 13 - get to it! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century. Today? It's completely eradicated thanks to vaccines.
And polio cases are down 99% since 1988, with 20 million people walking today who would otherwise be paralysed.
Learn more about the power of vaccines: bit.ly/3KeJU5w Via @unicef.org
And polio cases are down 99% since 1988, with 20 million people walking today who would otherwise be paralysed.
Learn more about the power of vaccines: bit.ly/3KeJU5w Via @unicef.org
Why vaccines matter for children
10 facts about vaccines, child survival and global progress.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century. Today? It's completely eradicated thanks to vaccines.
And polio cases are down 99% since 1988, with 20 million people walking today who would otherwise be paralysed.
Learn more about the power of vaccines: bit.ly/3KeJU5w Via @unicef.org
And polio cases are down 99% since 1988, with 20 million people walking today who would otherwise be paralysed.
Learn more about the power of vaccines: bit.ly/3KeJU5w Via @unicef.org
Great to see this out!
Following on from our earlier work revealing DOT1L was essential for humoral responses, here we determine the importance of H3K79me2 at multiple stages of B cell biology
👏 to Liam for tenaciously driving this study
👏 to collabs incl @sjturn.bsky.social + those not on bsky
Following on from our earlier work revealing DOT1L was essential for humoral responses, here we determine the importance of H3K79me2 at multiple stages of B cell biology
👏 to Liam for tenaciously driving this study
👏 to collabs incl @sjturn.bsky.social + those not on bsky
DOT1L-mediated H3K79me2 directs B-cell repertoire establishment, marginal zone development, and germinal center function @jimmunol.bsky.social @kimljacobson.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jimmunol/adv...
academic.oup.com/jimmunol/adv...
September 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Great to see this out!
Following on from our earlier work revealing DOT1L was essential for humoral responses, here we determine the importance of H3K79me2 at multiple stages of B cell biology
👏 to Liam for tenaciously driving this study
👏 to collabs incl @sjturn.bsky.social + those not on bsky
Following on from our earlier work revealing DOT1L was essential for humoral responses, here we determine the importance of H3K79me2 at multiple stages of B cell biology
👏 to Liam for tenaciously driving this study
👏 to collabs incl @sjturn.bsky.social + those not on bsky
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!
September 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Thrilled to have our latest research @wehi-research.bsky.social published in @natimmunol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work was an outstanding partnership between talented PhD student Len Dalit (now postdoc, no 🦋) and bioinformatician @chinweetan.bsky.social
Thread below...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work was an outstanding partnership between talented PhD student Len Dalit (now postdoc, no 🦋) and bioinformatician @chinweetan.bsky.social
Thread below...
Divergent cytokine and transcriptional signatures control functional T follicular helper cell heterogeneity - Nature Immunology
Dalit, Tan and colleagues provide a multiomic profile of T follicular helper (TFH) cells responses to diverse pathogens, revealing a blueprint for transcriptional flexibility and new tools to interrog...
www.nature.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Thrilled to have our latest research @wehi-research.bsky.social published in @natimmunol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work was an outstanding partnership between talented PhD student Len Dalit (now postdoc, no 🦋) and bioinformatician @chinweetan.bsky.social
Thread below...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work was an outstanding partnership between talented PhD student Len Dalit (now postdoc, no 🦋) and bioinformatician @chinweetan.bsky.social
Thread below...
Working with a great team to organize @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social #BCells & #PlasmaCells : Fundamental & Translational Biology, this March! Join us to explore emerging research in Keystone! keysym.us/KSBCells26 #KSBCells26
B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology, March 2026, in Keystone, with field leaders!
keysym.us
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Working with a great team to organize @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social #BCells & #PlasmaCells : Fundamental & Translational Biology, this March! Join us to explore emerging research in Keystone! keysym.us/KSBCells26 #KSBCells26
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Are you an immunologist working towards your first R01?
Please join @aai.org and take advantage of programs like our Grant Review for Immunologists Program www.aai.org/Careers/GRIP
We pair early career principal investigators with established mentors. Send me a chat for more info
Please join @aai.org and take advantage of programs like our Grant Review for Immunologists Program www.aai.org/Careers/GRIP
We pair early career principal investigators with established mentors. Send me a chat for more info
June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Are you an immunologist working towards your first R01?
