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Cornelius Taabazuing

8 months

Early X-Mas 🎁! My lab's first paper is finally out @CellReports and our 2nd collaborative paper with @BrodskyIgor and @SunnyShinLab redefining how the Casp11 inflammasome forms has been accepted. Stay tuned for the final version of that but first, a 🧵👇🏾

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

First day as a new PI. We're officially open now! #NewPI #Taabazuinglab

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

Hi all, my name is Cornelius Taabazuing and I'm postdoc @sloan_kettering . My research aims to understanding how the innate immune system is regulated. I'm broadly interested in programmed cell death. Outside lab, I try to recruit the next gen scientists. #blackinimmunorollcall

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

My name is Cornelius Taabazuing. I'm a postdoc @sloan_kettering studying pyroptosis but an incoming Asst. Prof. @BB_UPenn . My lab opens January 2022 and we will focus on mechanisms of cell death and how that impacts immunogenicity. We are recruiting at all levels! #BIIRollCall

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

That moment in lab when you get a REALLY interesting result and you're the only person in the world who knows this - it never gets old! Also, it's the day before a holiday and not a single soul is around so you can shout in celebration. Bonus! Happy holidays folks. Stay safe!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

Beyond excited to share that the Taabazuing lab will be opening in January 2022 @BB_UPenn . I could not have done it without the support of FAMILY, FRIENDS, AMAZING mentors @DBachovchin @knappchem1 Nate Schnarr, Tom Cech, Zane Barlow, Guy Salvesen, and colleagues @MSKEducation

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

Just in time for job apps! Happy that the NIAID @NIH has funded my K99/R00 application. Equally excited to share that I was also selected to receive the E. E. Just Postgraduate fellowship. BIG THANKS to everyone who's helped me get here, especially my current mentor @DBachovchin !

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Boldly announcing our existence with this new sign! Join us and increase our atomic mass. We are well funded and looking to hire a postdoc to work on uncovering the mechanisms of how the innate immune system activates adaptive immunity. Experience with mice is preferred. RT!!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

9 months

In the last 2 weeks, the lab recieved 2 grants and notice that our 1st manuscript is accepted! Thankful for this amazing group of scientists that are pushing us to new heights!! Cheers to many more celebrations 🍾 #happynewPI @TheBourneImmuno @PatrickExconde @_RachelMari3

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Submitted!! @HHMINEWS #FreemanHrabowski #HappyNewPI #PositiveVibes

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

#BlackInImmunoRollCall I'm Cornelius, an Assistant Professor @Penn in the Biochemistry Department @BB_UPenn . My lab is focused on understanding innate immune regulation and how it communicates with adaptive immunity. Passionate about science, good mentoring, & improving DEI!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Beyond excited to share the first preprint from my lab!! We identified IL-18 and IL-1Beta as direct substrates of the noncanonical inflammasomes and uncover the molecular basis of IL-1Beta recognition and processing. #happyNewPI .

The tetrapeptide sequence of IL-1β regulates its recruitment and activation by inflammatory caspases

The mammalian innate immune system uses germline-encoded cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) to detect intracellular danger signals. At least six of these PRRs are known to form multipro...

www.biorxiv.org

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Great start for the week and school year for the lab. We finally got the NOA for the R00 Award. We are looking for grad students interested in uncovering mechanisms of cell death to work on these exciting projects!! #happynewPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

Immortalizing today...ladies and gentlemen, we have DNA! First PCR and DNA gel was a success. Feeling like a real PI now that we had our first lab meeting too. I'm grateful for this wonderful group.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

First lab outing. Lots to celebrate - past present and future rotation students, our SUIP student leaving, the start of the first grad student and tech, and the submission of the first proposal as faculty. Loving the momentum and thankful that I get to do this for a living!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

I just won the postdoc lottery!! Excited to welcome Chris @TheBourneImmuno to the team. Looking forward to doing great science and putting in the work outside of the lab to improve DEI!! #firstpostdoc #HAPPYnewPI

Dr. Christopher Bourne (he/him)

@TheBourneImmuno

2 years

IT'S OFFICIAL! I will be joining the Taabazuing lab @taabaman for my postdoc this summer! After a long and fruitful interview circuit, the opportunity to work for a PI like Cornelius was too good to pass up.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

I got the travel award to attend @ASBMB in Seattle. It's the first grant awarded as a #NewPI ! Excited to present and connect w/ folks. My incoming superstar postdoc @TheBourneImmuno was also awarded the first postdoc fellowship we applied for - a day after his B-Day! #happyNewPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Taught my first in person graduate class today and it was a lot of fun! Reminded me of the other aspect of this job that I love.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Today, everyone in the lab dressed up as me for Halloween 🤣🤣🤣. They made shirts with some of my common sayings. Really grateful for this fun group of diverse individuals. I will introduce them separately soon. Happy Halloween!🎃👻

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

7 months

This year, we had a record number of graduate applicants. As interviews are starting, we created a resource 👇🏾 to help students prepare for the interview and get into their dream schools. If folks have additional advice, please share below. Good luck!

A practical guide to graduate school interviewing for historically excluded individuals | American...

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Love to see it!! First time all 3 hoods are being used at once. Thanks @GarciaLabMS for donating me the 6 foot hood. It's in good hands. 😁

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Today is the Taabazuing lab LABIVERSARY! I had a personal goal to submit a manuscript by the anniversary, and thanks to the amazing trainees, we are drafting our first manuscript now. Not usually one for long threads, but I will share 3 things I learned that may help #newPI .

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Thanks for the feature @MolecularCell ! Representation matters!

Introducing new group leaders: Cornelius Taabazuing

Cornelius Taabazuing discusses the importance of representation as the only Black faculty in his department, the research in his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, how he aims to build an...

www.cell.com

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, we now have pictures of proteins! The first western blot from my lab by the talented @BHillPayne was a success! #happyPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

The lab welcomed the first (of many to come) summer student from the CBio program here @Penn . I got my start 13 years ago from a similar program intended to improve representation in STEM, HHMI's EXROP program. Happy to be in a position to pay it forward! #RepresentationMatters !

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

My son starts elementary school for the first time this fall. I was angry and sad about Buffalo, and now I'm just heartbroken. Not only am I not safe, now I have to worry about my kids too. Condolences to all the victims and their families. #SaveOurKids #EndGunViolence

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 month

I am honored to receive the 2024 @BlackinCancer Young Investigator Award! Thanks for providing the space to share our work and for supporting our research. Thank you for all you do to advocate for health equity research. Thank you, Emerald Foundation! 🙏🏾 #bicconf24

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

What an AMAZING time celebrating all the Endowed Professors @Penn . It's great to be in such a supportive environment with so many inspirational colleagues. I love my job! @bradylabupenn @Dr_RPhillips @kevinbmahoney @kelliejurado @MorrisBLab

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Had a BLAST catching up with @JoelBabdor after his AMAZING seminar on the multi-omic approach he uses to understand how the gut microbiome influences patient immune functions. He even helped me make history as he captured the moment I got my official faculty ID! #officialnewPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

MSK can and will do better! Had a productive meeting to discuss an action plan to improve diversity and fight racisn. Proud to be at @sloan_kettering ! To all the people that supported the petition, THANK YOU! They heard us and it's time to take action. Stay tuned for details...

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

What a pretty sight! 😍 Progress! #TaabazuingLab2022

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

7 months

Excited to share the second manuscript from my lab, a collaboration with @BrodskyIgor and @SunnyShinLab . Here, we show that rather than the inflammasome activating Casp11, Casp11 needs to be active and autoproteolyzed to form the inflammasome!

Catalytic activity and autoprocessing of murine caspase-11 mediate noncanonical inflammasome...

Caspase-11 catalytic activity and autoprocessing play key roles upstream rather than downstream of its assembly into higher-order inflammasome complexes in response to cytosolic bacterial lipopolys...

elifesciences.org

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Really ENJOYING my first @KeystoneSymp on Innate Immunity! Thanks to the organizers for arranging an incredible meeting with GREAT science and colleagues. We just submitted the lab's first paper on the work I shared at the meeting. #HappyNewPI #BeNiceReviewer2 #PodiumSelfie

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Introducing the updated TaabazuingLab. Meet the team . We welcome a new postdoc, new grad student, and new undergraduate to the team. Lots to celebrate! 2 papers in revision and 1 internal grant awarded. Feeling blessed to work with this diverse group!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Great week for the Taabazuing lab. Welcome Pat, the first grad student who officially joined the lab after an awesome rotation. Pat recieved his BA in Chemistry/Biochemistry from College of the Holy Cross. Excited to do science with this rising star! #happynewPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

