It was an absolute pleasure to hear Ron Germain speak at Imperial College yesterday. His seminar was a brilliant deep dive into immunology and cutting-edge imaging approaches. A real highlight was the chance to discuss science with him afterwards with Peter Openshaw and Cecilia Johansson !

I’m so excited to share that my paper on the role of itaconate in allergic airway disease and asthma has just been published in @allergy-eaaci.bsky.social! You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #itaconate #allergy #asthma #immunometabolism #innateimmunity

We are recruiting!!! Postdoc position available in my lab to develop this exciting project with @alexfsantos2401.bsky.social advance our understanding of food allergy and oral tolerance in early life. #ILC #organoids #FoodAllergy www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...

We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...

Barrier sites under the microscope! 🔬 Discover how our skin, gut & lungs fight infection, heal, and keep our microbiota happy. Don’t miss this session at #BSI25! PS. Early bird registration closes on Wednesday 22 October ⚡

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🌟 It was a real pleasure to present our latest spatial data yesterday at the @10xgenomics.bsky.social Single Cell & Spatial Event ! An inspiring day with exciting innovations from 10x, great discussions, and an incredible venue. 🚀 @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!

🚨 We are #recruiting! 🚨My lab is looking for a highly motivated Research Technician to join us for the next 3 years. 👉 Apply via the link www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... or feel free to reach out for more information!

New paper alert - congratulations, Franz & team 🥳 Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology www.jacionline.org/article/S009...

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/...

📢 Meet #BSICambridge25 speaker: @regisjoulia.bsky.social Dr Régis Joulia, @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded Group Leader @imperialnhli.bsky.social, will be speaking on mast cells in the lungs at the 2025 Cambridge Immunology Forum. 🎟️ Register now: buff.ly/jhoEQJ0 @britsocimm.bsky.social

NHLI's Joulia Lab made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁📽️ Check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. With thanks to Wellcome Trust & Acteria Watch it here: youtu.be/Skp_CNWOYSA

We made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁🎬 Designed for the public, students & patients—check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!

🎉 Exciting news! I’ve recently been elected to the @britsocimm.bsky.social Congress Committee and to the Board of the @societymucosalimm.bsky.social (SMI) representing the voices of ECRs! Looking forward to working with these fantastic scientific organisations. www.immunology.org/news/new-bsi...

🚨 Review Alert *Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain* Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳 Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press in Nature Immunology: CD4⁺ T cells can license Kupffer cells to rescue dysfunctional CD8⁺ T cells in the liver. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is just the proving ground—this is a paradigm shift in tissue immunity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵(1/11)

🚨 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...

#Immunologists - have you signed up for BSI's @london-immuno.bsky.social 1d conference yet? Fri 11th July Speakers include: Jan Böttcher, Tao Dong, @labliston.bsky.social, @beecell.bsky.social, Claudia Mauri & Claire Malone REPOST to share as widely as poss www.immunology.org/events/diver...

#EVBOSeminarSeries Moderated by Joanna Kalucka. Speakers: Ralf Adams and Mariona Graupera. ⏰When: Wednesday, 18th June 2025, 3PM EU time (2PM UK). Place: online. See you there! For registration evbo.org

Joulia et al use single cell spatial transcriptomics to profile the lung in health and during asthma and identify discrete proinflammatory spatial niches that produce alarmins and chemokines. Read it here: rdcu.be/epjN7 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest work on how nerves safeguard lung fibrosis. Congrats to Dr. Hiroki and collaborators. @cp-immunity.bsky.social @kavithascranton.bsky.social @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgarymed.bsky.social @libininstitute.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/abs...

Our researchers have created the first high-res map of the lung airway wall, revealing how cell organisation & interactions are disrupted in asthma 🫁 Published in @natimmunol.nature.com, it's a key step towards understanding the mechanisms that drive the disease www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264294/...

We have a funded PhD studentship on RSV antibodies working with RQ bio, deadline June 30 www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...

🚨 We did it! Our latest work—led by my lab and the @lloydlab.bsky.social is now published in Nature Immunology! 🎉 Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology

Here we share our opinions on "Practical considerations for data exploration in quantitative cell biology" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Joanna, Hanna and I worked quite a bit on this piece and I hope you find it useful Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing it

I'm excited to share my first-author PhD paper, now out in Science Immunology! @science.org We show that S.aureus skin infection leaves a lasting imprint on bone marrow eosinophils, fueling allergic responses in the lungs. 📄 Read the full study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Let’s dive in 🧵 1/9

Now recruiting! We have a BHF CRE/BRC PhD position open in my group. If you're passionate about exploring how human lung vasculature changes during respiratory disorders using spatial imaging, check out the application below. UK nationals preferred. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Dedicated BSky account for EMDS2025 launched Please share far and wide. Follow @emds2025.bsky.social for all updates on the EMDS2025: Scotland Edition We have an amazing line up of speakers and are excited to welcome all of you to bonnie Scotland in September! @britsocimm.bsky.social

