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The IgA response to microbiota in IBD-patients may uncover disease-modifying microorganisms and reveal improved biomarkers of disease progression, concludes @marceldezoete at @UMCUtrecht in a study by Dutch and American investigators in @CellHostMicrobe bit.ly/2NHxbv9

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first female professor in the Netherlands when she is appointed at @UniUtrecht #WomenInSTEM #STEMfem #OTD #WaybackWednesday

Have a look at our latest #acceptedpaper on #lymphocytes #turnover after #SCT using #deuteriumlabeling and #mathematicalmodeling! @CTI_UMCUtrecht #publication #research #Tcells #Bcells #homeostasis doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… @eLife

Beautiful work! ⁦@IlievLab⁩ ⁦@CellCellPress⁩ Human gut mycobiota tune immunity via CARD9-dependent induction of anti-fungal IgG antibodies: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Our manuscript on the dissemination of E. faecium vanA resistance in Dutch hospitals is now published in Genome Medicine! genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Interested in clonal vs plasmid/transposon dissemination? Check our work! Thanks to @AnitaSchurch for leading this project

UCyTOF.nl launch: Want to apply mass cytometry to your research project? Learn all about it in next week's kick-off seminar in collaboration with Fluidigm (Jan 21, 11:00 CET). @fluidigm @UMCU_CMM @UMCU_Intl @cancercenterumc #cytof

and @wvschaik and me had the opportunity to write a perspective on this. The takeaway message? Be cautious in the use of colistin, for resistance can arise relatively easily. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Cool and important paper out from Malmstrom labs (Lund University) where they elucidated the structural details of StrepA M1 interaction with human IgG. Important for rational M-based vaccine design journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Great to see that mlplasmids sarredondo.shinyapps.io/mlplasmids/ is a useful resource for the community. Will read in detail the manuscript @SamLipworth, congrats! :)

Really nice to have this paper out and highlighted by @ASMicrobiology! Want to know about the evolution and impact of colistin resistance in Klebsiella? Read on 👇!

Proud to present research by our PhD student Roos Berbers, published @FrontImmunol (frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…). Read about how Low IgA Associated With Oropharyngeal Microbiota Changes and Lung Disease in Primary Antibody Deficiency. #immunology #CVID @UMCUtrecht @PhdPlatform

Please join me in congratulating Suzan Rooijakkers, professor of microbiology @UMCUtrecht, who received today a € 2M Consolidator Grant from @ERC_Research to identify antibodies that use the immune system to fight E. coli infections bit.ly/3m5a88x @MarcBonten #ERCCoG

Really happy that our article on #longitudinal sequencing of #TCR #repertoires from #scleroderma is now online. Congrats to all the co-authors. @CTI_UMCUtrecht @UMCURRCI @IenI_UMCUtrecht #bioinformatics #rheumatology @airr_community @iRecRepPapers authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S08…

Inhibiting the immune system can impede cancer treatment, how is still largely unclear. In a perspective for @NatRevImmunol @LindeMeyaard introduces a framework to classify different immune receptors which control the response: nature.com/articles/s4157… @UMCUtrecht @YaleMed

New publication from @Vania_LoPresti mdpi.com/2076-393X/8/4/…

New publication! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Lock down did not just bring down COVID cases but also invasive bacterial infections such as pneumococcal and meningococcal disease around the globe. Beautiful collaboration of the IRIS consortium now in writing on MedRxiv: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are looking for a post doc in immunotherapy! academictransfer.com/en/295773/post…

How every PhD students feels in the last months before submission [source; from Dutch television (Nieuwsuur)] - I don't enjoy writing but to have written. - I feel amazing once I'm done. - The process itself is torture. #PhDLife