Gustavo Monasterio Ocares
Science worker #NewPI | DMD, PhD @uchile | Assistant Professor @ki.se | #MucosalImmunology #SalivaryGlands #OralGut | Co-founder & Vice-president @AICHIS_2022 🇨🇱 🇸🇪 | Co-founder and Board of @OralGut.bsky.social | he/him/his
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresOn Thursday 20 November, Dr Vassilis Glaros will join us to present 'the multilayered identity of B cell memory'. Our External Seminars are open to any member of the University of Oxford. Don't miss it! @vassilisglaros.bsky.social talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e94...
- WELL DONE NYC!!!!
- Peripheral Immune Tolerance!
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio Ocareswww.the-scientist.com/low-complexi... @mpi-nat.bsky.social #Lasker2025 #LaskerLaureate #structuralbiology #phaseseparation 🧪
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresCome and be my colleague at the Dunn School! It‘s a brilliant place to work and exciting to be building up our immunology team. Do apply. Do pass on the news 💉🧬🦠🔬🧫
- We're hiring (again)! We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly) If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresNew 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...
- Fantastic resource!
- Job alert in a really great lab!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
- We are hiring! 2 years postdoctoral fellowship, to work on the generation of all-human, vascularized and innervated organ-on-chip systems & model infection & inflammation - in Sweden 🇸🇪 @liu.se Details in the link - please help me spreading the announcement! liu.se/en/organisat...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio Ocares'What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee, including her hopes and ambitions, and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences.' www.science.org/content/arti...
- Fantastic! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Honored to share a short interview for the Latin American community in Sweden 🇸🇪🌎. We talked about the Association of Chilean Researchers in Sweden, my journey as a Chilean scientist abroad, and how we work in democratising knowledge with our project #ExploraNobel www.facebook.com/vidavisioneu...
- Back from one of the best conferences I’ve attended!The @embo.org Workshop on Barrier Immunity,brilliantly organized by @maurogaya.bsky.social & @immunologyking.bsky.social! Outstanding science from many, including @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social, @danmucida.bsky.social& @martinaparigi.bsky.social
- Grant writing can, and should, be fun ☺️
- Well 99% of time mine as well 😅
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- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresFYI: BDS in academia bdsmovement.net/academic-boy...
- Impressive!
- I'm excited about a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social story that just went live! This one takes a #computational #immunology approach to understanding #tissueresident lymphocytes. The story highlights the extra value mathematical modelling can bring to biology. 🧵1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- “As faculty, those from lower-income backgrounds may also experience an acute dependence on their salaries and positions, making them hesitant to speak out, challenge norms, or draw attention to themselves. “ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Excited to share a new chapter: As of July 1st, I’ve joined @ki.se as an Assistant Professor and #NewPI! The Monasterio Lab is officially up and running — we’ll study physiological circuits driving #salivaryglands and #GItract communication in health and disease. Stay tuned for the science ahead!
- I can’t unsee it
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- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresNew observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile may have caught a Jupiter-like planet at its moment of birth around another star. The universe just keeps on building more cool things. 🔭🧪 www.eso.org/public/image...
- When and how did our “two-hole” digestive tube first appear in evolution? Such a fascinating question, recently tackled in this preprint! “Our results suggest that the bilaterian anus evolved from a male gonopore that came in contact with the digestive endoderm to form the posterior opening.” 🧪
- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The xenacoelomorph gonopore is homologous to the bilaterian anus | bioRxiv
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresA huge shoutout to the incredible Anna Rudnitsky that led this project as a master student at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social. Many thanks to other lab members that contribute to this work, and to our collaborators and next-door neighbors @zivshulman.bsky.social /16
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresIncredible! Over the past 2 months, 5 independent manuscripts — from @TheColonnaLab, Dan Littman, @gardnerlabucsf.bsky.social and @chrysothemisbrown.bsky.social , and our own (now in @nature.com, www.nature.com/articles/s41...), reports that the dietary pTreg program is initiated by RORγt⁺ APCs. /1
- #OldButGold A 5700 year-old chewed gum that allowed to get the genome and oral microbiome of an ancient woman 🫨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Microfluidics-free single-cell genomics with templated emulsification | Nature Biotechnology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Being open to new ideas is the only personality trait that is proven to influence creativity and discoveries.
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresMade a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—*glurk*
- Science with real #PhysiologicalRelevance 🧪 phys.org/news/2025-05...
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- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresI'm very excited to share our latest work with #zebrafish published in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social!! 🐟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here, we characterized a genetic model of intestinal epithelial cell ablation to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of intestinal #regeneration....
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresWe’re excited to share our recently published story “A zebrafish model of intestinal epithelial damage reveals macrophages and igfbp1a as modulators of mucosal healing” in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social Fantastic work led by @ramoralescastro.bsky.social ! www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresIt was amazing to do a Night Science workshop today at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm!
- Still buzzing after the Night Science workshop at KI — 6+ hours of creative thinking with @itaiyanai.bsky.social (#NightSciencepodcast) Loved the deep dive into day science (structured, hypothesis-driven) vs night science (exploratory, intuitive). A brilliant way to rethink how we do science.
