Immunologist at @Stanford PhD student at @labliconaP Lab @IFC_UNAM @openboxsci @publicjournalc host for Opinions are my own 🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Coyoacán, Distrito Federal
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Super excited to talk about My PhD work and the science done in @IFC_UNAM at @LabLiconaP. @iuis_online @iuis_junior. Greatfull to talk about the work done in @OpenBoxSci to promote a more Open science.
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OBS Immunology Seminar
Functional chimeric mRNAs encode proteins in mammalian immunity
(Nature 2026)
👩🔬 Olivia Venezia
Moderator: @Javier_Oroz20
⏰ Oct 29th 12:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM CET
Registration
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How does our history of influenza infections shape the ability of CD8+ T cells to recognize new viral variants? Our new paper in @CellReports examines these questions using influenza-specific CD8+ T cells! 🧵⬇️ (1/12)
cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…
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"Soy argentina. Gracias a Lula tengo una beca en Brasil para terminar mi doctorado en ciencias químicas. No pude terminarlo en la UNC por culpa del desfinanciamiento de Milei"
Buenísimo, Brasil se queda con nuestros científicos gracias a Milei
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Our new paper in @NatImmunol explores this question through PPARδ, a lipid-sensing transcription factor that we identify as a regulator of the #fitness balance between #cancer and #immune cells. You can read the open access paper here: nature.com/articles/s41590-0…
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OBS Immunology Seminar
"Milk and the Developing Immune System"
👩🔬 Anna Samarra 🇪🇸 👨🔬 Daniel Howard 🇦🇺
Moderator: Rodrigo Camacho 🇲🇽
⏰ Oct 22nd 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM CEST
Registration
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Next week I will be visiting my friend @glo_arriagada at Universidad Andrés Bello in Santiago, Chile. So thankful and excited to share our work🇲🇽💉👩🏻🔬🧬🔬
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Specificity defines adaptive immunity. Yet we've never comprehensively tested how differences in the epitopes human T cells recognize correlate with disease risk. I explore why in this review & argue we now have the tools to change it 🧵1/12 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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TODAY 5PM ET
'TIF1γ regulates stability of regulatory T cells during inflammation' (Nat. Immunol. 2026)
Eugenio Contreras-Castillo, PhD
Postdoc, Davis Lab,
Stanford
Moderator: Maria A. Cardenas, PhD
Thurs, Oct 8th, 2026
5pm ET | 4pm CT | 2pm PT
Zoom👇️
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Upcoming OBS Immunology Seminar
'TIF1γ regulates stability of regulatory T cells during inflammation' (Nat. Immunol. 2026)
Eugenio Contreras-Castillo, PhD
Postdoc, Davis Lab,
Stanford
Moderator: Maria A. Cardenas, PhD
Thurs, Oct 8th, 2026
5pm ET | 4pm CT | 2pm PT
Zoom👇️
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Join us for the next @OpenBoxSci seminar!
My former PhD student, @eugecc, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, will share his PhD work recently published in Nature Immunology 🎉
Thursday october 8th 5pm ET, 4pm CT
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There is only one big question in immunology that is not fully resolved yet: self–nonself discrimination by the adaptive immune system. The rest is trial and error.
#science
#immunology
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HAPPENING TODAY in ~90mins!
'Intratumoral T cell activation kills tumors
regardless of T cell specificity' (Nat. Immunol. 2026)
Olivia C. Ghirardelli Smith, PhD
MD/PhD student, Masopust Lab
University of Minnesota
Thurs, Sept 24th, 2026
3pm ET | 2pm CT | 12pm PT
Zoom👇️
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Jing's talk is now on YouTube!
GPR15-guided CD8+ T regulatory cells control intestinal inflammation
*Speaker: Jing Cui - NIH
piped.video/watch?v=AcbPYFIL…
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TOMORROW
'Intratumoral T cell activation kills tumors
regardless of T cell specificity' (Nat. Immunol. 2026)
Olivia C. Ghirardelli Smith, PhD
MD/PhD student, Masopust Lab
University of Minnesota
Thurs, Sept 24th, 2026
3pm ET | 2pm CT | 12pm PT
Zoom👇️
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Cell–cell interactions are key to all biological processes, but there hasn't been a good way to perform inter-cellular screens for genetic regulators of these interactions in vivo.
We developed match-seq (multiplexed associative tagging of cell interaction histories) - using engineered virus-like particles to transfer barcoded mRNAs from 'sender' to neighboring 'receiver' cells, so you can reconstruct cellular interactions with sequencing alone, no imaging required.
We coupled match-seq with CRISPR + scRNA-seq in cancer, revealing cancer-immune interaction neighborhoods at scale, and new cancer genes that can be targeted for tumor rejection via immune cell interactions.
Led by the brilliant @peterdu_ with Bassik lab!
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
CRISPR screens are great at telling you what a gene is doing inside your cells. But what if you're interested in what's happening to its neighbors?
Today, I'm excited to share match-seq, a new method that deciphers cell-cell interactions using barcoded RNA transfer.
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Online now: Cancers modulate processing and presentation of p53 neoantigens to evade T cell detection dlvr.it/TVWzp4
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Dendritic cells as programmable platforms for cancer immunotherapy dlvr.it/TVVtGH #immunology
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