Pleased to announced I have received tenure at @rutgersu.bsky.social medical school!
Dane Parker
@daneparkerlab.com
Laboratory of Dane Parker 🇦🇺 Rutgers NJMS USA. Bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity. Staphylococcus aureus. Interferons. Trained immunity. Center for Infection and Immunity. #immunology, #microbiology. www.daneparkerlab.com
Latest from the lab! We show the importance of regulation within airway epithelial cells in controlling Acinetobacter baumannii infection. @jidjournal.bsky.social. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41636230/
TLR4-MyD88-NF-κB signaling in the airway epithelium promotes Acinetobacter baumannii clearance - PubMed
These findings highlight the airway epithelium as a critical site of innate immune sensing and coordinating the pulmonary host defense against A. baumannii.
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Persistence pays off!! Taken 10 years since its predecessor!! Don’t give up folks!
Thanks for the highlight @cytokinesociety.bsky.social signals.cytokinesociety.org/2026/02/02/m...
From Melbourne to Newark: Dane Parker Studies Where Bacteria Meet Immunity - Biweekly newsletter of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society
I run a laboratory at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark NJ USA. I study host-pathogen interactions as I find both microbiology and immunology interesting.
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3D printing an elephant inside a cell. Wow! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Two‐Photon 3D Printing of Functional Microstructures Inside Living Cells
This study demonstrates 3D printing inside living cells by using two-photon photo-lithography. A bio-compatible photoresist is injected into cells and selectively polymerized with a femtosecond laser...
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🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Seeking expertise in spatial metabolite imaging and/or mass spectrometry to study how host metabolism shapes immune responses. If you're creative, collegial, and excited to push boundaries, we’d love to hear from you. Please share! 🔗 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Newark, New Jersey (US) job with Dr Tania Wong | 12848863
Rutgers is currently seeking a Postdoc Research Scientist to join the Center for Immunity and Inflammation (CII) at the New Jersey Medical School.
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My nose must be riddled with S. aureus then 🫠
Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 11mo ago#NewResearch Nasal colonisation by S. aureus is linked with depression in a human cohort and shown in a mouse model to cause decreased serotonin and dopamine in the brain #MicroSky #Depression www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Latest from the lab!!! We joined Amali Samarasinge and Charles Dela Cruz and a cast of many on a workshop for best practices for models of bacterial pneumonia @atscommunity.bsky.social www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
Best Practices in the Development and Use of Experimental Models of Bacterial Pneumonia: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report | American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biol...
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Latest from the lab! In @elife.bsky.social we reviewed the current status of trained immunity in the lung! elifesciences.org/articles/104...
Trained immunity in the lung
Several studies have now demonstrated that trained immunity occurs in the airways to several pathogens and products, while its utility is yet to be determined.
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Mice are not always reflective of human studies!
Theobald Smith Society@njmicrobe.bsky.social · last yr.A Rutgers study shows Acinetobacter baumannii hits men harder than women— longer ICU stays, higher severity, and more co-infections. Surprising contrast to mouse data. Sex matters in infectious disease. go.njmicrobe.org/e5DGRy #Microbiology #InfectiousDisease #Rutgers #SexDifferences #Acinetobacter
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SBGrid Consortium@sbgrid.bsky.social · last yr.Stand up for science and sign your name in support of NIH staff and The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
Virologists!! We are hiring at all levels. Check it out! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/672389/v...
VIROLOGY FACULTY RECRUITING AT RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL - Newark, NJ job with Rutgers New Jersey Medical School | 672389
The New Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII) at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), Newark, is seeking to recruit tenure-track faculty.
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Such an honor to receive the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Faculty Organization Faculty of the Year Award.
An improved humanized mouse model of Staphylococcus aureus infection to study pneumonia from @daneparkerlab.com www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Latest from the lab! We show in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social a new humanized mouse model of S. aureus infection using human lung tissue examining the immune and bacterial responses! #OpenAccess www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Improved humanized mouse model of Staphylococcus aureus infection
Staphylococcus aureus is a significant cause of pulmonary infections, but existing mouse models fail to recapitulate human-specific responses. In this study, we developed a novel mouse model of S. aur...
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The virtual Staphylococcal meeting is happening July 9-10, cheap and easy way to stay up-to-date with the latest research! Over 20 great presentations! #Staphylococcus #Staphylococci staphsymposia.org
STAPH-SYMPOSIA 2025 – Virtual Symposium on Staphylococcal Infections
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Reach out to your representatives to fight the govt cuts to research. ASM has made it easy for you to do so.
Bill Goldman@wgoldman1.bsky.social · last yr.The Presidential Budget Request has been released, and it details some serious cuts to scientific funding and research. Please use the link below to automatically send a letter to your Representative and Senators -- you can customize the pre-written message with your personal story.
A huge majority of Americans (77%) oppose the cuts to medical research that the current administration has made. (Source: Wash. Post/ABC/Ipsos poll)
Latest from the lab! We had previously shown sex differences in A. baumannii pulmonary infection. Here, we show that in human males have worse outcomes compared to females. Mice are not people! @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Biological sex influences severity and outcomes in Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia | Microbiology Spectrum
Biological sex has been shown to influence the incidence and outcomes of infection. We had previously documented that in a mouse model of infection, the pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii caused more se...
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Excited to see this finally out!! We found IL-2 made by CD301b+ DCs critical for the Th2 fate decision of CD4T cells and skewing them away from the Tfh fate. They also seem to use their own CD25 to direct IL-2 to the cognate clone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CD301b+ dendritic cell-derived IL-2 dictates CD4+ T helper cell differentiation - Nature Communications
A subset of migratory type 2 conventional dendritic cells marked by CD301b expression (CD301b+DC), are required specifically for the development of Th2 cells. Here authors show that at the mechanistic...
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RIPK3 can promote neuronal survival during viral infection by @briandaniels.bsky.social at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
The kinase RIPK3 promotes neuronal survival by suppressing excitatory neurotransmission during central nervous system viral infection
How innate immune signaling within neurons influences neurotransmission remains poorly understood. Estevez et al. show that the necroptotic kinase RIPK3 promotes neuronal survival during viral infecti...
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Living with cats and dogs showed an association with MRSA infection! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39995309/
Living with dogs and cats: Is it a risk factor for community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections in humans? - PubMed
We conclude that there is an association between human MRSA SSTIs and living with CF.
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Check out my old @columbiauniversity.bsky.social colleague @adamratnermd.bsky.social on his book tour, #vaccines! Or check out his book, "Booster shots". Link here, www.amazon.com/Booster-Shot....
Emory Human Health@emorycshh.bsky.social · 2y agoIt's time for another Health Storytelling LIVE Author Q&A w/ @marynmck.bsky.social. Next up @adamratnermd.bsky.social with his vital & incredibly timely #NewBook BOOSTER SHOTS: The Urgent Lessons of #Measles and the Uncertain Future of #ChildrensHealth ➡️ 2/26 7pm ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=leKj...
Come find us and others here! #immunology #innateimmunity #inflammation. Join the fam! go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
Are you a bioinformatician and want to work in Australia. @torstenseemann.bsky.social is fabulous!! Check it out!
Torsten Seemann@torstenseemann.bsky.social · 2y agoWant to help build capacity public health pathogen bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region? 🦘 Based in Melbourne Australia with me ✈️ Travel to and work internationally 🧠 Lead strategy, training & infrastructure Applications close soon! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...
Do you work on #interferons, come join the family! go.bsky.app/71vKZJA
See that gap between the United States of America and those other countries? That gap… that gulf… That’s profit. Profit at the expense of health.
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 2y agoAn update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.
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