We're excited to share our latest publication on immune dysfunction in refractory MG! Huge shoutout to the brilliant clinical scientist @katycdodd.bsky.social - from patient recruitment across the country to experiments and data analysis, you did it all! Can't wait to see what you do next 🌟

New research from @madhvimenon.bsky.social and @katycdodd.bsky.social identifies a distinct immune signature in treatment-resistant Myasthenia Gravis, offering a roadmap for more personalised, targeted therapies in the future. #ImmunoSky sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...

Ever wondered what happens if you remove Tfh cells from established germinal centres?

I am delighted to introduce the 'ImmunoPause' consortium. This is a collection of immunologists who are working on understanding how the immune system changes during the menopause. An important yet understudied research area. immunopause.my.canva.site#home

Very excited to announce that registration is open for the BSMB Spring 2026 meeting in Manchester, April 13-14th. Already an amazing lineup and lots of opportunities to speak! Register, bsmb.ac.uk/meetings/ecm... @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social

Check out the latest work from the Rosser lab on B cells contributing to arthritis-associated uveitis! Congrats Lizzy & team 🎉

Huge congrats to an incredible mentor! @tracyh9494.bsky.social 🌟

The Becker was proud to be part of the Castlemere Community Health Fair in Rochdale - an event co-produced by @madhvimenon.bsky.social and Dr Sean Knight - engaging local residents on immunity and chronic lung disease through research-led discussions and activities. #ImmunoSky tinyurl.com/3ue4s92r

We are delighted with the interest in Entangled Stories at the @britsocimm.bsky.social annual congress. Come and join me and @aliceangus.bsky.social at stand 42 and join in! What can fieldwork bring to immunology? @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

Well done @maanalayeghi.bsky.social #BSI25

Beautiful talk by Matt Hepworth, so many exciting things happening at barrier surfaces. @hepworth-lab.bsky.social #BSI2025 @britsocimm.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

Loving #BSI25, especially @ciurtinlab.bsky.social and @emmaschambers.bsky.social highlighting our paper in @jem.org is one of #ArthritisUK top research output of ‘25! If you have 5 minutes, give us a vote (number 5) below, sex differences in the immune system: www.arthritis-uk.org/our-research...

Incredibly proud of @hollysedgwick.bsky.social for a fantastic presentation at the Bright Sparks in Immunology PhD session #BSI25

Incredibly proud to be part of the vibrant postgraduate research (PGR) community at Manchester. 🌟 Explore what makes research at Manchester so inspiring: 🔗 www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear... 🎥 Watch the video: youtu.be/FgmHHlKv5ME

Excited to be presenting my project, ‘Investigating B cell dynamics and interaction with the extracellular matrix in chronic lung disease’, at the BSI Congress this December. 📍 Bright Sparks in Immunology – PhD 🗓 1st Dec 2025 📍 The Ins and Outs of Mucosal Immunology (Part 1) 🗓 2nd Dec 2025

If you're at #BSI25 make sure you don't miss this fantastic presentation from @hollysedgwick.bsky.social who's part of our Wellcome ICD PhD Programme during the 'Bright Sparks in Immunology-PhD' and 'Ins and Outs of Mucosal Immunology' sessions! @madhvimenon.bsky.social #BeckerAtTheBSI #ImmunoSky

Less than 3 weeks until our final report launch event 9th Dec. (London) 10am We will be welcoming a fantastic panel: 🌟Jo O'Leary (UKRI) 🌟Sara Mole (UCL) 🌟John Tregoning (Imperial) 🌟Katie Perry (Daphne Trust) 🌟Jennie Evans (BSI) 🌟Ilaria Meazzini (RSC) Register here: www.carersinstemm.co.uk

Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine. time.com/7333975/dei-... This presents the case in the context of lupus.

