Dr. Deanna Santer
@drdeannasanter.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Dept of #Immunology, University of Manitoba🇨🇦 studying human interferons (esp type III IFNs) in immune regulation during viral infections or chronic inflammation such as in IBD.
https://sites.google.com/view/thesanterlab/home
https://sites.google.com/view/thesanterlab/home
The #SanterLab just turned 5 years old! 🎂🥳
This past yr had grants x3💰, a MSc grad🎓, new lab members🥼, studentships to grad students🌟, many fun conferences✈️, plenty of data📊 , mentorship & outreach & more!
Cheers to more fun & discoveries & super thankful to all who have been part of the team! 🥂🙏🏻
This past yr had grants x3💰, a MSc grad🎓, new lab members🥼, studentships to grad students🌟, many fun conferences✈️, plenty of data📊 , mentorship & outreach & more!
Cheers to more fun & discoveries & super thankful to all who have been part of the team! 🥂🙏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The #SanterLab just turned 5 years old! 🎂🥳
This past yr had grants x3💰, a MSc grad🎓, new lab members🥼, studentships to grad students🌟, many fun conferences✈️, plenty of data📊 , mentorship & outreach & more!
Cheers to more fun & discoveries & super thankful to all who have been part of the team! 🥂🙏🏻
This past yr had grants x3💰, a MSc grad🎓, new lab members🥼, studentships to grad students🌟, many fun conferences✈️, plenty of data📊 , mentorship & outreach & more!
Cheers to more fun & discoveries & super thankful to all who have been part of the team! 🥂🙏🏻
What a great #Cytokines2025 meeting! Caught up with many #IFN scientists, made multiple new connections, had fun giving a talk & great to see those from UW Immunology all these years later. Always my fav conference 😀🥳 Thanks to all the organizers!🙏🏻 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
What a great #Cytokines2025 meeting! Caught up with many #IFN scientists, made multiple new connections, had fun giving a talk & great to see those from UW Immunology all these years later. Always my fav conference 😀🥳 Thanks to all the organizers!🙏🏻 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social
#Cytokines2025 has begun- looking forward to a few days of networking, especially with #IFN friends from outside 🇨🇦 when it has been too long 😀
Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎
#Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social
Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎
#Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
#Cytokines2025 has begun- looking forward to a few days of networking, especially with #IFN friends from outside 🇨🇦 when it has been too long 😀
Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎
#Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social
Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎
#Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social
Busy last few weeks with Italy pediatric IBD conference, chairing local equity symposium & now off to Seattle for #Cytokines2025! I haven't been able to attend the last 2yrs so excited to chat with fellow #IFN enthusiasts & give a talk 🥳 + always nice to visit where I did my PhD when not back often
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Busy last few weeks with Italy pediatric IBD conference, chairing local equity symposium & now off to Seattle for #Cytokines2025! I haven't been able to attend the last 2yrs so excited to chat with fellow #IFN enthusiasts & give a talk 🥳 + always nice to visit where I did my PhD when not back often
Happy Halloween from the Santer Lab! 🦥👻🎃🍬
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Happy Halloween from the Santer Lab! 🦥👻🎃🍬
📢🥳 The #SanterLab is recruiting to have new people join the #IFN fun!
With #CIHR & other 💰:
1) joint tech with Dr Thomas Murooka for more of an immediate start - see umanitoba.ca/careers/ #41169
2) #Immunology PhD student
3) Postdoctoral fellow
Please see our Google lab website + dept website 😀
With #CIHR & other 💰:
1) joint tech with Dr Thomas Murooka for more of an immediate start - see umanitoba.ca/careers/ #41169
2) #Immunology PhD student
3) Postdoctoral fellow
Please see our Google lab website + dept website 😀
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
📢🥳 The #SanterLab is recruiting to have new people join the #IFN fun!
