Definitely worth a read and raises all sorts of questions about how quickly we become vulnerable as a population if we aren’t immune/immunised.👇

ACFs in Infectious Diseases in London are now advertised including at Imperial /LSHTM /City St Georges /Kings. Open evening October 2nd about all our NIHR ACF/ACL programmes -details👇

🧵 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.

Congratulations to Tom Parks the new President of the Lancefield Society and Committee members ! #LISSSD2025 @ispylifenetwork.bsky.social

Evening kick off off at #Lancefield #LISSSD2025 in Brisbane for all #Strep enthusiasts @ispylifenetwork.bsky.social @ispyexplore.bsky.social

Congratulations to Prof @chrischiulab.bsky.social who has been elected as a new Fellow to the Academy 🎉 Prof Chiu is studying protective immunity in human respiratory viral infections. With an urgent need for improved vaccines, this is a critical area of work 💉 👉 Read more: ow.ly/6ehl50VXSlc

Points to a specific but I think meaningful immunity gap against two of the pathogens tested - strep A and RSV in 3-4 y olds. Age specific increment in anti Strep antibodies as you might hope. Just less in those post 2020. Preprint of interest to many of us in @ispylifenetwork.bsky.social

Pleased to share @chemo_king’s paper explaining why spycep does what it does ! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Science engagement in the streets of north London on a (finally!!) sunny day.

The actual list is here -the bbc list isn’t quite right www.gov.uk/government/p...

🔔🔔 🔔 Sound the alarm! Not 1 but 2 PhD positions available in my research group at Amsterdam UMC studying the interaction between S. aureus wall teichoic acids and the host immune system. Multidisciplinary projects with experience in academia and industry. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

Superheroes!!

With @jrpenades.bsky.social, we challenged Google AI co-scientist to generate hypotheses. In just 2 days, it recapitulated our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism for how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3byyaeh2

📣Research Technician job alert! Needed to support our #iSpyLIFE field work and #strep biobanking. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

A very happy and Gram positive Christmas to everyone! 🎄🎄🎄