In our lab, we study the immune response in Lyme disease and how Borrelia burgdorferi infection can lead to arthritis development.
Check out our updated website!
mcw.edu/departments/mi
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Joe Rouse
@RouseJoey
PhD candidate studying Lyme disease immunology
. Former military. Dog Dad 
. Comic book nerd. Pisces. ENTJ. Love is Love 
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. Former military. Dog Dad . Comic book nerd. Pisces. ENTJ. Love is Love (He/ Him)Milwaukee, WIJoined November 2019
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So grateful and excited to share my story and my work with other immunologists it was so fun!
#immunology2023 #AAI #AAI2023 #ScienceInAction #sciencetwitter #AcademicTwitter #Lyme #immunology #LGBTQinSTEM
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@LymeMCW is killing it at #AAI2023! Congratulations to @RouseJoey on his poster award presenting his exciting #LymePeptidoglycan story!
@MCWmicrobiology @MCW_C4I
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Thank you & for this session with THE Dr. Fauci! An inspiration to this and future generations of immunologists. “Perpetual challenges can only be met with perpetual preparedness”
#InspirationalQuotes #immunology2023 #scienceisforeveryone
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Don't miss the special session, "Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons from COVID-19" with Dr. Anthony Fauci today at 7 PM. Level 3, Ballroom AB.
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Made it to the front lines of #Science in Washington DC! Let’s get it started #AAI2023 #Immunology #sciencetwitter #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #LGBTinSTEM
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It is #LymeDisease #Awareness month! Check out this article highlighting some of the hot new research and featuring our lab!
#Science #sciencetwitter #AcademicTwitter #microbiology #Immunity #infectiousdisease #medicine
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So excited to connect & share my work at the meeting! It is my dream to meet former director Dr. Fauci, please check out my poster on Sunday #410!
#immunology #AAI2023 #NIH #MyDCcool #gradstudent #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #LGBTinSTEM
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If you’re interested in improving inclusion for LGBTQ+ people in the workplace, check out this article that @TheSTEMvillage @KurtLabResearch @knicollb @kizzythechemist @i_Vinodh and myself wrote in @TheLancet
You need to register to read, but it’s free
thelancet.com/journals/lance
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#DEI so important
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Developing and implementing an effective #DEI strategy requires stakeholders to openly share information and critical opinions. Read about how to build trust for a community in this article from @ChelseyNardiPhD: asm.social/1bv
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#Minnesota becomes the 22nd state to ban 'conversion therapy' and the 5th state to provide sanctuary for gender-affirming care #NOH8
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In partnership with the Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education, we are excited to announce the 2nd annual #advancingequitysummit #usingdatatomoveequityforward
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Y'all... I am at the #cancerequity colloquium. Dave Fuller, MD, PhD - #oncologist at just PREACHED!! He is living proof that creating an #inclusive academic environment is possible. Just be intentional. Woo!🔥🔥#RepresentationMatters.
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My first co-author paper! It is official, I am a published scientist 👨🔬
#scientist #author #microbiology #Immunology #Science #scienceisforeveryone #scientificpaper #scientificresearch #arthritis
Check it out here:
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Thanks for the opportunity! So happy to learn and extend our work into another field 👨🔬
#gradschool #gradstudent #PhD #phdlife #ScienceFamily #microbiology #Immunology #KSFibrosis23 #keystone2023 #scientist
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Couldn’t be more proud of my first graduate student! #ScienceFamily
@RouseJoey @MCWmicrobiology
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Thanks for the highlight! So proud to have been involved with #OSID #LGBTQIA #Science #academia #PhD #gradstudent #biomedical #infectiousdisease
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The @MedicalCollege #OSID team would like to recognize, Graduate Student Joe Rouse, and wish them all the best with their future endeavors! We are so proud of you. Here are some of their memories, words of wisdom, and future interests. #OSIDstudenthighlight #MCWOSID
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Things I want to passionately yell at humans:
You don’t know everything. Your opinion doesn’t solve problems. Other people are different from you. Sometimes you are the problem. Be open to love and to learn
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎
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Check out this article featuring me and grant funding from the DOD for my PhD research project!!!
#science #SCIENTIST #ScientificResearch #phdlife #PhD #Veterans #armyvet #LGBTQ #LGBTQinSTEM #win #goingonmycv
mcw.edu/-/media/MCW/De
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Congratulations to the 2022 Chemistry Nobel Laureates!🥳
Specially , the first LGBTQ+ Chemistry Nobel Prize winner 🏳️🌈💖
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BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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Cool #science,great #scientists, and good friends 2022 in Madison, WI 🧫🧬🔬
#microbiology #immunesystem #MadisonBeer #WisconsinBadgers #midwest #LGBTQ #LGBTQinSTEM #STEM #STEMeducation #mmpconference
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Getting HYPE at #SiblingRivalryLive with & & the superior in #Milwaukee
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#gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #PRIDE #Vogue #ballroom #fortheculture #LegendaryHBOmax #DragRace #rupaulsdragrace
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Congratulations my friend!
#ScientificResearch #Scientist #science #LGBTQinSTEM #Queerscience #PRIDE
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First first-author paper of my career in the books! You can check it out early while we work on publishing at:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110
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Awesome initiative! Thanks for doing this and passing it along 🌈 visibility matters!
#LGBTQ #LGBTQinSTEM #visibility #gayscience #QueerInSTEM #hereforeachother #visibilitymatters
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If you work in a STEM department, here's a poster you can print out for your noticeboard, lab, or office.
It links to a free ebook of 40 interviews with LGBTQ+ people who work and study in STEM (put together by @DrCarpineti and me).
PDF version: drive.google.com/file/d/1DugMvS
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Amazing experience in #Amsterdam for the International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis #iclb2022 🔬 I appreciate all of the #science from such wonderful scientists and everything this beautiful city has to offer 🇳🇱 #LymeDisease #LGBTQ
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It has been a good day for science!
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Huge discovery was made today in the Lochhead lab by Becky Danner and @RouseJoey @LymeMCW and @MCWmicrobiology examining immune responses in #Lyme. Stay tuned!
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Dr. Stephen T. Yeung works as a senior research scientist with research focused on microbiology, immunology, and neuroscience.
Read his piece, “Insufficient resources in STEM” cell.com/med/fulltext/S #PrideInSTEM
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A world of organisms within and all around us 🤩🦠🧫🧪🔬
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Neuron vs viruses vs bacteria. Microorganisms size comparison:
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NONE of us are free or safe anywhere until ALL of us are free and safe everywhere 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#gayrage #gayanger #LGBT #LGBTIQ #pride #gaypride #gayliberation #socialjustice #HumanRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #saygay #gay #ActUp #CivilRights
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Check out my article on why visibility matters in media in this special Pride issue of transformational times!
#prideneverstops #visibilitymatters #LGBTQ #Pride #LGBTQinSTEM #ourvoices #bestself
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The Transformational Times celebrates both the nation’s birthday and LGBTQ+ PRIDE Month.
conta.cc/3P7sTr5
#Kern #KernInstitute #TransformationalTimes #MedEd #MedTwitter
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For any women in STEM looking for a little boost during this time- I HIGHLY recommend you get yourself a copy of this book.
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We are angry, devastated but NOT defeated by the overturning of #RoeVsWade today. We are mobilizing efforts to respond and take action. Stay tuned. #SCOTUS #ScientistsForReproductiveJustice #ScientistsSupportAbortion #AbortionIsHealthcare
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“So this is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause…”
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Congratulations and so many other great speakers at this year’s hugely successful retreat! Great science, great people, great day!
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Leaving with a heavy heart and my thinking cap turned up to the max! So #grateful to have met those that have done great work and #inspired me to do great things in the future
#BiologyOfSpirochetes #newfriends #networking #SCIENTIST #LymeDisease
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