Discover the latest from the Becker! Our August newsletter features new grant awards, new networks in Immuno-Biotechnology and Cancer Immunology, ECR highlights, community updates, and our latest publications. Read the full issue: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx... #ImmunoSky

A few people have asked me to write a simple explainer about chronic inflammatory conditions like autoimmunity or allergy so here is an immunology 101 about what we understand about why they occur. Will dig into more research studies in a future post. Hope u enjoy

Immunology 101: Chronic inflammatory diseases are increasing but why?

An overview of some of the ideas as to why some of us get chronic inflammatory diseases

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Excited to announce I am starting as Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester this week! I am #hiring a #postdoc in Manchester, to work on human intestinal lymphocytes in #Coeliac disease, please get in touch if interested. @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

Camp Summer2023: We're Hiring

ALT: Camp Summer2023: We're Hiring

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Incredibly exciting news to be welcoming @mahimaswamy.bsky.social to Manchester. Looking forward to discussions, collaborations and hearing more about all the exciting work coming out of the Swamy lab!!!

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📢 We are excited to announce Professor Mahima Swamy is joining the Becker! Mahima brings exceptional expertise in mucosal barrier immunity, focusing on how intraepithelial lymphocytes protect against infection and inflammatory bowel diseases. Find out more 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

📢 We are excited to announce Professor Mahima Swamy is joining the Becker! Mahima brings exceptional expertise in mucosal barrier immunity, focusing on how intraepithelial lymphocytes protect against infection and inflammatory bowel diseases. Find out more 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

Leading mucosal immunologist Professor Mahima Swamy Joins University

An internationally recognised researcher in intestinal immunology  is to join the University of Manchester’s Lydia Becker Institute as Professor of Immunology from  1 August  expanding the Becker’s wo...

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I have a technician post available in my lab and am looking for a passionate and ambitious team player to join our group. If you're interested in the role, please get in contact. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

Research Technician:Oxford Road

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🧠Could the hours after brain tumour surgery hold the key to better #glioblastoma treatment? New Manchester-led research suggests they might. 🔗https://shorturl.at/DIv9N The team will now seek funding to take this work towards patient studies 🌟 #Nanotechnology #Nanomedicine

🔬 Our latest publication round-up is now available! Highlights from March to July 2026 include research on allergy and asthma, stroke recovery, vaccine development, gut immunity, environmental exposures, and cutting-edge spatial omics technologies! tinyurl.com/bpth6n39

Publication round-up: March-July 2026

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𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧 is truly a team effort. 💡 Humbled to hear our very first patient share his perspective. Experiences like his will shape how we scale up & are already helping us learn how more. Watch this space. @manifest-cirrp.bsky.social 📰 As featured today in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 👇

‘It won’t help me, but it might help someone like me’ say...

Mark England says numb fingers help him play guitar as researchers hope to change how disease is treated by investigating why immunotherapy does not benefit all

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New paper alert 🔬📣 Extracellular matrix phenotyping by imaging mass cytometry defines distinct cellular matrix environments associated with allergic airway inflammation | @molsystbiol.org 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Extracellular matrix phenotyping by imaging mass cytometry defines distinct cellular matrix environments associated with allergic airway inflammation - Molecular Systems Biology

The extracellular matrix (ECM) forms the scaffold in which cells reside and interact. The composition of this scaffold guides the development of local immune responses and tissue function. With the ad...

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Meet Argyro Olympitis, a PhD student studying how tumor environment changes drive glioblastoma progression. From growing up in the British Virgin Islands to competing on University Challenge, read how she’s tackling brain cancer research in our latest profile👇 sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...

On #WorldBrainDay 🧠we’re celebrating the impact of lived experience in brain healthcare. @manchester.ac.uk student Leilah Applegarth is using her #epilepsy journey to help educate future clinical psychologists.🎓 🔗Read more: shorturl.at/VwDBu 🌐https://shorturl.at/vIEPa

#worldbrainday #worldbrainday #brainhealth #epilepsy #neuroscience #clinicalpsychology | Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre

Today, on #WorldBrainDay, we're celebrating the power of education and lived experience in shaping better brain healthcare. 🧠 After years of living with epilepsy, Leilah Applegarth underwent surgery ...