The Immunology Graduate Group @IGGPenn retreat yesterday was AMAZING! I got to meet most of the first year students. What a great group of young scholars. Also passed by the lab and we are on schedule to open in January 2022! We are hiring at all levels.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

My lab is looking for a hard working and creative technician interested in understanding mechanisms of cell death. Please share. interes https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/upenn/careers-at-penn/job/Stellar-Chance-F9/Research-Specialist-A_JR00048145-1

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Excited to announce the launch of a new initiative @Penn , the annual Juneteenth Seminar. In partnership with @PennMicro MicroIDEAS, @IDEAL_Research @UPennEEJust , we are honored to host the inaugural speaker, Dr. Darren Higgins from @HarvardMicro . Join us on 6/16 for this event!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 month

My ❤️ is full! Yesterday, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski delivered a powerful message about ways in which institutions can create INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE to an audience of ~675 faculty, students, and staff for our second annual Juneteenth Lecture. @Penn @PennMedicine @BB_UPenn @PennCDB

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Our deli fridge just arrived! Last major piece of equipment so looking forward to a steady state of productivity soon. That's how it works right? #HappyNewPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

7 months

Celebrated the last day of 2023 with a review submission and a bottle of Green Lable from South Africa. In 2023, we had 2 DEI papers published, 2 research articles accepted (1 published). 1 review submitted, hired 2 postdocs, and 3/7 grants awarded, 2 pending. #2023wasepic !

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Hard to say goodbye to a new friend and colleague, Dr. Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, who welcomed me to @Penn with open arms. Huge loss for us but excited to see all you will accomplish @MSKCancerCenter . Both are fantastic places to do science! They are lucky to have you my friend!!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

7 months

HAPPY LABIVERSARY to us!! What a fun 2 years it's been! EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for all the trainees and colleagues who have supported us!🍾🍻 For incoming faculty, would it be helpful if current Assistant Professors wrote a review of the equipment they bought w/ pros and cons?

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

Excited to announce the launch of the website at the @BMBGGUPENN retreat. Honored to have been featured on the retreat poster. Our atomic mass is 2 right now but still recruiting.

Taabazuing Lab

www.taabazuinglab.com

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Welcome to Penn officially Joel! I'll have to go with you to get your faculty ID when you arrive so we can document it like you did mine.

Dr. Joel Babdor (he/him)

@JoelBabdor

2 years

I am excited to announce that I'll be joining the University of Pennsylvania as an Asst. Professor in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics. The #BabdorLab will study the dialogue between the #Microbiome & the #ImmuneSystem for #PrecisionMedicine .

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Happy Juneteenth! The inaugural seminar @Penn was a huge success. Inspiring seminar by @HigginsLabHMS to a packed auditorium. Powerful messages, "if you can't see it, you can't be it." Let's all change science, "be an upstander!".

Higgins Lab @ HMS

@HigginsLabHMS

1 year

Thanks to UPenn Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics for hosting PI Darren Higgins for the inaugural Juneteenth seminar. Kudos to all the organizers and especially Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing for developing such a wonderful forum to celebrate the holiday and diversity in science.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Having a blast hosting the @BB_UPenn at our house for the new faculty meet and greet! What a great group of scientists! Love my colleagues and couldn't be any happier to be a part of such a great department! #happynewPI @Penn

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Really enjoying my first @ASBMB conference! Excited to share some of our work at 3:30 pm in room 618 - 620 at the cancer signaling and apoptosis session. Come check us out. #DiscoverBMB2023

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Extremely proud of rotation students @BHillPayne and @PatrickExconde for presenting the first posters from the Taabazuing lab. Their western blots were the talk of the town! That feeling of being the corresponding author on the poster for the first time...incredible! #newPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

I absolutely love my science family. Grateful for these wonderful colleagues. Thanks @BB_UPenn and especially my chair @KristenWLynch1 for organizing a department baby shower for my family. We feel so blessed to have you all in our lives! #HappyNewPI #BlessedAndGrateful

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

Grateful for the feature. Thanks @sloan_kettering and @phdgprotein86 again for compiling this.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

@MSKCancerCenter

4 years

👏 Congratulations to Cornelius Taabazuing ( @taabaman ) who was named to @CellPressNews ' 100 inspiring Black scientists in America. Cornelius is a research fellow in the Bachovchin lab studying functions of enzymes in normal and pathological processes.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

After months, we found the right person! This week we welcomed our technician, Claudia, to the lab. Claudia just completed a postbac program @UMBC and will be applying to graduate schools in 2 years. Excited about our momentum! Still hiring postdocs! Formal job post coming soon.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Amazing doesn't even come close to describing this symposium! What a fun day of hosting these future leaders in science. @EvertNjomen @TigistTamir @sofiquinodoz @MeghnaG27 @tanlongzhi @JinfanW Thank you!! @BMBGGUPENN @BB_UPenn

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

#NewProfilePic

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

Humbled and honored to be included in this outstanding list of black excellence! Thank you @phdgprotein86 for putting this inspiring list together. #BlackintheIvory #BlackInSTEM

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Toasting to another trip around the sun with my birthday twin @DanPBall from my postdoc lab @DBachovchin @dan . Truly appreciate my lab and extended lab members! Loved the surprise today! #happynewPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Ran into an old friend yesterday and he reminded me of something, "haste makes waste". Celebrate the success of others but don't feel like you're falling behind, run your own race! Happy Friday all! #FridayThoughts

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Such a pleasure and honor to go back to @UMassAmherst where it all began as the keynote speaker for @UMassChemistry ResearchFest 2022. Great catching up with @knappchem1 and others. Western mass is so gorgeous!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

Excited to be the inaugural speaker for the Yale Emerging Scholars seminar series!

Yale Black Postdoctoral Association

@YaleBPA

4 years

We are beyond excited to welcome our 1st Emerging Scholar speaker, the amazing @taabaman to Yale on November 12th! He will share his work in talk designed for a broad scientific audience. You don’t want to miss it! DM for details!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

5 months

Tonight, I'm toasting to good data and @PatrickExconde absolutely crushing his talk at the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD) symposium today @pennvet . @BMBGGUPENN . So many people mentioned what a great talk he gave to me. #ProudPI

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

11 months

Can't wait to officially welcome you @Caroline_Bartma . Thankful for these great colleagues!

Dr. Caroline Bartman

@Caroline_Bartma

11 months

so great to hang out with these new UPenn PIs! so excited to officially join next month @MustafaMir16 @taabaman

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@taabaman

3 months

I feel rejuvenated! Great insights from people at different career stages with such diverse experiences. @bradylabupenn @MorrisBLab @TheBourneImmuno @neuro_melody

Mustafa Mir

@MustafaMir16

3 months

@taabaman An amazing and inspiring event! Thank you and all the other panelists for sharing your insights and experiences.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

It's happening tomorrow! I'll be sharing my work on proteolytic regulation of pyroptosis with the Yale community tomorrow. Tune in if you've ever been curious about our work.

Yale Black Postdoctoral Association

@YaleBPA

4 years

@YalePostdocAsso @YaleWestCampus @YSACNAS @yalegsas @MCDB_Yale @YaleMBB @YaleGenetics @YaleMed Please spread the word that we’d love to have you join us! Also, graduate students are welcome to join @taabaman for lunch (DM to get sign up info).

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 months

Beyond excited for the event on Thursday 4/25 in Smilow 11-146 at 3pm. I've been sharing more of the unfiltered version of what it's like to be a Black scientist in America. This is part of a series of events leading up to our Juneteenth lecture by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. Join us!

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@taabaman

1 month

They were coming for academia but I held it down. 😄

BlackinCancer

@BlackinCancer

1 month

Breakout lunch with Black In Cancer: Mini Panel w/ friends of BIC #bicconf24 #blackincancer Academia vs Non-Academics

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

8 months

Happy Holidays! From the Taabazuing, Tolbert, and Bernstein lab to yours! Our second annual white 🐘 joint holiday celebration was a blast! @kara_bernstein @tolbertrnalab @blackprof77

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@taabaman

4 years

Real change can only be achieved once institutional practices do! We need to do better @sloan_kettering

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@taabaman

2 years

Happy to see the work from our first collaboration with the incredible @BrodskyIgor and @SunnyShinLab out. HUGE KUDOS to @DanielAkuma5 who led this elegant work that forces us to reconsider how inflammasomes form. Congrats all and looking forward to more fun collaborations!

