Arthur Mortha
@theonlylabever.bsky.social
Immunology Professor at the University of Toronto
Canadian Research Chair in Mucosal Immunology
Host-Microbiota interactions
Innate Lymphoid Cells
Macrophages
Protozoa
#theonlylabever #punkrockthursday @nkg2d1
https://theonlylabever.com/
Canadian Research Chair in Mucosal Immunology
Host-Microbiota interactions
Innate Lymphoid Cells
Macrophages
Protozoa
#theonlylabever #punkrockthursday @nkg2d1
https://theonlylabever.com/
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🎉 Registration is NOW OPEN! 🎉
We’re excited to welcome you to next year’s International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells, where leading experts, innovators, and researchers will come together to share insights, spark collaborations, and shape the future of ILCs and beyond.
#ILC6
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We’re excited to welcome you to next year’s International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells, where leading experts, innovators, and researchers will come together to share insights, spark collaborations, and shape the future of ILCs and beyond.
#ILC6
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November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#Immunosky people! 6th International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells - ILC6 in Vancouver.
ilc6vancouver.com
First program draft online. Abstract submission and registration officially open!
#ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
ilc6vancouver.com
First program draft online. Abstract submission and registration officially open!
#ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
#Immunosky people! 6th International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells - ILC6 in Vancouver.
ilc6vancouver.com
First program draft online. Abstract submission and registration officially open!
#ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
ilc6vancouver.com
First program draft online. Abstract submission and registration officially open!
#ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
Fellow Canadians, kindly support patients with Celiac Disease in your community and sign @celiaccanada.bsky.social 's petition for tax-fairness and affordability on gluten-free food products - much obliged 🫶, yours truly.
@mark-carney.bsky.social 🇨🇦
www.celiac.ca/tax-fairness...
@mark-carney.bsky.social 🇨🇦
www.celiac.ca/tax-fairness...
Tax Fairness and Affordability Petition 2025 - Celiac Canada
People with celiac disease are disproportionately affected by the cost of food. Celiac Canada advocates for tax fairness and affordability.
www.celiac.ca
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Fellow Canadians, kindly support patients with Celiac Disease in your community and sign @celiaccanada.bsky.social 's petition for tax-fairness and affordability on gluten-free food products - much obliged 🫶, yours truly.
@mark-carney.bsky.social 🇨🇦
www.celiac.ca/tax-fairness...
@mark-carney.bsky.social 🇨🇦
www.celiac.ca/tax-fairness...
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by Alisa Iakupova & @theonlylabever.bsky.social
The OCR369 cis-regulatory element controls gut peacekeeping cells - Nature Reviews Immunology
A preprint by Guo et al. reports a mechanism of transcriptional control of RORγt expression in intestinal antigen-presenting cells that are important for oral tolerance involving the cis-regulatory re...
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
by Alisa Iakupova & @theonlylabever.bsky.social
Immunologists! #immunosky I hope you will find this one appealing. The 6th international conference dedicated to all the fun and funk of innate lymphoid cells will happen June 2-4, 2026 in beautiful Vancouver. #ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
Please share and distribute widely :*
Please share and distribute widely :*
BIG NEWS!
The Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC) 6 Meeting (ILC6) will take place on June 2nd-4th, 2026, in Vancouver!
Keynotes include:
Andrew McKenzie, Kazuyo Moro.
ilc6vancouver.com
#ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
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The Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC) 6 Meeting (ILC6) will take place on June 2nd-4th, 2026, in Vancouver!
Keynotes include:
Andrew McKenzie, Kazuyo Moro.
ilc6vancouver.com
#ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
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November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Immunologists! #immunosky I hope you will find this one appealing. The 6th international conference dedicated to all the fun and funk of innate lymphoid cells will happen June 2-4, 2026 in beautiful Vancouver. #ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #2026ILC6
Please share and distribute widely :*
Please share and distribute widely :*
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What's up?
September 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
What's up?
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Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Our department is hiring a cancer immunologist (tenure track assistant professor)!
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Our department is hiring a cancer immunologist (tenure track assistant professor)!
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🚨Job posting! #UMassAmherst Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is hiring a TT faculty member in #Immunology. Both fundamental and translational areas considered. Please spread the word!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - Immunology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🚨Job posting! #UMassAmherst Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is hiring a TT faculty member in #Immunology. Both fundamental and translational areas considered. Please spread the word!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Happy to share new work from #theonlylabever, lead by the phenomenal @sltai.bsky.social - who developed a tool to study the biology of ILC3s, identifying their role in controlling CSF2-dependent myeloid cells. 🤗
@mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social
OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...
@mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social
OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Happy to share new work from #theonlylabever, lead by the phenomenal @sltai.bsky.social - who developed a tool to study the biology of ILC3s, identifying their role in controlling CSF2-dependent myeloid cells. 🤗
@mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social
OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...
@mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social
OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...
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Happy to share that my first first-authored paper is finally out in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social in time for the long weekend!
This work would not have been possible without the current and past members of @theonlylabever.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This work would not have been possible without the current and past members of @theonlylabever.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy to share that my first first-authored paper is finally out in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social in time for the long weekend!
This work would not have been possible without the current and past members of @theonlylabever.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This work would not have been possible without the current and past members of @theonlylabever.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Group 3 innate lymphoid cell-derived CSF2 tunes homeostasis of tissue macrophages and neutrophils from @sltai.bsky.social @theonlylabever.bsky.social and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Group 3 innate lymphoid cell-derived CSF2 tunes homeostasis of tissue macrophages and neutrophils
Mucosal surfaces are complex ecosystems that rely on continuous communication between
host and the inhabiting microbiota to sustain immune balance and health. The vast
complexity of microbial communit...
www.mucosalimmunology.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Group 3 innate lymphoid cell-derived CSF2 tunes homeostasis of tissue macrophages and neutrophils from @sltai.bsky.social @theonlylabever.bsky.social and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
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New Postdoc position as part of the recently awarded MRC Core in Exposome Immunology, led by Jo Konkel here @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social. Job ad and more info below:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/ins...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/ins...
