Studying zebrafish intestinal biology at the University of Bath with an interest in sex and mucosal immunity. Trying to import the oxford comma to Britain. she/her 🐠 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🎶
Edan Foley
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I'd always wanted to work on aging, but never quite figured out what questions were within my reach. It's such a fascinating area.
This is one of the most uplifting threads this month!
#CrohnsDisease is associated with NOD2 mutations, but what's NOD2's role in the #intestine? Mckenna Eklund & @edanfoley.bsky.social show that #NOD2 interacts with #estrogen to regulate intestinal homeostasis, perhaps explaining the sex-specific pathogenesis of CD @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ojTEuZ
Normally writing papers exhausts me, but working on this brought such joy. A very exciting study from Mckenna linking errant estrogen signaling with gut defects in NOD2-deficient fish.
