Joanna Groom
Immunologist @WEHI_research. Passionate about inclusive conversations and diversity, both in and outside the Immune system. She/her
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- Hey "Friends" The 2025 edition of our #AwkwardLabPhoto celebrates an incredible year of growth, publications, promotions, PhD submissions and grads I feel immensely proud and grateful to be part of this team
- 🎉🥂 our @jem.org paper “Transient inhibition of type I interferon enhances CD8+ T cell stemness and vaccine protection” is in the 2025 Best of JEM collection This work was led by @benjbroom.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social check out the original thread.. bsky.app/profile/groo...
- Fantastic to wrap up the year with a lab retreat at CERES East Brunswick: Celebrating some nice wins in 2025 and setting us up for 2026 and beyond @wehi-research.bsky.social @benjbroom.bsky.social @brigetteduckworth.bsky.social @raymondqin.bsky.social @chinweetan.bsky.social
- 2025 lab photo shoot has happened! While we're deciding on the final cut, flash back to last years entry. Is anyone else is up for the #AwkwardLabPhoto challenge... or is this just an "us" thing 🤷♀️
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- Another fantastic @ASI annual meeting, with @benjbroom.bsky.social (New Investigator finalist) and @brigetteduckworth.bsky.social (Symposia session) sharing the latest work from our lab. Loved catching up with old friends and hearing the current research from this brilliant network.
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- Thanks @10xgenomics.bsky.social for the shout out and for making your data publicly available Why waste precious resources ($$) to reinvent data that already exists? Cool human datasets ready to go (Although now we have scratched the spatial itch, we may need to do more @chinweetan.bsky.social 🤔)
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- Reposted by Joanna GroomDear Everyone, I've read the #NHMRC draft strategy and I have notes ... So I'm going to...🧵🤔🧵😱🧵😵💫🧵🙏🧵🧵🧵 This is a repost from X because you all need to know! #NHMRCdraftStratergy #Ihavenotes #ValueFundamentalScience @nhmrc.bsky.social
- "Biology is messy and sometimes we need to embrace the mess" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Huge thanks to Amy Weinmann and Danielle Chisolm for beautifully highlighting our work and the importance of our approaches @natimmunol.nature.com
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- Thrilled to have our latest research @wehi-research.bsky.social published in @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... This work was an outstanding partnership between talented PhD student Len Dalit (now postdoc, no 🦋) and bioinformatician @chinweetan.bsky.social Thread below...
- CD4+ T follicular helper (Tfh) cells display remarkable functional flexibility, directing B cell responses during vaccination and all pathogen classes and being implicated during inflammatory and antibody-mediated diseases. Check out the Tfh “circle of influence” from @profshanecrotty.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Joanna GroomSo excited to share our first neuro focused paper from the lab, we show that CXCL4 (PF4) is transported into the brain by proteoglycans within the endothelial glycocalyx and that GAG binding also mediates the pro neurogenesis effects of CXCL4. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Excited to have our latest research published in @jem.org this week and also highlighted by @natrevimmunol.nature.com @wehi-research.bsky.social @benjbroom.bsky.social
- Thanks to @cytokinesociety.bsky.social Signals+ for highlighting our recent work @benjbroom.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social
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- Very excited our work out in @jem.org “Transient inhibition of type I interferon enhances CD8+ T cell stemness and vaccine protection” @wehi-research.bsky.social led by talented (and determined) PhD student @benjbroom.bsky.social Thread below.
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- Reposted by Joanna GroomOur paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
- Kicking off the new year searching for a postdoc to join our team @wehi-research.bsky.social Apply now and spread the word
- Congratulations @jenjuno.viralvaxlab.com and team for this essential update to the field Cue the purchase of anti-CXCR4 to increase antigen-specificity in CD4 T cell activation assays