Research Associate in MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology (Defining Acute and Chronic Mucosal Responses to Pollution Exposure):Oxford Road
Project Title: Defining Acute and Chronic Mucosal Responses to Pollution Exposure
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New Postdoc position as part of the recently awarded MRC Core in Exposome Immunology, led by Jo Konkel here @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social. Job ad and more info below:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/ins...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/ins...
This one is going to be amazing! The 6th International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells.
ilc6vancouver.com
Mark your calendars, tell your friends and share widely please. 😘
#immunosky #2026ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #ILC6
ilc6vancouver.com
Mark your calendars, tell your friends and share widely please. 😘
#immunosky #2026ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #ILC6
September 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This one is going to be amazing! The 6th International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells.
ilc6vancouver.com
Mark your calendars, tell your friends and share widely please. 😘
#immunosky #2026ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #ILC6
ilc6vancouver.com
Mark your calendars, tell your friends and share widely please. 😘
#immunosky #2026ILC6 #ILC6Vancouver #ILC6
Amyloid-β-driven Alzheimer’s disease reshapes the colonic immune system in mice: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Amyloid-β-driven Alzheimer’s disease reshapes the colonic immune system in mice
Makhijani et al. investigate the colonic immune landscape in the 5XFAD model, showing
a reduction in CXCR4+ antibody-secreting cells and a concomitant increase in brain
CXCL12. Dietary intervention wi...
www.cell.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Amyloid-β-driven Alzheimer’s disease reshapes the colonic immune system in mice: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Is brain/gut axis a superhighway for immune response to #Alzheimers? Study in @cellpress.bsky.social shows immune cells use that route in mouse models. Feeding animals high fiber diet reduced AD-related frailty. Congrats Dr. Winer, Dr. Makhijani, & Dr. Andersen
www.buckinstitute.org/news/the-gut...
www.buckinstitute.org/news/the-gut...
The gut immune system is altered in mouse model of Alzheimer’s, providing a new target for therapeutics
Feeding the animals a high fiber diet reduced Alzheimer’s-related frailty including tremor.
www.buckinstitute.org
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Is brain/gut axis a superhighway for immune response to #Alzheimers? Study in @cellpress.bsky.social shows immune cells use that route in mouse models. Feeding animals high fiber diet reduced AD-related frailty. Congrats Dr. Winer, Dr. Makhijani, & Dr. Andersen
www.buckinstitute.org/news/the-gut...
www.buckinstitute.org/news/the-gut...
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In our latest work we've explored associations between the fecal bile acid pool and helminth infection status in school aged children in Uganda. Have a read and see what we found!
July 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
In our latest work we've explored associations between the fecal bile acid pool and helminth infection status in school aged children in Uganda. Have a read and see what we found!
pH controls inflammatory response through transcriptional condensates...but how? Read all about the mechanism here ->
@xuzhoulab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.preprintclub.com/preprint-rev...
@preprintclub.bsky.social
@xuzhoulab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.preprintclub.com/preprint-rev...
@preprintclub.bsky.social
Regulation of inflammatory responses by pH-dependent transcriptional condensates
BRD4 functions as an intracellular pH sensor through a conserved histidine-rich intrinsically
disordered region. Inflammation-associated acidification triggers a pH-dependent switch
in transcriptional...
www.cell.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
pH controls inflammatory response through transcriptional condensates...but how? Read all about the mechanism here ->
@xuzhoulab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.preprintclub.com/preprint-rev...
@preprintclub.bsky.social
@xuzhoulab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.preprintclub.com/preprint-rev...
@preprintclub.bsky.social
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🇨🇦🚨Job Alert🚨🇨🇦
Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget)
U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath
*Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?)
Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦?
research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...
Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget)
U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath
*Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?)
Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦?
research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...
2026 Canada Excellence Research Chair Opportunities | Research & Innovation
research.utoronto.ca
May 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🇨🇦🚨Job Alert🚨🇨🇦
Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget)
U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath
*Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?)
Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦?
research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...
Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget)
U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath
*Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?)
Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦?
research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...
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Are you an established PI that studies the human immune system and looking for a change of location? If the answer is yes, #McGill has an amazing opportunity to provide long-term funding at a world class institution. Apply now!!!! Please repost!!! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
Canadian Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Human Immunology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Are you an established PI that studies the human immune system and looking for a change of location? If the answer is yes, #McGill has an amazing opportunity to provide long-term funding at a world class institution. Apply now!!!! Please repost!!! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Why is Dr. Arthur Mortha's lab called @theonlylabever.bsky.social?
Find out in our latest episode, and learn about his work on ILCs and their interactions with the #microbiome!
Listen now: bit.ly/43NmHO0
Find out in our latest episode, and learn about his work on ILCs and their interactions with the #microbiome!
Listen now: bit.ly/43NmHO0
June 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Why is Dr. Arthur Mortha's lab called @theonlylabever.bsky.social?
Find out in our latest episode, and learn about his work on ILCs and their interactions with the #microbiome!
Listen now: bit.ly/43NmHO0
Find out in our latest episode, and learn about his work on ILCs and their interactions with the #microbiome!
Listen now: bit.ly/43NmHO0