We're looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!🤓 See you in person at UCL for great science+post-science social...or join remotely if the tube strikes make it hard for you to get to UCL!

Happy Monday (and Happy September!) ! We hope you had a fantastic summer! Our next LINE seminar is coming up on the 10th of September at UCL! Don't miss out on @nellymak.bsky.social and Baptiste Pradel's brilliant talks! Register here: shorturl.at/jDMUn

🚨🚨🚨 Our next LINE seminar is coming up on the 10th of September! 🙌 This time we are at UCL! @nellymak.bsky.social and Baptiste Pradel will be showcasing their cool science! Register here for free: shorturl.at/jDMUn As always followed by a networking social!

NEWS ALERT! 🚨 We finally heard back from the UK government which is keen to hear reports of impact of funding cuts on UK-ECRs research - please (if you haven't already)fill in this survey and/or contact us if you want your voice and experience to be reported! docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yoa...

Thanks for coming to our #LINEsymposium2025! What a great day! Congratulations to the winners of our attendees' vote for best presentation and poster: @wjbranchett.bsky.social @immun0liver.bsky.social @ziqizhou.bsky.social @dylanpostmus.bsky.social (With live captions for all to enjoy!)

Thanks again to @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social for the invitation to speak at their excellent annual symposium. A really positive community of impressive ECRs. 5 star review!

It is a wrap! A big thank you to all of you for coming, sharing your science and making this day the vibrant exciting event that it was! We are hoping to see you again next year! #LINEsymposium2025

This has been a fantastic day! We’re excited that we are ending on an inspiring keynote by @amayabustinduy.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social on her science focussing on schistosomiasis and reflecting on her journey as a clinical scientist. #LINEsymposium2025

Our last (but not least) selected speaker for today is @immun0liver.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk with a great talk on how ADP-ribosylation poses an important barrier to infection that viruses like SARS-CoV-2 have to overcome. #LINEsymposium2025

Our next speaker in this session is Audrey Peters (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social showcasing her work on phage-bacteria interactions in complex environments, spanning in vitro and in vivo models. #LINEsymposium2025

We are heading straight into session 3 of our selected talks. @wjbranchett.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk is up first, focussing on M. tuberculosis infection. #LINEsymposium2025

We’re excited to have @laurawolz.bsky.social and @carterlj.bsky.social from @carersinstemm.bsky.social with us today to tell us about their important work advocating for equitable and accessible support for those balancing caring and career. #LINEsymposium2025

Time for our career panel: Tina Chowdhury (Reader, QMUL), @peterwshill.bsky.social (Group leader KCL), Cat Gale (Producer/Director), Henry Blest (Co-founder @polarilabs.bsky.social), Catrin Beetham (Policy adviser) and Aimé Palomeras (Clinical Project Manager @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social).

Half-time: (1) Grab some lunch, (2) head to the poster display area for more exciting science, (2) meet our sponsors, (3) learn about to how your institutes provide mental health support at our #MFHA stall and (4) network with your infection science peers! #LINEsymposium2025

Straight to the poster flash talks ⚡️: Baptiste Pradel (@crick.ac.uk) @dylanpostmus.bsky.social (@lstmnews.bsky.social) Felix Scharte (@mrclmb.bsky.social) Jack Mellors (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)!

Our third speaker in session 2 is Wenye Ma @bristoluni.bsky.social who is studying interkingdom interactions between fungi and bacteria with the aim to combat Group B Streptococcus neonatal disease. #LINEsymposium2025

Next in session 2 is Chloe Rees-Spear @ucl.ac.uk presenting her work using a novel tonsil organoid system to study human antigen-specific germinal centre B cell responses to viral infections. #LINEsymposium2025

Energized into session 2: How do antibiotics kill bacteria? @ejadouglas.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social  is casting light onto the mode of action of polymyxin. #LINEsymposium2025

Great start to the day with our plenary and session 1! Time for a mid-morning refreshment break #LINEsymposium2025! Do check out our #MHFA stall and chat to our sponsors when you have a chance. Don't miss out on our sponsor bingo, there are prizes to win!

Closing session 1 is Raul Y Sanchez David @qmulfmd.bsky.social. A fascinating talk on self-amplifying mRNA, its interaction with our innate immunity and how we can exploit and modulate its function!

Next up in session 1: Tom Williams @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social presenting his work on fungal infection in the airways to understand key immunological pathways that drive airway disease. #LINEsymposium2025

And we’re off with the session 1 of selected abstracts at #LINEsymposium2025: first up @atlopezjimenez.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social showcasing a novel proximity labelling approach to discover mechanisms of cell-autonomous immunity against bacteria.