With #CIHR & other 💰:
1) joint tech with Dr Thomas Murooka for more of an immediate start - see umanitoba.ca/careers/ #41169
2) #Immunology PhD student
3) Postdoctoral fellow
Please see our Google lab website + dept website 😀
With #CIHR & other 💰:
1) joint tech with Dr Thomas Murooka for more of an immediate start - see umanitoba.ca/careers/ #41169
2) #Immunology PhD student
3) Postdoctoral fellow
Please see our Google lab website + dept website 😀
Congrats to Olamide on her successful #Immunology MSc defense today! 🎉🥳
She was the 1st member of the #SanterLab as a co-op student, to then tech & now MSc.
I couldn't have got the lab going without her. Thank u Olamide for choosing my lab & all your dedication to #IFNL research!🙏🏻
She was the 1st member of the #SanterLab as a co-op student, to then tech & now MSc.
I couldn't have got the lab going without her. Thank u Olamide for choosing my lab & all your dedication to #IFNL research!🙏🏻
July 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Congrats to Olamide on her successful #Immunology MSc defense today! 🎉🥳
She was the 1st member of the #SanterLab as a co-op student, to then tech & now MSc.
I couldn't have got the lab going without her. Thank u Olamide for choosing my lab & all your dedication to #IFNL research!🙏🏻
She was the 1st member of the #SanterLab as a co-op student, to then tech & now MSc.
I couldn't have got the lab going without her. Thank u Olamide for choosing my lab & all your dedication to #IFNL research!🙏🏻
Happy #CanadaDay!🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud to be Canadian & lucky to live & work here 😀😀😀
July 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Happy #CanadaDay!🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud to be Canadian & lucky to live & work here 😀😀😀
It was a hot one 🥵☀️ at the Winnipeg #GutsyWalk, but amazing to hear almost $100k was raised 👏🏻👏🏻 Super proud of our team raising >$1300 too!🌟
Thanks to all who supported our team & Crohns & Colitis Canada🙏🏻 My lab is very thankful to be supported by a CCC grant that is only possible with donations🔬🥼
Thanks to all who supported our team & Crohns & Colitis Canada🙏🏻 My lab is very thankful to be supported by a CCC grant that is only possible with donations🔬🥼
June 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It was a hot one 🥵☀️ at the Winnipeg #GutsyWalk, but amazing to hear almost $100k was raised 👏🏻👏🏻 Super proud of our team raising >$1300 too!🌟
Thanks to all who supported our team & Crohns & Colitis Canada🙏🏻 My lab is very thankful to be supported by a CCC grant that is only possible with donations🔬🥼
Thanks to all who supported our team & Crohns & Colitis Canada🙏🏻 My lab is very thankful to be supported by a CCC grant that is only possible with donations🔬🥼
Great lab meeting today welcoming co-op undergraduate student Junel for his summer work term & celebrating some great news Testimony (PhD student) received recently 🥳🥳🎉🎉
Lots of fun #IFNL work planned for the rest of 2025 😀😀😀
#newlabgroupphoto
Lots of fun #IFNL work planned for the rest of 2025 😀😀😀
#newlabgroupphoto
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Great lab meeting today welcoming co-op undergraduate student Junel for his summer work term & celebrating some great news Testimony (PhD student) received recently 🥳🥳🎉🎉
Lots of fun #IFNL work planned for the rest of 2025 😀😀😀
#newlabgroupphoto
Lots of fun #IFNL work planned for the rest of 2025 😀😀😀
#newlabgroupphoto
Excited to announce our newest #Immunology recruitment 🎉🥳
This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)🇨🇦, a position that isnt offered often when 7yr term incl full salary (+renewable)!
Please share widely when broad immunology focus. Happy to answer any dept Q & note date 👇
@umanitoba.bsky.social
This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)🇨🇦, a position that isnt offered often when 7yr term incl full salary (+renewable)!
Please share widely when broad immunology focus. Happy to answer any dept Q & note date 👇
@umanitoba.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Excited to announce our newest #Immunology recruitment 🎉🥳
This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)🇨🇦, a position that isnt offered often when 7yr term incl full salary (+renewable)!
