Assistant professor at University of South Carolina. We love neurons and macrophages and SARM1. Neuroimmune interactions after traumatic nerve injury. Twiss lab, Giger lab alum.
Ashley Kalinski
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Got reviews back on our lab's first (solo) manuscript.
A little thread on our experience:
Overall, I am grateful to the reviewers for their enthusiasm & truly constructive feedback.
I will be honest as a #newPI, submitting this paper was more terrifying than submitting any grant.
My grant is in study section today. Thinking about refreshing ERA commons all day to distract myself from the real world shit that is happening.
Destroy my grant, sure, can handle it. Destroy our paper, that hurts.
It feels a bit like making a first impression- do they like us? did we do a good job? Did we embarrass ourselves?
As a scientist, I want to put our best work forward. To spark excitement or ideas to those who read it.
SARM1 is required for macrophage immunophenotype switching that is essential for nerve repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.716973v1
The reviewers gave us validation on the work. They pointed out holes & ways to fill those in (& caught every typo 😂)
While it isn't the outcome we wanted, the feedback is absolutely going to make this story stronger. I feel excited to get to work on it!
This is how peer review should be.
🧪 Still possible to submit abstracts! 16 short talk slots still open !
