Alejandra Mendoza
@thepenkpanther.bsky.social
Assistant professor @scrippsresearch. Immunologist. Interested in how cellular networks shape immunity and tissue functions. (she/her). http://themendozalab.org
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Attending #SfN2025 in San Diego☀️? Don’t miss the Dorris Neuroscience Center Symposium at @scripps.edu, happening right before the meeting. A great lineup of speakers to kick off your SfN week. Plan your trip accordingly and register for free here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dorris-neu...
Please amplify!
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Please amplify!
October 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Attending #SfN2025 in San Diego☀️? Don’t miss the Dorris Neuroscience Center Symposium at @scripps.edu, happening right before the meeting. A great lineup of speakers to kick off your SfN week. Plan your trip accordingly and register for free here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dorris-neu...
Please amplify!
www.eventbrite.com/e/dorris-neu...
Please amplify!
Happy to have our work highlighted on a day when we are celebrating #treg cells! These cells do it all, even modulate how we sense the environment!
Highlight of Science Immunology paper by @thepenkpanther.bsky.social, Alexander Rudensky and colleagues @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @scripps.edu @wcm-imp.bsky.social
#immunology #immunosky #neurosky
#immunology #immunosky #neurosky
Skin Treg cells set the tone for neuronal activation - Nature Reviews Immunology
A study in Science Immunology reports that regulatory T cells in the skin modulate neuronal tone directly through their production of the opioid enkephalin.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Happy to have our work highlighted on a day when we are celebrating #treg cells! These cells do it all, even modulate how we sense the environment!
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Actively hiring! Video made by Sora-2 but the job post is 100% real.
Apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
October 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Actively hiring! Video made by Sora-2 but the job post is 100% real.
Apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
After many years of work I’m so happy to share our work on #scienceimmunology on how Treg cells modulate nociception to dampen skin inflammation! My handle will make a lot more sense now!🕵🏻♀️
Enkephalin-producing regulatory T cells in the skin restrain local inflammation through control of nociception
Regulatory T cells curb noxious sensory signaling to dampen cutaneous inflammation, a neuromodulatory mechanism for immunosuppression.
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After many years of work I’m so happy to share our work on #scienceimmunology on how Treg cells modulate nociception to dampen skin inflammation! My handle will make a lot more sense now!🕵🏻♀️
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🧬2nd Semester 2025 lineup is here!
Join us for a new round of cutting-edge immunology seminars from top researchers around the world!
Mark your calendar & share!
For more info: linktr.ee/globalimmuno...
Join us for a new round of cutting-edge immunology seminars from top researchers around the world!
Mark your calendar & share!
For more info: linktr.ee/globalimmuno...
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🧬2nd Semester 2025 lineup is here!
Join us for a new round of cutting-edge immunology seminars from top researchers around the world!
Mark your calendar & share!
For more info: linktr.ee/globalimmuno...
Join us for a new round of cutting-edge immunology seminars from top researchers around the world!
Mark your calendar & share!
For more info: linktr.ee/globalimmuno...
Reposted by Alejandra Mendoza
In this Viewpoint, @jem.org asked women researchers across multiple research fields about their story of becoming an independent researcher and unique challenges they face as #WomenInSTEM in their respective scientific environments: rupress.org/jem/article/...
August 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In this Viewpoint, @jem.org asked women researchers across multiple research fields about their story of becoming an independent researcher and unique challenges they face as #WomenInSTEM in their respective scientific environments: rupress.org/jem/article/...
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The president is recommending a 40% cut to next year’s NIH budget. This would be disastrous for our nation’s health and economy. Please contact your representatives, especially if they are Republicans, and tell them why this cannot happen. An easy option: 5calls.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The president is recommending a 40% cut to next year’s NIH budget. This would be disastrous for our nation’s health and economy. Please contact your representatives, especially if they are Republicans, and tell them why this cannot happen. An easy option: 5calls.org
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DOGE ended our wastewater surveillance program for San Diego County
April 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
DOGE ended our wastewater surveillance program for San Diego County
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h... “So, I ask you: How do you feel? How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk?”
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h... “So, I ask you: How do you feel? How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk?”
Reposted by Alejandra Mendoza
Reposted by Alejandra Mendoza
I just listened to the first lesson on tyranny (outstanding). Fellow scientists, we should all add DEI values and pronouns to our lab websites. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
On Tyranny - YouTube
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March 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I just listened to the first lesson on tyranny (outstanding). Fellow scientists, we should all add DEI values and pronouns to our lab websites. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Alejandra Mendoza
Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals.
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests
New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies
scim.ag
February 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals.
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
I guess I’ll be listening to Rage Against the Machine every day for the next 4 years…
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I guess I’ll be listening to Rage Against the Machine every day for the next 4 years…
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#Immunology out now @science.org
ILC2s contribute to glucose homeostasis. Neurons that innervate the gut from areas of the brain associated with glucose sensing can stimulate ILC2s in the gut to relocate to the pancreas upon fasting.
https://buff.ly/42iBst0
ILC2s contribute to glucose homeostasis. Neurons that innervate the gut from areas of the brain associated with glucose sensing can stimulate ILC2s in the gut to relocate to the pancreas upon fasting.
https://buff.ly/42iBst0
January 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#Immunology out now @science.org
ILC2s contribute to glucose homeostasis. Neurons that innervate the gut from areas of the brain associated with glucose sensing can stimulate ILC2s in the gut to relocate to the pancreas upon fasting.
https://buff.ly/42iBst0
ILC2s contribute to glucose homeostasis. Neurons that innervate the gut from areas of the brain associated with glucose sensing can stimulate ILC2s in the gut to relocate to the pancreas upon fasting.
https://buff.ly/42iBst0
Reposted by Alejandra Mendoza
My group is hiring at Oregon Health & Science University. Come work with us in beautiful Portland to study interoception and physiology. Check out the lab view! 🌲👩🔬
Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r...
Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.
Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r...
Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.
January 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My group is hiring at Oregon Health & Science University. Come work with us in beautiful Portland to study interoception and physiology. Check out the lab view! 🌲👩🔬
Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r...
Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.
Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r...
Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.
Reposted by Alejandra Mendoza
WeekendRead! @cicacanesso.bsky.social @danmucida.bsky.social @victora.bsky.social &co show @science.org that cDC1s & Rorgt APCs drive peripheral Tregs to dietary antigens, & that helminth infections increase the ratio of inflammatory cDC2 preventing tolerance induction!
Identification of antigen-presenting cell–T cell interactions driving immune responses to food
The intestinal immune system must concomitantly tolerate food and commensals and protect against pathogens. Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) orchestrate these immune responses by presenting luminal ant...
www.science.org
December 21, 2024 at 3:52 PM
WeekendRead! @cicacanesso.bsky.social @danmucida.bsky.social @victora.bsky.social &co show @science.org that cDC1s & Rorgt APCs drive peripheral Tregs to dietary antigens, & that helminth infections increase the ratio of inflammatory cDC2 preventing tolerance induction!