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Brianne Barker
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Immunologist/Virologist teaching and doing research with undergrads at Drew University. 1x Jeopardy Champ. Science communicator podcasting on TWiV and Immune. Duke sports fan and cat mom.
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Today’s question: Do other animals have autoimmunity? What are some examples/what are they like? (My answer was yes but I didn’t know examples)

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There are a lot of examples of autoimmunity in dogs: www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-...

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Alopecia areata :⁠-⁠)

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Some of today’s fantastic questions (admittedly all answerable by thinking about pathogens as containing many epitope peptides or by thinking of MHC molecules presented by a cell as a population but cool nonetheless…)

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Brianne Barker
@bioprofbarker.bsky.social
Immunologist/Virologist teaching and doing research with undergrads at Drew University. 1x Jeopardy Champ. Science communicator podcasting on TWiV and Immune. Duke sports fan and cat mom.
258 followers68 following28 posts