Alaz Ozcan

@alazozcan.bsky.social

@UZH / former Postdoctoral Associate @YaleIBIO / full-time lab rat, part-time cat entertainer, forever an immigrant.

1/n Our new Lancet Respiratory Medicine commentary is out!! While the worlds' attention has shifted to Iran and Lebanon, the health disaster in Gaza continues - and we highlight a topic frequently ignored - the threats to Children's Respiratory Health!! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Children's respiratory health risks in the Gaza war: a call to act

The Gaza Strip has undergone extreme military destruction, exposing its civilian population—half of whom are children—to unprecedented levels of airborne pollutants. The inhalational exposure to parti...

thelancet.com

Thrilled to welcome the wonderful @adrover.bsky.social to Zurich for our monthly SMyLe @smyle-ch.bsky.social seminar! 📅 March 24 | 16:30 📍 ETH Hönggerberg Join us to hear José present his great science! Special thanks to @syis-ecr.bsky.social for supporting this event!

Swiss Myeloid League (SMyLe)@smyle-ch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The next SMyLe seminar is coming up soon! Please join us on March 24th at 16.30 at ETH Höngg (HCI J6) or via Zoom (ethz.zoom.us/j/63706799264) for a talk by @adrover.bsky.social "From Guardians to Foes: Cancer-induced host remodelling and neutrophil plasticity drive tumour necrosis and metastasis"

Really excited for the first SMyLe Seminar Series event of 2026! Looking forward to the opening seminar on Feb 17 at 16:30 with Dr. Máté Kiss. Hope to see many myeloid enthusiasts there and to keep the discussions going over the apero 🍷

Swiss Myeloid League (SMyLe)@smyle-ch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to announce our very first SMyLe seminar. Please join us for this exciting talk entitled "Transcriptional regulation of neutrophil plasticity in cancer" by Dr. Máté Kiss @matekiss.bsky.social on February 17th at 16.30 at ETH Höngg (HCI J6) or via Zoom (ethz.zoom.us/j/63706799264).

Proud to see the Swiss Myeloid League (SMyLe) officially launch! A focused home for myeloid research in Switzerland, built to support collaboration, mentorship, and community. 🇨🇭 If you work in this field or know someone who does, please share or get involved: myeloid.ch

Swiss Myeloid League (SMyLe)@smyle-ch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Swiss Myeloid League (SMyLe), a new network uniting myeloid cell researchers across Switzerland. 🇨🇭 Our mission: foster collaboration and strengthen the Swiss myeloid community, locally and globally. 👉 Join our growing network: myeloid.ch

Thrilled to share our Perspective on structural immunity, where we discuss how immune cells double as architects, weaving and reshaping the fabric of our tissues. Grateful to @drusqui.bsky.social, all co-authors, and the wonderful @natrevimmunol.nature.com team for making it such a joy to write!

Nature Reviews Immunology@natrevimmunol.nature.com · 9mo ago

NEW Perspective by @alazozcan.bsky.social, Tommaso Vicanolo, Veronique Angeli, Yuval Rinkevich & @drusqui.bsky.social presents a model of immune cells as architects of tissue barriers, by depositing matrix components or by interactions with structural cells and the ECM #structuralimmunity #immunosky

Super excited to present our recent publication at the #OBS seminar series next week! 🎉 Come join us to talk about the coolest cell in our immune system (#facts). See you there!

Open Box Science @openboxscience.bsky.social · last yr.

OBS #Immunology Seminar Neutrophils and regulation of skin physiology 📆 Thu, 10th April, 12 pm EDT/5 pm CET 🎙️ Speaker @alazozcan.bsky.social @yalesph.bsky.social @drusqui.bsky.social @cnic @nature.com 📣 Moderator @eugecc.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

For over a year, I’ve been advocating for postdocs as part of the Yale Postdoc Association, and doing so has never felt more precious and urgent amid the massive attacks on academic institutions and freedom.

A final take-home message: In biology, cells are not what they look but what they do. Cell lineages are human divides, and the remarkable plasticity of myeloid cells teaches us that biology works by instructing functional programs at defined times and places.

Hello @bsky.app! My first post here had to be about neutrophils, which are so much more than you think! We are thrilled to unveil yet another fascinating layer of their complexity. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this work—I truly hope you enjoy the read!

Andres Hidalgo@drusqui.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to post for the first time to present our exciting new paper @Nature. The fruit of massive work by Tommaso Vicanolo, @alazozcan.bsky.social and Jackson Li, and our superb collaborators Laiguan and Stefan Uderhardt. True teamwork! Free link: rdcu.be/eeeA2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...