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📺 Argyro Olympitis from our Wellcome Trust ICD PhD Programme will be taking part in this evening's episode of University Challenge, where Manchester face off against Durham! Tune in at 8.30pm on BBC Two or watch on iPlayer #ImmunoSky www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Dr Sara Federici @sarafederici.bsky.social has secured a prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award. Her research explores how to harness phages—viruses that kill harmful bacteria—to design precise alternatives to antibiotics and tackle antimicrobial resistance. tinyurl.com/yw8x84kn

Dr Sara Federici secures AMS Springboard Award for precision phage therapy research

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📢 We've already received a fantastic response to #BSI26 abstract submissions, and we'd love to see even more! There's still time to secure your place in this year's scientific programme. Submit your abstract for an oral or poster presentation by 7 Sept: vist.ly/5bech

Today is National Glioblastoma Day, a vital moment to highlight the urgent need for new therapeutic avenues for this aggressive brain cancer. In this video, Dr Michael Haley explains how the Becker is collaborating with the @gjbrainresearch.bsky.social to make a direct impact on patient care.

How do our lungs heal after viral infections like flu or COVID-19? New research from @douglaspdyer.bsky.social @tracyh9494.bsky.social and Ziyun Zhang shows how the glycocalyx—a sugar layer on lung immune cells—adapts to inflammation to coordinate tissue repair. #ImmunoSky tinyurl.com/39eatz9r

How lung immune cells repair after viral infection

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What is the sun doing to your skin's body clock? As another heatwave hits the UK, and with high temperatures becoming more common, it's more important than ever to understand the effects of sun exposure ☀️ Professor of chronobiology, Qing-Jun Meng, has studied body clocks at UoM for 21 years...

The University of Manchester is 1st in the world for our Sustainability Impact according to Times Higher Education announced at Global Sustainable Development Congress. Our students are a *HUGE* part of that impact.

🎙️ The latest episode of The Brain Fix podcast is out now... Allanah & Olly, Masters students in @fbmh-uom.bsky.social discuss their respective Masters programmes in neuroscience and what it is like to be a student at Manchester! 👉 share.transistor.fm/s/b2956f78

This week we're delighted to host Dr Sarah Mundt from Universitätsspital Zürich for our next @britsocimm.bsky.social Manchester Immunology Group Seminar: "Phagocytes across the course of neuroinflammation: initiation, injury and progression" 📅 Thursday 9th July 🕛 12:00pm 📍 Smith Lecture Theatre

👏 Congratulations to @mcsinton.bsky.social on receiving the Pride in STEM 2026 Decadal Award for his commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM and beyond! 🏆 prideinstem.org/2026/04/01/t...

📬 Our latest newsletter is out today! Catch up on our latest news, research highlights, events and achievements. 🔗 mailchi.mp/26166b35aa58...

We can now share the peer reviewed version of our story exploring the effect of location specific queues in regulating the lung macrophage glycocalyx www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Delighted to share our new pre-print from PhD student Ziyun Zhang joint with @tracyh9494.bsky.social demonstrating that lung alveolar macrophages have a dense glycocalyx and interstitial macrophages do not, @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us tomorrow for an exciting @britsocimm.bsky.social MIG seminar with @annamolofskylab.bsky.social from UCSF. She’ll be sharing her insights on how the brain’s scaffolding structures change as we learn and in disease. 🧠 📅 Wednesday 1 July 🕒 3:00pm 📍 Room 1.006 AV Hill Building

Off to London today to record an episode of ‘A Question of Science’ podcast hosted by Prof Brian Cox and with some amazing scientists. We will be chatting all things microbiome.

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A Question of Science with Brian Cox is a BBC Studios Science Unit production for the Francis Crick Institute.

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What a fantastic day yesterday at the Manchester–Cambridge Spatial Biology Symposium! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, presented their work, asked thoughtful questions, and contributed to such engaging discussions.

Earlier this month, students from our WT ICD PhD programme headed to Low Wood Bay in the Lake District for an away day. With networking bingo, connection exercises, and dedicated career sessions, they had a fantastic time building the vital skills needed to prepare them for their future careers!

🧑‍🔬 Postdoc position available in our MRC-funded RISE team - Valletta/Lim. The successful candidate will lead a translational project using CODEX multiplex imaging to study CRS pathogenesis in bone marrow from CAR-T patients - working with clinicians, scientists & industry. Deadline 10 July👇

Research Associate:Oglesby Cancer Research Building, 555 Wilmslow Road, M20 4GJ

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...building on strengths in IMMUNOLOGY (including if you have interests in immunotherapy and cell therapy!), and expanding into data science and AI. Come join us! 🐝 @turajliclab.bsky.social Find out more & to apply 👇 www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/about/new-fu...

Major New Funding For Our Cancer Research | Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute

Cancer Research UK is increasing our Institute annual core funding to more than £17m a year as of 2026, a 50% increase in support of patient-benefitting research here in the North West

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