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Romana Gerner
@romanagerner1.bsky.social
MD and scientist interested in host-microbe interactions and mucosal immunity 🔬🧫🩺 Chair of Clinical Microbiome @Technical University of Munich.
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Kicking off the first post with our lab’s first birthday party 🙌 awesome people, awesome year 🔬🧫
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#WomenInSTEM becoming independent: People should feel free to be themselves and do great science. We asked ten women researchers about their science and the process of setting up a lab as an independent researcher: rupress.org/jem/article/...
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Airport reunion 🥳 Loved catching up with my postdoctoral mentor @manuelar.bsky.social at the airport during her layover in Munich ☀️❣️
August 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Uniting against enteric invaders: IgA meets its microbial ally

Preview by @romanagerner1.bsky.social‬ highlighting work of @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social‬ combining oral vaccination wniche-competing strain to selectively eliminate Salmonella spp. & related E. coli.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Uniting against enteric invaders: IgA meets its microbial ally
Gut colonization by opportunistic or pathogenic microbes is a critical step in infection, but strategies to displace these organisms without perturbing the commensal microbiota remain scarce. In a rec...
www.cell.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Honored to write a preview on Emma Slack’s latest work in Science: ‘Vaccine-enhanced competition permits rational bacterial strain replacement in the gut.’ A novel strategy to selectively replace microbial strains in the gut. Truly elegant science!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lFMi6t8JE...
authors.elsevier.com
June 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🔥New Night Science paper!!
Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.
April 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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📢Excited to announce a new collection open for submission - The Clinical Microbiome. 💉🦠
Led by @naturecomms.bsky.social with participation from @naturemedicine.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social, and @commsmed.bsky.social
Details:
www.nature.com/collections/...

#Microsky #MicrobiomeSky
The Clinical Microbiome
This joint Collection invites submissions of cutting-edge translational and clinical research, including microbiome-based diagnostics, therapeutics, ...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Here comes a shout out to the wonderful women in my lab 🙌
Happy national women’s day ✨🥇🔬💕
March 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Bei einer Verkehrung ins Gegenteil projiziert man auf den anderen das, was man selbst tut, während man sich gleichzeitig dessen Begriffe und Symbolik aneignet.”

www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
Sylvia Sasse: "Autokraten wollen uns ihre verkehrte Welt aufzwingen"
Populisten haben derzeit eine Lieblingsstrategie: die Verkehrung ins Gegenteil. Kulturwissenschaftlerin Sylvia Sasse erklärt, warum darauf so viele Menschen reinfallen.
www.zeit.de
February 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Congrats to @connyl0ux.bsky.social, new Master of Science!! 🙌💫🧫👩🏻‍🎓🥳
January 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Kicking off the first post with our lab’s first birthday party 🙌 awesome people, awesome year 🔬🧫
December 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM