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@vaughandy

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Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My lab does “lung stuff.” Opinions are only mine so chill.

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@vaughandy
Andy Vaughan also on bluesky
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For the love of God people just do some experiments, enough with the single cell seq atlases
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Biggest tells for a PI’s age: >40, double spaces after periods in manuscripts. >60, comic sans font in keynote lectures.
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I just received notification of my promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure. I am beyond grateful to stay on here at Penn and keep working with such wonderful colleagues. Most importantly, this would not have happened without my wonderful lab members. They are the best!
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This one took a lot of work and patience on the backend, but very happy to confirm our second R01 for the Vaughan lab. Thanks to everyone in my lab (especially @zhao_gan who is the primary driver of this arm of our work)!
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Very happy to share our new paper in @ScienceAdvances in which we explore repair of the lung's blood vessels after influenza injury. Extremely proud of first author @zhao_gan for his incredible work. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Absolutely thrilled to share @aaiweiner 's thesis work from my lab, out now in @CellReports ! In short, loss of the transcription factor p63 increases the ability of basal cells to transdifferentiate into alveolar cells. (1/2)
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4 years
Truly honored to be featured in Cell Stem Cell with this amazing group of early career scientists.
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Excited to share that our paper on injury-induced lung tuft cells is out now in @eLife ! This is the fruit of an awesome collaboration with @lab_xin . Congratulations to the all authors, especially co-first authors @barrjamie and Marilena Gentile! (1/2)
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@vaughandy
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A very heart congratulations to Joanna Wong, my second PhD student, for receiving an excellent score on her F31! On the first try!! Co-mentored by @MorriseyLab . Look for great things from her in the near future! Unfortunately her dog Athena’s grant was not discussed.
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New study from our lab finally out, led by the amazing @zhao_gan ! We discovered that injured lung endothelial cells secrete SPARCL1, a protein which makes macrophages very angry. And @nualameyer showed this tracks with mortality in COVID-19!
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@vaughandy
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4 years
DO NOT TRY TO MAIL YOUR BALLOTS. Take to a designated drop box.
@PhillyInquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
4 years
USPS says Pennsylvania mail ballots may not be delivered on time, and state warns of ‘overwhelming’ risk to voters
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Wow, big day for the Vaughan lab. @aaiweiner successfully defended his thesis! Honestly he killed it. All of the lab’s successes are due exclusively to the hard work and perseverance of the lab members, and Aaron exemplified that today!
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Excited to share @zhao_gan and @Lulu_Xuee 's amazing work out today in Science Translational Medicine! This was a highly collaborative project with @MJMitchell_Lab and also great assists from @MorriseyLab , @MariaCBasil , and many others. Hope you enjoy!
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Very happy to share what were, for me anyway, some quite surprising findings about X inactivation and sex differences in gene expression in the alveolar epithelium. A really fun collaboration with @montserrat 's lab!!
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Vaughan Lab representing at the Penn Lung Biology Institute symposium today! Many thanks to @MariaCBasil and Twitterless Jeremy Katzen for organizing. @aaiweiner @zhao_gan
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Happy to share our latest paper from @zhao_gan and @Lulu_Xuee , this time out in PNAS. Another great collab with @MJMitchell_Lab ! Precision treatment of viral pneumonia through macrophage-targeted lipid nanoparticle delivery | PNAS
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@vaughandy
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Holy crap I should say yes to this review request right?!?
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Beyond thrilled to be a small part of this study, currently featured on the STM front page ! Congrats to Nilam Mangalmurti and Metthew Lam, and the rest of the cool co-author crew including @SunnyShinLab @KingOfPathogens @aaiweiner and many others
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Just noting that the acronym “APC” refers to way too many totally different entities in biology…
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Congratulations to Joanna Wong, who just unanimously, unconditionally passed her prelim exam! Very happy to have her in @lab_vaughan as an official PhD Candidate. Look forward to awesome things from her!
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Pretty gosh darned jazzed to find this sweet 70s Japanese tele clone in a free pile in West Philly. It sounds shockingly great without any work at all!
