@TheNixonLab

Members of the Division of Infectious Diseases within Weill Cornell Medical College 🔬🧬👨🏽‍🔬

 New York, NY
instagram.com/nixonlab/
Joined September 2018
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New research out in @NatureComms, funded by @NIHRMaudsleyBRC & @NIH, has found that #DNA sequences which originate from ancient viral infections contribute to susceptibility for psychiatric disorders like #schizophrenia, #bipolar disorder & #depression. 👉kcl.ac.uk/news/ancient-viral…
"Our results suggest that [ancient viral sequences in the human genome] probably play a more important role in the human brain than originally thought." Dr Timothy Powell, Senior Lecturer at King’s IoPPN

ALT "Our results suggest that [ancient viral sequences in the human genome] probably play a more important role in the human brain than originally thought." Dr Timothy Powell, Senior Lecturer at King’s IoPPN

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Rodrigo Duarte@3RDuarte24 May 2024
Replying to @powell_tim_r
@powell_tim_r, @TheNixonLab and myself wrote a piece for the @ConversationUK to explain what our research on human endogenous retroviruses mean for Psychiatry (and also what it DOESN'T mean!) We hope you enjoy it! theconversation.com/depressi…

Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA in our genome – new...

‘Hervs’ date back hundreds of thousands of years – and play an important role in regulating genes.

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Rodrigo Duarte@3RDuarte22 May 2024
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Our paper is here: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…, but you can find a summary of the work here: kcl.ac.uk/news/ancient-viral… #Genetics #MentalHealth #HERVs #Neuroscience #Psychiatry (3/5)

Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights...

Nature Communications - Duarte et al. report that common genetic variants linked to psychiatric disorders influence the regulation of ancient retroviruses integrated into the genome. This suggests...

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Some good news heading into a solemn weekend - earlier this week I received a letter signed by @HeartBobH informing me of my promotion to Associate Professor of Clinical #Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. @wcmcpathology 1/4
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'@KingsIoPPN researchers Dr Tim Powell @powell_tim_r and Dr Rodrigo Duarte @3RDuarte join Prof Douglas Nixon to discuss their new study into ancient viral DNA sequences known as HERVs, and psychiatric disorders: maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts… @ConversationUK
Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA in our genome – new research

ALT Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA in our genome – new research

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Manvendra Singh@manvendr710 Nov 2023
poster 118 - Our upcoming work of how TEs can make some human “Elite” - spontaneous controller of HIV, which goes long way if we think how our ancestors eventually repressed the retroviruses (Endogenous now) An odyssey from @CedricFeschotte and @TheNixonLab lab #EMBOMobileGenome
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Rodrigo Duarte@3RDuarte26 May 2023
🙌 Thank you, @thenixonlab, @mlbendall, and @cellstoshell, for organizing such an incredible workshop!👏 It's inspiring to witness the power of interdisciplinary research at its best! Thanks to @WCM_ID & @WeillCornell for fostering such collaborations! @powell_tim_r @KingsIoPPN
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Congratulations to our newly minted MSc, Phoebe Fei! Phoebe has been doing some excellent work looking at HERVs in uveal melanoma and metastasis, and we are so proud of her!
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Ndhlovu Lab@ndhlovulab29 Mar 2023
Welcoming Dr. Fauci @WeillCornell with Dr. Ndhlovu, Dr. Nixon, and our ID Division Chief Dr. Gulick for the 2023 Ralph Nachman MD Distinguished Visiting Professor 🎉🎉 @ndhlovulab @TheNixonLab @WCM_ID #HIV #COVID
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Super proud + super excited about Sabrina Leddy’s work on the role of TEs in elite control of HIV! In collab with @TheNixonLab and @manvendr7. Sabrina presented to fellow graduate field members today and knocked it out of the park! #proudPI
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Day 0 of our first annual meeting on collab project HERVxHIVxLymphoma with @TheNixonLab, Ethel Cesarman, & host Fabio Leal in Ipanema 🇧🇷☀️ #lifeisgood
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Naso-oropharyngeal microbiome from breast cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 @GisCurty @cellstoshell @mlbendall @WeillCornell @WCM_ID frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

Frontiers | Naso-oropharyngeal microbiome from breast cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19

Due to immunosuppressive cancer therapies, cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 have a higher chance of developing severe symptoms and present a higher mo...

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Newest from the lab - great work from Nicholas Dopkins, @cellstoshell, @JezMarston, @_pfei, @mlbendall! @WeillCornell @mbiojournal @WCM_ID journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Endogenous Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition Attenuates TLR5-Mediated Inflammation | mBio

The microbiota is a potent reservoir of immunostimulatory and immunosuppressive motifs that fundamentally shape host immunity. Despite broad associations between microbial composition and host...

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Endogenous Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition Attenuates TLR5-Mediated Inflammation dlvr.it/Sgyxmc
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Gan Lab@LiGanLab30 Dec 2022
Check out our new review with @TheNixonLab on transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease. We discuss new data that link dysregulated TE expression to AD pathogenesis. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis @LiGanLab & @TheNixonLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @TrendsNeuro
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'Transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis' by Teresa Evering, Jez Marston, @LiGanLab & Douglas Nixon @TheNixonLab cell.com/trends/neuroscience…
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How do our cells silence the thousands of endogenous retroviruses that have colonized the human #genome? Nicholas Dopkins of @TheNixonLab has compiled a field guide describing known mechanisms: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Thanks @HOPEforHIVCure @WCM_ID #transposon #bioinformatics
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Kudos to @hamarillo_ on presenting her work on scRNSeq to assess HERVs together with the great team from @TheNixonLab
matthew bendall - mlbendall.bsky.social@mlbendall19 Oct 2022
@hamarillo_ is presenting our new tool, Stellarscope at #Singlecellgenomics2022 Nice work Helena! @TheNixonLab
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@hamarillo_ is presenting our new tool, Stellarscope at #Singlecellgenomics2022 Nice work Helena! @TheNixonLab
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