Igor Brodsky

@BrodskyIgor

2 years

Excited to share our story on noncanonical inflammasome assembly . This is the fruition of a lot of hard work by outstanding @CAMBUpenn MSTP student @DanielAkuma5 , collab w new friend/colleague @taabaman & long-term collaborator/partner @SunnyShinLab 🥰🧵

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@taabaman

3 months

Ever wonder what Assistant Professors do? Spend a day in my life.

Black In Biophysics

@BlackInBiophys

3 months

Thursday, May 30th: #BIBPSLife Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing, who is an Assistant Professor at @BB_UPenn , will take over our @BlackInBiophys account and share his #PI life💪🏾 Follow @taabaman on X! 🤩🤩🤩 #BlackInBiophysics #BIBPSWeek #BIBPS24 #BlackExcellence

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@taabaman

2 months

Excited to host Dr. Freeman Hrabowski for the 2nd annual Juneteenth lecture. If you haven't already please register and join us!

IDEAL Research at UPenn

@IDEAL_Research

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@taabaman

2 years

Had a blast giving the first faculty seminar for the @IDEAL_Research . This group of undergraduate researchers are amazing. The future of science is bright! #bucketlist #podiumselfie #newPI @BMBGGUPENN

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

6 months

I'm excited to visit Drexel next week. If you love innate immunity, come hear about our recent findings.

Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

@DrexelBiochem

6 months

Excited to host Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing @taabaman @BB_UPenn @PennMedicine for our department seminar series next Monday at 1 pm @DrexelMedicine

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 years

Perfect day for this to drop - in celebration of Juneteenth! Check out our latest review on the NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasomes out now in Immunological Reviews. Thanks to my co-authors @DBachovchin @AndrewGriswold6 . Happy Juneteenth!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

5 months

Great food, even better company! Excited to welcome the new postdoc @madhurak_12 to the lab! Lots to celebrate - 2 fellowship submissions and 2 papers published to start the year. Cheers to more fun ahead 🍻

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Being a #newPI there are many firsts. Truly honored to host another faculty for the first time as faculty, our Raiziss Seminar speaker today, the great @TGOliver2 . Join us today in the Austrian Auditorium at 12pm today to hear her work on how Myc regulates SCLC plasticity.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 months

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨 How do caspases recognize thier substrates? Check out our latest review @mbiojournal spearheaded by the talented @PatrickExconde and @TheBourneImmuno detailing the latests insights of caspase substrate specificities.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

6 months

New Publication 🚨! Excited to share our latest review out today in Cells. We describe innovative ways, including oncolytic viruses and LNPs, to induce pyroptosis and rewire the tumor microenvironment to elicit antitumor immunity. Best month to drop! 😉

Harnessing Pyroptosis for Cancer Immunotherapy

Cancer immunotherapy is a novel pillar of cancer treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight tumors and generally results in robust antitumor immunity. Although immunotherapy has achieved...

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

7 months

Had an AMAZING visit with the @UCIBioSci department. Fantastic science, faculty, trainees, and scenery! What a way to kickoff the first seminar of the year. Thanks @QuinaScience @NirDrayman @telomerase2 @tinoco_lab for a fun evening of laughs!!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

It was such an honor to stand in solidarity with 52 other black scientists and contribute to this piece that discusses the barriers to creating a truly diverse and equitable scientific enterprise.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Beyond excited to have @blackprof77 join our department!! Amazing scientist and great friend! Welcome brother!!!!

UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys

@BB_UPenn

1 year

Great News: Blanton Tolbert, Vice President for Science Leadership and Culture at HHMI and leader in RNA structural biology, is joining our Department and the Institute for RNA Innovation at Penn starting in July! Welcome, Blanton, to the Penn community!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

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It was an absolute privilege to break bread with this amazing group of future faculty after the NYC-NCI postdoc symposium. Thanks for the keynote invite @AnnaKnoer @ktsanov @KanishkaTiwary and many others not tagged from @MSKPDA @nyuniversity @Columbia .

