Our virtual #immunology Open House is already next week Nov 24! We welcome all to join 🌍🌎 at any stage of training to hear about our dept & from faculty recruiting, incl me!😀 Current trainees will also be there to answer Qs about UM, Winnipeg etc! To register: www.cognitoforms.com/UniversityOf...

The #SanterLab just turned 5 years old! 🎂🥳 This past yr had grants x3💰, a MSc grad🎓, new lab members🥼, studentships to grad students🌟, many fun conferences✈️, plenty of data📊 , mentorship & outreach & more! Cheers to more fun & discoveries & super thankful to all who have been part of the team! 🥂🙏🏻

What a great #Cytokines2025 meeting! Caught up with many #IFN scientists, made multiple new connections, had fun giving a talk & great to see those from UW Immunology all these years later. Always my fav conference 😀🥳 Thanks to all the organizers!🙏🏻 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social

#Cytokines2025 has begun- looking forward to a few days of networking, especially with #IFN friends from outside 🇨🇦 when it has been too long 😀 Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎 #Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social

Busy last few weeks with Italy pediatric IBD conference, chairing local equity symposium & now off to Seattle for #Cytokines2025! I haven't been able to attend the last 2yrs so excited to chat with fellow #IFN enthusiasts & give a talk 🥳 + always nice to visit where I did my PhD when not back often

Happy Halloween from the Santer Lab! 🦥👻🎃🍬

📢🥳 The #SanterLab is recruiting to have new people join the #IFN fun! With #CIHR & other 💰: 1) joint tech with Dr Thomas Murooka for more of an immediate start - see umanitoba.ca/careers/ #41169 2) #Immunology PhD student 3) Postdoctoral fellow Please see our Google lab website + dept website 😀

Congrats to Olamide on her successful #Immunology MSc defense today! 🎉🥳 She was the 1st member of the #SanterLab as a co-op student, to then tech & now MSc. I couldn't have got the lab going without her. Thank u Olamide for choosing my lab & all your dedication to #IFNL research!🙏🏻

Happy #CanadaDay!🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud to be Canadian & lucky to live & work here 😀😀😀

Abstract submitted & looking forward to getting back to regular #Cytokines meeting attendance after missing the last 2 yrs!! Deadline now extended to June 30. I hope to see many #IFN friends there too🥳 Bonus that visiting Seattle where my academic research career began with my #Immunology PhD 😀

So 💔 to hear what has happened & will continue to happen to 🇺🇸 medical research. For anyone who thinks 🇨🇦 is a possibility-we are recruiting a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair with 7yrs guaranteed funding + poss renewal + salary guaranteed & my lab is recruiting an #Immunology PhD student and/or post doc

It was a hot one 🥵☀️ at the Winnipeg #GutsyWalk, but amazing to hear almost $100k was raised 👏🏻👏🏻 Super proud of our team raising >$1300 too!🌟 Thanks to all who supported our team & Crohns & Colitis Canada🙏🏻 My lab is very thankful to be supported by a CCC grant that is only possible with donations🔬🥼

Great message here for #WorldIBDDay - awareness so key plus supporting research & IBD charities 🇨🇦 also has one of the highest incidence rates of IBD! We are thankful for Crohns and Colitis Canada & #CIHR grant support to study ulcerative colitis #immunology to identify new therapeutic targets🙏🏻

#HappyMothersDay to all moms and special shoutout to fellow #scienceMoms & #academicMoms who balance it all as best they can 🥳🎉🥂🌷 #luckymomof2boys

Great lab meeting today welcoming co-op undergraduate student Junel for his summer work term & celebrating some great news Testimony (PhD student) received recently 🥳🥳🎉🎉 Lots of fun #IFNL work planned for the rest of 2025 😀😀😀 #newlabgroupphoto

Excited to announce our newest #Immunology recruitment 🎉🥳 This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)🇨🇦, a position that isnt offered often when 7yr term incl full salary (+renewable)! Please share widely when broad immunology focus. Happy to answer any dept Q & note date 👇 @umanitoba.bsky.social

1 final call to add signatures or to contact your local MLAs and PM Mark Carney. We need better investments in 🇨🇦 research when underfunded for so long. Will the PM commit to a significant tri-council 💰 ⬆️!? Please read & sign if ur a 🇨🇦 researcher at any stage of your career that agrees we need >$ 👇👇