Please join @aai.org and take advantage of programs like our Grant Review for Immunologists Program www.aai.org/Careers/GRIP
We pair early career principal investigators with established mentors. Send me a chat for more info
Please join @aai.org and take advantage of programs like our Grant Review for Immunologists Program www.aai.org/Careers/GRIP
We pair early career principal investigators with established mentors. Send me a chat for more info
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
🔬🌍
If you are a 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁 who wants to help others while traveling,𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 needs you!
www.orthosurgeon.msf.org/en/job/micro...
#hiring @msf.ca #microsky #sciencesky #AMR
If you are a 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁 who wants to help others while traveling,𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 needs you!
www.orthosurgeon.msf.org/en/job/micro...
#hiring @msf.ca #microsky #sciencesky #AMR
Microbiology Mobile Implementation Officer
Microbiology Mobile Implementation Officer, Medical, NGO, Humanitarian Job, MSF Belgium, Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium
www.orthosurgeon.msf.org
May 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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If you are a 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁 who wants to help others while traveling,𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 needs you!
www.orthosurgeon.msf.org/en/job/micro...
#hiring @msf.ca #microsky #sciencesky #AMR
If you are a 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁 who wants to help others while traveling,𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 needs you!
www.orthosurgeon.msf.org/en/job/micro...
#hiring @msf.ca #microsky #sciencesky #AMR
What a great day; lots of fantastic discussions and a lovely location to boot!
March 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What a great day; lots of fantastic discussions and a lovely location to boot!
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz
Streamlit
mssearch.xyz
February 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Excited to host @kimljacobson.bsky.social after the Keystone conference in March @lunduniversity-med.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social! #Bcells #LundImmunoTalks
lit.blogg.lu.se/2025/02/13/i...
lit.blogg.lu.se/2025/02/13/i...
International speaker alert!
International speaker alert!
lit.blogg.lu.se
February 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Excited to host @kimljacobson.bsky.social after the Keystone conference in March @lunduniversity-med.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social! #Bcells #LundImmunoTalks
lit.blogg.lu.se/2025/02/13/i...
lit.blogg.lu.se/2025/02/13/i...
Ok bluesky - I want to finally get through one of these dust collectors during the Aussie summer… any recommendations of which to choose?
Closest I’ve gotten to W&P is reading Anna Karenina… and closest to I’ve gotten to LM is enduring the movie 🙃
Closest I’ve gotten to W&P is reading Anna Karenina… and closest to I’ve gotten to LM is enduring the movie 🙃
December 19, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Ok bluesky - I want to finally get through one of these dust collectors during the Aussie summer… any recommendations of which to choose?
Closest I’ve gotten to W&P is reading Anna Karenina… and closest to I’ve gotten to LM is enduring the movie 🙃
Closest I’ve gotten to W&P is reading Anna Karenina… and closest to I’ve gotten to LM is enduring the movie 🙃
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Hi 👋🏼 The Vinuesa lab has arrived at BlueSky! Follow us if you want to talk about all the exciting science going on in autoimmunity, genetics, and anything B cell-related 🧬 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Hi 👋🏼 The Vinuesa lab has arrived at BlueSky! Follow us if you want to talk about all the exciting science going on in autoimmunity, genetics, and anything B cell-related 🧬 🧪
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
I’ve tried to put together a starter pack of immunologists/scientists exploring B Cell Repertoires and Antibody Affinities.
Please feel free to share/join!
go.bsky.app/4P64DmM
Please feel free to share/join!
go.bsky.app/4P64DmM
December 3, 2024 at 11:09 PM
I’ve tried to put together a starter pack of immunologists/scientists exploring B Cell Repertoires and Antibody Affinities.
Please feel free to share/join!
go.bsky.app/4P64DmM
Please feel free to share/join!
go.bsky.app/4P64DmM
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
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
It's great to see this out in Immunity today!
Masato Ogishi, Koji Kitaoka, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Stuart Tangye on memory B cells in patients with PD-1 immunodeficiency
Also stoked to contribute unpublished recall response data from my postdoc a very long time ago 🙂
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
Masato Ogishi, Koji Kitaoka, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Stuart Tangye on memory B cells in patients with PD-1 immunodeficiency
Also stoked to contribute unpublished recall response data from my postdoc a very long time ago 🙂
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
November 26, 2024 at 10:33 PM
It's great to see this out in Immunity today!