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Thrilled to share our collaborative story with @lab_xin , led by the incredible @barrjamie and Marilena Gentile. Lung tuft cells are enigmatic little guys, and many of the rules they follow in the intestine don't seem to matter much in the lung! And a big assist from @KotasMaya
@biorxivpreprint
bioRxiv
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Injury-induced pulmonary tuft cells are heterogenous, arise independent of key Type 2 cytokines, and are dispensable for dysplastic repair #bioRxiv
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If this doesn't convince academic institutions to revamp the ideas of tenure track and research track, I don't know what will.
@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó ( @kkariko ) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her
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The best department retreat co-chairs a guy could ask for ⁦ @montserrat ⁩ ⁦ @TheModzLab
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Vaughan lab out celebrating TWO accepted papers from @zhao_gan !
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Inspiring words in support of @GETUPgrads from @SunnyShinLab !! Thrilled that grad students are about to solidify their collective bargaining power and insure the grad school experience is better for future classes! With an umbrella assist from @SaraKGMD
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Lab photo while celebrating @aaiweiner ‘s birthday!
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I wasn’t allowed to attend (trainee only session) but word on the street is that @zhao_gan just gave a stellar talk for the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Research and Translation meeting! Way to represent the Vaughan lab Dr. Zhao!
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I'm very, very sick of unending single cell transcriptome atlases being published at top tier journals. I'm equally flabbergasted by people who claim single cell seq is a useless technique / hasn't enabled any fundamentally new discoveries.
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Come be my new colleague! Our sister department (Pathobiology) is hiring a new tenure-track professor to study pathogens (your choice!) and immune responses to them. Applications are only accepted until Dec 1 so hurry!
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Iceland is an incredible place
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Great lab hang last night! @aaiweiner @SaraKGMD @zhao_gan and the others not on Twitter
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Great dinner with our invited speaker and new Mt. Sinai assistant professor Jaymin Kathiriya, along with the cool kids ⁦ @MariaCBasil ⁩ ⁦ @WestPhillyTough ⁩ and Shaon Sengupta
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@vaughandy
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Made a new lab web site!
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Hey out there, I'm still looking for a postdoc interested in figuring out what the hell tuft cells are doing in the lung after respiratory viral injury... Shoot me a DM if interested! Some immunology background would be very helpful.
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Thrilled that the second @lab_vaughan grad student Joanna was just awarded the Cell and Molecular Biology T32 training grant!
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@vaughandy
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Unfortunately I had the same reaction to Dr. Magill’s message. I’m puzzled why the university can’t forcefully condemn Hamas terrorism and antisemitism while simultaneously expressing concern for innocent Palestinian people.
@Will_Bunch
Will Bunch
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What is happening at the University of Pennsylvania right now is deeply disturbing -- a complete erasure of the Palestinian community and backpedaling away from academic freedom to satisfy billionaire donors
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Congrats to @aaiweiner of @lab_vaughan for receiving his official Notice of Award for an F31 Fellowship!!
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Most PIs worth their salt would LOVE to pay trainees more, and of course it’s also true that R01 budgets are limited. The solution here seems really obvious but it’s going to require a big shift in how the public values federal funding for the NIH / NSF.
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My department is hiring a new assistant professor! "Candidates with interests in stem cell biology, regenerative medicine and cancer biology in particular, are encouraged to apply"
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"Trustees who neither understand nor respect the purpose of the university and who threaten its educational and research mission should not govern these institutions." 👏👏👏
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@vaughandy
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4 years
Is there some kind of an award for saving democracy? Give it to Stacey Abrams.
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Super proud of my Twitter-less wife Dr. Kastner for matching into her #1 fellowship choice @CooperADMF !!
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Way to make me feel real old CAMB graduate group! I feel like I just defended my own thesis yesterday 😭. But I am SUPER EXCITED for everyone to hear about Aaron's amazing thesis work on Monday, plus beer and fallafel afterwards!
