Happy #dayofimmunoloy! We work hard to understand how our immune system protects us from infection! Thanks to @ukri.org @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social MRC and BBSRC to support our research and the development of novel therapies!

The 2026 UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting is approaching fast! Submit an abstract until May, 12th and join us June, 22nd/23rd in Belfast! Exiting keynote speakers and opportunities for early career researchers from the UK, Ireland and beyond to share their work. www.ukcellmicro.org

With all the excitement about AI giving us answers, we often forget that the real trick is to figure out what is the question.

Jo in our team - we are looking for a PhD student, postdoc or lab manager! More information and links to job portal for application submission: lnkd.in/dcU2Vg7W lnkd.in/dgVKTARV Please share widely 🙏🏼 @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @syis-ecr.bsky.social

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3 PhD positions in the lab for British Students. Inflammasome, cell death and skin immunity, with fantastic colleagues. Check them out or share it with curious and motivated PhD students: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social

📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 January 7, 2026 Please RP🙏thx!

New story from the lab by PhD student Seb Grant. Started as a summer project and developed into an interesting story. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in joining the Powrie Lab? We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study the neutralisation capacity of human anti-IL-10 autoantibodies. You’ll be part of our new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology!🧫🦠 Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...

🔔 Chech out this new cool story on non-canonical inflammasome signaling in NK cells by @protinnimmunity.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE! The 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting will be held 22nd - 23rd of June at @wwiem-qub.bsky.social in Belfast. Researchers from the UK and beyond are invited to share exciting work on the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. Follow us to stay tuned! www.ukcellmicro.org

The second day of the @dib-unil.bsky.social #PRR symposium kicks off with more excellent talks including our own Jakub Began.

📢A new effector-triggered immunity role for GBP1! No place for pathogens to hide now that GBP1 can detect extracellular pathogens that hijack the actin cytoskeleton. Surprise*suprise* GBP1 does this independently of LPS! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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/...

Ready to start 2 days of everything innate immunity and inflammation #bsiinflammation2025 @britsocimm.bsky.social

Looking for passionate candidate to apply to PhD fellowship to University of Murcia call: www.um.es/documents/d/... Interested students contact me!

#MycobiotaPower! Exciting work @nature.com by Behnsen, Jaswal &co showing that #Salmonella uses type 3 secretion system to hijack #Candida_albicans to produce arginine in the gut, boosting Salmonella infectivity & reducing the immune response! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited that this study is now online! It's been a pleasure to work with BioAge Labs and our collaborators on this story. We characterise a new class of #NLRP3 inhibitors with translational potential for so many inflammatory diseases.

Still time to register for the BSI inflammation meeting 2025! Don’t miss out on this fantastic meeting !.

10 things you wish you knew about inflammatory caspases: a holistic review of their biochemistry, activation, and signalling - Journal of Biological Chemistry www.jbc.org/article/S002...

(1/3) We've been catching up with our GenerationResearch students so far this summer..! "Hi, I am Naomi, a Biomedical Sciences student going into the final year of my Integrated Masters at York. I am currently doing my Generation Research studentship in Dave Boucher's Lab.

🔥 Last call! Today’s the FINAL day to submit your abstract for “Innate immunity & inflammation: UK inflammation 2025.” Don’t miss your chance to get involved! Submit now and join leading experts this September in Manchester. Event & submission info: bit.ly/43q9x9r

Still time to register to the next BSI Innate Immunity and Inflammation meeting. Join us for 2 days packed with great science and networking opportunities!

Still time to register to the next BSI Innate Immunity and Inflammation meeting. Join us for 2 days packed with great science and networking opportunities!

Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 BSI Outstanding Leadership Award, sponsored by @ceijournal.bsky.social … Professor Clare Bryant, @clarebryant.bsky.social

Interested in innate immunity and inflammation? Join us in September for a great meeting! Superb lineup of speaker and lots of opportunities for Ecrs to present!

