Marina Franck
@marnfr.bsky.social
Glioblastoma models and immunotherapy at linnarssonlab.org at ki.se. Keeping in touch with the sensory field.
Guess I’ll keep up my Duolingo courses in Avañe’ẽ and 中文!
The new Ground Truths today is based on an important paper just published @nataging.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries - Nature Aging
In cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 86,149 participants across 27 European countries, Amoruso, Hernandez and colleagues identify multilingualism as a protective factor against accelerated ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Guess I’ll keep up my Duolingo courses in Avañe’ẽ and 中文!
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1/3 I spent 10 years running a lab in Philadelphia and then decided to return to Europe and continue in a more family friendly environment. Best decision of my life! You can now do the same by applying to one of these 20 assistant professor positions at Karolinska Institutet ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Early-career researcher — join a global community of excellence
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. In 2025, KI will recruit outstanding early-career researchers with particularly e...
ki.se
June 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
1/3 I spent 10 years running a lab in Philadelphia and then decided to return to Europe and continue in a more family friendly environment. Best decision of my life! You can now do the same by applying to one of these 20 assistant professor positions at Karolinska Institutet ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
June 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
20 funded PI position openings at @ki.se! 🤑🎉
Save the date! On 25 June, Karolinska Institutet will be starting a major recruitment drive for 20 junior researchers with a focus on excellence and mobility news.ki.se/ki-to-recruit-junior-researchers-with-a-focus-on-excellence
KI to recruit junior researchers with a focus on excellence
On 25 June, Karolinska Institutet will be starting a major recruitment drive for 20 junior researchers with a focus on excellence and mobility. As one of Europe’s leading medical universities, KI offe...
news.ki.se
June 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
20 funded PI position openings at @ki.se! 🤑🎉
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Nice to see GOP senators so eager to address the high burden of chronic disease in the US. Would they commit to fixing its core causes: inequality, the dysfunctional healthcare system and other public services, infrastructure built around cars and junk food, big business poisoning the environment?
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Nice to see GOP senators so eager to address the high burden of chronic disease in the US. Would they commit to fixing its core causes: inequality, the dysfunctional healthcare system and other public services, infrastructure built around cars and junk food, big business poisoning the environment?
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Registration is now open for the event of the summer! Take a stand for the science that we know & love and join us for this once in a lifetime meeting, with amazing science, fun and a ton of surprises! Only 226 spots left!
woodstock.img.cas.cz #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences
woodstock.img.cas.cz #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences
March 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Registration is now open for the event of the summer! Take a stand for the science that we know & love and join us for this once in a lifetime meeting, with amazing science, fun and a ton of surprises! Only 226 spots left!
woodstock.img.cas.cz #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences
woodstock.img.cas.cz #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences
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Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage
https://go.nature.com/3EYNA8C
https://go.nature.com/3EYNA8C
Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
go.nature.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage
https://go.nature.com/3EYNA8C
https://go.nature.com/3EYNA8C
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I am looking for electrophysiologists for couple of very exciting projects. Recent PhD graduates (defended within 2 years) is preferred, but open to other possibilities too. The lab is funded by ERC, SSMF, Brain Foundation, StratNeuro and others. Find me at KI. DM or email.
January 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I am looking for electrophysiologists for couple of very exciting projects. Recent PhD graduates (defended within 2 years) is preferred, but open to other possibilities too. The lab is funded by ERC, SSMF, Brain Foundation, StratNeuro and others. Find me at KI. DM or email.
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The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky.
Tell us about your experience
https://go.nature.com/42fihQG
Tell us about your experience
https://go.nature.com/42fihQG
Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.
go.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky.
Tell us about your experience
https://go.nature.com/42fihQG
Tell us about your experience
https://go.nature.com/42fihQG
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“Had life turned out slightly differently, Prasher could have been attending the ceremony not as a guest but as a laureate. More than two decades earlier, it was Prasher who cloned the gene for GFP”
www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...
www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...
