Irene Salinas Remiro
@drsalinaslab.bsky.social
Evolutionary Immunologist, Professor in Biology, University of New Mexico. Mucosal Immunology lover, neuroimmunology is my new love
As a comparative immunologist, I dread bad papers that use antibodies specific for mouse in random fish species without any sort of validation, making claims that "new anatomical sites" have immune function. This science poisons our field and if you all come across these papers as a reviewer please
It was a pleasure to write this piece based on the cool original paper by the Moran Lab www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hope you enjoy the read!
Antiviral immunity regulates cnidarian viriomes
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A search for homologues of key vertebrate immune proteins in cnidarians reveals that a classic antiviral signalling pathway instead restricts antiviral activity to...
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Don't use slop. Someone's trying to make money out of you and your colleagues and your friends. Do yourself a favor and read 100% human-crated content in @prelights.bsky.social Upload preprints. Read preprints. Cite preprints. Fuck AI 🧪
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Its NOA day! Delighted to receive this award with @chrmosimann.bsky.social to keep investigating how African lungfish physiologically remodel their skin during water-land-water transitions. ❤️ these beautiful fish, and my job and my lab!
The genome of the iconic and super endangered Gila trout was just sequenced by us and now published for anyone interested. Congratulations Megan! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A chromosome-level genome for gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae) provides a novel resource for conservation and management - BMC Genomics
Background Genetic data have long been applied in conservation and management for threatened and endangered species to track effects of inbreeding, hybridization, and population structure. However, wh...
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Tapping the sign: We will have prizes for presentations, posters and a CoB-sponsored prize for the "From PI to Postdoc" session. If you're a postdoc and want people to know about your story, apply! 🧪 (And get some €€ now that you're at it)
MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 3mo agoAbstract submission deadline extended to May 30th! If you're a postdoc in the job market, in or out of Germany, but want everyone to know about what you've done and are scheming to do, come to Heidelberg! 🐟🧪
To all the mother PIs whose child will always get sick just before grant deadlines, paper resubmission deadline and final exams, SOLIDARITY. And lots of coffee
Abstract submission deadline extended to May 30th! If you're a postdoc in the job market, in or out of Germany, but want everyone to know about what you've done and are scheming to do, come to Heidelberg! 🐟🧪
MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 4mo agoTwo weeks until the Registration closes for the 1st German Fish Meeting! 🐟🧪 Reminder I will be chairing a session for Postdocs in the Job Market. If that's you, apply and tell everyone why fishes are the best and why they should be shoveling $ at you www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-...
technical question: we have ordered a company to synthesize a peptide from a viral protein and do KLH conjugation to immunize animals. Neither us nor the company can dissolve the lyophilized pellet. I thought it was us but they have the same problem. They are suggesting we immunize animals anyway
How do chronic viral infections shape gill immunity in fish? Here are out findings led by PhD student in the lab, Ximena Amortegui using naturally infected trout with an emerging pathogen pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41819394/
Trout granulomatous virus (TGV) infection is associated with disruption of gill morphology, endothelial damage, and local gill immune responses in rainbow trout - PubMed
Trout Granulomatous Virus (TGV) is an emerging viral pathogen associated with chronic infections in adult farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). TGV infection was first described to be associated...
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Excited to share our latest work on trout vaccine and the super cool findings that PhD student in the lab,.Ali, found, especially regarding ontogeny of the mucosal immune system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Priming route and age at first vaccination shape prime and boost vaccine responses in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) is a significant economic threat to salmonid aquaculture worldwide. Understanding the factors that infl…
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Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...
RFK Jr.’s CDC Delays Report Proving the Covid Vaccine Worked
Anti-vax nonsense has infiltrated every corner of America’s public health agencies.
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Rhinoviruses cause common cold & asthma attacks but are also often benign. Using nasal organoids, we learned how the community of cells in the lining the nasal passages coordinates to respond to rhinovirus and which responses lead to excess mucus & inflammation. www.cell.com/cell-press-b...