- Still buzzing after the Night Science workshop at KI — 6+ hours of creative thinking with @itaiyanai.bsky.social (#NightSciencepodcast) Loved the deep dive into day science (structured, hypothesis-driven) vs night science (exploratory, intuitive). A brilliant way to rethink how we do science.
- Amazing work!
- I'm very excited to share our latest work with #zebrafish published in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social!! 🐟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here, we characterized a genetic model of intestinal epithelial cell ablation to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of intestinal #regeneration....
- Charles Zuker’s 🇨🇱 Lab has finally unraveled how our mouths, and especially our tongue’s taste receptors, sense sweetness at the molecular and cellular level. 🍬👅🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresAnother day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
- This is huge news! www.reuters.com/science/eus-...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresNovel methods in studying cell-cell interactions via transcriptomics rapidly evolve with algorithms to reveal 1000s of signals! PMID:38238518, Nat Rev Genet 2024, @NatureRevGenet doi.org/10.1038/s41576-023-… #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
- Struggling with belly fat after 40? It’s not just about willpower or diet—turns out, a specific group of adipose stem cells gets more active with age, making fat gain harder to fight! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Such an incredible piece of work, dismantling the fake “science-backed” racism that for years has been used to justify or convince intolerant and ignorant people. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
- EGFR signalling in amygdala astrocytes mediates neuroimmune interactions associated with FEAR 😨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Don’t miss out!
- Thrilled to present at this global forum! Looking forward to sharing insights with you all. #mucosalhealing #spatialtranscriptomics #IBD #UC #UC1andUC2 #precisionmedicine See you soon @globalimmuno.bsky.social !
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresExcited to launch the #ThankYouImmunology campaign to celebrate the Day of Immunology 2025 with @efis-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social & @iuis-online.bsky.social Stay tuned ✨
- 🚨 The countdown to #2025DayofImmunology starts now! ⏳ This year’s theme is #NeuroImmunology – exploring the critical connection between the immune system and the brain. 🧠💥
- Wow! A classic antibiotic, Streptomycin, might have a surprising new role: targeting tumor-initiating cells and potentially preventing metastasis. Repurposing old drugs for cancer therapy could be a game-changer! 🤩🤩 www.cell.com/cell-chemica...
- I knew that the imaging of this salivary gland organoid reminded me of something…
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio Ocares🚀 Episode 1 is out! Making the jump from postdoc to PI can feel overwhelming. In this episode of the ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast, we talk about fears, uncertainties, and the power of community in navigating this transition. 🎧 Listen now: www.alba.network/diversity-podcast2 youtu.be/O56ejPncoEU?...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresJust had a great chat with @deefitzgerald.bsky.social and the hots of the @lonelypipette.bsky.social about building a positive research culture. The conversation should come out soon on @network-alba.bsky.social, as part of their great mission to improve diversity and equity in brain sciences!
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresCheck out this great interview with Gustavo Monasterio Ocares for the @societymucosalimm.bsky.social ’s “Oral History Project”! A fantastic initiative to share what SMI means to us, and to spotlight the next generation of mucosal immunologists. #MucosalImmunology #SMI
- From South America to the global stage! Meet Dr. Eduardo Villablanca and Gustavo Monasterio Ocares as they share how SMI has supported their efforts to increase opportunities for mucosal immunologists in South America. Watch here: www.socmucimm.org/about/smi-or... #MucosalImmunology
- Had a great time chatting with Eduardo about how SMI has shaped our careers—especially as South Americans navigating challenging environments. We’ll keep working with SMI to open more doors for underrepresented communities in science! 🧪 #ScienceOutreach
- From South America to the global stage! Meet Dr. Eduardo Villablanca and Gustavo Monasterio Ocares as they share how SMI has supported their efforts to increase opportunities for mucosal immunologists in South America. Watch here: www.socmucimm.org/about/smi-or... #MucosalImmunology
- A population of tolerogenic DCs present in mice and humans mediating food and bugs tolerance! 🍲 🦠 ☮️ Prdm16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigens www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- IL17 can control behaviour 🫢🫢 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresGreat article by @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @ardemp.bskyverified.social outlining the health, economic and national security benefits of US biomedical research, and the devastation of government efforts to destroy our leading edge. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
- Science in service of humanity, especially fellow workers. With a bit of engineering and math, even a small change, like adjusting the angle of urinals, can ease the burden on cleaning staff. One thoughtful tweak. A cleaner, more dignified workplace. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
- With a little help from my friends… New cool story from @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social labs show that oral vaccines work way better when friendly microbes step in to outcompete gut pathogens. Teamwork makes the immune dream work! 🦠🫂 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio Ocares"More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the 'worst ever conflict' for reporters in history, a new report says." - @sharonzhang.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/isr...
- Reposted by Gustavo Monasterio OcaresTwo more weeks before the deadline to recruit a 3-year Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience - Bioinformatics applied to Brain Evo-Devo. Please RT and/or apply at: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
- Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
- The end of the US-centric science era? Deeply saddened for all colleagues impacted — but perhaps this marks the beginning of a new chapter, where top-tier science becomes more globally and democratically distributed.
- "This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now" 75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: go.nature.com/3QS4TLC
- Cholinergic enteric neurons expressing Piezo1 sense mechanical forces to regulate gut motility and modulate intestinal inflammation. #MechanoSensing www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Highly physiologically relevant paper 👀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