How Bad Luck & Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize
The discoverer of a gene for a glowing protein
was driving a van for a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues
had won science's greatest honor.
www.discovermagazine.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:25 AM
“Had life turned out slightly differently, Prasher could have been attending the ceremony not as a guest but as a laureate. More than two decades earlier, it was Prasher who cloned the gene for GFP”
www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...
www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...
Vacation mode: turned off all my alarms for doing cell culture, picking up kids from activities, and waking up
December 21, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Vacation mode: turned off all my alarms for doing cell culture, picking up kids from activities, and waking up
Wow. How many other functions in the body are ”secretly” regulared by macrophages?
Check this out!! Awesome discovery by the labs of Carmelo Bellardita in Copenhagen Univ and Simone di Giovanni in London on the physiological role of macrophages in muscle spindles on proprioceptor afferents - implication in sensorimotor control of movement
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion - Nature
A population of macrophages with exclusive molecular and functional signatures in the muscle spindles express machinery for synthesizing and releasing glutamate, and a cellular component, the muscle s...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Wow. How many other functions in the body are ”secretly” regulared by macrophages?
It always fascinates me how similar we humans are. Although cultural expressions may look diverse on the surface, they follow common patterns. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Universality and diversity in human song
Songs exhibit universal patterns across cultures.
www.science.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:13 PM
It always fascinates me how similar we humans are. Although cultural expressions may look diverse on the surface, they follow common patterns. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New Night Science Podcast episode! Stanford's Michael Fischbach talks about choosing a research problem, managing risks, and turning crises into opportunities; as discussed in his Cell paper "Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering"
www.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree - Night Science
In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems. Highlights include:- Invest time in problem selection: Spend mor...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM
New Night Science Podcast episode! Stanford's Michael Fischbach talks about choosing a research problem, managing risks, and turning crises into opportunities; as discussed in his Cell paper "Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering"
www.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
Bluesky of 2024 is like Facebook of 2008 or Twitter of 2012: simple, friendly, optimistic. Hope this platform can stay that way. 🦋
November 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Bluesky of 2024 is like Facebook of 2008 or Twitter of 2012: simple, friendly, optimistic. Hope this platform can stay that way. 🦋
Reposted by Marina Franck
We are ramping up our attempts to get DC1 immunotherapy into the clinic for colorectal and lung cancer. Here me talk about why DC1s are the right choice, and how
WEHI and PeterMacCC will get it to clinical trial within 2 yrs. Start ~13 min in. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...
WEHI and PeterMacCC will get it to clinical trial within 2 yrs. Start ~13 min in. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...
VAXXED: Game on, with BASE and WEHI
Podcast Episode · Phase III · 19/11/2024 · 26m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:21 PM
We are ramping up our attempts to get DC1 immunotherapy into the clinic for colorectal and lung cancer. Here me talk about why DC1s are the right choice, and how
WEHI and PeterMacCC will get it to clinical trial within 2 yrs. Start ~13 min in. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...
WEHI and PeterMacCC will get it to clinical trial within 2 yrs. Start ~13 min in. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...
Ooh! 😍 Is there a Lactarius/Lactifluus? 🍄🟫
7. Bluesky's data servers are named after mushrooms! Some of them include morel, enoki, shiitake, puffball, oyster... 🍄
November 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Ooh! 😍 Is there a Lactarius/Lactifluus? 🍄🟫
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Cancer Immunology buffs - I just revisited the old literature that showed rodent tumours often expressed fetal antigens which could trigger antibody responses by the 'adult' immune system nicely tying together disparate fields in which I have worked... What is the state of the art in this area?
November 19, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Cancer Immunology buffs - I just revisited the old literature that showed rodent tumours often expressed fetal antigens which could trigger antibody responses by the 'adult' immune system nicely tying together disparate fields in which I have worked... What is the state of the art in this area?