Upcoming seminar: 🎓Dr Fränze Progatzky @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social, @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social 📢"Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity" 📅 4:30-5:30PM, Thur 16 October 📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social buff.ly/IPj6StT #CITIID

Huge congratulations to @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social from the lab who has been awarded the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in the skin focusing on the role of peripheral glial cells #proudPI

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology@kiroxford.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Julia Karjalainen, A DPhil candidate at the Kennedy Institute, has been awarded a competitive Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in skin disease! www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/julia-k...

Congratulations to Dr Fränze Progatzky, who has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her research into glial cell biology! www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran... @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social

Dr Fränze Progatzky wins Lister Prize

Dr Fränze Progatzky, Principal Investigator in Tissue Biology and Wellcome Career Development Fellow, has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her outstanding science.

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Excited to be part of this newly awarded MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology. Together with colleagues from Oxford and Manchester we will investigate how environmental exposures contribute to chronic inflammatory diseases.

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology@kiroxford.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge news! A £50M MRC CoRE will bring together Manchester & Oxford to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory disease. The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR. www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...

Are you interested in the gut-immune-brain axis (GIBA)? 🧠💡 We are building a national research network to improve understanding of the connection between the gut and nervous system. Join our growing community 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Deeply honoured to have been awarded the @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Research Prize alongside such inspiring fellow researchers. The award will enable us to study how the peripheral nervous system, through glial cells, regulates tissue repair in the gut, lung and skin. 🧬🖥️🔬

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

We are very proud to introduce our brand new 2025 #ListerFellows! This year there are eight Prize recipients. lister-institute.org.uk/a-warm-welco...

@dr-vmosienko.bsky.social showing the 100+ crowd that came to #Sheffield for the 1st UK glia network meeting. Next one will be in Bristol in 2026 & we have a very special international guest confirmed ✨ #BNA2025 #astrocyte #microglia #schwann #oligodendrocyte #microglia #neuroscience

🚨 We have TWO exciting open positions in our lab! 🚨 We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as: 🔬 Research Assistant www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/bioinfo... 📢 Please share!

Research Assistant (177885)

We are looking for a Research Assistant with a background in immunology/neurobiology to join the interdisciplinary laboratory of Dr Fränze Progatzky at the Kennedy Institute.

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First Post on blue-sky. We are hiring! Post-doctoral position available in the neuroimmunology of stroke. Please check out link below and share elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📢 LAST CHANCE to submit your abstracts for BSI Oxford and @immunologyoxford.bsky.social's #OIS25 Symposium This is your opportunity to take part in this celebration Oxford's outstanding #immunology research 🔬 Submissions are open until midnight on Friday 7th Feb 👉 bit.ly/4elJmnG

📣 New Review Alert! Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS? Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs? Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin! #GlialCells #ImmuneSystem

Mucosal Immunology@mucosalimmunol.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glial-immune interactions in barrier organs are reviewed by @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Still time to apply for this truly interdisciplinary BBSRC funded PhD project in Aberdeen with @mdmorgan.bsky.social and myself. Develop computation models to analyse ECM-cell interactions and then test them a lab setting! Deadline 17th Jan

Tara Sutherland@drtesutherland.bsky.social · 2y ago

Eastbio PhD time! This project is a cracker (not biased at all). ECM-cell cross-talk in the thymus and lung using spatial proteomics & developing computational models to analyse data with the amazing @mdmorgan.bsky.social lab. You'll get support, training and development opportunities. So excited!

We just can't stop recruiting! Associate professor in cell and molecular biology @dunnschool, with a preference for immunology, inflammation and/or infection - all defined broadly Come and be our colleague Deadline 28 Feb, please spread the word www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Check out today’s (12th January 2025) Biomedical Picture of the Day by @lucaverger.bsky.social from our lab showing beautiful glial cells in the skin #proudPI bpod.org.uk

3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience. A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics. 3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year! (mini thread)

Beyond classical immunity: Mast cells as signal converters between tissues and neurons: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Beyond classical immunity: Mast cells as signal converters between tissues and neurons

Mast cells act as “signal converters,” translating immunological and tissue signals into host-protective behaviors. They sense antigen and possibly toxins driving avoidance behavior, which can prevent inflammation and tissue damage. Beyond classical immunity, mast cells rapidly activate antigen expulsion responses and initiate nociception. These reflexes promote host-protective behavior and maintain tissue integrity.

