Come see our presidential keynote presentation from FOCIS President Ignacio Anegon in Salon 8! 📣📣 #Focis2026

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 Don’t miss the upcoming joint FOCIS & IUIS Virtual Symposium 💡 Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, New Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Options 📆 Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM (London); 10:00 - 11:30 AM (Chicago) Register now: zurl.co/7MGet

Rotation PhD student @emiliedevet.bsky.social in our lab made the Dish soap protocol work (on the first attempt) for a nuclear target with Dawn (the US version of dreft/fairy ) and thereby extended the dish soap protocol to a version for across the atlantic 🤩 @tothovalab.bsky.social #hemesky

Distinct EBV-Associated Phenotypes Due to a Novel Homozygous Missense Variant in CD27. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.698722v1

Together with @ronghuizhu.bsky.social, we are thrilled to present our new perturb-seq study of 22M primary CD4+ T cells, across donors and timepoints – the result of a decade-long collaboration between the Marson @marsonlab.bsky.social and Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social labs 🧵 tinyurl.com/gwt2025

Terrific to have our paper, led by @tjflemin.bsky.social, featured as a plenary article in @bloodjournal.bsky.social today: ashpublications.org/blood/articl...

🚨This week in @natcomms.nature.com: We resolve an enduring enigma in T cell biology—how TCR binding to p/HLA triggers intracellular signaling. CryoEM in native environment reveals a 'jack-in-the-box' mechanism! Collab btw @rockefeller.edu @mskcancercenter.bsky.social rdcu.be/eUPPl

Clinical development of gene edited tacrolimus-resistant Treg (FKBP12KO-Treg) to enable simultaneous immunosuppression and support of immune regulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693159v1

Original work here ⬇️, led by the inimitable Lorenzo Brunetti and Michael Gundry. This work became foundational in the field.

Today's the print release of a #RibackLab and #GoodellLab collaboration— we’re excited to share the visual story behind the science, including the dramatic artwork that inspired how we thought about aberrant function of NPM1c - which occurs in about 1 in 3 adult acute myeloid leukemias (#AML).

A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Our case report of a patient developing drug-induced systemic sclerosis after bleomycin exposure – still showing antibodies after 5 years. Nicely done Philipp 🎉 #rheumsky authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Extrusive and cohesive cohesin cooperate to repair double-strand breaks in DNA @science.org @albertomarin.bsky.social @gerlichlab.bsky.social @imbavienna.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big news! Our team developed Neuro-PERC, a non-viral CRISPR delivery platform for genome editing of the brain. In our new preprint - bit.ly/NeuroPERC_pre - we report efficient editing in multiple models & species, including field-first results in large animals (pigs) 🧵👇

On this #WorldAIDSday @cgaebler.bsky.social, Olaf Penack & teams at #CharitéBerlin report the #SecondBerlinPatient cured of #HIV after heterozygous CCR5Δ32 HSCT. The study opens exciting perspectives for immune-based #HIVCure strategies for longterm ART-free viral control and ultimately cure.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Adapting the 10x workflow to detect EBV reads, Younis et al show that EBV-transcribing B cells are increased in SLE patients, especially among CD27+CD21low B cells. They have autoreactive BCRs and are more poised for antigen-presentation. 2025 Sci Transl Med 🧪 ⑂ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What mechanisms drive checkpoint inhibitor-associated interstitial nephritis (ICI-AIN)? In our preprint, we identify CD8 T cells as a central player, inducing a proinflammatory myeloid cell state by IFNg and structuring lymphoid aggregates by CXCL13. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n #Nephsky 🧪

A monoclonal antibody that inhibits the shedding of CD16a and CD16b and promotes antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity against tumors @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/10) How do diverse leukemia mutations converge on the same molecular program? In #RibackLab first manuscript @cp-cell.bsky.social, collaboration with @goodell-lab.bsky.social shows that disparate mutations rewire shared protein networks to form nuclear condensates called C-bodies.

Ubiquitinylation is more complex than just a signal for proteasomal degradation: Linear ubiquitinylation of Methionine-1 is important for NFkB signalling. LOF of the Deubiquitinylase OTULIN leads to an autoinflammatory disease with a TNF positive feedback loop. 🧪 ⑂ 1/2

Ever noticed that #CRISPR editing results differ between cells? Awesome PhD student Moritz Schlapansky developed "scOUT-seq" to measure single cell transcriptomes + editing. 1.2 million cells, 74 cell types, living 🐭. Cell subtypes differ wildly from bulk average! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new subspecialty takes off! Astroimmunology is focused on the effects of #spaceflight on the #immunesystem and defines avenues for countermeasures. A bonus: the work will also inform research on #aging @natrevimmunol.nature.com evimmunol.nature.com www.buckinstitute.org/news/a-hitch...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

What is a promoter? And how does it work? We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility. I am very excited about the results of @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social, which changed the way I think about promoters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honored to be part of the 2025 #STATWunderkinds! Grateful for the many supportive mentors, colleagues, and friends with special shoutout to @bkleinstiver.bsky.social. Full list: www.statnews.com/wunderkinds/ @statnews.com @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

