🎶 …and a partridge in a petri 🎶 The labs are feeling festive! Some of our team have decorated their petri-tree, complete with an Eppendorf star 🌟 Thanks to Will Newton, @orlandorosss.bsky.social Abby Potton, @harry-osborne.bsky.social and Matheus Araujo for spreading the cheer! #ImageOfTheWeek

That’s a wrap on #BSI25! Days 3 and 4 were filled with even more incredible talks, excellent posters and of course, the Congress party! I’ve had such a wonderful time in Liverpool learning, networking and sharing my work.

Its my great pleasure to say the latest paper from our group is now out: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193... Check it out! We found that immune cell activation in the sputum identifies severe asthma patients. Massive thanks to the patients for agreeing to give sputum and blood samples.

#BSI25 day 2! Another wonderful day of immunology and a chance to discuss my PhD research during the first poster session. Meeting so many people, discussing cutting-edge immunology and sharing our passions for science! @mrccmm.bsky.social

Excellent first day at #BSI25! Huge diversity of talks, brilliant networking opportunities and incredibly cool immunology on show! Bring on day 2! @britsocimm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social

Delighted to be an awardee of the BSI’s Career Enhancing Grant, enabling me to undertake a research visit to Dr. Alisha Chetty’s lab at University of Cape Town 🧫🧬

Read our latest blog post from Sarah Newman, 1st year medical student and NIHR School for Primary Care Research intern who joined the CAESAR team this summer. @riddmj.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social caesar.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/13/h...

🔬 #imageoftheweek Researchers at MRC CMM are exploring how Trichuris muris (a gut worm infecting 800M+ people) interacts with Candida albicans, a yeast found in most humans. Could they help or hinder each other? 📸 by @orlandorosss.bsky.social #science #research #health #phd

🧫 Today's #ImageOfTheWeek is a dual species biofilm featuring Candida glabrata (pink) & Staphylococcus aureus (gold). These dense biofilms are resistant to antifungal drugs, making treatment extremely challenging. 📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social #AMR #fungi #research

Palestine will be free.

Free Palestine. 🍉

Had such an amazing day attending the GREMI meeting on epithelial immunity at the Institut Pasteur! #immunosky #GREMI

We’re thrilled to announce that applications for the FAILSAFE grants are NOW OPEN! Grants of up to £250k available for innovative research tackling fungal antimicrobial resistance and advancing global health. Learn more and apply here: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou... #GlobalHealth #FAILSAFE

We've created a starter pack so that you can follow members of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in one go! We'll be updating this pack as members join Bluesky! 🦋 bsky.app/starter-pack... Subscribe to this list to keep up to date with all of the incredible research coming out of the CMM 🍄🔬👩‍🔬

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Hey, #mycosky #immunosky #microsky 👋🏻 Earlier in the year, we published a paper where we found that HPLM (human plasma-like media) induces Cryptococcus neoformans growth that closely represents those morphologies found in vivo 🧫🦠 doi.org/10.1128/msph...

#mycology, even at the weekends. Mushrooms on the moors, and mushrooms in our composter at the allotment. Back to the microscopic fungi tomorrow!

So fun to have a chance to display some biofilm electron microscopy as part of an art gallery earlier this year! Check out some of the amazing artwork researchers (artists) at the @mrccmm.bsky.social displayed and the stories behind these images!