Kelly Sullivan
kellydsullivan.bsky.social
Kelly Sullivan
@kellydsullivan.bsky.social
Associate Professor - Peds-Dev Bio at CU Anschutz | Member - Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome | Co-Director - Human Medical Genetics and Genomics Program | Interested in altered signaling of DS. Emphasis on IFN and immune dysregulation.
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Congratulations to Dr. Paula Arya, Dr. Joaquin Espinosa and Dr. Kelly Sullivan for leading a new study published in iScience entitled "Interferon signaling modulates Down syndrome-associated Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a mouse model." Read more at https://bit.ly/3Io31cK.
September 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
As Postdoc Appreciation Week ends, we celebrate our three outstanding postdocs at the Crnic Institute. Thank you, Dr. Brian Niemeyer, Dr. Sara Sherman and Dr. Ariel Timkovich, for your invaluable contributions. Our mission to advance Down syndrome research wouldn’t be possible without you!
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
We need research heroes! Researchers at the Crnic Institute and Boys Town National Research Hospital are working together to better understand hearing and balance in people with Down syndrome from September 8-13 at Children's Hospital Colorado. Learn more: bit.ly/HearinginDS
August 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Registration is open for the annual Crnic Institute Down Syndrome Research Symposium on September 15, 2025! This in-person event will take place on the 2nd floor of the Anschutz Health Sciences Building. Register today at https://bit.ly/DS-Symposium.
August 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Sullivan, director of the Crnic Institute’s Experimental Models Program and associate professor at @cupediatrics.bsky.social‬, on presenting ”The Interferonopathy of Down Syndrome,” and to Rachel Shropshire for winning Top Student Poster at this year’s DSMIG Symposium!
August 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The 2026 Program will heavily emphasize co-occurring conditions and tissue systems affected by T21. We encourage diversity in the composition of symposia speakers with respect to geography, academic rank, and gender. Society members at all career stages are welcome to submit symposia.
The theme for the 6th International Conference of the Trisomy 21 Research Society will be, “T21: Insights from Across the Lifespan”. Each symposium will consist of four speakers in a 2-hour block and should include both basic and translational components to foster discussion among research teams.
Planning for next years T21RS International Conference in Denver is under way! Call for Symposia will open on August 15. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

www.t21rs.org/5th-t21rs-in...
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The theme for the 6th International Conference of the Trisomy 21 Research Society will be, “T21: Insights from Across the Lifespan”. Each symposium will consist of four speakers in a 2-hour block and should include both basic and translational components to foster discussion among research teams.
Planning for next years T21RS International Conference in Denver is under way! Call for Symposia will open on August 15. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

www.t21rs.org/5th-t21rs-in...
6th T21RS International Conference – Colorado 2026 – T21RS
www.t21rs.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Planning for next years T21RS International Conference in Denver is under way! Call for Symposia will open on August 15. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

www.t21rs.org/5th-t21rs-in...
6th T21RS International Conference – Colorado 2026 – T21RS
www.t21rs.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
New research opportunity! Researchers at the Crnic Institute and Boys Town National Research Hospital are working together in Dallas, TX, to better understand hearing and balance in people with Down syndrome. Compensation is provided. Learn more and schedule an appointment at bit.ly/HearinginDS.
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Some news....Rome is not fully burned down.

T32 PhD Training Grant was officially awarded, and two weeks ago, the NIH offered more support than requested to increase the # trainees in the unique program. Office chair with me in it levitated.

Calling Microbime PhD'ers to @psumbiome.bsky.social 🎓
July 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Wilson of @cuhmggp.bsky.social on successfully defending his dissertation yesterday! You can check out some of his work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Grateful to meet with students from CU Boulder’s CU in DC program. Appreciated their thoughtful and insightful questions!
May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Delighted to share our updated work, led by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Maria Campaña, published in @natcomms.nature.com: rdcu.be/em66g, PDGFRalpha/beta heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation
PDGFRα/β heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation
Nature Communications - Here they show that heterodimerization of the receptor tyrosine kinases PDGFRa and PDGFRb negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation, due in...
rdcu.be
May 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Maybe someone needs to say this out loud, but computers can't model the physiology of a living organism because we don't know how many of the parts of an organism work, which is uhhh... why we do the research with the animal models?
Kennedy, who often says the administration intends to support "gold-standard science," says NIH is phasing out animal studies because “We can accomplish a lot of those goals on safety and efficacy with AI technology.”
May 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
ICYMI - “This is life and death stuff for Americans and for Coloradans.” – Rep. Jason Crow

sentinelcolorado.com/metro/trump-...

#TrumpCuts #COpolitics #DOGE
Trump budget cuts threaten Anschutz healthcare, research and jobs, officials say - Sentinel Colorado
"This is life and death stuff for Americans and for Coloradans." - Rep. Jason Crow
sentinelcolorado.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Thank you Congressman @crow.house.gov for visiting the #CUAnschutz Medical Campus to learn more about our latest breakthroughs and the vital role of federal funding in driving lifesaving new medical discoveries.
April 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
It was a pleasure to have Kristina Sisneros from Regis University for her GLOBAL Inclusive Program Internship! Thank you to GLOBAL for supporting this amazing opportunity, and congratulations to Kristina on all her hard work.
April 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wow.
April 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost!

@EsaSeeds
April 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
striking to me that this interview ends with him plaintively pleading for other university leaders to speak up: "I don’t think this is all about Princeton. It’s about what’s happening in the United States. I think this would be so much stronger if many more of my fellow presidents were speaking up."
I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in a position of authority willing to be sane in public. #academicSky #eduSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Powerful new Washington Post story up...

wapo.st/426d9fT

(Gift link)

1/n
Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.
wapo.st
March 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Are you wearing different socks to celebrate #WorldDownSyndromeDay ?

Join in!!! It's fun!!!
Tomorrow is #WorldDownSyndromeDay! The 21st day of the 3rd month, aa people with Down syndrome have 3 copies of chromosome 21 instead of 2. We wear “lots of socks” to celebrate. Bright, funky, mismatched (not odd!), because different is good, and because chromosomes look a bit like socks 😊
March 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by Kelly Sullivan
Was very excited to host Senator Hickenlooper in my lab this past week, as well as be involved in a panel discussion around the important of federal funding for science!

coloradosun.com/2025/03/19/n...
Funding cuts to CU-Anschutz could erase years of medical research contributed by patients, advocates fear
NIH funding cuts could halt years of progress on medical research contributed by patients at Colorado's CU-Anschutz campus.
coloradosun.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM