Dr. Dawn Bowdish
Professor of Medicine, McMaster University
Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
Board of Directors Lung Health Foundation
#macrophages #aging #respiratoryinfections #vaccinations #immunity #inflammation #scicomm
- I'm lucky that I remember when people are nice to me and forget when people wrong me, so I had totally forgotten this brutal criticism of my last CIHR grant on studying the immunology of COVID-19 infections & vaccinations. The reviewer didn't seem to think I was qualified to lead it. Implicit bias?
- Have you had, or are you considering getting a shingles (or other) vaccine to protect your brain health? Are you 50+ and Canadian? Would you potentially like to be on a podcast? If so, please DM me. A colleague is looking for people interested in speaking about their experience.
- My most enthusiastically received public talk this year was "Is dementia a vaccine-preventable condition?" and the wonderful team at the McMaster Alumni Association, @miramcmaster.bsky.social , and the McMaster Optimal Aging portal have made it available for you if you missed it. Enjoy!
- Learning lots about #lung autoimmunity as a contributor to severe #asthma from Dr Manali Mukherjee from #TheFirestone. Great reminder that blood is not always the right place to sample for autoimmunity -sputum can be a much more informative marker.
- Reposted by Dr. Dawn BowdishAre female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
- Post-doctoral opportunity @uofguelph.bsky.social to lead a translational program investigating how myocardial infarction drives coupled cardiopulmonary remodeling and neurological dysfunction. If interested, email jeremys@uoguelph.ca with CV, cover letter, by by Feb 27th. Good luck all!
- Reposted by Dr. Dawn BowdishThis poster is outside my little lab. There is nothing else like it. Please support this artist! @redpenblackpen.bsky.social
- Have you used CPAP, BiPAP or home ventilation? Researchers want to hear from you. Take the survey here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z6B3CGB En Francais: -https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IMPORTANCEHMV?lang=fr
- Does the misinformation coming from the US influence Canadian opinions on vaccines? Probably, but we don't have any data to know for sure. I speak to @theguardian.com here.
- Reposted by Dr. Dawn BowdishHappy New Year! May all your PCRs give you only specific bands of the appropriate sizes. May your gel extraction and miniprep yields be high. May your cloning always give you at least one correct colony, and your genotyping identify the mutants you are after. ✨
- My most enthusiastically received public talk this year was "Is dementia a vaccine-preventable condition?" and the wonderful team at the McMaster Alumni Association, @miramcmaster.bsky.social , and the McMaster Optimal Aging portal have made it available for you if you missed it. Enjoy!
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- I'm so delighted that my article on Canada's need for a national vaccine registry made @macleans.bsky.social 'The Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top 10 Stories on How to Fix Canada'. As the tagline says ' COVID made it clear. Measles made it an emergency.' macleans.ca/best-of/the-...
- Do you have experience with respiratory and sleep support therapies such as positive airway pressure (PAP) machines or ventilators for breathing or sleep apnea? If so, researchers want to talk to you! Scan the QR code below or click on this survey link. #pulmsky www.surveymonkey.com/r/IMPORTANCE...
- Publication Alert: One benefit of vaccination that is particularly difficult to quantify is how it reduces antibiotic use and slows the development of antimicrobial resistance. 'Peri–Covid-19 Antibiotic Use and Antimicrobial Resistance in Older Adults' led by Derek MacFadden and Nick Daneman (1/n)
- Post-doc opportunity with a dear friend & colleague of mine in Gothenburg, Sweden studying how neutrophil serine proteases counteract destructive inflammation. The position is a full-time position for two years. Start date: flexible, but ideally spring 2026. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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- Congratulations to @kerryhilligan.bsky.social for her Doherty Lectureship for her most excellent body of work studying tissue immunity to infections. #ASI2025 #PerthASI
- Having a blast at #ASI2025 #PerthASI &very much looking forward to the Lafferty debate with this team.Topic =‘AI in Immunology: Not really a Transformative Technology, Just New Bioinformatics We All Pretend to Understand’ We are arguing for but with the double negative that’s against. #AussiesAreFun
- Reposted by Dr. Dawn Bowdish“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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- Excited to share my acting debut with Ontario's public broadcaster TVO (@tvodocs.bsky.social @therundowntvo.bsky.social & more). I was in an episode on fever for the TVO Kids series 'Burps, Butts, and Bones' (do they know their audience or what?). I learned about acting from the +++talented Ryan.