Now recruiting! We have a BHF CRE/BRC PhD position open in my group. If you're passionate about exploring how human lung vasculature changes during respiratory disorders using spatial imaging, check out the application below. UK nationals preferred. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our review is out in Immunological Reviews! With @lloydlab.bsky.social , we explore how spatial biology in asthma—airway structures & immune cells—could shape future therapies. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Thanks to Wellcome Trust & Acteria. @imperialnhli.bsky.social

New article by Cleary, Qiu, Looney et al. reports an intravital microscopy approach for imaging lymphatic vessels in the lungs. This technique can also reveal cellular dynamics in other understudied tissue structures. https://buff.ly/41msQjZ @maxkrummel.bsky.social

Here we go, our first #FluorescentFriday in ages!🥳🔬🫁 After moving campuses and setting up our new lab, we're finally up and running again. Enjoy this cool video showcasing immune cells (purple) clustering near degranulated mast cells (green) and lung vasculature (blue) @imperialnhli.bsky.social

Since I last posted here I moved to the US and joined Ensocell, an exciting startup with amazing people! UK #immunology #immunosky folks, we are searching for a Senior Scientist, Immunology to join the Cambridge team! Tell your friends! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Boost Your Career in Immunology with the SMI Mentorship Program and connect with leading experts for career guidance, networking, and growth opportunities -> bit.ly/3orazy8 Also, hear from @regisjoulia.bsky.social‬ on the Mucosal Immunology Podcast: bit.ly/4hkDayE #MucosalImmunology

Fantastic initiative from @marionbrunck.bsky.social, Agnes Garcias Lopez, @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social , and @societymucosalimm.bsky.social ! I had a brilliant time chatting about mast cells and scientific careers. Don’t miss out— subscribe for the next episodes ! 🎙️🔬

We are absolutely thrilled to finally move into our brand-new lab at the Hammersmith Campus! This marks an exciting new chapter for our team, and we can’t wait to collaborate with the incredible scientific community here. 🔬✨ @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

🧪A first episode focused on mast cells in lung #mucosa with emerging leader @regisjoulia.bsky.social sharing his story 😌 to amazing co-host Agnès García López and I Did we give too much clue 🧩 @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social 🐉🐉🐉 ??

Our brand new Musocal Immunology Podcast is live! Episode 1 features @regisjoulia.bsky.social chatting with @marionbrunck.bsky.social, @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social, and more @societymucosalimm.bsky.social. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeart. www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

#Pericyte #PulmonaryHypertension 1/2 A subpopulation of Higd1b+ lung capillary pericytes 👉Migrate to distal arteriole 👉Upregulate Vimentin 👉Acquire #SmoothMuscleCell identity (α-SMA, circumferential wrapping) in🐭Hypoxic PH #SciArt Ke Yuan lab @embojournal.org 2025 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

With my first Bluesky post, I am very happy to share our latest study led by PhD student Federico De Ponti and postdoc Ania Bujko www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Dear mucosal immunologists! Registration for the European Mucosal Immunology Group (EMIG) meeting in Aachen, Germany is now open. Register and see you this July in Aachen! 👇🏼 emig2025.de @petterbrodin.bsky.social @wiag.bsky.social @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social

It's Coming! The Mucosal Immunology Podcast to launch on MONDAY! 🌟 Explore groundbreaking insights and inspiring stories in the world of mucosal immunology - brought to you by SMI and @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social. #MucosalImmunology #SciencePodcast #ImmunologyResearch #PodcastLaunch

We are looking for a motivated Research Technician to work on bronchiectasis with myself, Anand Shah + excellent team of clinical and non-clinical researchers. Post funded by @The_MRC Details here: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-in… …. Deadline 18th Feb 2025. Please share!

New paper alert 📢! (Cell) @cp-cell.bsky.social - How does immune responses to solid tumors vary by age and tumor characteristics in children?! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵1/8

Looking for an #immunology #postdoc? Then I *THOROUGHLY RECOMMEND* @mainilab.bsky.social Incredibly supportive PI & environment Cutting-edge science🧪 (dissecting hepatic #immunity in people w/ #hepatitisB & #cancer) Fab team & collabs Great institute APPLY NOW: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...

🚨 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...

We're hiring! Funded postdoctoral position available in the Moltke Lab. 79k starting salary and access to a fellowship program in the Institute for Translational Immunology that offers both academic and industry training tracks. Details here: jobrxiv.org/job/universi...

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TGF-β drives differentiation of intraepithelial mast cells in inflamed airway mucosa @jclinicalinvest www.jci.org/articles/vie... www.jci.org/articles/vie...