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End of summer BBQ 2025
September 2025: Great write-up in the Harvard Gazette on our recent pub!
July 2025:
Fantastic GRC in Lucca, Italy on Lung Development, Injury and Repair! Complete with Alan winning a poster prize, congrats!!
July 2025:
It’s finally out!!! Over the moon to share our publication in Science with the world: Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage
July 2025: Welcome to our newest grad student to join the Franklin lab, Max!
June 2025: CONGRATULATIONS to Alex Mann for receiving a postdoc fellowship from the Gene Lay Institute!!
June 2025: Excited that Nithya will continue her work in the lab this summer with support from HCRP funding, CONGRATS!
May 29, 2025:
Graduation day!
Today was a happy day! Very proud of Patricia and sending best wishes as she takes the next step in her career!!
May 9, 2025:
PAPER ACCEPTANCE DAY!!!!
So grateful for the incredible members of my lab who made it happen—especially Daisy and Patricia, and all other coauthors for their contributions along the way!
Celebrating Dr. Rodríguez-Morales!
May 2025:
Another Franklin lab first!! Huge congratulations to Dr. Patricia Rodríguez-Morales on her thesis defense!!
April 2025:
Honored to be back at Yale for the Grad Student Symposium! Had an amazing time meeting the current students and fellow speakers!
February 2025: Congrats to Nithya on receiving Harvard College Research Program (HCRP) funding to support her work in the lab this semester!
Behind the scenes at the JoVE recording
Franklin lab video debut!
January 2025: Check out our JoVE protocol hot off the press! Congrats Daisy!!
Happy New Year!! 2025 is sure to be an exciting year!
January 2025: Welcome rotation students Max (BBS) and Halle (Immunology)!
Alex taking his turn at the lab retreat “Fireside Chat”
Talking science is better by a fire (this new lab tradition is a keeper!)
November 2024:
Franklin lab retreat in North Conway, NH
October 2024:
Was an honor to serve as a PhD thesis examiner for Université Paris-Saclay student, Kevin Mulder! Congratulations Dr. Mulder on the beautiful work!
SCRB Retreat at the New England Aquarium; Congrats to Alan for winning the Best Poster Prize!!
Summer BBQ 2024!
July 2024:
Daisy crushing her talk at the Society for Mucosal Immunology Meeting ICMI 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark!
Immunology Department Retreat, Falmouth, MA
June 3, 2024:
New PhD candidate in the lab! Congrats to Martha for passing her qualifying exam!
June 2024: Excited to welcome Amgen Scholar, Daniela Alvarado, and Harvard Immunology Undergraduate Summer Program student, Alex Gorham, to the lab!
First AAI meeting was a success!
Congratulations to Patricia for receiving the ThermoFisher Trainee Achievement Award and giving an excellent presentation at AAI!
May 2024:
Extremely honored to receive the AAI ASPIRE Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement in Immunology!
Chicago, IL (pictured with Akiko Iwasaki)
Lab celebratory dinner!
March 18, 2024:
Another proud PI moment! Celebrating Sunny passing her qualifying exam!
Happy New Year from the Franklin lab! Expecting big things in 2024!
December 2023: Congrats to Alan for receiving an F31 Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship from NIH NHLBI! This funding will support his work to understand Macrophage-Mediated Lung Repair Programs Following Injury
December 2023: Kudos to Patricia for receiving a scholarship from the J&J Scholars of Immunology Diversity Engagement Program!
November 2023: Check out our new review: Macrophage phenotypes and functions: resolving inflammation and restoring homeostasis Congrats to Patricia on this work!
Lab apple picking! Thankful for these stellar scientists!
Amazing International Cytokine & Interferon Society meeting in Athens! Proud to be a member of the ICIS community!
Photo in place of Daisy rocking her poster presentation at the conference! (Temple of Hephaistos in background)
October 2023:
Honored to accept the ICIS-Regeneron New Investigator Award for Excellence in Cytokine & Interferon Research!
Athens, Greece (pictured with George Yancopoulos)
September 2023: Pleased to welcome our newest lab member, Shahin!
Franklin lab summer BBQ!
August 2023:
Proud of summer student, Julia, for a fantastic summer research project!
June 2023:
Lab celebratory dinner!
So much to celebrate as the lab turns 3! Two new grad students (Martha & Sunny), summer student from Bowdoin (Julia, happy bday!), first lab NIH grant (woop!), trainee talk award (Patricia), and just general awesomeness of this team!
June 2023: Thrilled that grad students Sunny and Martha are joining the lab!!
Alan presenting his work at the Immunology dept. retreat!
June 2023:
Another successful Immunology Dept. retreat!
Huge congrats to Patricia for winning “Best Trainee Talk” award! (pictured here with Arlene Sharpe)
June 2023:
Alicia, we will miss you!!
Sad to say goodbye to my first lab member, Alicia! Unbelievably grateful for all Alicia’s help as I started the lab! Wishing you the best of luck in your future adventures!
May 2023:
Congrats McKenna!!
The first undergrad to complete a Senior Thesis in the Franklin lab has graduated! Looking forward to McKenna’s future success as she moves on to UPenn for graduate school!
April 2023:
The Franklin lab at 11,000 feet!
Keystone Symposia: From First Breath: Lung Development, Infection, Repair & Aging/ Inflammation in the Lung: Friend or Foe in Viral Infections?
Snowbird, UT
January 2023: Happy to welcome two BBS rotation students, Martha and Sunny!
December 2022:
Happy Holidays from the Franklin lab!
October 2022:
It’s not fall in New England without apple picking!!
End of summer BBQ!
August 2022: Happy to share another story from my postdoc! Microenvironmental sensing by fibroblasts controls macrophage population size
July 2022: Welcome Mickey, our first Harvard/MIT MD-PhD rotation student!
July 3, 2022:
Had a wonderful time celebrating the marriage of Alex and Brinda! (the Franklin lab cleans up nicely!)
Top notch color coordination at the Immunology dept. retreat!
June 2022:
Enjoying the sun at the Harvard Immunology departmental retreat!
Cape Cod, MA
June 2022: Happy birthday McKenna!
May 3, 2022:
More congrats for Patricia!! Happy to celebrate Patricia passing her qualifying exam! Woohoo!
April 2022: Patricia was awarded a fellowship from the NSF GRFP! CONGRATS on this tremendous accomplishment!
March 2022: Congratulations to McKenna for being awarded the Harvard PRISE fellowship to perform research in the lab this summer!
March 7, 2022:
Proud PI moment! Popping some bubbly to celebrate Alan passing his qualifying exam—a Franklin Lab first!
February 2022: Pleased to welcome BBS rotation student Hyunho and undergraduate student McKenna!
January 2022: Welcome Alex, our newest postdoc!
December 2021:
Happy Holidays from the Franklin Lab! 2021 was a crazy year, but so excited to see what 2022 has in store!
Photo: Holiday Lunch at Time-Out/Trillium brewery
October 2021:
Welcome to our first postdoc, Daisy and undergrad, Emily! Love watching the lab grow!
Photo: Post-grant submission celebratory BBQ
July 2021:
Ecstatic to officially welcome the first two Franklin lab grad students to the team! Can’t wait to see what Patricia & Alan will accomplish!
Photo: Chiu/Franklin/Jackson Tri-lab picnic