Ruth Franklin
Assistant Professor | Harvard Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology | Immunologist and Tissue biologist | Proud mama
www.ruthfranklinlab.com
- 🎉🎉🎉 Can’t wait to see the amazing science that is sure to come from the Sullivan lab!!!
- Thrilled to start my lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and to join such a special community of creative and inspiring colleagues. The Sullivan Lab asks (1) how and (2) why infections make us sick, bridging immunology and neuroscience to understand host defense at the organism scale
- So exciting to see this out!! More cool biology sure to come!! 🤩👀
- Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!
- Had a fantastic visit @roswellpark.bsky.social for the Post-Doctoral Symposium!! So many inspiring scientists doing cool work! Grateful for the invitation!
- Can’t wait to read this!! Sure to be a fantastic resource! #InterferonPower
- #InterferonPower! Thrilled for our latest work @cp-cell.bsky.social! With @danielboehmer.bsky.social, we dug into tons of papers & created what we hope will be a go-to resource for immunologists & non-immunologist about type I, II, III (& IV😉) #interferons! Free👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1leKGL7PXu...
- Exciting week! Congrats to @xuzhoulab.bsky.social, Ruslan Medzhitov, & coauthors on discovering a new mechanism to regulate inflammation!! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ruth Franklin#WeekendRead! #InterferonsFriendsOrFoes?! @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social, Medzhitov, Hoagland, Rodriguez-Morales &co show @science.org that macrophage-derived oncostatin M overcomes type I IFN detrimental responses during severe influenza lung infection by driving AT-II epithelial cell proliferation!
- Reposted by Ruth FranklinI’m so proud to have been able to contribute to this story! Check it out for a cool tale about tissue repair under inflammatory conditions! Congrats @daisyah.bsky.social and @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social on putting out the lab’s first paper 🫁🐁🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- 🎉 Over the moon to share the first paper from my lab!! We discovered an unexpected role for the cytokine OSM in lung epithelial homeostasis and repair. 🧵 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Tissue damage is an unavoidable consequence of infections. At mucosal surfaces like the lung, the body must balance fighting pathogens with rapidly repairing damage; both are essential for survival. 2/n
- IFN-I is a key antiviral mediator, but also leads to immunopathology, including epithelial cell death and antiproliferative effects. Despite this, lungs undergo rapid repair after infection, suggesting a mechanism that drives proliferation in the context of IFN-I and tissue damage. 3/n
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View full threadThis project first started during my postdoc w/ Ruslan Medzhitov and I’m extremely grateful for his support! And finally, thank you to the reviewers, @sarahhross.bsky.social & the team @science.org, we’re thrilled to see this story in print! 9/fin
- Was so much fun to catch up with some of my IMP family!!
- Wonderful to catch up with two former @wcm-imp.bsky.social grad students at this @faseborg.bsky.social meeting! So proud of alum who are now faculty running their own labs- Priya Issuree (U Iowa) and Ruth Franklin @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social (Harvard). Nothing makes a program director more happy!
- Reposted by Ruth Franklin"The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Today was a happy day!! Very proud of Dr. Rodríguez-Morales and very proud to be a professor at Harvard!!
- Reposted by Ruth Franklin🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
- Reposted by Ruth FranklinOn a day when all research grants at Harvard were terminated, and in a context where Congress seems to broadly accept the notion that destroying science and health research in the US is fine, it’s worth noting that this is not what the public wants.
- Just said goodbye to my NIH MIRA award. Really hurts to see the word “terminated” in writing. Even worse to see it next to the F31 awarded to a fantastic PhD student in my lab @aybv.bsky.social. I REFUSE to let this stop us!!!
- Our paper was accepted!!!!!! 🎉🥳 I can’t wait to share it with you all soon!!!
- Reposted by Ruth FranklinMisinformation is winning not because it's true, but because it’s loud, emotional, and everywhere. It’s time for science to fight back. Aaron Mertz and I dissect the issue and offer solutions 👇 📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @aspeninstitute.bsky.social
- The first student from my lab defended her thesis today!!! Huge congratulations to Patricia Rodríguez-Morales, PhD!!!!! 🎉
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- Reposted by Ruth FranklinExcited to share the work of Jonathan Perr where he uncovered a surprisingly common feature of cell surfaces - the presentation and clustering of RNA binding proteins with #glycoRNA. Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- What a fantastic idea!!
- Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
- Today I did the same! First post on Facebook in years to share what we will lose and why everyone should care!
- Reposted by Ruth FranklinFrom Harold Varmus (Former NIH and NCI Director and Nobel laureate) Why Would We Undermine the Marvel of American Science? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