Happy International #DayofImmunology!🥳🎉 I am currently 🛫 & will visit McMaster for the 1st time tomorrow to present in their Infection & Immunity seminar series 😀 🙏🏻 to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the invite Looking forward to chatting science & presenting a couple stories from our #IFNL projects

Fun times at #CSI2025 with 🇨🇦 immunologists! 23 attendees from our #immunology dept at @umanitoba.bsky.social this year 🥳🎉 Happy to join the local organizing committee for #CSI2026 😀 in Winnipeg with Chair Dr. Thomas Murooka

Great to see the letter started by my ECR colleagues at UManitoba gaining some traction with 860 signatures! But we need a lot more to show how important research funding is in 🇨🇦 when the election is fast approaching. See below & consider signing if ur prof, trainee, clinician or staff in 🇨🇦 👇👇👇

Exciting month ahead for networking! 🥳🛫 Today I'm off to Toronto for a GSK Research Summit bringing together GSK chairs from across 🇨🇦, then #CSI2025 #immunology conference in Gatineau, then Apr30 I visit McMaster for the 1st time! Thks to @koenigjfe.bsky.social for the seminar invite😀

I'm honoured to be a Science Co-op supervisor of the year!🙏🏻😀 I have mentored 7 @umanitoba.bsky.social co-op undergrads thus far & all have been a pleasure to work with- whether est. new protocols or getting 😎 #IFNL data! Thank you to Cedric for the nomination & kind words🙏🏻 #luckyPI

A reminder to me right now & all in the lab... just get writing! 👩‍💻👨‍💻 Make outlines, break down larger tasks & set deadlines whether thesis, studentship or, in my case, promotion/tenure app + paper edits/submissions! 📝👩‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... My current to-do list is getting crazy again....

Amazing night last night celebrating magnificent women at UManitoba 🥳♀️- organized by UM Women's centre! Very honoured to receive a 2025 Woman in Health Sciences award. Promoting & mentoring #womeninscience have been a passion of mine for 15+yrs. 🙏🏻 to my nominators Congrats to all awardees!🌟👏🏻🎉

Very thankful that another Murooka/Santer lab project was funded 3 weeks later for our #CIHR Catalyst grant with Dr Ali Ashkar as fellow coPI & coA @annablakney.bsky.social expanding on #IFNL #antiviral effects in the STBBI field. Super excited to work with this awesome team across 3 universities🥳🙌

Happy #IDWGS2025! 👩‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬 A day I happily share with my birthday🎂 Let's continue to promote #womeninSTEM! I ❤️ working with our awesome #WISDOM group here at UManitoba & the #SCWIST Quantum Leaps program plus I am lucky to work with great women in my lab & across @umanitoba.bsky.social

Officially official 🥳🎉🥂 5yr #CIHR grant celebrations today with #SanterLab & Murooka lab who also got their grant (as co-I some #IFNL too 😉) #IBD #IFNs #immunology So thankful to our co-Is, collabs & all in our lab + #sisterlab who worked hard to help get this funded🙏🏻 @umanitoba.bsky.social

Annual #sisterlab planning retreat at the local Nordik spa was a success ☺️❄️🩱 -7°C/20°F outside not bad at all 😉 @drharmstrong.bsky.social

#BIW2025 has ended, but many great memories. The science in presentations/posters was awesome, but the networking & seeing old friends & meeting new #inflammation researchers made the trip even better 😀 Thanks to the organizers 🙏🏻 & thanks to all who provided the entertainment last night too 🎸🎹🎤🎶

A great day at #BIW2025 with such a range of topics bringing together multiple fields 🎉 Poster session still to go... Microbiome, antibiotics in ICU, sepsis, colorectal cancer, NK cells, lung diseases, gdT cells, phage therapy, extracellular vesicles, circadian rhythms, colitis and more!

Not escaping the cold🥶, but excited to now travel to Banff🏔 for the 2025 Banff Inflammation Workshop🥳🛫 First time attending & the program looks great! I also decided to go back to my trainee days & present a poster on our #IFN #IBD work spearheaded by MSc student Olamide w/ many collabs 😀 #BIW2025

Current #immunology lab openings now on our lab website for how to apply as post doc or PhD student 🥳 sites.google.com/view/thesant... Interest in #interferons is a requirement! Just ignore the news area lol Many 2024 good news to update incl grants, studentships, talks, etc when I find time! 😀

With recent 💰, we are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow & an #immunology PhD student to start this year! We have 1 summer undergrad position open too. Sadly, our university is not reviewing international student apps due to permit cuts. See here for the current team: sites.google.com/view/thesant...

