@mesmith428

Ph.D. student studying immune cells in polycystic kidney disease

Joined April 2013
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We were thrilled to welcome Dr. @Zimmermk1986 to share his lab’s fascinating work characterizing distinct macrophage subsets and their unique contributions to cyst growth and kidney disease in PKD! 👏
Kurt zimmerman@Zimmermk1986Mar 6
Happy to present some of the work from our lab looking at kidney macrophage heterogeneity in health and disease for the @YaleNephrology PKD center lecture!
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Alex Yashchecko, the first Ph.D. Student in lab, is defending his thesis today!
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Check out the latest work from our lab, done in collaboration with @FriedmanJed . Work was led by @sarah_jane210. @OuhscN
Kurt zimmerman@Zimmermk19861 Dec 2025
Frontiers | Maternal Western-Style Diet alters Kupffer Cell proportion leading to Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease when challenged with western diet in adulthood frontiersin.org/journals/imm…

Frontiers | Maternal western-style diet alters Kupffer cell proportion leading to metabolic...

Exposure to maternal western-style diet (mWD) is associated with early development of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) in offspri...

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Presenting my work at ASN Kidney Week!
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Next year is the scary one! Thank you to everyone who planned the party and showed up (as well as those that couldn’t make it)! @sarah_jane210 @mesmith428 @OuhscN @Maryam7835Bibi
Bibi Maryam@Maryam7835Bibi10 May 2025
Celebrating @Zimmermk1986 turning 39 (old) #TeamZimmermanLabForever #YayaTurns39
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AJP Renal@AJPRenal13 Feb 2025
We have a second #OpenAccess #ArticleinPress for everyone this week thanks to those from @UofOklahoma, The impact of maternal obesity on polycystic kidney disease progression in a mouse model (Sarah J. Miller et al.): ow.ly/1Cc050UYuV2 #Obesity #Diet
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After years of research, my masterpiece is finally here. Our study reveals how IL-1β drives atrial fibrillation by signaling in resident cardiac macrophages. Honored to share this work, now in @NatureCVR . @emedei70 @IBCCF_UFRJ 🔗 nature.com/articles/s44161-0…

IL-1β enhances susceptibility to atrial fibrillation in mice by acting through resident macrophages...

Nature Cardiovascular Research - Moreno-Loaiza et al. found that interleukin-1β, acting upon cardiac resident macrophages, promotes atrial fibrillation in mice, and this mechanism may...

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Extremely excited to welcome Dr. Karam Aboudehen from @StonyBrookMed for @OuhscN seminar series this month!
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Macrophages deliver polarizing messages to promote immune suppression in tumors. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: bit.ly/3Bbu8E9
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T cells that have not undergone MHC selection can bind soluble antigens, such as proteins or peptides, without the need for MHC presentation. 😱😱sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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1/ We report @ImmunityCP that the PD-1:PD-L1 axis promotes the development of B-cell memory and antibody responses in mice and humans. To our surprise, the pro-B-cell effect of PD-1 and PD-L1 is, at least partially, mediated in a B-cell-intrinsic manner. cell.com/immunity/abstract/S…
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Eric Topol
@EricTopol25 Nov 2024
A single-cell atlas of aging tissue demonstrates shared multi-omics of aging and cancer hallmarks nature.com/articles/s43587-0… @NatureAging @jacksonlab @justsaysinmice @OlgaAnczukow
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The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network. And the microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @Nature. 1/
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Eric Topol
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New @Nature A mechanism for why durable weight loss is so difficult: epigenetic memory of fat cells nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @vonMeyenn @laurahinte
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⁦@OuhscN⁩ ⁦@OUCollegeofMed⁩ celebrating #Kidneywk 2024
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Day 2 of @ASNKidney #KidneyWk STARS continues with our Career Guidance Panels for Graduate Students & Residents! Special thanks to our moderators, @DMohottige & Dr. Susie Hu, and all our panelists providing invaluable advice!
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Excited to share my work at ASN #Kidneywk Thank you to everyone who stopped by!
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The Zimmerman lab members presenting posters! Very proud of all their hard work! @OuhscN @OUCollegeofMed @mesmith428
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