#WeekendRead! #InterferonFriendOrFoe? @jeffdowney11.bsky.social @filswirski.bsky.social &co show @cp-immunity.bsky.social that upon severe flu lung infection, IAV is transported to the heart by DCs, where it infects cardiomyocytes to drive IFN-I, causing cardiac dysfunction! doi.org/10.1016/j.im...

Influenza hijacks myeloid cells to inflict type-I interferon-fueled damage in the heart @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful... @jeffdowney11.bsky.social @filswirski.bsky.social

We are proud to announce that five CVRI faculty members - Fil Swirski (@filswirski.bsky.social), Mandy van Leent, Cameron McAlpine (@mcalpinelab.bsky.social), Maria Noval, and Sikander Hayat - will be presenting their groundbreaking work at Atherosclerosis GRC this Friday, June 27th.

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Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec? Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together! www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

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absolutely devastating — i feel incredibly grateful to have had you as a coach and you will be missed dearly, Sasha 🤍

My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful. It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen

very excited to share the last chunk of my PhD work, now available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! in this work, we explore how cis-regulatory variation and gene-environment (GxE) interactions influence immune response diversity directly in a cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients 1/n