Delighted to share this! We identify gut #macrophages as key players in preventing dissemination of intestinal microbes in liver cirrhosis. Best collab with my partner in crime @lenasmets.bsky.social, featuring some stunning live imaging with @colindascheele.bsky.social 👇 gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

Thrilled for our wonderful postdoc @lizihegarty.bsky.social whose #PhD work on colonic #macrophages and #colitis with @bainlab.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social has been accepted for publication in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social 🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A beautiful study describing cell fate acquisition in bilayered #epithelia, inc. my fave #salivarygland, published in @cp-devcell.bsky.social Conserved signals control self-organization & symmetry breaking of murine bilayered epithelia during development & regeneration www.cell.com/developmenta...

Wonderful to see this lovely data out in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social! Congratulations to @nabinapun.bsky.social, @douglaspdyer.bsky.social & colleagues of @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social & @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social! 👏 #monocyte #radiotherapy #intestinal #toxicity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice to spend the morning in the magnificent Playfair Library at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social discussing how to better support #carers in #STEMM, organised by @carersinstemm.bsky.social, and with my very own dependent alongside me as it’s half term!

📖 A very comprehensive review of the heterogeneity, crosstalk and therapeutic potential of #salivarygland #macrophages including reference to several papers from @emmersonlab-irr.bsky.social 📚 #immunosky www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

TGFb mediates #macrophage specialisation and crosstalk with sensory #nerves in the #skin after injury. A beautiful study by Julia Kolter, Philipp Henneke and colleagues published in @cp-immunity.bsky.social #immunosky www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him” He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon www.cell.com/current-biol...

Great to see this out for all to see after a lot of hard work by @lizihegarty.bsky.social and @bainlab.bsky.social. Colonic #macrophages persist but are transcriptionally altered post- #inflammation in a mouse model of #colitis.

Absolutely delighted that our superstar #postdoc @lizihegarty.bsky.social was awarded the @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social Student Support & Supervision Award for #PAW 2025. Thoroughly deserved for everything she does for @emmersonlab-irr.bsky.social, @bainlab.bsky.social & @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

A cracking meal complete with piper & Ceilidh to round off the second day of #EMDS2025 in #Edinburgh

#EMDS2025 attendees - if anyone is looking for a postdoc position and likes what they see of #Edinburgh, please come and speak to me or @lizihegarty.bsky.social (poster 71) or @erinwatson.bsky.social (poster 35).

After a year of planning, we are ready. Registration opens at 8am. Excited for 2.5days of great science and a bit of fun. See you soon

For anyone wanting to know more about this #postdoc position, I’ll be at @emds2025.bsky.social this week. Alternatively, you’ll find @emmersonlab-irr.bsky.social members @lizihegarty.bsky.social & @erinwatson.bsky.social at posters 71 & 35 #academicjobs

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Official advert coming soon! #postdoc #macrophages @britsocimm.bsky.social @emds2025.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

Lovely @emmersonlab-irr.bsky.social outing with @lizihegarty.bsky.social and & @erinwatson.bsky.social to celebrate @abelsoto.bsky.social joining the lab for the summer and welcome incoming PhD student Natalie

I'll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc to join our lab at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social exploring #macrophages in salivary gland #development. Candidates should have a strong background in immunology/macrophage biology and/or developmental biology & key skills as below. Informal enquiries welcome!

I am extremely honoured to say that I have been named as the @iadr.bsky.social Salivary Researcher of the Year 2025 🏆 This is testament to my incredible team & wonderful collaborators over the last 8 yrs & my superb postdoc training at @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social #salivarygland #salivary #research

As a postdoc I found that mimicking #nerve signals could help cell replenishment in #salivarygland. When I joined @edinuni-irr.bsky.social we teamed up with the incredible Unciti-Broceta lab from @uoe-igc.bsky.social to explore a novel #drugdelivery system: 📖 ➡️ www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

A beautiful study out now in @cp-devcell.bsky.social showing that tissue architecture drives cell fate in branched #epithelial organs during #development.