Please share widely when broad immunology focus. Happy to answer any dept Q & note date 👇
@umanitoba.bsky.social
This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)🇨🇦, a position that isnt offered often when 7yr term incl full salary (+renewable)!
Please share widely when broad immunology focus. Happy to answer any dept Q & note date 👇
@umanitoba.bsky.social
Happy International #DayofImmunology!🥳🎉
I am currently 🛫 & will visit McMaster for the 1st time tomorrow to present in their Infection & Immunity seminar series 😀 🙏🏻 to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the invite
Looking forward to chatting science & presenting a couple stories from our #IFNL projects
I am currently 🛫 & will visit McMaster for the 1st time tomorrow to present in their Infection & Immunity seminar series 😀 🙏🏻 to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the invite
Looking forward to chatting science & presenting a couple stories from our #IFNL projects
April 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Happy International #DayofImmunology!🥳🎉
I am currently 🛫 & will visit McMaster for the 1st time tomorrow to present in their Infection & Immunity seminar series 😀 🙏🏻 to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the invite
Looking forward to chatting science & presenting a couple stories from our #IFNL projects
I am currently 🛫 & will visit McMaster for the 1st time tomorrow to present in their Infection & Immunity seminar series 😀 🙏🏻 to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the invite
Looking forward to chatting science & presenting a couple stories from our #IFNL projects
They increased graduate scholarship amounts already, but what about the increase to tri-council that was originally promised by Trudeau? I hope all parties read the letter sent too. @mark-carney.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They increased graduate scholarship amounts already, but what about the increase to tri-council that was originally promised by Trudeau? I hope all parties read the letter sent too. @mark-carney.bsky.social
Fun times at #CSI2025 with 🇨🇦 immunologists! 23 attendees from our #immunology dept at @umanitoba.bsky.social this year 🥳🎉
Happy to join the local organizing committee for #CSI2026 😀 in Winnipeg with Chair Dr. Thomas Murooka
Happy to join the local organizing committee for #CSI2026 😀 in Winnipeg with Chair Dr. Thomas Murooka
April 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Fun times at #CSI2025 with 🇨🇦 immunologists! 23 attendees from our #immunology dept at @umanitoba.bsky.social this year 🥳🎉
Happy to join the local organizing committee for #CSI2026 😀 in Winnipeg with Chair Dr. Thomas Murooka
Happy to join the local organizing committee for #CSI2026 😀 in Winnipeg with Chair Dr. Thomas Murooka
Exciting month ahead for networking! 🥳🛫
Today I'm off to Toronto for a GSK Research Summit bringing together GSK chairs from across 🇨🇦, then #CSI2025 #immunology conference in Gatineau, then Apr30 I visit McMaster for the 1st time! Thks to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the seminar invite😀
Today I'm off to Toronto for a GSK Research Summit bringing together GSK chairs from across 🇨🇦, then #CSI2025 #immunology conference in Gatineau, then Apr30 I visit McMaster for the 1st time! Thks to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the seminar invite😀
March 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Exciting month ahead for networking! 🥳🛫
Today I'm off to Toronto for a GSK Research Summit bringing together GSK chairs from across 🇨🇦, then #CSI2025 #immunology conference in Gatineau, then Apr30 I visit McMaster for the 1st time! Thks to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the seminar invite😀
Today I'm off to Toronto for a GSK Research Summit bringing together GSK chairs from across 🇨🇦, then #CSI2025 #immunology conference in Gatineau, then Apr30 I visit McMaster for the 1st time! Thks to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the seminar invite😀
I'm honoured to be a Science Co-op supervisor of the year!🙏🏻😀
I have mentored 7 @umanitoba.bsky.social co-op undergrads thus far & all have been a pleasure to work with- whether est. new protocols or getting 😎 #IFNL data!
Thank you to Cedric for the nomination & kind words🙏🏻
#luckyPI
I have mentored 7 @umanitoba.bsky.social co-op undergrads thus far & all have been a pleasure to work with- whether est. new protocols or getting 😎 #IFNL data!
