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Associate prof in Immunology @umanitoba @UM_immu

Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined January 2019
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
6 months
RT @CCMB_Research: Dr. @CedricSTremblay has secured @acces_access funding to lead a groundbreaking initiative on infant leukemia. Cancer….
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The Murooka lab
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Thank you @CIHR_IRSC for funding our 5 year study on neutrophils in the genital mucosa! 🎉🎉🤩Thanks to all the creativity and hard work by my team and amazing collaborators! @BurgenerLab @draliciaberard @drdeannasanter. Let’s make some awesome discoveries! @UM_Immu @UM_RadyFHS
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The Murooka lab
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RT @drdeannasanter: Officially official 🥳🎉🥂 #CIHR grant celebrations today with #SanterLab & @tmurooka2 who also got his grant where I play….
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The Murooka lab
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Happy holidays to everyone! Last week before holidays, we can do this!
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The Murooka lab
7 months
Congrats to Morgan for a successful MSc thesis defense! 🎉🎉🎉My first student to graduate through @UofMMedMicro program! Huge congratulations!! @UM_RadyFHS
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@tmurooka2
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1 year
Huge congrats to MSc student Morgan for his poster award!! @MSHRF_UM 🎉😍🤩 Lots of work culminating into a well deserved recognition! @UofMMedMicro @UM_RadyFHS well done!!
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This year’s Drewry EL Memorial Award goes to @RomaniyaZ !! This is the highest honor for a graduating PhD student with an invitation to return next year for a Faculty wide lecture! Well done Roma!! 🎉🎉 @UM_Immu @UM_RadyFHS
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The Murooka lab
1 year
Congrats Camila! It’s a pleasure to work with you! @UM_Immu @UM_RadyFHS thank you for supporting our students 🎉🍾.
@thehappycells
camila oda
1 year
Still can’t believe this happened. I’m so grateful to be part of an amazing lab with extraordinary people. Thank you @tmurooka2 for giving me the opportunity to do really cool science. And thank you @MSHRF_UM @pauls_samantha @NeuroRedoxin for creating a space for undergrads too🤍
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The Murooka lab
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RT @thehappycells: Still can’t believe this happened. I’m so grateful to be part of an amazing lab with extraordinary people. Thank you @tm….
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The Murooka lab
1 year
MSc student Riley rocked her first #CAHR2024 presentation and it was amazing! Support from @UM_Immu @UM_RadyFHS
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
1 year
Another year another CAHR cup 2024! Awesome skate everyone, manitoba with the game winning goal babyyyyy! #CAHR2024
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The Murooka lab
1 year
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! I'm lucky to be working with an amazing group students, research staff and PIs whose creativity and leadership drive scientific advances every day! And to my mom who raised my brother and I despite a chronic illness 😍🎉🎖️.
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The Murooka lab
2 years
@RomaniyaZ @drleish @NatureComms And here it the proper link!
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The Murooka lab
2 years
@RomaniyaZ @drleish @NatureComms We show that Tregs counteract effector T cell responses to promote chronic infection, and that this was largely by antigen stimulation. Check out our IVM movies of Tregs in action! @UM_RadyFHS @UM_Immu @umanitoba .
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The Murooka lab
2 years
Happy to share our most recent work led by the brilliant @RomaniyaZ in close collaboration with @drleish out now at @NatureComms!.We examined the concept of immunodominant regulatory T cell responses during L. major skin infection in vivo using MP-IVM 1/n.
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
2 years
Climbed Table Mountain ✅Visited several wineries while taking in the views✅Attended talks at the #IUIS2023✅Thank you Cape Town for hosting! @UM_Immu @CedricSTremblay @sijuiwhatwhat @AaronNyeguy
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
2 years
…and another one! 🎉Congrats to Liz on a brilliant and successful MSc defense!!! Looking forward to continuing this journey together! 🎉🎉(yes she was ecstatic to finish) @UM_Immu @UM_RadyFHS
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
2 years
Congratulations! Very exciting study indeed.
@Adam_D_Burgener
Adam Burgener
2 years
Wonderful scientific partnerships between @cwru global health and @umanitoba to study infertility. @cfarrzuend .@draliciaberard .@_DougBrubaker.
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
2 years
📢Our latest review is out in @mbiojournal! We review factors that regulate the survival, proliferation and tissue recirculation capacity of HIV latently infected T cells, and pose questions on what tissue signals drive their persistence. Check it out! .
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1, herein referred to as HIV) preferentially infects and depletes CD4+ T cells, thereby reducing host adaptive immunity if left unchecked (1). While current...
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@tmurooka2
The Murooka lab
2 years
Thanks to the dream team examination committee @AtukoralaLabfor @KindrachukJason @AaronNyeguy @drleish for a fantastic and successful PhD defense @RomaniyaZ ! Special thank you to #SimonaStager for her thoughtful discussions! Let's do this again (not). 🥳🥳@UM_Immu @UM_RadyFHS
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