Lu Huang
@luhuanglab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology @UAMS | Innate immunity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection | macrophage ontogeny and metabolism | immunologist
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Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe
Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
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A few quotes I love from this article about writing: "There’s no such thing as thinking", "Writing. Is. Thinking.", "Without writing there is no thinking and no real opportunity for exchange in the marketplace of ideas."
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it's time to write - PubMed
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it's time to write
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A few quotes I love from this article about writing: "There’s no such thing as thinking", "Writing. Is. Thinking.", "Without writing there is no thinking and no real opportunity for exchange in the marketplace of ideas."
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SMI member Jie Sun and colleagues explore how tissue sequelae during SARS-Cov2 can be limited by macrophages, allowing tissue regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SMIMemberPaper
#SMIMemberPaper
Macrophage peroxisomes guide alveolar regeneration and limit SARS-CoV-2 tissue sequelae
Peroxisomes are vital but often overlooked metabolic organelles. We found that excessive interferon signaling remodeled macrophage peroxisomes. This loss of peroxisomes impaired inflammation resolutio...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
SMI member Jie Sun and colleagues explore how tissue sequelae during SARS-Cov2 can be limited by macrophages, allowing tissue regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SMIMemberPaper
#SMIMemberPaper
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Our 11yo is telling us science dad jokes as a way to delay having to go to bed. It's working.
My favorite of the evening:
Why did the amoeba fail its math test?
....
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because it multiplied by dividing
My favorite of the evening:
Why did the amoeba fail its math test?
....
....
because it multiplied by dividing
a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .
ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Our 11yo is telling us science dad jokes as a way to delay having to go to bed. It's working.
My favorite of the evening:
Why did the amoeba fail its math test?
....
....
because it multiplied by dividing
My favorite of the evening:
Why did the amoeba fail its math test?
....
....
because it multiplied by dividing
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Join us with Drs. Mathis, Kipnis and Merad for #SIS2025 at the beautiful UVA campus in Charlottesville! It’s an affordable meeting with an outstanding speaker lineup. Enjoy the superb local history, food, wineries, events, and scenic views. immunology.virginia.edu/sis2025/
March 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Join us with Drs. Mathis, Kipnis and Merad for #SIS2025 at the beautiful UVA campus in Charlottesville! It’s an affordable meeting with an outstanding speaker lineup. Enjoy the superb local history, food, wineries, events, and scenic views. immunology.virginia.edu/sis2025/
Congrats to the team!!
We are thrilled to share our new manuscript @science.org , in which we uncovers a critical role for macrophage peroxisomes in lung repair after viral infection. Could targeting peroxisomes be the key to mitigating long COVID?! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Macrophage peroxisomes guide alveolar regeneration and limit SARS-CoV-2 tissue sequelae
Peroxisomes are vital but often overlooked metabolic organelles. We found that excessive interferon signaling remodeled macrophage peroxisomes. This loss of peroxisomes impaired inflammation resolutio...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Congrats to the team!!
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It’s day 1 of the cut to NIH indirects and universities are scrambling to adapt. I’m going to post a series of videos on all the things I take for granted, but are both vital to research and covered by indirects for research grants.
February 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s day 1 of the cut to NIH indirects and universities are scrambling to adapt. I’m going to post a series of videos on all the things I take for granted, but are both vital to research and covered by indirects for research grants.
Reposted by Lu Huang
Very excited for this story to be out!! Check out our dissection of how type I IFN promotes NET release, which contributes to Mtb pathogenesis and is associated with granuloma necrosis. Congratulations to all authors!! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Type I IFN-mediated NET release promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis replication and is associated with granuloma caseation
Sur Chowdhury et al. report that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection results in the release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) that promote Mtb replication and associate with tissue damage. Blocking NET release results in better control of Mtb replication, revealing a strategy for treating these deadly infections.
www.cell.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Very excited for this story to be out!! Check out our dissection of how type I IFN promotes NET release, which contributes to Mtb pathogenesis and is associated with granuloma necrosis. Congratulations to all authors!! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...