Interested in #InnateImmunity ? Register now to secure your spot — abstracts can be submitted later! More info: wp.unil.ch/immunobiolog... #ImmunoSky

Great work by the @inflammasomelab.bsky.social @s-burgener.bsky.social and colleagues showing in vivo the importance of caspase-1 inactivation in controlling inflammation! Impressive amount of work behind it, glad to see this out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have a 3-year PDRA post in Cancer Immunogenomics. Ideal to use and strengthen your bioinformatics skills to discover how cancer transcriptome quirks shape immunotherapy outcomes. Funded by @cancerresearchuk.org. It’ll be fun! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... @hyms.ac.uk @ybri-uoy.bsky.social

🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! 🔥 Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! (1/5) Please share!

Funded 4-year #PhD in the exciting BBSRC NILAB program. @wwiem-qub.bsky.social Receive multidisciplinary training, develop #infection models and #AI image analysis to reveal bacterial & viral disease mechanisms & discover new antimicrobials. Fight #AMR Get in touch! Details: tinyurl.com/e5k6ptua

The loss of TBK1, or both TBK1 and the related kinase IKKε, results in uncontrolled cell death–driven inflammation. We show that TBK1/IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#job 🚨for a laboratory technician in the Wright group within dept. Biology/HYMS and @ybri-uoy.bsky.social to work on creating genome-scale arrays of human cell surface receptors to discover new host-pathogen interactions. Apply by 20/3/2025: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/labo...

#job - INTERNAL candidates only. Technician in dept. Biology in @billgrey.bsky.social lab studying how the proteome evolves from healthy haematopoietic stem cell to malignant leukaemic stem cell in vivo. Apply by 12/3/25 jobs.york.ac.uk/internal/vac...

Can I tempt some young minds to consider Old York for a PhD? Some days left to apply. Open to applicants WORLDWIDE 🌎.

We’re currently recruiting for a biochemist, to be based here in Glasgow at the @cruk-si.bsky.social or otherwise down in Cambridge. Take a look, and obviously choose Glasgow! cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Great piece on circular/green labs (sent by @cyrilpedia.bsky.social). More urgent than ever: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Academics get so jaded about institutions, when they reach a #leadership position many feel #researchculture is unactionable. Me and @deefitzgerald.bsky.social wrote a guide in @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social on leadership nurturing a positive culture 1/13 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to start 2025 with our latest findings! Yersinia invades macrophage cytosol to activate caspase-11 when caspase-8 or YopJ are inactive. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

There's still time to apply for this postdoc position in our lab. Ideally suited to someone wanting to develop some independent research, we have lots of new projects to select from! #immunosky 🧪

Have you ever wondered whether pyroptotic corpses have functions beyond the grave? We made the surprising discovery that pyroptotic corpses are flagged by #filopodia to alert #DendriticCells they need autopsy. A short Bluetorial (1/13)👇with movies! Link: rdcu.be/d2mjm

Preprint alert! Peptides are everywhere in biological environments, and these molecules serve as a rich source of nutrients for bacteria. Here, we uncover how one transporter protein allows S. aureus to utilise 100+ peptides for growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another preprint, and this time the excellent work of @imrsankhan.bsky.social from his PhD & our first full experimental Staph aureus paper - on transporters of course! Imran found a cool link to glutathione and infection too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited by viruses and how our bodies repel them? A fully funded PhD project now available combining expertise from the lab to the clinic. #virology #immunology #dermatology #CRISPR #vector-vertebrate biology. Help us spread the word. ☺️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 PhD Alert! Join us for an exciting PhD project in gorgeous York 🧠 🔬 You will be based in the Hahnlab (sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/hah…) in gorgeous York & work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Happy to chat! Apply here: lnkd.in/es-nY8uD#PhDpositionon

PhD project with Ioannis Kourtzelis, our lab and Mesenbio in lovely York! Macrophage, EV and innate immune responses, what's not to love! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib

We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.