New #IFNL publication answering some key Qs about the enigma that is #IFNL4. Great work by Mendoza lab et al 🥂👏🏻 Cytokines 2025 is far away in Nov, but @ramlabuw.bsky.social we should really have an #IFNL satellite symposium again🤞Hawaii was fun & I see ur a co-chair... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CIHR grant results day & so excited to see we will be funded for our #IFNL #immunology #IBD 5yr grant! Very thankful to coAs, those in the lab who got key new data + multiple people who spent the time to provide critiques to really improve the grant. Still in shock, but 🥳🥳😀😀🎉🎉

If you are female PhD faculty in #GIresearch ( #basicscience or #translational), we invite you to join WINGS, Women Innovating in Gastrointestinal Science, a community for career development, mentorship & networking. Please fill out the form on our website and RT! bit.ly/4fHBWfj #GISky #Gastrosky

We are excited to welcome Jane to the #SanterLab who is starting her #Immunology MSc degree 🥳🎉 She recently finished her BSc Microbiology (co-op) degree at UManitoba with work experience at the JC Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre. Now a soon to be #interferon & #IBD expert 😉

If only my fortune cookie🥠 message was guaranteed to come true as a successful #grant decision letter this month... 😉🤞🤞

I hope 2025 brings the same engagement here as #ScienceTwitter used to be🤞🤞 #TwitterWrapped nicely summarized my Twitter account 👇👇 Not surprising to see #science #research #IFNs #SanterLab as a focus + of course #scicomm 🥳😀👩‍🔬

#MerryChristmas 🎄🎅🎁 to all those celebrating today! After an exciting morning for especially our kids, we are now enjoying good food, 🏈, & just hanging out 😀

#HappyHolidays from the #SanterLab! 🥳🎅🎄 We had a great yearly event today with wonderful food, company & fun gift exchange 🎁 Thanks to Angela in the #Immunology office for her creative decorations this time of year, including a #sisterlab group photo 🙏🏻 @drharmstrong.bsky.social

Another wonderful year of #womeninscience mentors & mentees learning from each other through the WISDOM #mentorship program!! 🥳🥂 Almost 100 women participated in just the 2nd yr of the program 🤯 All from Winnipeg🇨🇦 Shout out to Courtney & all the trainees who worked so hard to make this happen! 🙏🏻🌟👏🏻

Had fun today giving a seminar describing our past 4yrs of research from the #SanterLab from #COVID19 to #immunoregulation to #IBD, with a common theme of #IFNs 😀🥳 There were ups & downs, but many great memories so far. Thanks to my awesome team & colleagues, funders + many collabs 🙏🏻

The #SanterLab tried a printable #escaperoom for some #teambuilding today! The clues were related to the movie Home Alone🎄 👏🏻🌟to everyone for solving the various riddles as a nice break from lab, experiment planning & data analysis 😀

Finally giving a seminar to my own #immunology dept next week Dec 5 🥳 Now while it is in-person only in Winnipeg🇨🇦 so some here cannot join, I am happy to chat about #IFNs & esp #IFNLs anytime! #interferosky 😊 @um-radyfhs.bsky.social

❤️ this group of papers! Excelling in research is hard work & sometimes u will fail or feel a bit stupid & that is ok😀 Be sure to lean on friends, colleagues & supportive #mentors. 👇👇 #PhD #Immunology #academicsky

Excited to meet prospective trainees interested in #immunology at our Annual Virtual Open House *Nov 25, 3pm central time* 🥳🎉 All are welcome🌎🌏🌍 Various profs with openings (student/postdoc) will have breakout rooms + current students are happy to answer Qs. RSVP soon & plz share with others 😀

Thanks for making this @drnicolecampbell.bsky.social ! We all have our favorite #IFN & Type III #IFNLs are still my fav 🥳 #TeamIFN #immunosky #immunology @cytokinesociety.bsky.social

Wow I can't keep up with all the new followers over a few days so maybe #immunosky will make it!? 🤞😄 Will liking/reposting ⬆️? #sciencetwitter made it easy to find the latest #immunology #virology #IBD etc papers, meet awesome researchers (to eventually see some in-person!) & share our lab good news!

Adding this to my #readinglist 🤔📚 IFN-epsilon is such a neat #IFN with pioneering work by Dr Paul Hertzog! 😀