- Attention post-docs (or PDFs to be).... here's an opportunity to work in Japan for a short research stay. As I always say to my PhD students "Get a PhD, see the world". www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fe...
- Would you like to learn about how vaccines protect the aging brain from dementia? I'll be doing this free webinar on the topic with Anthony Levinson & @miramcmaster.bsky.social . Free, fun, and fact-based. I would love to see you there.
- I loved doing thos podcast with Scott Sexsmith and Michael Friscolanti, from Village Media about Canada’s loss of measles-free status. I lime having the longer discussions to get i to the complexity in a way you can’t in most news articles.
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- Today Canada lost its measles elimination status. The problem is (primarily) due to failures in our health systems, not individual decision making and fixing it is not as simple as telling people to get vaccinated (my thoughts below with more to come). nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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- Happy Hallowe'en from the Bowdish lab.
- Reposted by Dr. Dawn BowdishInterested in joining the Powrie Lab? We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study the neutralisation capacity of human anti-IL-10 autoantibodies. You’ll be part of our new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology!🧫🦠 Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...
- ICYMI: What's new on the Canadian adult vaccination scene? Link to the National Vaccine Summit with me, Dr. Christine Palmay (family physician), Dr. Sadaf Faisal (pharmacist), Anthony Quinn (Canadian Association of Retired Persons). everythingexplained.ca
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- The family doctor crisis, underfunding of public health, misinformation, liberal exemption policies, lack of access to vaccine hesitancy clinics have all led to the resurgence of measles. Was very happy to be invited to join @jeyantvo.bsky.social at @tvotoday.bsky.social to discuss.
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- Hey #HamOnt - I'm looking forward to talking @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social (Central Library 10:30am tomorrow) on "Is dementia a vaccine preventable disease?" Register here! @miramcmaster.bsky.social events.hpl.ca/event/14227566
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- Thank you so much to Research Canada for recognizing that advocacy work is important, to my nominators for taking the time to nominate me, and to @machealthsci.bsky.social and the Research Institute for St. Joe's, Hamilton for their ongoing support. #grateful!
- Reposted by Dr. Dawn BowdishNew paper alert! We used our fav technique, genetic suppression, to understand how FimX controls function of the T4P PilB motor ATPase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Great collab with the Ellison lab at U Georgia who helped with some fancy microscopy to capture pilus dynamics! doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- This is going to be an excellent session on the benefits of vaccination for RSV and others with Dr. Joshua Wald, a #Firestone clinician with a special interest in COPD. He was just telling me about some really compelling new research this morning - I'm signed up! #lungs #vaccines
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- What the latest on adult vaccines? Come join me and and exceptional panel at Zoomer media to get the lowdown. • Recommended Vaccines & How To Get Them ‣ Navigating Provincial Health Systems ‣ The Role Your Pharmacist Can Play ‣ Emerging Science ‣ Fighting Disinformation & Vaccine Fatigue. Free!
- I spoke to the CBC this week about the effects of having universal COVID vaccines in some provinces but for pay in others. "... all serious infections tend to have a bigger impact for people who can least afford to pay." See our review for data to back up that statement tinyurl.com/3tx7fc3z
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- Reposted by Dr. Dawn BowdishTerrific new review of flu & COVID vaccine recommendations in Vaccine from Jessica Breznik, Matt Miller, & @msmacrophage.bsky.social! They make a compelling data-driven case for expanding COVID vaccines & optimizing timing for COVID waves, as we do for flu.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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