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

@sloan_kettering has been an amazing place to work at - one of the best! I'm sad to leave but ecstatic about what lies ahead. My lab will focus on uncovering mechanisms of how cell death impacts immunity. If that interests you, we will be hiring postdocs and techs, please DM me.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 months

Help us welcome Teni ( @BlackinCancer mentoring program undergraduated intern), Matilda (high school), and Robbie ( @IGGPenn graduate) to the lab @Penn ! Huge thanks to @BWFUND for providing funding for the intern. Honored to help shape thier scientific journeys! #growinglab

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Thankful for this awesome group of scientists. Had a blast at the dark history of Philly tour. Happy Halloween from my lab family to yours!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 months

Query proofs approved by the critters at the biopond. Stay tuned for the publication...

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 months

Absolutely amazing time at my first @GordonConf on proteases and their inhibitors. Loved sharing our work to develop a new probe and inhibitor led by the talented postdoc @TheBourneImmuno in collaboration with @GMBurslem lab with this community. Tuscany 🇮🇹 was a great location!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

4 months

Excited to be one of the Keynote speakers for this year's @ImmunoDiverse colloquium @immunox @UCSF . Join us for exciting talks and panel discussions.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Love to see it!! Let's go!! 👏🏾

Dr. Christopher Bourne (he/him)

@TheBourneImmuno

1 year

I officially started my postdoctoral fellowship in the Taabazuing lab! @taabaman I'm already running an experiment on the first day!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

9 months

Congrats to all the @BWFUND #PDEP and #PATH winners. Excited to see so many @Penn colleagues at this meeting, especially these two rockstars @TheBourneImmuno and @yiweichang .

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Dr. Bourne @TheBourneImmuno will be joining us this July. Dr. Bourne is the recipient of the @Penn Penn Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship and a @BWFUND PDEP Fellow. Excited to have the first postdoc join and looking forward to his contributions!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

Congrats Dr. @SahanaDRao on a fantastic defense. Welcome to the other side. Please show some love for this newly minted doc!

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Excited to share the work from my lab at the next @InflammaZoom meeting! Join us on April 24th at 3pm GMT.

Dave Boucher

@dave_boucher

1 year

Join us for the next InflammaZoom webinar on the 24th of April 3pm GMT with 2 exciting talks from @taabaman and Dr. Youssef Aachoui! More details soon. @InflammaZoom

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

Check out this awesome graphic that will be used for my lab website that was professionally made by the talented @Na_y_ak from the amazing @janetiwasa lab. Thanks for working with me on this!

Janet Iwasa

@janetiwasa

3 years

For #SeeingDiversity this June, Shraddha @Na_y_ak worked with Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing @taabaman , a postdoctoral fellow at @sloan_kettering who will soon be an incoming Assistant Professor @Penn !

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Brother from another mother!

Silva Lab at Duke

@thesilvalab

1 year

Finally getting the chance to meet and hang out with the great @taabaman at the @ASMBM Annual meeting! So many amazing scientists in one place! #DiscoveryBMB

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

9 months

IYKYK @QuinaScience @JoelBabdor @MorrisBLab

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

2 years

Our summer student, Jan Lopez, absolutely crushed his project and presentation today! He did a chalk talk part way through. All the SUIP students did a fantastic job. Excited to host more students next year.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

3 years

Congrats to all the winners and THANK YOU everyone that voted. It means a lot to me as these are the last few events I'll participate in as a postdoc @sloan_kettering . What an amazing journey it's been!!

MSK ScienceEducation

@MSKEducation

3 years

Congrats to our #NPAW2021 #MSKPostdocs photo 📸 contest winners! 🥇 @taabaman from the @DBachovchin lab 🥈 @EliramNof from the Deasy lab 🥉 Qingwen Jiang from the @KarunaMDPhD lab

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

8 months

My first @BB_UPenn retreat @SkytopLodge was EPIC! Fantastic science and fun colleagues! Congrats to the first years who took the roast with poise and grace. I love my department! Thanks @KristenWLynch1 for your leadership. @Penn @PennMedicine

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

1 year

Enjoyed visiting the Biology Department today @UTSC . Thanks for the invite Guillaume! Had a blast sharing our work with your department and meeting new friends. Your students are fantastic! Another first #newPI experience.

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Cornelius Taabazuing

@taabaman

5 years

Postdocs from MSK Making Skool Kool for these middle school kids! Amazing experience teaching these incredibly smart kids about cancer biology and immunotherapy with fellow postdocs from @MSKPDA . The future of science is truly bright! @MSKEducation #MSK #MakingSkoolKool

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