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

Great science, food, and hospitality at #ISEH2025 Kumamoto. Several new collaborations planned!

I am so grateful to be able to spend time with colleagues at #iseh2025. Fantastic science and community.

Central trained immunity is still a nascent field— is there true reprogramming of hematopoietic progenitors to influence innate immunity, or is this selection for lineage biased cells? We explore the nuances in this new review. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... awesome collab with Eva Kaufmann and team!

Less than a month until ISEH @isehsociety.bsky.social annual meeting in Kumamoto! Bringing some new science to share and excited to see friends and try the food!

It’s just a noncompeting renewal, but I’ve never been so happy.

And here it is! Our study in clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer’s disease — product of 5 years’ gestation. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

We had not one but TWO bottles of bubbly to celebrate paper acceptances in the lab!! Exciting stories forthcoming which I am excited to introduce when they’re online!

This post is almost a week late but huge congratulations to the 14 fabulous students who earned their MD PhD degrees last week @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social So amazing to see you all complete this journey. 😍

Big day for Dr. Brandon Tran yesterday as he became a PhD graduate! Beautiful presentation of rigorous work on conservation of epigenetic marks after infection through myeloid differentiation. 🥳🤩🥳

Congrats @micrornax.bsky.social on this study on let7 in lung injury/repair and thanks for including us as collaborators!

Perfect weather for our “annual” King lab crawfish boil— so fun to see current lab, alums, and lab babies! 😍

Congrats Dan on this cool study!

Yesterday I was humbled to receive the E. Mead Johnson Award from the @socpedresearch.bsky.social Since 1939, the award represents SPR’s commitment to outstanding science- stunned to join the list of trailblazing investigators. What a weekend! @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social

Tremendous honor today to receive the WashU alumni achievement award. I am so fortunate to be surrounded by such amazing mentors, teachers, colleagues and friends. @origamidoc.bsky.social @davidperlmutter.bsky.social @geoffuy.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social

I think means I became an honorary Challenger?

Great visiting with all the folks at WashU today! So fun to catch up! Forgot to take pics with everyone!

Hey! Check out @drjanexu.bsky.social discussing @cohesinlab.bsky.social’s first preprint on @isehsociety.bsky.social simply blood preprint watch! www.simplyblood.org/2025/04/prep...

Amazing fundamental insights about hematopoiesis from tons and tons of sequencing.

Honored to have Dr. Bonnie Maldonado visiting today as the Feigin distinguished lecturer. Important leadership on RSV prevention.

Look at these details from my visit to St Jude’s— raising the bar on hospitality! Being here at the same time as @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social was so fun!

Incredible hospitality at St. Jude for the Danny Thomas Lecture. Thanks so much to Jian Xu for hosting me and to all the wonderful colleagues who made time for me today. Special surprise to see @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social here at the same time!

Interesting work from my colleague at @texaschildrens.bsky.social

Congrats to @bcm-mstp.bsky.social student @chiraagkapadia.bsky.social for his first author paper out yesterday in Nature!

So great @chiraagkapadia.bsky.social ! Congrats to you and the whole team.

Right so we totally enjoyed a visit yesterday by the wonderful @beaudinlab.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social fabulous work and had so much fun that we forgot to take a picture!

Great story by @alejofraticelli.bsky.social lab— congrats! www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

Baylor College of Medicine MSTP hosted the south regional APSA @a-p-s-a.bsky.social conference on Friday, February 21. Kudos to the student organizers for a great turnout!

It’s King Cake season in the King lab— our longest standing tradition. Congrats to Belinda who got the baby!

The weather was cold today but Bryan was on fire! Congrats to the newest member of the lab on passing your qualifying exam! @bcmhouston.bsky.social @cagt.bsky.social

Tremendous honor to receive this award from @socpedresearch.bsky.social ! The past recipient list is truly amazing with many of my mentors and role models.

Congratulations to Dr. @thekinglab.bsky.social, the 2025 SPR Award in Honor of E. Mead Johnson recipient. This honor recognizes E. Mead Johnson's legacy of research excellence and impact on child health and is the most prestigious award presented by SPR. Read more: ow.ly/R16V50UX6MR

Grateful to nonprofits like @ash.hematology.org that create community and are standing up for scientists. www.hematology.org/advocacy/rea...

Thanks @signerlab.bsky.social for an awesome visit to UCSD today!

Receive research funding and mentorship from med/graduate school through mid-career with the #Hematology Inclusion Pathway! Submit a personal statement discussing the new or unique background or perspective you bring to hematology. Apply by 2/14 https://bit.ly/4hexNk7#Hematology #HemeSky #BloodSky

@bcmhouston.bsky.social Genetics retreat—- a tradition of great science! Lots of MSTP representation!

Really proud of our #MSTP students @bcmhouston.bsky.social for organizing this upcoming conference by and for students interested in a career as a physician scientist!

Love having @bloodgenes.bsky.social here for a Genetics seminar @bcmhouston.bsky.social inspiring and important work!

Having the lab holiday party in January is a fun way to extend the season! Wicked white elephant game 😳😆

Whaaat? That’s so kind of you @vangalenlab.bsky.social We loved doing this work and are excited about a follow up study soon to come!

Awww look what the admins got me for Christmas! Personalized and everything. @bcmhouston.bsky.social

Congrats to Belinda Candra on passing her qualifying exam with authority!! The balloon shop asked “is it a boy or a girl?” 😂 Happy to say the King Lab has a new girl today!! 💪🎉❤️

Great science and learning but what is #ASH most of all? Connecting with friends old and new.

Sunday Funday! After the #ASH24 run, dash over to SDCC room 7 to hear Arushana Maknojia discuss how the #microbiome supports #hematopoiesis.

Great science and great company at the CH and inflammation session!

My ASH is off to a great start as I got to share a flight with the one and only Malcolm Brenner. @cagt.bsky.social

This was so fun! Thanks to @albarmeira.bsky.social for being such a gracious interviewer 😍🌈😍