Abt Lab

So happy to congratulate Dr. Kevin Mears, who defended his thesis yesterday! Kevin received an NIH-NIAID F31 fellowship and had a 1st author publication in Cell Reports ( sciencedirect.com/science/articl… )during his time in lab

The Abt lab has a Research Technician position opening this Summer. We are seeking an energetic graduating senior interested in immunity and microbiome research. Applicants can go to Careers @ Penn (JR00101259) to find out more!

Check out this fantastic new article by the Zackular lab. Great work! @joeyzacks , @MgAlameh and team. A multivalent mRNA-LNP vaccine protects against Clostridioides difficile infection | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Clostridioides difficile toxin B subverts germinal center and antibody recall responses by stimulating a drug-treatable CXCR4-dependent mechanism dlvr.it/T78Dpl

By neutralizing toxin and assessing the innate immune response to C diff infection we shed more light on protective vs pathogenic inflammatory host responses.

Happy to share this pre-print from out lab. This work was lead by Dr. Joshua Denny, a very talented postdoc, in collaboration with Linda Lieberman from Merck Discovery Immunology

Monoclonal antibody-mediated neutralization of Clostridioides difficil... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 next Monday! 2/6/2024 From 4-5 PM at 209 Johnson Pavilion, join Subham Mridha, PhD from the @abt_lab!

Highlighting our lab’s Research Specialist, Ellie @ellsnellz, who was featured in an article about volunteering in the community on MLK day. Great work! whyy.org/articles/fairm…

Congratulations to DR. @Emily_Cribas for defending her thesis today. Emily was the first student to join the lab and took a chance with a young PI. So happy for her.

Congratulations Dr. @YingYang0204! , who defended her thesis earlier today and gave a beautiful talk on development of Th17 memory in the lung.

Ever wonder what would happen to your immune system if you were stuck with a baby's microbiome? To find out see our new publication in Cell Host and Microbe! authors.elsevier.com/a/1gqSm6t8JEm%…

Super excited to share my and Xinyun Zhang's work published in @MucosalImmunol. We found bacteria-specific memory Th17 cells were still protective even in the context of influenza virus infection. Thank you @abt_lab for all your support! doi.org/10.1016/j.muci…

@YingYang0204 @MucosalImmunol Congratulations @YingYang0204! Well-deserved!

@MucosalImmunol @PennMedicine Very Excited to share our lab's work that is in press @MucosalImmunol!! This project was collaboration with Dr. Hao Shen and really spearheaded by Ying Yang, a very talented graduate student in my lab.

#Influenza A infection may promote protection against Haemophilus influenzae #pneumonia via cross-reactive Th17 cells in this work from Michael Apt and colleagues @PennMedicine mucosalimmunology.org/article/S1933-…

Congratulations to Katelyn Bustin and @MegaMatthewsLab on their paper in @FrontPharmacol. It was great to be part of this project and learn some cool chemistry!

The Abt lab has a Research Technician position opening this Summer. We are seeking an energetic graduating senior interested in immunity and microbiome research. Applicants can go to Careers @ Penn (JR00066297) to find out more!

@FrontImmunol Happy to share this review from our group on how microbiome-based therapy interaction with the immune system. Congrats Dr. Zahidul Alam and Jeff Maslanka the two authors that spearheaded this work.

New Research: Immunological consequences of microbiome-based therapeutics: The complex network of microscopic organisms living on and within humans, collectively referred to as the microbiome, produce wide array of biologically active… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #immunology