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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs
@thepwlab.bsky.social
Our labs study innate immune regulation during bacterial infection. We focus on interplay between mitochondria and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Robbie Watson) and post-transcriptional control of macrophage activation (Kristin Patrick). Views are our own.
The person packing our VWR order chose violence today. #secfootball #anchordown
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Beautiful science in a beautiful place with beautiful people. Having a great time at #RNA2025
May 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“Look, it’s a macrophage.”
May 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our lab love language is sharing food, so we had to have breakfast AND lunch in honor of Robbie on his birthday!
May 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Celebrating a successful RNA in Immunity session with all our favorite scientists, sponsored by the @cytokinesociety.bsky.social at #immunology2025. @carpenterlab.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social @naehasubramanian.bsky.social @heleneliu.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Fantastic session on tissue immunity this afternoon by these four amazing women scientists! #aai2025 #immunology2025
May 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Excited to be reminded of all the reasons it’s an amazing privilege to be a scientist. Ready for #immunology2025.
May 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I just made a list. I suppose you could organize by Reviewer, but I'm not sure that does much to help re-review, unless the reviews really broke down thematically (like, Rev. 1 hated the mouse experiment, Rev. 2 wanted a better data analysis plan)
April 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Standing up for Science in Nashville today!
#standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Rotation students trying to complete an experiment (in 5 weeks, without core access).
February 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Nothing left to do but:

Hang in there, science ❤️
February 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A much needed distraction from the deterioration of the NIH…

Celebrating a manuscript and having all our lab members here in Nashville!
January 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The PW trainees dressed to impress:
December 11, 2024 at 3:26 AM
December 4, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Not me filling up Robbie’s donation box for the PMI GSA Pie-A-PI holiday contest…
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
A lovely birthday treat from the lab. So lucky to do science with these incredible humans.
November 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Celebrating our first VU rotation student Nashvegas style!
November 16, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Now that we've finally got numbers in the 🟦 place, its time for some content!

The Patrick and Watson labs have been at Vanderbilt for 3.5 months now! Research is up and running, we got our first rotation student, AND a Torchy's Tacos opened in Nashville. Who could ask for anything more?
November 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Inspired by An Immense World by @edyong209.bsky.social, Miles and I just finished up a walk where I didn't interrupt a single smell stop. Really enjoying this fascinating look at how non-humans perceive the world!
January 3, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Had a fantastic time at our first Cytokine Society meeting in beautiful Athens, Greece. Quality time with @carpenterlab.bsky.social was an added bonus.
October 19, 2023 at 6:39 PM
Behold! The first ever Paraspeckle Symposium! Such a treat to meet paraspeckle leaders and to see tons of exciting work in this growing (aggregating?) field! Check out our labs' first foray into macrophage paraspeckles here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 9, 2023 at 10:39 AM