“ ‘Off the shelf’ Treg may soon be… on the shelf. “ - awesome quote by Prof. Fadi Issa. Check out our new story: 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... One week after the Nobel prize for Treg 🍀

“Good things take time” Allogeneic Treg do not prevent their own rejection in immunocompetent hosts - HLA matching or HLA editing required for optional function! A beautiful collaboration with Fadi Issa & Joanna Hester’s team @ox.ac.uk. @dlwagnerlabs.bsky.social

HLA matching or CRISPR editing HLA-I/II enables engraftment & function of allo human Treg therapy in a humanized mouse transplantation model @natcomms.nature.com @dlwagner.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@dlwagnerlabs.bsky.social on tour! 🌍🇩🇪🇺🇸 We had a great time at the Annual Congress of the European Society for Gene and Cell Therapy #ESGCT2025 in Sevilla. 🇪🇸 Super proud of everyone who presented their projects & grateful for working with this amazing team: science and good vibes! 🧬🧪💙

Accurate. #academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

TCR activation impairs CAR-T cytotoxicity against separate target cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680634v1

Our team is on their way to the ESGCT conference 2025! Excited for this upcoming week full of science, talks, and inspiring discussions with the cell & gene therapy community! Starting with the HDR workshop - talks by Isabell (‘one-pot’ PASTA) & Viktor (BEKI) + posters by Ana, Lily, Jonas and Laura

Excited to share our preprint📯: We introduce #IntegrateALL, an open-source RNA-seq pipeline for interpretable molecular diagnostics in acute lymphoblastic leukemia!🧬 Big thanks to Nadine Wolgast & team @ www.uksh.de , catchall-kfo5010.com! See: doi.org/p7k5 and 🧵

Big shoutout to the whole group who made #IntegrateALL possible - especially @alinamh.bsky.social, Thomas Beder and Claudia Baldus at www.catchall-kfo5010.com

Potentiating CAR-T bystander killing by enhanced Fas/FasL signaling mitigates antigen escape in heterogeneous tumors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677496v1

Check out one of our latest stories about combining our non viral knock-in strategy with integrases for an efficient, targeted integration of transgenes >8kb in human T cells! ‘One-pot’ PASTA: programmable and site specific transgene addition - all in just one reaction 🫕

This has been such a great collaboration with @dlwagnerlabs.bsky.social! You really need to check it out One-pot PASTA 🍝 - a one-step protocol to knock-in large transgenes. I feel tempted to think about one-pot PIZZA 🍕 next! First authors Isabell and @therealjonaskath.bsky.social were amazing!!

Super-large targeted Knock-Ins in primary T cells, with multigene inserts >8kb, in a single reaction. HOW?? 🙀 Combine simple CRISPR-HDR & Integrases for one-pot PASTA🍝 = Programmable And Site-specific Transgene Addition. 😎

You like engineering T cells, but you are missing the right flavor? Check out 'one-pot' PASTA recipe 🔥🍝: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675267v1 We combined a unique mix of CRISPR knock-in with serine integrases for easy-to-adopt 𝐏rogrammable 𝐀nd 𝐒ite-specific 𝐓ransgene 𝐀ddition 🧪

🚀 In preparation for releasing two new stories, @therealjonaskath.bsky.social is revisiting the journey so far—sharing the lab’s last six papers. What a ride it’s been… 🙌🧬🧪🧫

🚨 Paper alert! "Next-gen multiplex-edited CAR-NK cells: more edits, more power?" @jitc @bmj.com With @dlwagner.bsky.social we discuss Wang et al.’s landmark paper on multiplex base-edited non-viral CAR-NK cells. Promising efficiency but safety challenges! jitc.bmj.com/content/13/9...

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells can transition to become cDC2s under to influence of TNF, while type-I interferon reduces TNFR expression and thereby inhibits transition. These transitioned cDC2 seem fully functional. 🧪 ⑂ Hornero et al 2025 in Nat Immunol www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23 tools to work with (single-cell) TCR/BCR-seq immune repertoire data 🧵 👇

Doomscrolling pause to chat CRISPR libraries! Preprint describes our new, data-driven approach to combine on-target and off-target predictions much more intelligently for *selecting* guides, which we use to develop our newest Cas9 knockout library, Jacquere. Thread: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Horisberger et al separate Lupus nephritis patients in 3 groups by blood: healthy-like, interferon-dominant and CD8 T cell-dominant. The CD8 T cell-dominant group had the highest biopsy activity score and highest response rate after 1 year; the healthy-like the most chronic damage. 🧪 ⑂ #NephSky 1/

A synonymous mitochondrial variant is negatively selected against in short-lived CD8 effectors – How? The variant changes tRNA pairing from Watson-Crick-Franklin to wobble, thereby reducing translational efficiency in high energy demand. 🧪 ⑂ Lareau et al – 2025 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 First-ever FOCIS Journal Club! 🎓 Blood Immunophenotyping Identifies Distinct Kidney Histopathology and Outcomes in Patients with Lupus Nephritis 🗓️ Oct 13 | 🕚 11 AM CT 🎤 Dr. Rao & Dr. Horisberger 💥 FREE for all! (Non-members need code)

So accurate, it hurts