Paulina Cruz de Casas

@paucruzdec

Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Mempel lab; cancer immunology)
PhD in Immunology (Kastenmüller lab)

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Paulina Cruz de Casas @paucruzdec Jun 1, 2024

Happy to share one more step in my scientific career: PhD defense DONE! I would like to thank my supervisor, Wolfgang Kastenmüller @Kamu_Lab @Wue_SI, my thesis committee, @Uni_WUE, @grk2581 and the DFG for making this possible.
Excited for the next steps to come! #PhD #Immunology

Paulina Cruz de Casas @paucruzdec Dec 5, 2024

nature.com/articles/s4158…

www.nature.com Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion Nature - A population of macrophages with exclusive molecular and functional signatures in the muscle spindles express machinery for synthesizing and releasing glutamate, and a cellular component,...

Paulina Cruz de Casas @paucruzdec Dec 15, 2023

Check out this interesting story that shows how Neisseria meningiditis hijacks the blood brain barrier S1P/S1PR axis for enhanced infectivity and invasion!
journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

journals.plos.org Sphingosine kinase 1/S1P receptor signaling axis is essential for cellular uptake of Neisseria... Author summary The gram-negative bacterium Neisseria meningitidis can cause live-threatening meningitis in humans after crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB). During infection, N. meningitidis may...

Paulina Cruz de Casas @paucruzdec Dec 14, 2023

Happy to share our latest review in which we disscuss how lymph nodes draining distinct tissues are immunologically and functionally different! rdcu.be/dtCUo @Kamu_Lab @NatRevImmunol @Wue_SI @Uni_WUE @grk2581