@CAMBUpenn
CAMB Graduate Group
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Aaron Weiner @aaiweiner from the Vaughan lab @vaughandy defends on Monday!
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My three favorite grad students: Tenley, Athena, and Pachi. Unfortunately I’m pretty sure they’re on track to fail prelims
@PennEpiInst
Penn Epigenetics
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What’s the best way to boost morale when you work at @pennvet ? Get a puppy! @montserrat got a puppy, and now there’s 5 dogs on the 3rd floor office areas. Stay tuned for pet photos all day today!
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Congrats to two of my third floor @pennvet neighbors, @BrodskyIgor and @DeBroski1 , on their promotions to full professor!
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Yesterday’s @CAMBUpenn DSRB retreat was an absolute blast. Hard to imagine a better group of grad students and faculty than these weirdos!
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I am very excited to share that my department at Penn is recruiting new tenure-track faculty! We are especially interested in those working in embryonic and adult stem cell biology as well as tissue regeneration and repair.
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Days like today really reinforce how lucky I am to have such amazing faculty colleagues in Biomedical Sciences at Penn Vet!
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Beautiful spring day in Philly
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We are hiring! Looking for the next great research technician to help push forward our work in lung repair. Folks at various experience levels considered if they're the right person for the job!
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Congrats to rock star Vaughan Lab and @CAMBUpenn PhD student Nick Holcomb for passing his prelim with flying colors!! Super excited for the science this guy is doing!
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Super proud of my incredibly talented wife Dr. Kastner for finishing her addiction medicine fellowship, recognized at the ACAAM ceremony tonight!
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3 years
Lab lunch @renatas_kitchen . Delicious as always and >50% chicken and waffles.
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Hao is such a terrific science communicator. Thanks for highlighting @zhao_gan ’s recent preprint!
@HaoYin20
Hao Yin
1 year
#Angiocrine in acute viral lung injury+regeneration🤠 🫁General capillary #EndothelialCell SPARCL1, ⏫by influenza inflection, favors macrophage M1 over M2 polarization to exacerbate viral pneumonia Dr. Andrew Vaughan lab bioRxiv 2023 @vaughandy
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Hike up Snow’s mountain at @GRClung2021
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Thank you soooo much for everyone who worked so hard to get this fascist out of the White House!!!! Lots of work to do but THANK GOD for this CRITICAL first step!!!!!
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Holy crap! A colleague just told me my face is on the cover of the current issue of Cell Stem Cell. Turns out here's right, middle right edge here: . Thanks a ton to @j_saxe for including me with all these amazing junior investigators!
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My lab is way too nice to me! Twin Peaks socks and a pooping dogs calendar!
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Beautiful morning at the Penn encampment. Great place to get some grant work done and show solidarity for students’ right to protest
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@PhillyMayor Why isn’t it being outright cancelled?
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Fantastic lab outing floating down the Brandywine today with @lab_vaughan @aaiweiner @zhao_gan and the other not on Twitter. Highly recommend!
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@CterminiPhD I will push back a tiny bit on this and say that many new / newish PIs I know continue to have a hard time recruiting postdocs in spite of extensive outreach, paying for ads, recruiting at meetings, etc. Maybe not your intent but no reason to minimize the difficulty.
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Very happy to have been a contributor to this manuscript, in which Dr. Nilam Mangalmurti and her team identify an entirely novel, and super important, function of red blood cells! with @KingOfPathogens @SunnyShinLab
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Celebrating fellowship match at Via Locusta!
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Phone banking again, talked to a young guy planning to vote for Biden who DIDNT KNOW TUESDAY IS ELECTION DAY🤯.
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#WalterWallace was murdered by police blocks from my house. Had this been a white man going through a mental health crisis in the suburbs, does anyone doubt he would be alive today?
@HKlusaritz
Heather Klusaritz
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To all my @PennMedicine and @Penn colleagues, do not go about your days without acknowledging the killing of #WalterWallaceJr . Our students, colleagues, patients, friends, and families are hurting #SayHisName . Talk about how we can fight for racial justice.
