Ines Sturmlechner
inessturmlechner.bsky.social
Ines Sturmlechner
@inessturmlechner.bsky.social
Post-doc, K99 awardee, studying the aging immune system at Mayo Clinic, Leading Edge fellow, former AFAR/Glenn Foundation fellow | PhD, cellular senescence at University Groningen and Mayo Clinic | MSc, tRNA maturation at IMBA Vienna
Congrats! Very interesting topic!
August 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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July 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Huge thank you 🙏 to my awesome co-first author Abhinav Jain @abhinav1993.bsky.social, all co-authors, the Robert & Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, AFAR @afar.org, and the San Diego NSC @nathanshockcenters.org for all their support! 🙏
July 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
➡️ intriguing contribution of TCR avidity in this process – low TCR avidity may select for cells prone to acquire innate/NK features, while high TCR avidity associates with stem-like features and may be lost with aging
July 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
➡️ many aging changes are happening and common to many, but not all, EBV-specific T cell populations is a loss of stem-like traits and a gain of lymphocyte innateness = CD8+ T cells become more like NK cells as they age

➡️ no evidence of age-related exhaustion or cellular senescence
July 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
➡️ human memory CD8+ T cells specific to different Epstein-Barr virus proteins acquire diverse phenotypes already in young adults

➡️ depending on the antigen specificity, these memory CD8+ T cells follow divergent phenotypic and transcriptional aging trajectories, in older adults
July 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thank you, Matt!!
May 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This sounds very cool and useful!!
Congrats!
April 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Congrats!!
March 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM