🍿 The wait is over... Premiering for #WorldMicrobiomeDay: A Day in the Life of a Poo Sample 💩🎬 Go behind the scenes and discover what really happens after a stool sample is donated, and how it supports microbiome research at Oxford. Watch now! 👇
Day in the life of a poo sample 💩
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Dr Nick Ilott was at #BBCRadio4. Stay posted to hear the interview. Nick is Senior Researcher and Bioinformatics Lead for the Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies. @nickilott.bsky.social #microbiome
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Powrie Lab!🥳🎈 Congratulations to Fiona and everyone who has been a part of the lab through the years for the ongoing success! We’re sure that all lab members past and present are thrilled to see the lab still going strong today!🎉3️⃣0️⃣🎉 @kiroxford.bsky.social
We’re really pleased to share that our excellent DPhil student, Amit, successfully defended his PhD thesis last week! We had a great time celebrating with you and look forward to seeing what your next chapter holds!🎉🧑💻🥂 @kiroxford.bsky.social @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @nickilott.bsky.social
New year, new paper! Thrilled to share that our review “Contextualising TH17 cells in cancer” is out now! Congratulations to Declan & team for a fantastic, in depth overview🥳 Go give it a read here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @natrevimmunol.nature.com @kiroxford.bsky.social
Contextualizing TH17 cells in cancer - Nature Reviews Immunology
T helper 17 (TH17) cells can have both pro-tumour and antitumour effects. Understanding how they are regulated by environmental and regulatory cues according to context will inform strategies to harne...
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Delighted to share that Fiona was awarded the FSI EFIS-IL Lecture Award last week as a keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Meeting of the French Society for Immunology! We’d like to warmly thank the SFI for the award, it was a pleasure to attend!🇫🇷👩🔬 @sfi-immunologie.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to share that we’re part of the Experimental Medicine Collaboration (EMC) with GSK! The EMC will put translational science at the forefront of developing treatments for immune mediated inflammatory diseases👩🔬🧬🧫 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11... @gsk.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
Oxford and GSK launch Experimental Medicine Collaboration |
GSK invests £10 million over five years to establish the Experimental Medicine Collaboration with the University of Oxford.
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Enjoyed sharing my thesis work at the @kiroxford.bsky.social symposium this week!
The Powrie Lab@powrielab.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe had a fab time at our student symposium (KISS2025) this week! We really enjoyed everyone’s talks and poster presentations, with some super exciting keynote speakers! Amit, Natasha, and Rachel gave great overview talks and poster presentations on their DPhil projects👩🔬🧠 @kiroxford.bsky.social
We had a great time at Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference this week! It was especially exciting to be there for a session devoted entirely to Regulatory T cells🧫💉 @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼 @britsocimm.bsky.social @greenmanfest.bsky.social
It’s been a great week in Prague for the Food, Microbiota, and Immunity conference! Claire gave a great talk and Dehui won an award for her poster presentation👏☀️🦠 #FMI2025 @dehuic.bsky.social
It was great to talk about gut health and the microbiome last week doing public outreach with @powrielab.bsky.social!
The Powrie Lab@powrielab.bsky.social · last yr.We had a great time showing off our fabulous Gut Wall and making microbe pom poms with members of the public at the BRC Health Research Showcase last week at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre!🧫🦠 @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social @gemmala.bsky.social @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social
We had a great day at the lovely Wytham Woods Chalet for our lab retreat this year! A special thanks to Prof David Withers @witherslab.bsky.social for joining us for an excellent guest talk☀️🌳
Very cool new work by @megbehri.bsky.social and William F. McLaughlin: Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations
Cross-feeding is a universal feature of natural microbial communities that extends even into subpopulation structures, generating cooperative ecotypes. However, we still lack an understanding of the e...
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Our first post on Bluesky! Throwing it back to two weeks ago at the #IMMOX’25 Genetic Variation & Barrier Immunity Conference - various lab members presented their work, with @gemmala.bsky.social and @fabsal.bsky.social giving fantastic talks!🧬👩🔬