Sign up to our online #bioinformatics course to: 🔸Gain expert statistical analysis & #R skills 🔸Explore #omic datasets with many experimental groups & #ClinicalData in R 🔸Work on #proteomics, bulk RNA-seq & #GeoMx Book onto the Feb 2026 course now: https://bit.ly/47kXFaC

so excited to share our article in @nature.com Immunology on the many challenges of climate change has for our immune function, infection susceptibility and disease and the need for new ways to research this. Will do a thread later! 🧪 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

Big experiment day in the Menon lab 🧪🧫🔬

So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Join us at the Wellness Walkthrough: A Community Health Fair this 📆 Saturday, 1st November (🕛 12–4 PM) at 📍Castlemere Community Centre, Rochdale! 🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky

📣 PhD opportunity led by @madhvimenon.bsky.social with @kathelse.bsky.social , @tracyh9494.bsky.social , and me open now: "Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Infection: The Role of the Microbiota in Shaping Lymphocyte Dynamics" apps due 15 November 2025 📣 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Friday we celebrated our new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology: a joint venture with Oxford that we call MOXIE (Manchester-Oxford Immunology of the Exposome). This challenging adventure is off to a great start. @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity in the lab for a budding ILC biologist. Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word. Ad closes in 4 weeks. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We now have a very exciting technician post advertised as part of our long term Wellcome Trust funded team investigating the role of the glycocalyx during CNS inflammation. Supporint the lab, developing glycan analysis and research experience www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine honors the discovery of regulatory T cells (T-regs). In this piece, our Director Prof Tracy Hussell @tracyh9494.bsky.social explains how the recipients discovered T-regs - transforming autoimmune disease research. #ImmunoSky theconversation.com/nobel-prize-...

Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have a new Postdoc position advertised as part of our recent long-term Wellcome funding to join an established Postdoc and technician. I’m so excited to explore the role of the glycocalyx in CNS-inflammation. So many tools and expertise to work with! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.

🔔 Fantastic opportunities to join us as part of the new and exciting @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social Check out the details 👇 Please spread the word! #immunosky

🎓 6x fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships 🎓 We are recruiting our first cohort of PhD students to start Oct 2026. Students will shape their own projects within supervisory teams spanning the universities of Manchester & Oxford. www.findaphd.com/phds/program/mrc-core-in-exposome-immunology/?p6899

There's one week left to apply for postdoc positions in my group. Links to apply below! #academicjobs #researchjobs #immunosky

I am recruiting for a postdoc that wants to work on an exciting project on gut macrophages, TGFb signalling, and colon cancer! Please see the link for details - elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Dental floss as a #vaccination strategy? This study shows that floss-based vaccination can deliver protein, inactivated virus, peptide-presenting immunogenic nanoparticles, mRNA & induces #immuneresponses protecting against infectious disease in mice ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #immunity

So excited to go to the IUIS and present our work on adipose tissue and systemic immunometabolism!

#ListerFellow Lizzy Rosser's research into juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and uveitis is driven by curiosity—and shaped by the voices of young patients and their families. 🧠 Comment how connection with patients and their families makes a difference 👇 📖 lister-institute.org.uk/the-bigger-p...

🚨 A new £50M MRC Centre at @manchester.ac.uk and @ox.ac.uk will explore how pollution, microbes & other environmental exposures rewire our immune system and cause chronic inflammatory diseases. #Exposome #ImmunoSky sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...

So excited to FINALLY be able to share exciting news from @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social on our newly awarded MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology #ImmunoSky 🧪 🧵

Super excited to announce that MRC has funded a new Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology. Working together, Manchester and Oxford are going to tackle a major challenge of our times. For those who wonder what the Exposome is - see yesterday's posts! www.ukri.org/news/centre-...

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity – B cells & Chronic Lung Disease The Menon Lab @madhvimenon.bsky.social at The University of Manchester is recruiting! 🔗 More info & to apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 📅 Deadline: 7 July Read more 👇👇👇

The fantastic Menon Lab (@madhvimenon.bsky.social) in the @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social in Manchester are hiring!! 🚨DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO APPLY!🚨 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Postdoc seeking to unravel how lung-infiltrating #Bcells contribute to chronic lung disease #immunosky

Damming report by RCGP on air pollution and risks to health occurs alongside a worrying escalation in asthma presentations to family doctors in England in the first 6 months with 45,458 versus 31,376 cases the same time last yr.

Our newest paper studying immunosuppressive astrocyte-GBM interactions using RABID-seq is out in ‪@nature.com today! Congrats to Brian Andersen and Camilo Faust Akl! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 The Menon lab is hiring a postdoc! Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases @ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨 The Menon lab is hiring a postdoc! Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases @ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...