My main PhD paper is finally out! 🎉 After ~5 years, it’s published today in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. @natimmunol.nature.com It all started with an unexpected observation 🔍: 👉 Mice lacking the dendritic cell receptor DNGR-1 developed tumours earlier ⏩ and more frequently 📈 than wild-type mice. 1/11 🧵

When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In northern Cameroon, health workers tried to protect children in one last rainy season.

In the Guardian, ft. me: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Another great output from a joyful long-term collaboration between Montevideo and Manchester onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Published in the excellent journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13653024...

Isn't this the coolest Christmas present (or miracle) for a #gdTcell aficionado?! Our latest preprint showing the role of BATF3 on gd T cells is ou on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great Lab Christmas Lunch Festivities. I love this gang!!

Super secret Santa to get us in the spirit for Christmas lunch

Congratulations to Dr. Seytyagyaeyva!! Well done Emiliya for passing your viva with flying colors - and thanks to the examiners Brian Stramer and Jordi Bella, who we forgot to photograph! Photo of supervisor Tony Day, Emiliya and co-supervisor me

Cytokines 2026 in Glasgow (Oct 18-21) has an incredible Scientific Organizing Committee! Simon Jones, Iain McInnes, Clare Bryant, Clare Lloyd, and Luke O'Neill creating the program. This one's going to be special. Details: 2026.cytokinesociety.org

Professor Tracy Hussell, Director of the @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science by @nature.com.

We are recruiting a Research Tech! Funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social, join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) Deadline: 5th January www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We’re hiring! Two postdoctoral research positions are available in our lab - one in mucosal immunology, and one in exposome immunology (MRC CoRE)! Apply by December 22nd!🎄 Position 1: tinyurl.com/2mh44tn4 Position 2: tinyurl.com/5ffzxsfb @kiroxford.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

Our Director, Prof Tracy Hussell @tracyh9494.bsky.social has been shortlisted for a prestigious @nature.com Award for Mentoring in the Life Time Achievement category! 🤞Everyone at the Becker wishes Tracy the best of luck at this evening's Awards Ceremony. www.nature.com/nature/award...

We are so proud of Georgia - winning a prize for her amazing talk on our favourite molecule Ym1 @britsocimm.bsky.social - Delay in posting because I needed to get the photo from Brian @thelabninja.bsky.social (the lab photographer!)

Great time at BSI - with both past and current lab members (photo mostly current - @ph-papotto.bsky.social has his own lab now, and Georgia has an exciting new post with Jo Konkel)

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

Amazing talk from Andrea Graham. So much to learn from rewilding mice. @grahammunology.bsky.social #BSI2025 @britsocimm.bsky.social

Day 1 of the BSI 2025 on Monday saw the wonderful Judi Allen deliver a fabulous keynote talk! We were also very excited to see Judi share the news of our new MRC Exposome Immunology Manchester/Oxford collaboration👩‍🔬 @profjudiallen.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social

Wonderful reunion of Edinburgh gang (now in Manchester, New Jersey, Aberdeen & Edinburgh) at BSI congress opening night. @britsocimm.bsky.social #BSI2025

Fantastic start to #BSI25 with @profjudiallen.bsky.social ; a masterclass in scientific storytelling. Her career journey was engaging and full of long-view perspectives. Loved her celebration of mentees, and the message to chase those exciting “distractions” in science. #macrophage #Th2 #infections

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 ⚡

🧫How can spatial profiling reveal the hidden organisation of the immune system? Join this parallel session at #BSI25 to explore how multi-omics and computational biology are uncovering new insights into immune cell interactions! Register here: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8

🌿 Discover how the immune system operates in the real world! Join Prof Amy Pedersen & Prof Andrea Graham for the session “Ecoimmunology: the immune system in context”, exploring how environment, ecology & evolution shape immunity. 🕒 Don’t miss it! #BSI25

'Type 2 immunity in health and disease' takes place 11am–12:45pm, Wed 3 Dec! Explore the cells and signals driving type 2 responses and why their regulation remains elusive by joining this parallel session at #BSI25. Registration is still open: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8

We’re thrilled to share that we’re part of the Experimental Medicine Collaboration (EMC) with GSK! The EMC will put translational science at the forefront of developing treatments for immune mediated inflammatory diseases👩‍🔬🧬🧫 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11... @gsk.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

Students in ‘quality’ jobs have higher chance of academic success www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

Stimulating day at MRC Biomedicine Science Conference. Super keynote from Sarah Teichmann, Entertaining and thought provoking talk from George Davey Smith, MRC Millennium Medal recipient, and amazing views from the loo @mendelrandom.bsky.social @ukri.org

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 🧪🧫🔬

The weather has turned. No boats can cross. The small team on island have the experience to reshape our field plans so the work continues safely and without exhausting people. This is the reality of a “wild laboratory” @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social

PhD opportunity working with me, Mark Viney, Iris Mair and Rowan Bancroft studying the Isle of May wild mice is open now! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are back on the Isle of May for our final winter season of our BBSRC funded research exploring the effects of environment on immunity. Traps are out and we are having an evening by the fire @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social

What a week! So pleased to now also see the peer reviewed version in Science Signaling of @megtriesscience.bsky.social PhD work joint with the Saunders lab, see her great thread for explanation below www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold. Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A huge honour to be a recipient of the Delphine Parrott award and give a memorial lecture. Delphine was the 1st female professor at the University of Glasgow and a groundbreaking immunologist. Also great to be introduced by Allan Mowatt as an honorary Scot! @immunememorylab.bsky.social

Great to work with budding young scientists as they designed experiments to investigate air pollution! @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

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-...

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity – MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology 🌟 Join us to explore how the exposome shapes complex disease risk using multi-omics & global biobank data. @kiroxford.bsky.social , @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social ✅ Apply: lnkd.in/gJHJDvKn 🗓️ Deadline: 12pm, 30 Oct 2025

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

A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics. #exposome #immunology

So proud of my family. Already out marching on the East coat sending quotes to family on west coast, busily making signs. “Fight ignorance not immigrants” “Make America constitutional again” and many more #NoKings

And now UVA!! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... MIT, Brown, Penn, USC and now UVA have all rejected the loyalty oath “compact” for “excellence” in higher ed. Five of nine! (I wonder if this decision was final before today’s planned meeting www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...)

Fantastic to be with colleagues from Oxford today to discuss what we can do with @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social to explore how exposome factors like pollution and viral infection shape immune function and development of non communicable inflammatory disease @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

📣 PhD project available 📣 Interested in immuno-matrix interactions and matrix regulation? This project will investigate how hyaluronan is cleared from the lungs after infection. 🫁 @profjudiallen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣 Final week before early bird #BSI25 registration closes! Join 1,500+ immunology professionals in Liverpool for four days of learning, sharing, and celebrating the latest breakthroughs. Register now to save: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8