Way to go MSTP Fast Grads at today’s TMC wellness 5k! @bcm-mstp.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

Great day of vaccine advocacy today at the Immunization Partnership luncheon. @bcm-mstp.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... Thanks David for featuring our work in this piece. @medscape.com @texaschildrens.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

The Puzzling Cancer Mutation That May Lower Alzheimer’s Risk

Two groups studied the same cancer mutations in the blood. They agreed on many aspects, including the mechanism at work. But their answers were radically different.

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A novel intervention to potentially improve the outcome of children with #malnutrition. G. Preidis, EstesLab_BCM et al identified a promising new treatment for a deadly condition. @bcmhouston.bsky.social @pnas.org medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08... #LifeboatHQ

A novel intervention to potentially improve the outcome of children with malnutrition

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have uncovered an intervention that could potentially improve outcomes for children with malnutrition, a condition that contribu...

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For the second PhD in a week: Arushana Maknojia showed her work to advance our understanding of how #microbiota regulate #hematopoiesis. @bcmhouston.bsky.social

Exp Hematology is launching exciting new article types, “Standards in Hematology” & “ExpHem Insights,” each with a distinctive scope—alongside a new author incentive program! Consider submitting your research to an official journal of @isehsociety.bsky.social Details: www.exphem.org/article/S030...

Huge week for the lab: not one but two defenses!! Apoorva Thatavarty did a beautiful job today discussing her work on inter-clone interactions in clonal hematopoiesis. A mind boggling amount of work @bcmhouston.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social So proud!

It’s been fantastic to have Mindy Nguyen here as our Saturday Morning Science summer student this year. Congrats on a fantastic job!!

Congrats to @bcm-mstp.bsky.social student Alice Wen and mentor C. Hermann for their paper this week in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Antibiotics stimulate protein transfer to persister cells

The exchange of biological matter between bacterial cells drives adaptation and evolution. However, whether bacteria can exchange functional proteins remains unclear. In this work, we found that antib...

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Former fellow and now instructor Ajibike Lapite was awarded an inaugural LEAPS fellowship at TCH, providing 75% protected time for 2 years as she develops her K application. What a tremendous opportunity— congratulations Aji! #curingsicklecell @texaschildrens.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

First annual Texas Children’s Research Institute symposium today— strong representation from the lab! The symposium had over 300 abstracts and I was honored to give the morning keynote. Very vibrant atmosphere.

Another Peds ID division research retreat in the books! Great science, laughs, and career advice— thanks to the organizers! @bcmhouston.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social

Thanks @isehsociety.bsky.social for highlighting our recent paper relating infection history to the emergence of clonal hematopoiesis! Super collab with Elizabeth Platz and the ARIC longitudinal study! @bcmhouston.bsky.social

ISEH - International Society for Experimental Hematology@isehsociety.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What role does immune challenge play in selecting mutant hematopoietic clones? Read insights into infection frequency and CHIP risk: www.exphem.org/article/S030.... @thekinglab.bsky.social

Thanks Mick for highlighting our paper in press at J Exp Heme! This was an incredible opportunity to use longitudinal data on thousands of people with two sequencing time points 20 years apart to identify epidemiologic drivers of CH incidence. @bcmhouston.bsky.social @isehsociety.bsky.social

Mick Milsom@milsommick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

First (to my knowledge) manuscript describing a correlation between number of infections and incidence of clonal hematopoiesis (CHIP). Really important from the perspective of highlighting a possible modifiable driver of CHIP during aging. @isehsociety.bsky.social www.exphem.org/article/S030...

Congrats to @bcm-mstp.bsky.social student Sean Hyslop on this honor! @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social

Keystone Symposia@keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Live from Québec 🇨🇦 - congrats to our Cancer Immunotherapy Keystone Symposia / NCI scholarship awardees: Allison Casey, Raphael Mattiuz, Richard Van, Sean Hyslop & Joan Shang 👏 Apply for 2027: keysym.us/KSCancerIO27 #KSCancerImmune26 @jguerriero.bsky.social @solangepeters.bsky.social

To my friends who are @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #hematopoiesis and #myeloid meetings— please check out two talks from my group TOMORROW: Ruoqiong Cao on central #trainedimmunity Thursday morning and Arushana Maknojia unravels #microbiome dependent hematopoiesis in the pm! 🔥🔥🔥

Visiting friends in science can be illuminating for the mind and refreshing for the soul. Thank you @ericpietras.bsky.social and Daniel Molosky for a fabulous visit!

Yahoo! I was the only girl in some of my classes in high school and college. Though we’ve come a long way, women are still a minority in science. Excited to see the blossoming careers of many young women in science today!

EMBO@embo.org · 8mo ago

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 The EMBO Women in Science Lectures address issues related to gender and diversity in science. Find out more and apply here: https://www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-and-childcare-grants/women-in-science-lectures/

Want to understand complex intrinsic and extrinsic metabolic regulation of HSCs? Our latest @natcellbio.nature.com review, led by @aysegulerdemm.bsky.social, synthesize insights into cell fate decisions and highlight implications for leukemogenesis. @nickvangastel.bsky.social rdcu.be/e3smG

Happy to share our latest work on the epigenetic basis of trained immunity in hematopoietic stem cells! @bcmhouston.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social

JCI insight@insight.jci.org · 9mo ago

For decades, memory-like responses in immune cells have remained unexplained @thekinglab.bsky.social & team reveal epigenetic changes in hematopoietic stem & progenitor cells in a mycobacterial infection model that are retained in downstream macrophages: doi.org/10.1172/jci....

TODAY at #ASH2025 New Frontiers in Neutrophil Biology. W311 at 4pm. Ostuni, Bonnet, Findlay. See you there!! @welner.bsky.social @leegrimeslab.bsky.social

Caroline Sands @bcm-mstp.bsky.social and I met up at #ASH2025. So fun 😍

What an awesome stem cell session speaker group for #ASH25 Workshop on Myeloid Development @vangalenlab.bsky.social @thekinglab.bsky.social @paralkarlab.bsky.social Sandra Pinho and Allison Yeh (love the photobomb!)

ASH or bust! #ash2025

ASH is coming! Excited to present alongside Vikram Paralkar, Sandra Pinho, Peter Van Galen, and Alison Yeh at the stem cell session of the myeloid workshop on Friday. @ericpietras.bsky.social will be moderating— don’t miss it!

Wow! My student Arushana Maknojia was awarded the Deborah K. Martin Award for best graduate student at BCM! So proud!

Lab Halloween 2025 is in the books— can you guess our theme?

For my lab lead friends, check out this article of best practices from my colleagues and I on the ISEH Junior PI committee on organizing a leading your team. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lxZ~,6sio...

Jak stat jak stat fun to have @mpndoc.bsky.social in town for a seminar! Thanks for inflammatory insights and inspiration to cure patients!

Congrats to Nicole Wang and Jennifer Deger on their beautiful thesis defenses today in the MSTP October double header! So proud of you both! @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social