Thank you to Cedric for the nomination & kind words🙏🏻
#luckyPI
March 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I'm honoured to be a Science Co-op supervisor of the year!🙏🏻😀
I have mentored 7 @umanitoba.bsky.social co-op undergrads thus far & all have been a pleasure to work with- whether est. new protocols or getting 😎 #IFNL data!
Thank you to Cedric for the nomination & kind words🙏🏻
#luckyPI
I have mentored 7 @umanitoba.bsky.social co-op undergrads thus far & all have been a pleasure to work with- whether est. new protocols or getting 😎 #IFNL data!
Thank you to Cedric for the nomination & kind words🙏🏻
#luckyPI
Amazing night last night celebrating magnificent women at UManitoba 🥳♀️- organized by UM Women's centre!
Very honoured to receive a 2025 Woman in Health Sciences award. Promoting & mentoring #womeninscience have been a passion of mine for 15+yrs. 🙏🏻 to my nominators
Congrats to all awardees!🌟👏🏻🎉
Very honoured to receive a 2025 Woman in Health Sciences award. Promoting & mentoring #womeninscience have been a passion of mine for 15+yrs. 🙏🏻 to my nominators
Congrats to all awardees!🌟👏🏻🎉
March 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Amazing night last night celebrating magnificent women at UManitoba 🥳♀️- organized by UM Women's centre!
Very honoured to receive a 2025 Woman in Health Sciences award. Promoting & mentoring #womeninscience have been a passion of mine for 15+yrs. 🙏🏻 to my nominators
Congrats to all awardees!🌟👏🏻🎉
Very honoured to receive a 2025 Woman in Health Sciences award. Promoting & mentoring #womeninscience have been a passion of mine for 15+yrs. 🙏🏻 to my nominators
Congrats to all awardees!🌟👏🏻🎉
Just saw this paper & a fun graphical abstract with the 🚽! 😂 interesting findings for sure
March 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Just saw this paper & a fun graphical abstract with the 🚽! 😂 interesting findings for sure
Very thankful that another Murooka/Santer lab project was funded 3 weeks later for our #CIHR Catalyst grant with Dr Ali Ashkar as fellow coPI & coA @annablakney.bsky.social expanding on #IFNL #antiviral effects in the STBBI field. Super excited to work with this awesome team across 3 universities🥳🙌
February 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Very thankful that another Murooka/Santer lab project was funded 3 weeks later for our #CIHR Catalyst grant with Dr Ali Ashkar as fellow coPI & coA @annablakney.bsky.social expanding on #IFNL #antiviral effects in the STBBI field. Super excited to work with this awesome team across 3 universities🥳🙌
Happy #IDWGS2025! 👩🔬👩🏻🔬👩🏽🔬👩🏾🔬👩🏿🔬
A day I happily share with my birthday🎂
Let's continue to promote #womeninSTEM!
I ❤️ working with our awesome #WISDOM group here at UManitoba & the #SCWIST Quantum Leaps program plus I am lucky to work with great women in my lab & across @umanitoba.bsky.social
A day I happily share with my birthday🎂
Let's continue to promote #womeninSTEM!
I ❤️ working with our awesome #WISDOM group here at UManitoba & the #SCWIST Quantum Leaps program plus I am lucky to work with great women in my lab & across @umanitoba.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy #IDWGS2025! 👩🔬👩🏻🔬👩🏽🔬👩🏾🔬👩🏿🔬
A day I happily share with my birthday🎂
Let's continue to promote #womeninSTEM!
I ❤️ working with our awesome #WISDOM group here at UManitoba & the #SCWIST Quantum Leaps program plus I am lucky to work with great women in my lab & across @umanitoba.bsky.social
A day I happily share with my birthday🎂
Let's continue to promote #womeninSTEM!
