Xu Zhou (周旭)

Beyond excited to share our #NewPaper in @CellCellPress! Inflamed environments acidify intracellular pH. BRD4 senses this via transcriptional condensates, tuning #macrophage responses to match demand and consequences of inflammation. #inflammation #pH authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

@TKreslavsky Fascinating work! Sending it to my lab!

Very happy to see this out – it's our craziest story so far. 🙂 We found that more than 10% of mouse γδT cells recognize IL17RA with their TCRs! IL17RA functions in a superantigen-like manner, interacting with germline-encoded sequences in Vδ7. 1/2 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congrats @jkagan1 Steph and all! Check out this amazing piece on @ImmunityCP on intracellular PAMP sensing of bacterial derived CDN👍🎉🥂

@UriAlonWeizmann Congrats Uri 🎉🎉🎉

Physics of life medal- a warm hug

China’s main research funding agency will increase its number of prestigious grants for early-career scientists by 50% go.nature.com/4ffQcP8

@BingxuL @DMSabatini @ragoninstitute @harvardmed Congratulations and welcome back to Boston/Cambridge!

I’m excited to share that I will be joining @ragoninstitute and @harvardmed Department of Immunology as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2027. You can learn more about our research and vision at lsd-lab.org.

@LWahlster @BostonChildrens @DanaFarber @DFBC_PedCare @bloodgenes Congratulations!

Very excited to share that I have accepted a tenure-track faculty position at @BostonChildrens, within the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center @DanaFarber. Thrilled for this next chapter! #PediatricOncology #CancerPredisposition @DFBC_PedCare

@RoarkeKamber @UCSF @pewtrusts Congrats Roarke!

Thank you, @UCSF and @PewTrusts! I’m grateful for the support of our research and thrilled to join the Pew community!

Excited to see James' Genome-wide Absolute Quantification of Looping paper out in @NatureSMB : nature.com/articles/s4159… In collab with @zechnerlab @leonidmirny Giorgetti labs. See also beautiful News&Views from Henggeler @OchsFena : nature.com/articles/s4159… Brief thread:

@bloodgenes Congratulations!

🙏 Deeply honored to receive the 2026 Warren Alpert Prize! This award reflects the work by so many to enable transformative therapies for sickle cell disease and thalassemia, and the power of human genetics to reveal biology and guide new treatments! hms.harvard.edu/news/2026-warr…

I’m truly honored to host Professor Lily Jan and Professor Yuh-Nung Jan in one of their three @AFAYale invited talks. As first-gen immigrants, Lily and Yuh-Nung have run a highly successful joint laboratory for over forty years, maintaining world-class scientific output and both becoming HHMI investigators and National Academy of Sciences members. They have over 100 former trainees who have become independent scientists leading their own research labs. In this talk titled "Scientific Excellence, Mentorship and Equity", Lily and Yuh-Nung discussed their insights and observations on these topics, including a “Bamboo Ceiling” and underrepresentation of Asian biomedical scientists in the U.S. in research prizes and in school leadership positions.

🏆 Dr. Harikesh Wong at the @ragoninstitute has been named to the 2026 class of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. He is one of 21 scientists selected this year by @pewtrusts, which will provide four years of funding for his research: bit.ly/4g1lzhq

(1/16) Our 3-lab collab (Mirny & Zechner) led by Harvey, Henrik & Jack is out: Q: How do enhancers & promoters interact in space (contact vs. action-at-a-distance) and time (stable vs. transient)? A: Transient E-P contact (~25-42 nm lasting ~10-20 sec): biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Incredibly exciting announcement. Johns Hopkins University will provide $80M per year for the next two years to support large Life Sciences projects. (1) Transformational Science Teams awards: >$10M each, $40M/year. (2) High-impact individual awards: $200-500K each, $40M/year.

Amazing opportunity to join a vibrant community of scientists focused on progressing human health! Join us @BostonChildrens @harvardmed @Harvard 👇👇👇

Nature research paper: Cell-type-resolved genetic variation shapes inflammatory bowel disease risk go.nature.com/3RED3pM

NEW: Professor Xiaowei Zhuang has been awarded the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine, @pitt_medicine's highest honor: medschool.pitt.edu/news/xiaowei-z…

from @RMedzhitov &Karen Agaronyan. Natural&microbial proteases cause vascular disruption, blood cell extravasation. heme sensed by alveolar macrophages to elicit protection and tissue adaptation #unifyingframework for tissue-level sensing and adaptation biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Excited to share our study by @keylas3 et al. on pathological autoantibodies in people with Long COVID. We asked whether IgG in patients with Long COVID bind to human tissues/antigens and cause pathologies when transferred into mice. With @PutrinoLab doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Thanks for sharing @LabWaggoner, nowadays it is not really out there until you do! 🤗

LIMmunity 2nd brew !! Motherhood comes with superpower: pathogen protection! nature.com/articles/s4158… We often think moms are immunologically vulnerable to tolerate the baby. But I always wondered: why would evolution make such a critical period of life so dangerous?