Well done to @erinwatson.bsky.social for writing this wonderful review of what is known about macrophage crosstalk with peripheral nerves in a whole range of different tissues! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #macrophage #nerve #neuroimmunology #immunosky

Building confidence in the #HPV #vaccine is so important to protect young people going forward. Massive 👏🏻 to our very own Dom Cairns-Gibson for leading the discussions with local Castlebrae students #vaccination @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @tcf-foundation.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Please consider applying for the Young Investigator Award @emds2025.bsky.social Full details at www.emds2025.com @britsocimm.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.nature.com

What an incredible setting for a conference exploring the diverse range of model animals used in scientific research! #EMBOvertebratemodels @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #Edinburgh #Scotland

Fantastic talk from Sophie Brumm who’s undertaking her #postdoc with @cellysally.bsky.social at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social in the afternoon session of #SDBG2025 👏🏻 #development #cells

Congratulations to @drbmalengier.bsky.social, @magmarlene.bsky.social and Team Gentek of @edinuni-irr.bsky.social for this amazing tour de force, comprehensively characterising #synovial #macrophage #development 💪🏻

Really pleased that @abelsoto.bsky.social from @umcgroningen.bsky.social will be joining @emmersonlab-irr.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social for 3 months this summer, supported by a @embo.org Scientific Exchange Grant & the René Vogels Stichting foundation. Looking forward to welcoming you Abel!

A lovely day spent in Cambridge at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social Department of Pathology. Thank you @mcgovernlab.bsky.social for the invitation to present in the @britsocimm.bsky.social Cambridge Immunology seminar series and for being such amazing hosts!

The spring EIG session is coming this Thursday on 1st of May. Please join us from 13:30 in @edinuni-irr.bsky.social IRR South seminar room 1.05 for fantastic talks by Dr. Elizabeth Mann, Dr. Tovah Shaw and Prof. Hamida Hammad. See you there!

Great advice on the Dos and Don’ts of writing a response to reviewers #publishing #science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the #FameLab #Scotland finals tonight as part of #EdSciFest at @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social with my young sidekick, who speedily volunteered as an audience participant when he realised the role was chief leaf blower-ping pong ball catcher! #scicomm #STEM #science

Great to be back in Perth for @britsocimm.bsky.social #SIGNET2025 to hear all about the exciting #immunology research happening across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🚨 Heads-up: a little over a week to apply for this exciting postdoc opportunity in Edinburgh @edinuni-irr.bsky.social! 🚨 I will be in Liverpool for #biologists100. Happy to chat about the position, our research, setting up a lab, spiny mice, axolotls, and whatnot!

Join us in Edinburgh in September for the 38th European #Macrophage and #DendriticCell Society meeting! We have a great lineup of speakers and are looking forward to all the fantastic talks and interactions that make this meeting special. #EMDS #ImmunoSky 🧪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔬 www.emds2025.com

So very proud of PhD student @erinwatson.bsky.social for being awarded a small equipment grant from @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social to purchase a new and modern dissecting microscope 🔬 for working with very small specimens 🧫 Well done Erin! 🥳

Looking for a #postdoc in #regenerative #biology? 🔬🧬Look no further than this amazing opportunity with my super office mate @aidarodrigo.bsky.social at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social to explore regenerative capacity across species! 🐭 🐁 Closing 📅 01/04/25

Organ-specific sympathetic innervation defines visceral functions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sensory neurons shape macrophage identity via TGF-β signalling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.06.635770v1

After an amazing week at the @salivaexores.bsky.social Gordon Research Conference I’m delighted to say that alongside my colleague @harringdan.bsky.social I was voted in as 2027 co-Vice Chair & 2029 co-Chair! Really looking forward to contributing toward this incredible meeting over the next 4 yrs!

Part 4, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2017, putting 3D electron microscopy (FIB SEM) data of the salivary gland in context. In collab with Kedar Narayan, NCI's CCR Volume EM lab. 🧪 crtp.ccr.cancer.gov/vem/

📣 New Review Alert! Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS? Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs? Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin! #GlialCells #ImmuneSystem

REMINDER - EMDS25 The European Macrophage & Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS) meeting will take place in Edinburgh from 16-18th Sept. Website & registration details coming soon. @britsocimm.bsky.social @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social

Fascinating study published in Science Immunology exploring the role of NK cells in controlling CD8+ T cell expansion in the salivary gland in autoimmune disease www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new mouse model of #SjogrensSyndrome which develops inflammatory cell infiltrate in #salivaryglands and #lacrimalglands - incredible! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Superb article published in @dev-journal.bsky.social authored by Nicole Franks and Benjamin Allen exploring the role of Gas1 in #kidney #development with some beautiful #microscopy and #imaging of organ #morphogenesis 👏

Very nice study out now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social from Sarah Knox and co showing that cholinergic stimulation can improve function after salivary gland degeneration #salivarygland #headandneckcancer #regeneration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is absolutely incredible and led by our superb collaborator and ENT surgeon Iain Nixon #salivarygland #ENT #lothian #NHS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just less than a month to apply for this exciting PhD project working toward #salivarygland #regeneration after #cancer treatment.

So proud of each of you, I couldn’t ask for a more inquisitive, enthusiastic and fun team to work with! Thank you for a great 2024! 🥹