Research Technician post available (4 years) in the lab of @thushan-desilva.bsky.social working on an exciting international collaborative project on programming nasal epithelial cells to prevent respiratory viral infections: Closing date 3rd of June 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN715/r...

Research Technician at University of Sheffield

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VERY excited by our latest work on StrepA below, but also rhe multiple collaborations and work to come off the back of this at MRCG

Alex Keeley@alexjkeeley.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 Our paper out today in @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon 1/ #Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.

I said no more #LISSSD25 posts but forgot a major highlight! Most sessions started w/ a patient lived experience video, and you can see them all @ lisssd2025.org/patient-stories Looking after patients during thier illnesses is v. stressful so it's great to hear their experiences when recovered.

A fantastic line up. In person and virtual options. An interdisciplinary conference on vaccines. Network with leaders in vaccine research & deployment. There is no other meeting like this! Every year I come away with new ideas, new learning and new contacts @thushan-desilva.bsky.social

UK Clinical Vaccine Network Conference@ukcvn.bsky.social · last yr.

Connect, engage & collaborate at #UKCVN2025!💬 🎤Ask speakers your questions live 🤝Network with global experts 💡Spark new ideas in person & online 📅11th–12th June 2025 | Cutler’s Hall, Sheffield Secure your spot 👉 ow.ly/tJ2G50Vj7bw

A terrific postscript! Exciting @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded #StrepA work, with Ed Clarke, Hannah Frost, @precisionvaxlab.bsky.social, @njmoreland.bsky.social, @thushan-desilva.bsky.social, Penda Johm, Ya Jankey-Jagne, @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social, David Khoury, Andrew Steer.

New discovery and grant to accelerate Strep A vaccine efforts - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

MCRI researchers discover how antibodies protect against Strep A, accelerating vaccine efforts with a $10M grant. Read more.

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Dr Danika Hill@precisionvaxlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 I'm a #newPI , and I'm so excited to share our new paper out in Nature Comms today! 🧵 rdcu.be/d2gBV Quick intro for the new followers: I'm from Monash Uni in Melbourne, and we study T and B cell responses to viruses, bacteria & parasites with the goal of improving vaccines. #ImmunoSky #MicroSky

Super excited announce funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social extend #StrepA Human challenge inc. transfer to Gambia & identify correlates of protection. Great team @joshosowicki.bsky.social @precisionvaxlab.bsky.social @njmoreland.bsky.social @thushan-desilva.bsky.social y.social & others not on Bluesky

Are you London ID trainee post-PhD & interested in an ACL. May be able to create posts in 2025. Opportunities in Syphilis & STIs (UK & Global), Group A Strep (Global), Leishmaniasis & NTDs. If interested get in touch. @gpollara.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @thushan-desilva.bsky.social

Some papers are very difficult to read but that doesn’t necessarily mean they're deeper than other papers. Authors must work very hard to make their story easy to read and understand by others. Or as Stephen King says: "the shorter the book, the less bullshit".

Super interesting work from @dchodge.bsky.social on determinants of influenza vaccine immunogenicity. Congrats David! Food for thought.

David Hodgson@dchodge.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share our new study: Quantifying the impact of pre-vaccination titre and vaccination history on influenza vaccine immunogenicity 🦠💉 Published in Vaccine! link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kD7x,60n7... with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social

This #StrepA paper was a LONG labour of love from a great team 😊 Equal first & senior author credits buried at the very end, so I want to highlight the critical contributions of Dr Hannah Frost & @njmoreland.bsky.social & Dr Danika Hill @precisionvaxlab.bsky.social rdcu.be/d2gBV

Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis elicits diverse antibody responses to key vaccine antigens influenced by the imprint of past infections

Nature Communications - Streptococcus pyogenes is a deadly bacteria without a vaccine. Here, researchers measured antibodies in serum and saliva from a strep throat human challenge trial. Baseline...

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🎉 I'm a #newPI , and I'm so excited to share our new paper out in Nature Comms today! 🧵 rdcu.be/d2gBV Quick intro for the new followers: I'm from Monash Uni in Melbourne, and we study T and B cell responses to viruses, bacteria & parasites with the goal of improving vaccines. #ImmunoSky #MicroSky

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

🚨 Delighted to share our paper defining a new role for IL-6 in TB. 🚨 We used genetic variation to show *reduced* IL-6 signalling is causally associated with *lower* risk of TB. Lead author @gushamilton.bsky.social #TBSky #IDSky #ImmunoSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Thread 👇 (1/8)

Altered IL-6 signalling and risk of tuberculosis: a multi-ancestry mendelian randomisation study

Our findings propose a causal relationship between reduced IL-6 signalling and lower risk of tuberculosis, akin to the effect seen in other IL-6 mediated diseases. This study suggests that IL-6 antago...

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Come do a PhD with us at @lshtm.bsky.social! We're advertising two projects: Understanding and predicting vector-borne epidemics (with Rachel Lowe): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj... Kinetics of immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (with @dchodge.bsky.social): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

@thushan-desilva.bsky.social @susannadunachie.bsky.social and all of our other amazing collaborators! #hsct #cart #covid #octave #pitch

A while back we wrote an article calling for accelerated change in policy for those w/ caring responsibilities in #STEMM Sharing insights into the challenges, highlighting personal experiences & proposing a strategy to improve culture #AcademicSky Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researcher parents are paying a high price for conference travel — here’s how to fix it

Three scientist mothers call for a change in how conference childcare costs are reimbursed, drawing on their personal experiences.

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Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

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Application window for this 5 year assistant professor post @lshtm.bsky.social extended to 25th November

Michael Marks@drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join team @lshtm.bsky.social 5yr Assistant Prof Genomics jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Core work across several Syphilis grants & links to 2 Health Protection Research Units. Opportunities for own work++ Apply by 14th. Reach out if interested @thushan-desilva.bsky.social @typemat12.bsky.social

BIA now on blue sky 👏 - and please consider applying for our ECR and small project grants!

British Infection Association@biainfection.bsky.social · 2y ago

Grants: we provide travel and research grants for infection trainees and undergraduates. Scientific committee chair: @thushan-desilva.bsky.social Our call for Early Career Research and Small Project Grants is open. Closing date 31st January 2025 www.britishinfection.org/research-gra...

🚨🚨 Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum virus dose threshold for influenza and also enhances adaptation of the virus to a new species.🦠🫁 Major implications for preventing new pandemics. 😷 Proud of first author Parker Denz!👨‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Innate immune control of influenza virus interspecies adaptation via IFITM3 - Nature Communications

This study highlights that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum infectious dose of influenza virus, enhances adaptation of influenza viruses to a new host species, and broadly increases infection of h...

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Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

Our paper describing a new sequencing-based neutralization assay for influenza virus is now published in Journal of Virology: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... This new approach makes it possible to measure 100s (or even ~1000) neutralization titers in a single 96-well plate.