We're very excited to welcome Christian to our lab as a postdoctoral fellow! @uuuips.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social He'll work on the effect of adjuvants on FDCs. heesters.gitlab.io/christianmar...

A new Nature Index data set shows that progress towards gender equity in research continues to be slow. With just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement #AcademicSky 🧪 #womeninSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interested in germinal center regulation? Should we coddle our immune system? Two more weeks to apply! 3 year funding

We have an exciting postdoc position for 3-years! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Apply or sent me a message if you have any questions. Work @uuuips.bsky.social with wonderful colleagues such as @luckrimp.bsky.social and others without bluesky ;) More information: heesters.gitlab.io/postdoc_hire/

I’m very happy to welcome Vicente to the Lab! heesters.gitlab.io/vicenteferna... He will be working with Petri on B cell survival factors :)

Always great to be at the Dutch immunology conference (NVVI)!

Very inspiring talks at the 10th anniversary science for life conference @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Impressed by other fields, such as Ben Lehner’s talk. Great venue in the Beatrix theatre. Science as art.

Old news to everyone here, but I wrote a little post on why I've moved here: From the Dark Zone to Bluesky heesters.gitlab.io/bluesky

For all the Twitter/X immigrants, I highly recommend github.com/kawamataryo/...

A few yrs ago we spent $10K on trialing antibodies. Only a few worked well. The good news is we got refunds for everything that didn’t work! Just need to push the companies. Don’t suffer in silence! Great to see more effort/avenues for improving reliability and reproducibility of Abs! #immunosky

Hello #immunology community! Happy to join Bluesky for some great ad and bs free scientific discussions! Let me know if you like germinal centers and follicular dendritic cells.