Masato Ogishi, Koji Kitaoka, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Stuart Tangye on memory B cells in patients with PD-1 immunodeficiency
Also stoked to contribute unpublished recall response data from my postdoc a very long time ago 🙂
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
Masato Ogishi, Koji Kitaoka, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Stuart Tangye on memory B cells in patients with PD-1 immunodeficiency
Also stoked to contribute unpublished recall response data from my postdoc a very long time ago 🙂
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
Applying cellular recording technologies to immune cells with @jshendure.bsky.social is a focus of the #SeaHub and the most fun kind of collaborative effort. @cziscience.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social 🤓
Imagine a mouse in which all 10 billion cells keep a diary from fertilization. Imagine sentinel cells recording your experiences and sending out dispatches in the form of DNA. Here's a story I wrote about cell recorders 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/3Z3Mqza
‘DNA Typewriters’ Can Record a Cell’s History
Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Applying cellular recording technologies to immune cells with @jshendure.bsky.social is a focus of the #SeaHub and the most fun kind of collaborative effort. @cziscience.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social 🤓
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 within-host persistence
SARS-CoV-2 causes an acute respiratory tract infection that resolves in most people in less than a month.What if it does not?
www.nature.com/artic...
1/4
SARS-CoV-2 causes an acute respiratory tract infection that resolves in most people in less than a month.What if it does not?
www.nature.com/artic...
1/4
The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 within-host persistence
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Sigal et al. explore SARS-CoV-2 persistence mechanisms, the frequency of persistent infections, their role in accelerated evolution and their link to...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:16 PM
The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 within-host persistence
SARS-CoV-2 causes an acute respiratory tract infection that resolves in most people in less than a month.What if it does not?
www.nature.com/artic...
1/4
SARS-CoV-2 causes an acute respiratory tract infection that resolves in most people in less than a month.What if it does not?
www.nature.com/artic...
1/4
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
I must admit that this annotated Nature abstract remains a useful recipe for constructing a summary paragraph. I show it to my students every time we get started.
November 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I must admit that this annotated Nature abstract remains a useful recipe for constructing a summary paragraph. I show it to my students every time we get started.
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
#TheMoreTheMerrier! Zoler, Meyer, Schreiber &co show @ Science Signaling that the type I interferon receptor IFNAR can promiscuously bind multiple JAKs affecting downstream signaling & competing with other cytokine receptors! doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.adl1892
Promiscuous Janus kinase binding to cytokine receptors modulates signaling efficiencies and contributes to cytokine pleiotropy
Competition among JAKs for receptor binding may underlie cell type–specific differences in cytokine signaling.
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM
#TheMoreTheMerrier! Zoler, Meyer, Schreiber &co show @ Science Signaling that the type I interferon receptor IFNAR can promiscuously bind multiple JAKs affecting downstream signaling & competing with other cytokine receptors! doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.adl1892
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
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
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
🗣️The federal Health Minister Mark Butler will speak at the Parliamentary Friends of #MECFS meeting 18th Nov
👩🏻💻 Pls join event via zoom to ⬆️ attendee numbers
🗳️ Politicians notice numbers
🛌Cameras can be off to allow resting
Click on link to join zoom
tinyurl.com/2zt7wbas
👩🏻💻 Pls join event via zoom to ⬆️ attendee numbers
🗳️ Politicians notice numbers
🛌Cameras can be off to allow resting
Click on link to join zoom
tinyurl.com/2zt7wbas
November 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM
🗣️The federal Health Minister Mark Butler will speak at the Parliamentary Friends of #MECFS meeting 18th Nov
👩🏻💻 Pls join event via zoom to ⬆️ attendee numbers
🗳️ Politicians notice numbers
🛌Cameras can be off to allow resting
Click on link to join zoom
tinyurl.com/2zt7wbas
👩🏻💻 Pls join event via zoom to ⬆️ attendee numbers
🗳️ Politicians notice numbers
🛌Cameras can be off to allow resting
Click on link to join zoom
tinyurl.com/2zt7wbas
Reposted by Kim Good-Jacobson
#blutorial seems to be gaining in use and I’m hoping that’s what sticks. Whatever you call them, I love a good explainer!
November 17, 2024 at 8:16 PM
#blutorial seems to be gaining in use and I’m hoping that’s what sticks. Whatever you call them, I love a good explainer!