We’re starting off with the invited plenary by @grovearmada.bsky.social (@cvrinfo.bsky.social). An inspiring tour de force about using AI for discovery science to understand the virosphere! #LINEsymposium2025

Happy Monday! Welcome to our 3rd annual #LINEsymposium2025! Registration is open: Grab your badge and some refreshments. We’re looking forward to having you!

Three more sleeps! We're looking forward to seeing you on Monday at our syposium! ⬇️⬇️⬇️🧫🦠🧪🔬🥼

🚅2 of the 3Lauras will be on tour next week🚅 We will be attending the @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social ECR-focussed LINE symposium to share some insights into our sector-wide survey. Looking forward to it. If you are attending and want to know more, come say hi 👋

Looking forward to Monday! You'll be able to find us at London Infection Network for ECRS Symposium @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social held at @crick.ac.uk See you there! #biosciences #lifesciences #biotech #biopharma #biomed #diagnostics #genomes #diagnostics

TGIF! Happy Friday! Our symposium is just around the corner! The FINAL PROGRAMME is out! Take a look: londoninfection.wixsite.com/home/lipn It's a full day of infection science and registration is still open: shorturl.at/wLyWY

Looking forward to presenting our work on early mechanisms of TB susceptibility at the @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social Symposium in June 🦠🔬

It's not too late to submit your abstract! 🥳 The deadline is the coming Monday 12th!

We can see our ECR-focused LINE symposium already on the horizon (9th of June) @crick.ac.uk. shorturl.at/MyWNl 🥳 You can submit your abstracts (talk or poster) until the EXTENDED DEADLINE on the 12th of May here: shorturl.at/7KuXL Free registration shorturl.at/wLyWY We're excited to see you there!

Dont miss the 2025 edition of the UK cellular microbiology network meeting - one week before ours, June will be packed with a lot of good stuffs! Registration/information: estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...

The LINE release today it's cross-disciplinary survey to assess and report the impact of US funding cuts on UK's ECRs. We know and have heard a lot of you feeling anxious, alone and hopeless to have any impact - but there's power in number! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ECRs #Standupforscience

Thanks to everybody who made it to our seminar yesterday (IRL and remotely)! It was great to hear about their exciting science from @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social. See you very soon at our symposium or the next seminar!

It's seminar day! See you all later!

Tired of the news and want to take action against the current situation? Join the #Handsoff protest in London tomorrow at 3pm in front of the National Gallery. The LINE is fully committed to #Standupforscience!

Only one week to go! Don't forget to sign up! See you there for some exciting ECR-science followed by a networking social. Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh

It's getting closer. Don't forget to register! Great ECR science and networking drinks&nibbles after! (Remote access available if you cannot make it in person.) shorturl.at/kGmfh

🚨INCOMING! Join us for our next LINE seminar (9th of April) at UCL. We are excited to host @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social to hear about metagenomics in diagnostics and how host/pathogens battle it out! As always: Followed by a networking social! Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh

📣NEWS ALERT: Our 3rd annual LINE symposium will be on the 9th of June @crick.ac.uk . Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more. Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY

📣NEWS ALERT: Our 3rd annual LINE symposium will be on the 9th of June @crick.ac.uk . Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more. Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY

We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow at the Blizard Institute @qmul.ac.uk ! Excited to hear about some cool HBV and fungi science!

📣One week to go! Looking forward to seeing you there! (And it's not yet too late to sign up!)

As part of #CarersInSTEMM we are working to highlight available #funding and #grants for #academic carers wishing to participate in meetings, conferences & workshops. Please share links / information you are familiar with so we can try to increase the reach of these opportunities. Thank you!

We have set up a LinkedIn Group for Carers in STEMM where you can find more about what we are getting up to 💻 Please join us 👇 www.linkedin.com/groups/13145...

📣Happy Friday!!! We can already see our next seminar approach on the horizon! Don't forget to register! It's free, there is great science and we will provide snacks and drinks at the networking afterwards! See you there!

📣 Our next seminar is on the 13th of Feb at the @blizardinstitute.bsky.social . Sean Carlson from @qmul.ac.uk and Anna McNaughton from @bristoluni.bsky.social will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea Come for the science, stay for the networking social!

Only 2 days to go! See you all very soon! (It's also not too late to register if you haven't!)

First post from the new account: Don't miss our upcoming #LIPNseminar next week at LSHTM on the 5th of December! Register here: shorturl.at/mNmce Come for the science, stay for the networking! See you there!