I ❤️ working with our awesome #WISDOM group here at UManitoba & the #SCWIST Quantum Leaps program plus I am lucky to work with great women in my lab & across @umanitoba.bsky.social
Officially official 🥳🎉🥂
5yr #CIHR grant celebrations today with #SanterLab & Murooka lab who also got their grant (as co-I some #IFNL too 😉)
#IBD #IFNs #immunology
So thankful to our co-Is, collabs & all in our lab + #sisterlab who worked hard to help get this funded🙏🏻
@umanitoba.bsky.social
5yr #CIHR grant celebrations today with #SanterLab & Murooka lab who also got their grant (as co-I some #IFNL too 😉)
#IBD #IFNs #immunology
So thankful to our co-Is, collabs & all in our lab + #sisterlab who worked hard to help get this funded🙏🏻
@umanitoba.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Officially official 🥳🎉🥂
5yr #CIHR grant celebrations today with #SanterLab & Murooka lab who also got their grant (as co-I some #IFNL too 😉)
#IBD #IFNs #immunology
So thankful to our co-Is, collabs & all in our lab + #sisterlab who worked hard to help get this funded🙏🏻
@umanitoba.bsky.social
5yr #CIHR grant celebrations today with #SanterLab & Murooka lab who also got their grant (as co-I some #IFNL too 😉)
#IBD #IFNs #immunology
So thankful to our co-Is, collabs & all in our lab + #sisterlab who worked hard to help get this funded🙏🏻
@umanitoba.bsky.social
Annual #sisterlab planning retreat at the local Nordik spa was a success ☺️❄️🩱
-7°C/20°F outside not bad at all 😉
@drharmstrong.bsky.social
-7°C/20°F outside not bad at all 😉
@drharmstrong.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Annual #sisterlab planning retreat at the local Nordik spa was a success ☺️❄️🩱
-7°C/20°F outside not bad at all 😉
@drharmstrong.bsky.social
-7°C/20°F outside not bad at all 😉
@drharmstrong.bsky.social
#BIW2025 has ended, but many great memories. The science in presentations/posters was awesome, but the networking & seeing old friends & meeting new #inflammation researchers made the trip even better 😀
Thanks to the organizers 🙏🏻 & thanks to all who provided the entertainment last night too 🎸🎹🎤🎶
Thanks to the organizers 🙏🏻 & thanks to all who provided the entertainment last night too 🎸🎹🎤🎶
January 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#BIW2025 has ended, but many great memories. The science in presentations/posters was awesome, but the networking & seeing old friends & meeting new #inflammation researchers made the trip even better 😀
Thanks to the organizers 🙏🏻 & thanks to all who provided the entertainment last night too 🎸🎹🎤🎶
Thanks to the organizers 🙏🏻 & thanks to all who provided the entertainment last night too 🎸🎹🎤🎶
A great day at #BIW2025 with such a range of topics bringing together multiple fields 🎉 Poster session still to go...
Microbiome, antibiotics in ICU, sepsis, colorectal cancer, NK cells, lung diseases, gdT cells, phage therapy, extracellular vesicles, circadian rhythms, colitis and more!
Microbiome, antibiotics in ICU, sepsis, colorectal cancer, NK cells, lung diseases, gdT cells, phage therapy, extracellular vesicles, circadian rhythms, colitis and more!
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A great day at #BIW2025 with such a range of topics bringing together multiple fields 🎉 Poster session still to go...
Microbiome, antibiotics in ICU, sepsis, colorectal cancer, NK cells, lung diseases, gdT cells, phage therapy, extracellular vesicles, circadian rhythms, colitis and more!
Microbiome, antibiotics in ICU, sepsis, colorectal cancer, NK cells, lung diseases, gdT cells, phage therapy, extracellular vesicles, circadian rhythms, colitis and more!
Not escaping the cold🥶, but excited to now travel to Banff🏔 for the 2025 Banff Inflammation Workshop🥳🛫 First time attending & the program looks great!
I also decided to go back to my trainee days & present a poster on our #IFN #IBD work spearheaded by MSc student Olamide w/ many collabs 😀 #BIW2025
I also decided to go back to my trainee days & present a poster on our #IFN #IBD work spearheaded by MSc student Olamide w/ many collabs 😀 #BIW2025
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM