Join us at the #EFIS congress for #SexDifferencesInImmunity in Hamburg, #Germany on Oct 8-9th 2026!
Immune Sex Differences@sexdiffimmunity.bsky.social · 4mo ago
Camila Consiglio
@consigliocr.bsky.social
🇸🇪 Systems Immunology group leader @lunduniversity | Sex differences in Human Immunity | 🇸🇪 MSCA postdoc | 🇺🇸 PhD | 🇧🇷 BS & MSc | she/her
Immune Sex Differences@sexdiffimmunity.bsky.social · 4mo ago
📢2nd Annual Meeting of the EFIS-IL Sex Differences in Immunity Study Group! 🗓️October 8-9, 2026 📍Hamburg, Germany 🔗https://linktr.ee/EFIS_ISD @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @dgfi-org.bsky.social @sfi-immunologie.bsky.social @swimm-immuno.bsky.social @irishimmunology.bsky.social @finnsocimm.bsky.social
Immune Sex Differences@sexdiffimmunity.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur second annual meeting - please save the date and distribute
🌟 Congrats to Assistant Prof. Camila Consiglio (@consigliocr.bsky.social) on being awarded a @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant! She will explore how the immune system shapes fertility and pregnancy outcomes in a new project: fertiliMMUNE. Read more: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/erc-... #Immunology
ERC grant awarded to explore how the immune system shapes fertility
Lund University. Infertility is a deeply personal and global health issue, affecting one in six adults. Current treatments, however, often focus on symptoms rather than root causes, resulting in pregn...
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Thank you so much and congrats to other #LS6 #ERCStG awardees!
Nadia El Mjiyad@nadelmjiyad.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe list of @erc.europa.eu #StG2025 awardees is out. For LS6, congrats to: Linda Grillova, Jean-Christophe Beltra, @nanaborsa.bsky.social, Claudia Giesecke-Thiel, @jenshoer.bsky.social, Marko Sestan, Rajagopal Murugan, @consigliocr.bsky.social, Yi-Ling Chen, Laura Martin-Sancho, Joao Monteiro.
I'm thrilled to share I’ve been awarded a @erc.europa.eu starting grant! #ERCStG #fertiliMMUNE will uncover how the immune and reproductive systems communicate, with the aim to improve fertility outcomes. I'm incredibly thankful to my amazing lab, collaborators, peers & ERC for their support!
Super interesting work on pDC to cDC transition regulated by TNF and type I IFN! Would be curious to know how biological sex affects this, given our previous findings on masculinizing hormone therapy regulating pDC/IFN-I and TNF www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Immune system adaptation during gender-affirming testosterone treatment - Nature
Examination of immunological changes in transgender individuals undergoing gender-affirming testosterone treatment reveals sex hormone-regulated pathways in humans and explains sex-divergent responses...
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Idoyaga Lab@idoyagalab.bsky.social · 11mo agoOur paper made the cover of Nature Immunology’s September issue! 🎉 Aren’t dendritic cells beautiful? 😍 SEM shows pDCs as they switch identity into cDC2-like cells. Congrats to the whole team! 👏 🔗 www.nature.com/ni/volumes/2...
New publication from our collaborative work with @mamartins83.bsky.social! How does feminizing hormone therapy #FHT impact the immune system? Exogenous estrogen enhances T cell activation in male primates www.cell.com/cell-reports... @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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🚨 New article! Our study "Human monoclonal antibodies protect against death caused by mpox" is now published: 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... [1/9]
Human monoclonal antibodies targeting A35 protect from death caused by mpox
Three potent mAbs against the conserved MPXV A35 protein block viral spread, protect against lethal infection in mice, and align with protective antibody responses in convalescent humans, establishing...
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‼️Our first review is out‼️ Decoding sex differences in human immunity through systems immunology shorturl.at/EsAkE We discuss how #SystemsImmunology decodes #SexDifferences in #HumanImmunity, paving the way for tailored, sex-informed treatments. Excellent work by @resabut.bsky.social & Tianze Cao!
Decoding sex differences in human immunity through systems immunology
Abstract. Immune function varies widely across humans. Biological sex is a key factor underlying human immune variability, with men presenting with more se
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I'm thrilled to share that my first co-authored review, "Decoding sex differences in human immunity through systems immunology," on Oxford Open Immunology! I'm so grateful for the opportunity to have worked with Tianze Cao and @consigliocr.bsky.social on this. doi.org/10.1093/oxfi...
Decoding sex differences in human immunity through systems immunology
Abstract. Immune function varies widely across humans. Biological sex is a key factor underlying human immune variability, with men presenting with more se
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Even in cell lines, sex matters pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40630528/
Cell Line-Specific Estrogen Responses Uncover Functional Sex Differences in Murine Macrophages - PubMed
Background RAW 264.7 (male-derived) and J774A.1 (female-derived), are widely used in immunology research, yet their responses to gonadal hormones remain poorly understood. Gonadal hormones, particular...
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🧬🖥️ scAtlas of CD34+ cells from 148 people reveals how circulating hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (cHSPCs) shift with age, sex & disease. Reference model enables myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) diagnosis. From great Liran Shlush & Amos Tanay @natmed.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪
A reference model of circulating hematopoietic stem cells across the lifespan with applications to diagnostics
Nature Medicine - A large single-cell transcriptomic-based reference model for hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from 148 age- and sex-diverse individuals identifies physiological and...
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Not just shingles vaccine, but also RSV vaccine reduces the risk of dementia, which highlights the benefit of revving up the immune system in older individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections - npj Vaccines
npj Vaccines - Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections
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Join us for this exciting webinar tomorrow, 24th June 2025 at 14h00 CEST! @resabut.bsky.social PhD student in my #SystemsImmunology will be speaking ;)
Congrats to Léa Chicosine, postdoc in our group, and @laura-rabanal.bsky.social from @cto-bourgine.bsky.social Lab for best grant submitted to the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine Research School! Excellent work! 🎉
@cto-bourgine.bsky.social · last yr.Congrats to @laura-rabanal.bsky.social and Lea Chicoisne (from @consigliocr.bsky.social lab) for their awarded project "Influence of sex steroids on bone metastasis development in lung cancer"! 🤩 They receive the 1st prize from the Wallenberg Center Research school evaluation board!!
Tianze Cao, PhD student in my #SystemsImmunology lab, had an excellent presentation on how #Metabolic and #Reproductive factors impact the #ImmuneSystem in #PCOS at the #AE_PCOS_Update_Meeting at #ECE2025 @aepcossociety.bsky.social Exciting collaborative work with @elisabetsv.bsky.social
Microbiota-shaped neutrophil senescence regulates sexual dimorphism in bladder cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41... Interesting work where Zhu et al demonstrate that gut microbiota regulates sexually dimorphic antitumor immunity and bladder cancer progression
Microbiota-shaped neutrophil senescence regulates sexual dimorphism in bladder cancer - Nature Immunology
Sexual dimorphism is a feature of many cancers, but how this functions is often unclear. Here the authors show that in bladder cancer it is regulated by a microbiota–lurasidone–LCN2 circuit that contr...
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Gene reactivation upon erosion of X chromosome inactivation in female hiPSCs is predictable yet variable and persists through differentiation: Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re... Sharing on behalf of my coauthors, delighted to have played a small role in this study
Gene reactivation upon erosion of X chromosome inactivation in female hiPSCs is predictable yet variable and persists through differentiation
In this article, da Rocha and colleagues show that XCI erosion is frequent yet variable in female human iPSCs, leading to reactivation of some X-linked genes, including escapees. This reactivation is ...
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Today is the international day for transgender visibility! Important now than ever when there are significant polical forces limiting freedom for people to be who they are and live their life true to themselves.
@lundstem.bsky.social @lunduniversity.bsky.social @lunduniversity-med.bsky.social @infect-lu.bsky.social 📣Calling all local immunology enthusiasts to sign up for this IRL #LundImmunotalks symposium where we bring leading immunologists from around the world to Lund, Sweden! don't miss lit.blogg.lu.se
Now available online: our recent work showing that the maternal adaptive immune system promotes optimal lactogenesis. @dancrrl.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes promote lactogenesis and offspring fitness
Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes enhance mammary gland differentiation during pregnancy, thereby promoting offspring fitness.
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This year our #SystemsImmunologyLab hosted a #UniStemDay workshop @lundstem.bsky.social, a European initiative to engage high school students in #science! We showed how #bioinformatics can identify DNA sequences and help investigate human immunity. Great job from students & effort from the lab!
Thanks for highlighting our work @lundstem.bsky.social!
Lund Stem Cell Center@lundstem.bsky.social · last yr.The gender health gap is real, but research can help close it. This #IWD2025, we highlight Camila Consiglio @consigliocr.bsky.social at @lunduniversity-med.bsky.social #AcceleratingAction by studying how biological sex shapes #immunity to advance personalized medicine for both women & men. More🎥 ⤵️
Review @annualreviews.bsky.social @lucasite-lab.bsky.social Decoding Immunobiology Through Genetic Errors of Immunity www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I am excited to share our study showing how the immune system strikes a delicate balance between tolerating food and defending against helminth infections. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
Identification of antigen-presenting cell–T cell interactions driving immune responses to food
The intestinal immune system must concomitantly tolerate food and commensals and protect against pathogens. Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) orchestrate these immune responses by presenting luminal ant...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Some really excellent posters showcased at our #WomensHealth2025 conference this week! Thanks to all our contributors for making our first meeting focusing on this topic memorable. #WomensHealthMatters #ImmunSexDifferences
Camila Consiglio@consigliocr.bsky.social · 2y agoThrilled to launch the #ImmuneSexDifferences #EFIS study group w/ Tal Pecht, Marcus Altfeld, Darragh Duffy, Molly Ingersoll, Cliona O’Farrelly, Tal Shay & Helena Soares. We’ll host meetings, workshops & more. Join us linktr.ee/EFIS_ISD @sexdiffimmunity.bsky.social Highlighted @ #WomensHealth2025
Lund University’s #SystemsImmunologyLab at #WomensHealth2025 conference! Great talk from our PhD student @resabut.bsky.social on estradiol’s effects on immunity, and excellent discussions throughout the event on various women’s health topics from endometriosis and PCOS to infections and immunity.
Thrilled to launch the #ImmuneSexDifferences #EFIS study group w/ Tal Pecht, Marcus Altfeld, Darragh Duffy, Molly Ingersoll, Cliona O’Farrelly, Tal Shay & Helena Soares. We’ll host meetings, workshops & more. Join us linktr.ee/EFIS_ISD @sexdiffimmunity.bsky.social Highlighted @ #WomensHealth2025