Patrick Rodrigues
@PatFernRod
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow | @TheColonnaLab | Washington University in St. Louis
St Louis, MO
Joined May 2021
BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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🚨 New preprint! Generative modeling comes to cytometry. Meet CytoVI — a deep generative model from the @YosefLab & @IdoAmitLab for antibody-based single-cell technologies (flow, mass cytometry, CITE-seq). https://t.co/Yo0uP140V7 🧵👇
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Due to their robustness, dynamic range and scalability, antibody-based single cell technologies, such as flow cytometry, mass cytometry and CITE-seq, have become an irreplaceable part of routine...
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🧵1/8 Happy to share my new preprint “ID2 secures cDC1 specification by antagonizing E proteins at a pleiotropic Zeb2 enhancer.” I resolved why ID2 is essential for cDC1 lineage specification and uncovered a new paradigm of enhancers. Read here:
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The transcriptional regulator ID2 is required for type 1 classical dendritic cell (cDC1) specification, yet the mechanism has remained obscure. We previously identified the Zeb2 -165-kb enhancer as...
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Thrilled to share our new paper in @ScienceMagazine ! We identify septal LYVE1⁺ adipose macrophages (sATMs) as niche signals that control stem cell fate, restrain beiging & shape obesity susceptibility. Team effort with @FGinhoux and collaborators. https://t.co/mVWJ451FPQ
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Tissue macrophages reside in anatomically distinct subtissular niches that shape their identity and function. In white adipose tissue (WAT), we identified three macrophage populations with distinct...
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Happy to share our latest paper on DC ontogeny! https://t.co/xmz07wMzk3 Congratulations to the team and to Dr Zhaoyuan Liu from the Shanghai Institute of Immunology!
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I'm excited to share our new study published in Cell. This work uncovers a critical role for dural mast cells in shaping cerebrospinal fluid flow and protecting the brain from infection.
Excited to share this new work from our lab, led by an exceptional graduate student, Tornike Mamuladze (@tornikemamu), on the role of meningeal mast cells in regulation of brain/dura access points, with implications to CSF flow dynamics and meningitis || https://t.co/DXnOZ8TZhb
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🧵1/ Excited to share my first publication from the @ColonnaLab in @NatImmunol! We investigated how mutations in the human CSF1R gene disrupt microglia and impair white matter integrity in a rare but devastating neurodegeneration called ALSP. https://t.co/39kxODSumy
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Nature Immunology - Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by pathogenic CSF1R mutations. Here the authors find that...
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Our new study by @DuSiling reveals how CSF1R mutations in adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) disrupt glial homeostasis. Key roles for oligodendrocytes, astrocytes & STAT3 signaling. https://t.co/k2PsmXO9mX
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Congrats to @KedmiRanit’s group! RORγt⁺ APCs prime food-specific pTregs and induce oral tolerance. Infection or food poisoning temporarily bypasses this, allowing CD8αβ T cell responses to mimicked food antigens without breaking long-term oral tolerance.
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Nature - Immune tolerance to dietary antigens is mediated by a circuit of dedicated antigen-presenting cells and T cells, ensuring protective effector responses without compromising the...
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Big shoutout to Brown’s group: IRF8-dependent TC are essential for inducing food-specific pTregs & establishing oral tolerance! In line with recent work from Mucida’s, Littman’s, Gardner’s, and our group highlighting the role of RORγt⁺ APC in this process. https://t.co/emADApLMLM
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In the intestine, peripherally induced regulatory T (pTreg) cells play an essential role in suppressing inflammatory responses to food proteins. However, the identity of the antigen-presenting cells...
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In a medical milestone, a customized base editor was developed, characterized in human and mouse cells, tested in mice, studied for safety in non-human primates, cleared by @US_FDA for clinical trial use, manufactured as a complex with an LNP, and dosed into a baby with a severe,
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Early bird Dendritic cell, Myeloid cell enthusiastic! hurry up Submit your abstract and register soon! poster presentations awards available, amazing talks including: @Idoyaga_Lab @TheColonnaLab @jonykipnis @FGinhoux @KaplanLab @HerbertStr93573 @kodiravi & many others X-less RT
Langerhans Cells, Dendritic Cell and #skinimmunology lovers❤️ #LC2025 registration is NOW OPEN! Meet us in St. Louis @washu_pathology, Sep. 3-5, 2025, Amazing program! Intimate and collaborative discussions on breakthrough discoveries! register today at https://t.co/UnHvYuG9xZ
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latest from our lab: ITACONATE MECHANISM SOLVED!! Tom Paulenda @tompaulenda solved molecular mechanism of immunoregulatory action of itaconate in macrophages: https://t.co/IymcPTZ7gy Previously, our lab has discovered two major immunoregulatory phenotypes of itaconate in
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Super important work from our colleague and friend, Marco Colonna @TheColonnaLab|| Rorγt-positive dendritic cells are required for the induction of peripheral regulatory T cells in response to oral antigens: Cell
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Deleting a regulatory element in the Rorc gene depletes RORγt+ dendritic cells from the intestine in mice, leading to a reduction of regulatory T cells and impaired oral tolerance to antigens. This...
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RORγt+ DCs are key to maintaining intestinal immune balance and preventing inappropriate immune responses to food antigens @TheColonnaLab @CellCellPress @PatFernRod
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Excited to share that our work by @PatFernRod and @TongWu99 is published in Cell: RORγt+ DCs are required to induce oral tolerance. Their absence reduces pTregs and impairs oral tolerance to dietary antigens. Read more:
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Excited to see this finally out!! We found IL-2 made by CD301b+ DCs critical for the Th2 fate decision of CD4T cells and skewing them away from the Tfh fate. They also seem to use their own CD25 to direct IL-2 to the cognate clone. https://t.co/SA9rxGOLyB
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Nature Communications - A subset of migratory type 2 conventional dendritic cells marked by CD301b expression (CD301b+DC), are required specifically for the development of Th2 cells. Here authors...
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Happy to share our recent work led by postdoc @DanCorral showing that the maternal adapative immune system promotes optimal lactogenesis. https://t.co/XOYnihwLh1
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Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes enhance mammary gland differentiation during pregnancy, thereby promoting offspring fitness.
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Loss of ATG7 in microglia impairs UPR, triggers ferroptosis, and weakens amyloid pathology control https://t.co/ktqB6ozwp6, in this work we linked autophagy with UPR and ferroptosis in the microglial response to AD @CaiZhangying @TheColonnaLab 🥳🍻🆗
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Microglia contain Aβ plaques in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In an AD mouse model, microglial Atg7 deletion impaired plaque coverage, increasing Aβ diffusion
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Excited to share that our work is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Cell Host & Microbe! Check it out! @TheColonnaLab @VinoloM @pewtrusts
#Microbiology #Immunology #CellHostMicrobe
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