Kerry Hilligan
@kerryhilligan
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Immunologist 🔬🥼 | Team Leader @Malaghan_Inst 🇳🇿 | Sher lab alum @NIH 🇺🇸 | Views are my own. she/her.
Wellington Region, New Zealand
Joined March 2018
RT @biorxiv_immuno: Tissue resident memory CD4+ T cells are sustained by site-specific levels of self-renewal and replacement from precurso….
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RT @biorxiv_immuno: IFN-I signaling in type 2 conventional dendritic cells supports TH2 and T follicular helper differentiation after aller….
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RT @infdisease_news: Scientists at @NIAIDNews examined the roles of the prototypic pro- and anti-🌡️ #inflammatory cytokines IFNγ and IL-10….
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RT @ProfAndrewMac: Great to catch up with Alan Sher, visiting @LydiaBeckerIII while in the UK on sabbatical @powrie_lab. Fantastic seminar….
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RT @ScienceMagazine: In response to infection, a small protein called IFN-γ is synthesized and released by several types of cells belonging….
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RT @danielleobarber: We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection. The NIH intramural….
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RT @KiwiFarah: My finest work: One school of thought is there might be an infection sweet-spot, where just the right number of hookworms ha….
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They burrow into your skin, crawl up your windpipe and end up living in your small intestine. But some people are happily hosting hookworms for research into whether they might improve a raft of...
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RT @infdisease_news: Drs. Alan Sher and @kerryhilligan lead @NIH researchers in 🔎 studying the role of ongoing type-2 interferon responses….
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RT @LabWaggoner: Bacterial-induced or passively administered IFNγ conditions the lung for early control of SARS-CoV-2 #AlanSher @kerryhilli….
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Nature Communications - The role of interferon-γ (IFNγ) in anti-viral immunity has been unclear. Here the authors show that bacterial-induced or intranasally administered IFNγ...
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🙏 to the awesome team from @NIH and @Malaghan_Inst that worked on this project! @ranjani1005, @Eduardo92866960, @bakerpaulj, @SameOld_SamOld, @OLamiable, @Fenglab_usyd, @mayer_barber, team captain Alan Sher and our Xless colleagues.
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📢 Bacterial-induced or passively administered IFNg protects against #COVID19 in 🐭 by arming the 🫁 epithelium with viral restriction factors. Check out our new paper in @NatureComms here: Summary from @NIAIDNews below 👇.
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Nature Communications - The role of interferon-γ (IFNγ) in anti-viral immunity has been unclear. Here the authors show that bacterial-induced or intranasally administered IFNγ...
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RT @Eduardo92866960: 🚨PAPER ALERT: So excited and proud to share my latest work in @NatureMicrobiology about the molecular regulation of li….
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Nature Microbiology - The host transcription factor, Bach1, promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis by inhibiting protective glutathione metabolism and antioxidant responses that prevent...
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RT @Malaghan_Inst: NZ’s first trial of a novel CAR T-cell therapy has shown the promise of being safer than leading commercial CAR T-cell p….
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A great summary of our @SciImmunology paper looking at the impact of prior helminth infection on #COVID19 in mice.
Lung-migrating helminths can enhance immunity to SARS-CoV-2
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RT @profvrr: Immune explains how, in a mouse model of roundworm infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, exposure to lung-migrating hel….
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Check out our related work here: 10.1101/2023.07.15.549135 &.10.1084/jem.20211862 as well as work from the Pulendran lab: 10.1101/2023.07.31.551354.
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Our new Perspective on BCG protection against #COVID19 is out now in @FrontImmunol .🐭studies show it is all about getting IFNg production in the 🫁 which is why intravenous but not subcutaneous admin protects against mortality.
New Research: BCG mediated protection of the lung against experimental SARS-CoV-2 infection: The observation of reduced COVID-19 incidence and severity in populations receiving neonatal intradermal BCG vaccination vaccine raised the question… #immunology
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