New preprint! 🧪 This was a fantastic collaboration led by an expert team of skin biologists at the @blizardinstitute.bsky.social who developed 3D skin models to study host–microbiome interactions in dandruff. Our lab @qmul-coirm.bsky.social contributed to the microbiology! 1/

Prof Farida Fortune CBE recipient of the Slack Award 2025

We co-produce research with the people it's for. Our CAB includes British Pakistani & British Bangladeshi community voices and we work with social orgs, charities & faith groups. Here’s #2 of 10 in our anniversary countdown. #GenesAndHealth10

Thanks for your support. To all Crowd funders. multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2025/04/than... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don't forget to secure your place and submit your abstract for the LSCN 8th Annual Symposium! 🔗Registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/8th-annual... Website: lscn.co.uk (where the final agenda will be published soon) Abstract submission (deadline 04/04!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New steps for Open Science actions at @qmul.ac.uk, including the official support to the Peer Community In Initiative @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @alexmielke.bsky.social www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/news/4917/ne...

Exciting opportunity! The @nihrspcr.bsky.social Summer Internship Programme 2025 has launched. A fantastic chance for UK undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in primary care research. Apply now: spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel... #PrimaryCare #Internship @qmulprimarycare.bsky.social

From big data and experimental models to clinical trials: Iterative strategies in microbiome research: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations to Professor of Dental Public Health, Eduardo Bernabé, and a group of international colleagues on the publication of global, WHO region, and country-level estimates of the prevalence of oral health conditions. Read more at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just opened: state-of-the-art facilities to replace animal testing with c£750k from @nc3rs.bsky.social and industry partners. www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/news/7091/on... #animaltesting #organonchip #invitromodels #BiomedicalEngineering #engineeringstudent @qmulse.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk

A new study in @elife.bsky.social led by #COIRM researchers Dr. Saima Usman & Prof. Ahmad Waseem reveals that swapping one amino acid (cysteine→serine) in the protein vimentin makes breast #cancer cells far more aggressive. 🧪 1/n elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

A new study in @elife.bsky.social led by #COIRM researchers Dr. Saima Usman & Prof. Ahmad Waseem reveals that swapping one amino acid (cysteine→serine) in the protein vimentin makes breast #cancer cells far more aggressive. 🧪 1/n elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

We're delighted that our colleagues in the Institute of Dentistry have received a silver #AthenaSwan award! The award recognises the Institute's continuing commitment and achievements in gender equality. Read more about the award here: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

📣 Workshop announcement! Join us on the 5th of Feb at @qmul.ac.uk to discuss the latest advancements in #organoids research! Info and registration here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/organoids-... @simoesfilipa.bsky.social @inesequeira.bsky.social @qkine.bsky.social @qmul-coirm.bsky.social

Goal accomplished! First @walkolab.bsky.social PhD student project published as pre-print on (Austrian) Christmas Day 🥳

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in London! 🚨 Join us to explore oral & skin inflammation with single-cell and spatial omics. We're supporting candidates for the Newton International Fellowships. Interested? DM me! More info: royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #Postdoc #Omics #Inflammation #NewtonFellowships

Huge congratulations to everyone graduating this week as part of our Winter ceremonies 🎓🎉 #QMULGrad

Dr Grace Megan Howell Graduation at QMUL with supervisors. Louisa James and Angray Kang

Rahaf Alsharani & Wasan Alfayez Graduation in MSc Experimental Oral Pathology at QMUL

🚨Deadline is 6th Jan to apply for a PhD with me and @drsimonmcarthur.bsky.social, at the EPSRC funded QMUL CDT. Come and work on the host-microbe interactions in the human mouth with us at the @qmul-coirm.bsky.social group based in the Blizard Institute! #PhD #3D #organotypics #metabolomics

The researchers also found that a class of ‘inhibitor’ type drugs – which can block chemical reactions in the body – showed promising results in being able to prevent this damage from occurring. Find out more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

P-cresol sulfate is a molecule produced by the gut microbiome and has been seen to accumulate in the blood of patients with CKD. The study found that the toxin triggers a process which damages the critically protective blood–brain barrier, increasing the risks of strokes and other issues.

New research by @drsimonmcarthur.bsky.social and colleagues at Nottingham Trent University has found that a toxin found in the blood of patients with chronic kidney disease (#CKD) damages the body’s protective blood–brain barrier, likely contributing to the risk of #stroke.

Bit of commentary on fantastic exciting area using antibodies in Dentistry. Prof Takahashi group in Japan leading the way. Will follow this research closely. Immunotechnology in Dentistry coming of age. One day maybe even collaborate? www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Congratulations to Walko Lab research assistant Elodie Sins for being selected to join the “Project management for technicians” programmes from the Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy next year. So well deserved 😊

Also fantastic talk from @iamabyron.bsky.social about adhesion protein-driven regulation of gene expression in cutaneous SCC.

It’s been a great pleasure to help organize and chair the session on squamous cancers at this year’s Skin@Bath @uniofbath.bsky.social meeting. Big shoutout to Prof Charareh Pourzand for organising a fantastic diverse skin research meeting.

Great representation of @qmulfmd.bsky.social @qmul-coirm.bsky.social @blizardinstitute.bsky.social through presentations of Dr Gernot Walko and Dr Ryan O’Shaugnessy.

Are you a biomedical sciences or biochemistry graduate wanting to do a PhD in translational skin research? I have a 4 year PhD studentship (co-funded by DEBRA UK and DEBRA France) available in my lab at Queen Mary University of London.

#microbiomesky - please pass on to any potential PhD students interested in a (fully funded) project studying host-microbe interactions in the mouth

Don't miss out on the free registration for the The Festival of Genomics & Biodata in London! I will be speaking at The Festival, taking place on the 29th-30th of January 2025 at ExCeL London. Register now ! hubs.la/Q02TptWZ0 #FOG2025

Over 7M people in the UK are estimated to live with #CKD. Researchers at #COIRM found a #gut #microbiome toxin in #CKD patients, p-cresol sulfate, damages the blood-brain barrier risking stroke & cognitive decline, but promising drugs may block this. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PREPRINT ALERT! New Human Oral Cell Atlas, from @humancellatlas.org initiative. By integrating cutting-edge single-cell and spatial multiomics technologies, we mapped 70 samples from 13niches of the adult oral cavity, creating a single cell and spatial atlas.Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Over 7M people in the UK are estimated to live with #CKD. Researchers at #COIRM found a #gut #microbiome toxin in #CKD patients, p-cresol sulfate, damages the blood-brain barrier risking stroke & cognitive decline, but promising drugs may block this. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lovely people of BlueSky, please share our Starter Pack of academic colleagues from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry! Do give us a follow or send a message if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/CsNph6c

👋 Hello Bluesky! We are the QMUL Centre for Oral Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine - a team of experts in cancer, immunology, microbiology, oral medicine, surgery, periodontology, neurobiology, and more. Follow us for updates on our research and events! #QMUL #COIRM✨