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Fantastic paper by @mhaniffa.bsky.social @humancellatlas.org www.nature.com/articles/s41... We know #macrophages are versatile but inducing skin vascularisation! 🤩 #immunosky #medsky 🧪 #morphogenesis #organoid #spatialtranscriptomics #singlecellsequencing

A prenatal skin atlas reveals immune regulation of human skin morphogenesis - Nature

A comprehensive multi-omics reference atlas of prenatal human skin shows that innate immune cells crosstalk with non-immune cells to perform pivotal roles in skin morphogenesis, including the formatio...

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We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @pasteur.fr all details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

Great idea to start a weekly lab meeting. We tried the 'flashlight' 🔦 today and it was a total success. We now use the 🔦 at the beginning of every lab meeting, together with a short discussion about sustainability ♻️ 🍃initiatives.

Johanna Joyce@johannajoyce.bsky.social · 2y ago

One year ago we started a new experiment in the lab - not a scientific one, but a social one! We now use the 'flashlight' 🔦 at the start of every lab meeting ⏬ Its been great to hear from so many people who love it too - maybe try it out for your group also? 🧪⚕️🩺 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join Dr Jess Wade on 10 December for the Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture as she explores the technologies of the future, how the most exciting science happens at the intersection between disciplines, and why we need to overhaul research culture to bring the most benefit to society and the economy.

Join the Sutherland Lab in Aberdeen! We have a research fellow opening to explore IL-13 regulation of hyaluronan extracellular matrices drug lung injury, repair and chronic pathology with funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/research/job...

Follow the next generation of immunologists #Immunosky.

ImmunoSketch@immunosketch.bsky.social · 2y ago

A starter pack for PhD students and Postdocs in Immunology to connect 🔽 Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list. Let's build the upcoming immuno community! #ImmunoSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/RABVXY4

🧠NON-NEUROCENTRIC STARTER PACKS FOR BRAIN RESEARCH: I this thread 🧵 I will post starter packs for fields of research not directly related to neurons: #meninges, #vasculature, #glia, #immunecells, #dementia, #headache, #microscopy, and resources to get started with #Bluesky.

How does mechanosensation work? Nerves are critical, but recent work from Gary Lewin, Patrik Ernfors et al (nature.com/articles/s41...) builds on findings a few years ago that Schwann cells are involved in nociception (science.org/doi/10.1126/...) #neuroscience #touch #pain 🧪

It is great to finally share our systematic review on structural extracellular matrix components in soft tissues in osteoarthritis! Congratulations to my co-authors Iwan Raza and @sarahsnelling.bsky.social. boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

#LocationLocationLocation! Baghdadi, Kim &co show @science.org that intestinal stem cells #ISCs located at the bottom of the crypts sense a more rigid environment & activate PIEZO to tune their proliferation/differentiation maintaining gut physiology! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

PIEZO-dependent mechanosensing is essential for intestinal stem cell fate decision and maintenance

Stem cells perceive and respond to biochemical and physical signals to maintain homeostasis. Yet, it remains unclear how stem cells sense mechanical signals from their niche in vivo. In this work, we ...

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Fascinating new paper about how commensal #fungi can promote #type2 responses in mice, a process involving fungal induction of #IL-33 🍄 🧪 #ImmunoSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity - Nature

Kazachstania pintolopesii is a highly prevalent fungal symbiont that can trigger type 2 immunity and influence the composition of the gut mycobiome, as well as immune and disease phenotypes.

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New PhD opportunity in the lab with @profjudiallen.bsky.social and @douglaspdyer.bsky.social looking at interactions between ILCs and the extracellular matrix. Application deadline Jan 10th 2025 - spread the word Bluesky immunologists! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

(Bicentenary) ILC interactions with the extracellular matrix in inflamed barrier tissues at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - (Bicentenary) ILC interactions with the extracellular matrix in inflamed barrier tissues at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Honoured to have been invited to present at the Immunosensation Cluster Science Days 2024 that showcased the impressive research going on in Bonn. Fantastic day of science and networking. Thank you

oZgun Gokce@gokcegroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fantastic closing talk at the Immunosensation Cluster Science Days 2024 by @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social – glial cells everywhere and insights all around!