Our article “INNO-LiPA DNA line probe assay misidentification of M. smegmatis as Mycobacterium fortuitum complex” is now online in the ‘Article in Press‘ section of DMID.
Poster presentation at FOCIS, Boston.
I will be presenting my research at the FOCIS conference in Boston, entitled ‘Autoreactivity Supports the Maintenance and Active Participation of Wild-type B cells in the Germinal Center’ (W.67).
The poster presentation will be on Wednesday June 19 from 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM in Salon E.
The full program can be found here
Journal of Life Sciences (JoLS)
JoLS, a Journal of Life Sciences, is getting launched on June 1st 2019. JoLS is a postdoc community initiative and will be the first ever journal to be exclusively run and managed by postdocs! JoLS will provide postdocs the opportunity to obtain experience in reviewing, editing, managing, advising, and writing.
JoLS will provide professional peer-reviewed open access publications within the wide thematic scope of life science including all sub-disciplines.
The website is still under construction, http://www.journaloflifesciences.org/, but will soon be fully operational.
Feel free to spread the message among your post-docs and hang or hand-out our Flyer at your institute.
Peer reviewer – Medicine®
Peer reviewer for the journal Medicine® responsible for reviewing original (clinical ) immunology focused articles.
HIV Cure Breaking News item
With great interest I’ve read the recent publication in Nature describing HIV remission following CCR5Δ32/32 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), for the 2nd time. In this case a less toxic treatment regime was used in contrast to the 1st patient (‘Berlin patient’) ~10 years ago, who almost died from the treatment. It further shows that the ‘Berlin patient’ was not an anomaly and HIV cure can be achieved after allo-HSCT. A step closer to finding a cure for HIV.
I briefly highlighted this new finding in a breaking news item on Immunopaedia, promoting immunology education worldwide.
Completed Introduction to -omics Course
Online course (4-month) about the scope, analysis, and challenges of omics research, by Harvard Catalyst.
“Introduction to Omics Research is an online course designed to give participants an introduction to the principles, analytical methods, and challenges of omics research. The scope of the omics field will be explored, which includes genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. This course will touch upon the need for a foundational understanding of managing large omics datasets as these skills have become imperative for researchers in biology and medicine.”
Poster presentation at Keystone
On February 13, poster session 3, I will present my poster entitled: ‘Autoreactivity supports the maintenance and active participation of wild-type B cells in the germinal center‘ [number: 3028].
Happy to discuss our newest research findings with you on distilling the mechanisms of epitope spreading .
You can find the full program of the Keystone conference on ‘B Cell-T Cell Interactions’ here
Immunopaedia Ambassador
I started as an ambassador of Immunopaedia, promoting immunology education. This is a non-profit educational organization which aims to promote cutting edge knowledge and research in basic and clinical immunology worldwide. They create and host online courses in partnership with the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and other bodies. These courses educate and support participants and students before and after Immunology conferences and courses world-wide.
My Ambassador profile.
Board member Harvard Medical Postdoc Association
Starting as a member of the Harvard Medical Postdoc Association, committee of Professional development. Working towards improving and increasing the capabilities of postdocs through providing access to education and training opportunities, by organizing workshops focused on developing skills in writing grants, resumes and job applications, among others.
Completed the ‘Scientists Teaching Science’ Course
Just successfully completed the Harvard Medical School “Scientists Teaching Science” course.
This 9 week online course teaches about active learning, creating course objectives and test items, and improving your teaching, assessment, and communication techniques for students of all ages. It involves learning the best practices in science education, based on the latest research on teaching and learning used by model instructors around the world.
A great course that I would highly recommend to anybody interested in teaching or improving their teaching skills.
Link to the course: https://postdoc.hms.harvard.edu/STS-course
