📢 Abstract deadline extended for Loke CTR Annual Meeting! 8 May 2026 - short talks, flash talks & posters. If your work relates to placental biology, maternal–fetal health, pregnancy complications, or translational science, we encourage you to apply. www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/node/112/pos...

1 week until our next seminar! 🎉 Register here: www.efis-eline.eu/seminars

I’m excited to share our lab’s latest preprint, led by Joe Hutton. We take a deep look at monocytes in psoriatic arthritis (PsA), uncovering a population of circulating cells that are uniquely primed to become osteoclasts—cells responsible for breaking down bone. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Huge congratulations to our colleague, Mahlaqua Noor, for being recognised as one of this year’s 21toWatch winners. An outstanding achievement and so well deserved — we’re incredibly proud to have her on the team: www.cambridgemc.com/21towatch-20...

Nearly every baby is colonized by various E. coli at birth, but luckily only 1 in 1000 develops a severe infection: A new paper in Nature shows how maternal IgG specific to mum`s gut E.coli protects neonates. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #EFIS #ELINE #NeonatalImmmunology (1/7)

New exciting #NeonatalImmunology paper: Peripheral immune-inducer dendritic cells drive early-life allergic inflammation (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Passionate about science? Looking for a new exciting role? Then join our team. This post has just opened: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

We are excited to kick-off of our seminar series on March 5, 4pm CET 🥳 🎤 Petter Brodin – A seeding reaction to colonizing microbes in human newborns 🎤 Eva Stange – Neonatal liver niches program T cell tolerance Register here: www.efis-eline.eu/seminars #EarlyLifeImmunity #Immunology #EFIS

I would like to share the launch of ELINE – the Early Life Immunity Network Europe. The seminar series takes place on the first Thursday of each month, starting on March 5th @ 16:00 CET Our first speakers are Eva Stange & Petter Brodin Registration: www.efis-eline.eu/seminars

Calling all postdocs / early career researchers! The Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is a stepping stone to research independence! Visit 🔗 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... Need guidance to find a research sponsor? Register your interest via our short form forms.office.com/e/vST36RSB96

Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇 - Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... - Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... - MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

Applications are open for the Next Generation Fellowship – applications until 30 January 2026 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat...

Applications are open! For anyone looking to pursue a PhD in cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology: www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...

An insight into advances in the field of placental biology and their importance: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great to see this out for all to see after a lot of hard work by @lizihegarty.bsky.social and @bainlab.bsky.social. Colonic #macrophages persist but are transcriptionally altered post- #inflammation in a mouse model of #colitis.

🚨 New in @natimmunol.nature.com : @idoyagalab.bsky.social shows that plasmacytoid DCs can reprogram into cDC2s after TNF-α stimulation. Fascinating plasticity! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

This is a second video shows Listeria monocytogenes (green) recruiting host cell actin (red) in term Hofbauer cells. Created by Nagisa Yoshida

Here is a video from our manuscript capturing Hofbauer cells interacting with each other in placental villi explants

Happy share this latest study from the team. Here we look at placental macrophage biology across pregnany and their interaction with Listeria monocytogenes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to @drbmalengier.bsky.social, @magmarlene.bsky.social and Team Gentek of @edinuni-irr.bsky.social for this amazing tour de force, comprehensively characterising #synovial #macrophage #development 💪🏻

NIH’s new director Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors” in an interview with Science. scim.ag/4mhSMpA

Want to join us in the field of placental biology? Check out this postdoc position available in my lab in collaboration with Catherin Aiken. Research Assistant/ Research Associate in Placental Biology (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Thrilled to share that our paper is now published in Immunity @cp-immunity.bsky.social ! 🎉 It’s been a long journey, and I’m incredibly grateful to all my co-authors—especially Dr. Teruyuki_Sano—for your dedication. This wouldn’t have been possible without you! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Want to join us in the field of placental biology? Check out this postdoc position available in my lab in collaboration with Catherin Aiken. Research Assistant/ Research Associate in Placental Biology (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

A new Science study reveals genetic links between pelvic structure and function, locomotion, and childbirth outcomes. The findings offer fresh insights into how our species evolved to balance the competing demands of bipedalism and childbirth. scim.ag/3Y2lQHb

🔬 Does your research explore placental ageing, senescence, prolonged pregnancy, or term complications like pre-eclampsia? Join leading experts at our Annual Meeting! Registration open, don’t miss your chance to be part of the discussion. www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page Project 2025. Nature examines science-related policies from Project 2025 that have already come to pass, and which ones might be on the horizon. 🧪

Great to see the abstracts start to come in for EMDS2025. We have over 20 short talk slots up for grabs - with dedicated slots for #ECRs (PhD and postdocs). So, if you want to showcase your work to Europe's #macrophage #monocyte and #dendriticcell community, be sure to submit your abstract ASAP.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

New research shows that treatment of a rare and often fatal neurodegenerative condition in utero has been a success with the child still symptom free at 2 and a half years. 🧪

The Loke CTR team have worked hard on laboratory sustainability and efficiency and have been awarded LEAF Bronze status as a result! More about LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

We welcomed @margaridamcm.bsky.social to Cambridge last week. Margarida presented her talk 'The evolution of new cell types and organs: the view from the placenta'. We are very grateful to her for spending the day with us, meeting colleagues and presenting her fascinating research.

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. Nature reports on the search to find out what they do. 🧪

With my first Bluesky post, I am very happy to share our latest study led by PhD student Federico De Ponti and postdoc Ania Bujko www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

For anyone following here who's not seen this on our other channels, closing date for the Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is 31 Jan 2025, details here www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... Feel free to share in your networks!

Congrats to Ashley on this prestigious award www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

‼️ SAVE THE DATE The next EMDS Meeting will take place from 16-18th Sept. 2025 in majestic Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. If you love macs, monos &/or DCs, or just want to learn more about them, THIS is the meeting for you. Space limited - so watch out for details. @britsocimm.bsky.social

Beautiful review from Courtney Hanna @cwhanna.bsky.social and team. Now Online: Origin, fate and function of extraembryonic tissues during mammalian development go.nature.com/3OELOeK

#EMDS2024 was brilliant. Thx to all the organisers. Planning is well underway for EMDS25: Scotland Edition. We look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Edinburgh next year. 👀 for details in the coming months. @britsocimm.bsky.social @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social