Iliev Lab
@IlievLab
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Immunology, fungi-myco-anything & li'l more
New York, NY
Joined July 2018
Excited to announce our new lab website! 🌐 See familiar faces and new ones, check out the recent science that excites us, all sparkled with a wealth of images. #Immunology #Fungi #Join_us #Community
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Unlocking Gut Health Via harnessing the power of fungi, microbiota and immunity Our laboratory studies the mechanisms by which fungal and bacterial symbionts, interact with their host to influence...
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RT @NatureRevMicro: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities. https://t.co….
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Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune...
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RT @neil_gow: Good to see that the European Food Standards Agency has recognised the danger of agricultural use of fungicides driving resis….
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For the first time, the five EU health and environment agencies – EFSA, ECDC, ECHA, EEA and EMA[1]– supported by the JRC, reviewed how the use of azole substances outside human medicine affects...
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RT @theRAD_lab: Excited to announce a save the date for the upcoming Keystone Fungal Pathogenesis meeting! Jan 12-15 2026, mark your calend….
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Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Fungal Pathogens: Emerging Threats and Future Challenges, January 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
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RT @cellhostmicrobe: Commensal fungi, a force to be reckoned with:.Highlight of work of @IlievLab showing Kazachstania pintolopesii, a symb….
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Lastly, 🙏 to @JacquesHughes @naturepodcast and Happy Thanksgiving to all!.
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Huge credit goes to Yun Liao and @IrisGao in our lab- this has been a LONG journey! Great collaborators Barbara Rehermann @NIDDK, @kurtvandegrift, @christina_cuomo @King_Lab_McGill, many (not on X: Lipman, Artis, Vet services) at @WCM & American Rat Control Inc. ,LA, CA.
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3) If you are a tourist exploring NYC attractions #WhatsGoodNYC—sorry, no recommendations for a K.p. tour. (@IlievLab can’t help, but @ThrillistNYC might). 4) If you are a #scientist , check your laboratory mice for K.p (@IlievLab can help)- it can alter research outcomes.
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Helpful notes:.1) If you are a mouse and haven’t got your K.p yet, make sure to get some (@IlievLab can help)- it can protect you against parasitic worms! #evolutionbenefit of #commensalism.2) Food #allergy in mice- If any, K.p makes symptoms worst via Type 2 immune-mediated mech
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It is so well adapted to its host that the immune system remains oblivious to its presence………until #mucusfluctuations caused by #diet or #antibiotics get K.p in contact with the gastric #epithelium. Check out the paper for the fascinating immune mechanism that this unlocks!.
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We found that K.p dominates the murine #mycobiome, thrives at body temp, outstands competition by other #fungi and is inherited across generations. It is uniquely adapted to the GI tract and gets around the bacterially “overcrowded” intestines by colonizing the stomach.
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Our search for gut fungal commensal across rural and city habitats, and across multiple laboratory mouse colonies brought us to #Kazachstania pintolopesii (K.p)
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While fungi like #Candida albicans are common in humans, the gut #mycobiota of lab mice—a key model in #immunity and #microbiome research—is highly variable. Attempts to isolate mouse gut fungal commensals have been unsuccessful, limiting basic and translational #research.
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Thrilled to share the results of our 8-year-long expedition into the Wild, the city of #NYC , the wild west of #LosAngelesCA , and more—in search of the roots of gut fungal commensalism! 🧵
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3) If you are a tourist exploring NYC attractions #WhatsGoodNYC—sorry, no recommendations for a K.p. tour. (@IlievLab can’t help, but @ThrillistNYC might). 4) If you are a #scientist , check your laboratory mice for K.p (@IlievLab can help)- its alters research outcomes.
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RT @LarsVereecke: 🎉 Super excited to announce that our study "Colibactin-driven colon cancer requires adhesin-mediated epithelial binding"….
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Nature - The oncogenic potential of pks+ Escherichia coli depends critically on bacterial adhesion to host epithelial cells mediated by the type 1 pilus adhesin FimH and the F9 pilus adhesin FmlH.
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Shoutout to the brilliant Alexa Semon @_alexafluor ! She was rocking @IlievLab , now rocking the research on a major gut pathogen C.diff! Beautiful design, congratulations to the team & current lab @joeyzacks @WeissmanLab @IGGPenn.
I’m proud to share our recent publication describing the development of a multivalent mRNA-LNP vaccine for C. difficile that incorporates targets across C. diff’s complex life cycle
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RT @KyosukeYakabe: I was selected for fellowship of JSPS! Thank you so much to everyone involved!. 海外学振採択内定をいただきました。3度目の正直. ！これからも研鑽に励みます。.
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Opps, not intended, forgot to share open access link “beyond the healthcare arena, advances in biotechnology, drug discovery, agriculture, sustainable fuel development, and the materials industry position fungi as key factors in sustainable production. ".
Nice to see spotlight on fungi in @CellCellPress , but this piece is one-dimensional, only recognizing fungi as (human) pathogens. Ignoring ecosystem services, white biotech etc. Mycologists spoke up previously against this one-dimensional view.
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Focus on Fungi: from infections to immunity, inflammation, mycobiota, and AMR with the amazing @slg1717 @gordon_d_brown @DukeHeitman @LionakisLab, Bruce Klein, Petra Bacher. #FungaWeek24 @Cell
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