Meredith O'Keeffe
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Meredith O'Keeffe
@meredithok.bsky.social
Immunologist.
Head of Dendritic Cell biology lab, Monash Uni, Australia.
Interests: innate immunity, IFN biology
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This plot will never cease to amaze me
Why do we like vaccines and water systems so much?

It used to be 50/50 whether your kid lived to be an adult. With 4 kids, 94% chance they wouldn't all make it.

Fun times. Maybe let's not do that again.

We don't have magic cures for diseases like measles. We have vaccines.
April 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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TBK1 and IKKe prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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March 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A single-cell compendium of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies disease-associated immune cell populations
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www.jci.org/articles/vie...
January 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Competition among JAKs for receptor binding may underlie cell type–specific differences in cytokine signaling
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Promiscuous Janus kinase binding to cytokine receptors modulates signaling efficiencies and contributes to cytokine pleiotropy
Competition among JAKs for receptor binding may underlie cell type–specific differences in cytokine signaling.
www.science.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM