PhD Candidate and macrophage fanboy within the Franklin Lab at HMS | Harvard MCO | UMaine Biochemistry | (He/Him) 🏳️🌈
Innate immune-mediated repair in the mammalian lung 🫁 🐁
Alan Y. Baez Vazquez
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Come check out my FIRST EVER first author paper! Especially if you’re interested in the interplay between host defense and tissue repair! Turns out they might be more closely linked than one might think! 🧐💭
The Lung GRS was breathtaking in more ways that one 🤩 and the GRC opening talks were incredible! Very much looking forward to the next week 😎
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage
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@science.org @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social @rmedzhitov.bsky.social
Type I interferon primes the alveolar epithelium to receive reparative signals from tissue-resident macrophages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.10.731366v1
1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint!
@claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy.
Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social
Excited to share my new preprint from the McKinley lab, where we explored regenerative mechanisms across menstruation and pregnancy! We thought specialized glands would regenerate everything.
We were wrong.
But the real mechanism turned out to be way cooler :) 🧪🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🎉 Over the moon to share the first paper from my lab!! We discovered an unexpected role for the cytokine OSM in lung epithelial homeostasis and repair. 🧵 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I’m so proud to have been able to contribute to this story! Check it out for a cool tale about tissue repair under inflammatory conditions! Congrats @daisyah.bsky.social and @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social on putting out the lab’s first paper 🫁🐁🦠
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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