Rhinovirus triggers distinct host responses through differential engagement of epithelial innate immune signaling
Rhinoviruses are the most frequent cause of common colds and also a major cause of respiratory distress in high-risk groups. Using single-cell sequencing of rhinovirus-infected nasal epithelial organo...
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🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 The Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology lab at @irbbarcelona.org is looking for 3 new members to join us in Barcelona! We’re scaling up our work in #GenAI, #DrugDiscovery, and #CompBio. Details below! 🧵👇
Huge congrats to Ben Garcia now Dr. Garcia for a beautiful defense last Thursday. The Salinas lab wishes you all the best and a brilliant future ahead. Yay to fish noses!
Lundi le 8 décembre à 13h30 EST, @andreapaz.bsky.social, Malgorzata Anna Gazda, Matthew Regan et Daniel Kierzkowski présenteront un séminaire de sciences biologiques avec comme invitée @drsalinaslab.bsky.social. Envoyez-nous un message privé pour obtenir le lien Zoom.
Weekend reminder to get your applications submitted as two weeks until the deadline! 💜 #DisabledInSTEM
DisabledInSTEM@disabledinstem.bsky.social · 10mo agoIt's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!
#Immunosky people! 6th International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells - ILC6 in Vancouver. ilc6vancouver.com First program draft online. Abstract submission and registration officially open! #ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.
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our latest neuroimmunology paper is out and we love it! if you want to learn more about regional immunity in the trout brain check it out www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neuroanatomical profiling of the rainbow trout brain parenchyma and meninges reveals specialized immune niches and region-specific hubs for bacterial immune surveillance
Several studies have described immune responses in the teleost brain and meninges during infection, however, fundamental studies that systematically d…
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Missing my Karolinska times so much! thank you, Eduardo!
Eduardo Villablanca@ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 12mo agoThrilled to welcome Irene Salinas to our lab for her sabbatical! A true role model scientist who has already energized us with inspiring discussions in evolutionary immunology. Looking forward more exciting scientific explorations and great conversations together #ScienceCommunity #Collaboration
#zebrafish genome update, our T2T assembly of the inbred strain of AB (M-AB) generated by my buddy Nori Sakai has now been released at NCBI and will be a second reference genome for zebrafish (GRCz12ab):
JBQAYU000000000.1 Danio rerio :: NCBI
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Check out our latest piece, written by Ben Garcia and I. It was a fun one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40558017/
Is That Lymphocyte Aggregate a Tertiary Lymphoid Organ? Lymphoid Structures in Teleost Fish and the Challenges of Using Mammalian Definitions Across Vertebrate Phylogeny - PubMed
Teleost fish are the most diverse of the vertebrate taxa, made up of over 30,000 different species with diverse life histories, unique immune systems and extreme physiological adaptations. Mammalian i...
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Please read and share this opinion piece written by Carole LaBonne (our fellow Xenopus researcher) published in STAT in support for animal models in biomedical research. www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research
The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.
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Please DO NOT USE AI to make this kind of terrible "diagrams" (whatever this is) to showcase our work. What are the pink and purple things? And what is "secrentry"? Trying to contact Scienmag.com @science.org but there is not name written in this article. scienmag.com/secretory-ig...
Our latest paper is now out. A long standing collaboration with the Sunyer lab where our teams show the requirement for secretory IgM in the gut mucosa to control microbiota homeostasis and metabolism. Enjoy! #sIgM #mucosalimmunology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Secretory IgM regulates gut microbiota homeostasis and metabolism - Nature Microbiology
Rainbow trout with depleted secretory IgM reveal interesting insights into the elusive role of this immunoglobulin in maintaining gut microbiota.
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A pill for sleep apnea that keeps the airway open www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org @meredithwadman.bsky.social
Looking for a collaboration with an organic chemistry who could synthesize a compound for one of our projects! Thanks
