Mohamed ElTanbouly
plasmacellguy.bsky.social
Mohamed ElTanbouly
@plasmacellguy.bsky.social
Hi Kilian,

Congratulations on this truly important work. Very nicely done

Glad to read the whole story.
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Well, a Treg is a T cell.

Although another Nobel laureate thinks (thought?) otherwise
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thank you :)

I've been thinking about and discussing T cell tolerance with several people since the recent Belkaid and Wang papers. Planning to write something (actually wrote but need to post) about this and looking forward to your honest feedback.
September 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Congrats Ruth and colleagues!!!

I enjoyed reading this...Fascinating discovery

Really great work
July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Congrats on your terrific effort Payal and co!!! 🎉

Very nice and comprehensive study.

All the best with what comes next.
April 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Thanks very much for advising.
April 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Might I ask you if any of these talks are available on NIHvideocast or youtube? Or accessible online?
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I tried to access but it says that it's only available to Harvard folks

What am I missing? Aside from a Harvard ID card
January 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is fascinating!

These are all immune (lymphocyte-relevant) genes!!!!!
January 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Chloroplast is the cell's farm

ER is the factory and ribosomes are the workers

Plasma membrane are the city walls

Cilia and flagella are the stirring wheels and propellers

Exosomes and endosomes are the email/post office
January 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Many thanks for all these terrific insights.
January 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Tcf7 activates genes with CTNNB1 (β-catenin)?

What signals are upstream of this? Or are they constitutively active?
January 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congrats @danmcmanus123.bsky.social

Very nice work!
January 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Unrelated request: Would be nice if someone figured out what maintains Tcf7 expression and activity in CD8 stemlike (± mem T cells). It was argued in a recent conference that it's Wnt signaling but I can't see how in the absence of Fzd expression in T cells.
January 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Mohamed ElTanbouly
Clones usually encompass cell members with heterogenous cell states, too.
January 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
January 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
1-This paper?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Might you elaborate on where they discussed this (PD-1) here?

I recall they assessed "renewal potential" (Tcm-ness based on prior division no. and quiescence state)

2-Looking forward to reading your group's findings. Sounds very interesting.
Replicative history marks transcriptional and functional disparity in the CD8+ T cell memory pool - Nature Immunology
Schumacher and colleagues have designed a reporter system that allows in vivo tracking of replicative history over many cell generations. Using this system to study acute T cell responses, they uncove...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
They're memory precursors.

When antigen goes away, most clones contract and these cells make up the central memory (Tcm).

In chronic infection, they act as transient amplifiers differentiating into terminal eff and new precursors.
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
1-Incredible figure presentation and clarity

2-Eight years of work

3-Favorite statement (reminded me of another statement in an equally authoritative paper). Both are presented in screenshots below.

4-Builds upon earlier work by Peng et al from Jameson group
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Thank you :) for the very kind feedback.

I'm still enjoying it so will keep summarizing/reviewing

All the best with your work + life
December 22, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Many thanks
December 19, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Could I ask your take on the data showing "Treg conversion to Tfh"?

What (signals) persuades them?

PMID: 39662506
PMID: 19286559
December 19, 2024 at 9:11 PM