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Had a fantastic time at the Celebration of NHLBI Progenitor Cell Research and Translation. Really proud of the great work presented by the amazing Vaughan lab members @SaraKGMD , Joanna, Marilena, and Gan (who already got his own tweet).
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VACCINATED BABY!! Joanna and Gargi of ⁦ @lab_vaughan ⁩ plus myself (not pictured). That’s about half the lab!
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Officially signed up to work the polls on Election Day! Beginning my second career as a voting machine inspector
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Official ballot drop off achieved! Heartened to see it relatively bustling >1 month out from Election Day.
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Can we please come together as a nation and agree to take a week off zoom meetings?
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Honestly humbled to attend this meeting with many of the true pioneers in tuft cell biology. Come join us in Germany in August!
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Tata @Tatalab_Duke kicking ass as usual. Human lung stem cell-based alveolospheres provide insights into SARS-CoV-2 mediated interferon responses and…
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@MariaCBasil from @MorriseyLab presenting her fantastic work at the NHLBI Celebration of Progenitor Cell Research
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Had a great time in Oakland at #IVBM2022 , and was able to carve out time to bike around and check in on some of the ol’ stomping grounds. Lots of changes but lots of classics holding steady!
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Back in Seattle, doing this tomorrow morning
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This beautiful paper nicely complements work from @Ian_Stancil , providing further evidence that dysplastic “basal-like” cells can directly drive fibrosis in vitro… AND orthotopic xenografts of human basal cells into mildly injured immunocompromised mice results in fibrosis!
@KaminskiMed
Naftali Kaminski
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1/n FINALLY OUT! "Airway basal cells show a dedifferentiated KRT17⬆️ Phenotype & promote fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis" In the following 🧵I explain some of the key findings of this Herculean work and why I'm so excited #CureIPF #IPFABC
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Stressful work day negated by this totally unprompted, amazing gift from my wife!!
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This is not a very nice thing to say, but I’m compelled: even if Biden wins, there is something profoundly broken in many, many Americans’ brains and it’s hard to fully comprehend what this portends for the future.
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Patiently awaiting Molly’s fav band Queens of the Stone Age @orangefeeling
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@cterminiPHD Buy 10x more tips / tubes / etc than you think you need with the startup discount. It will seem insane when you receive it and then you’ll go through it all in 6 months
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FWIW, I was briefly on local news today talking a little about COVID-19 and some of the work we're starting... very glitchy but anyway
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Man alive, sometimes it really hits ya how absolutely nuts it is that luck of the draw for reviewer assignments is the major determinant of what papers end up in what journals… A really unfair scenario for trainees 😕
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Single cell seq is very useful. It is also obviously not applicable to every biological question. And I don't love that journals seem to be requiring single cell as a new gatekeeping strategy 🤷‍♂️
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This is an excellent primer from my colleagues Nilam Mangalmurti and @KingOfPathogens . A great read that's totally accessible even for immunology dummies like me, highly recommend!
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Happy Halloween with @montserrat
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OMG I FIGURED IT OUT. If anyone else wants to avoid my 3 hours of frustration this afternoon:
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New ⁦ @lab_vaughan ⁩ member Tenley!!
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Won’t be getting a vaccine myself anytime soon so I guess I’ll live vicariously through my wife Molly, who just received her first dose!
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Absolutely wild to be at a screening of Eraserhead in an old tunnel a block away from where David Lynch lived during his art school years. Thanks @PhilaMOCA !!
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Beautiful new work from the Morrisey lab. Was great to have had a front row seat watching this paper develop. I don't think any of these authors are on Twitter for me to tag them...
@PennMedBench
@PennMedBenchmarks
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New @PennMedicine research shows, mechanistically, how the infant lung regenerates cells after injury differently than the adult lung. Findings open a new level of understanding regarding two very different kinds of lung alveolar epithelial cells.
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Beautiful talk at the Celebration of NHLBI Progenitor Cell Research and Translation from @JayminKathiriya
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