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🎉 Congratulations to this year's SSI Young Investigator Award winners! Meet the rising stars of Scandinavian #immunology: John, Jonna, Chris, and Asbjørn @yssi-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social @iannaconelab.bsky.social @romagnanilab.bsky.social

Great start of #SSI2025 at KI representing @yssi-immunology.bsky.social and @yefis-immunology.bsky.social !

🎉Kicking off the 50th annual SSI meeting in Stockholm! Huge thanks to @cgerlachlab.bsky.social for the warm welcome and inspiring introduction! @yssi-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social @swimm-immuno.bsky.social @iannaconelab.bsky.social

#yEFIS Career Fridays Ep. 1️⃣: Research on the Other Side 👀 Join Anna Sanecka-Duin, PhD and Ewa Oleszycka as they discuss Anna’s move from academia to biotech. 🗓️ October 17th, 13:00 CEST 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/yefiscareer2...

🚀 Platforma – no-code bioinformatic analysis Say goodbye to coding! 🧬 Analyze NGS data of any species with ease, from gene expression to VDJ and single-cell workflows. 💻 Download it for free 👉 platforma.bio @milaboratories.bsky.social

Mark your calendars 🗓️ June 29th - July 1st 2026 The 3rd #yEFIS Symposium is on the horizon! Stay tuned, exciting details coming your way 🔥

💚 Happy Mental Health Day! Just a little reminder to slow down, take a deep breath, and be kind to yourself today. You don’t have to be productive all the time, resting is part of the process too. 🌿

Join our free, open access webinar with the Young European Hematology Association & @yefis-immunology.bsky.social, featuring 3 presentations on CAR T-cells! 📅 19 November 14:00-15:30 CET 🌍 Zoom us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 yEFIS Career Fridays start next week! Your PhD opens more doors than you think — join our 5-week series and hear from immunology & life science PhDs who built amazing careers outside academia. ✨ Learn what they do, what got them there & ask your questions live!

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🚀 Join the EACR – yEHA – yEFIS Webinar on CAR T-cells! 📅 19 Nov 2025 | 14:00–15:30 CEST 🎙️ Speakers: • Dr. Sonia Guedan • Dr. med. David Stahl • Dr. med. Tobias Weiss 🔗 Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @helloeacr.bsky.social

It’s today! Join us to discover how you can analyse NGS data as a #wetlab #immunologist 👀

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📣do not miss out on 7&8 October: Spatial Biology in cancer and immunology research. Register NOW: events.bizzabo.com/SpatialBiology @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social

✨ A new look, the same mission! 💙 We are excited to reveal the new logo of yEFIS! 👀 🎉

🚨 Reminder 🚨 yEFIS webinar "Democratizing NGS Data Analysis: From Sequencing to Insights with Platforma" 📅 October 7th, 4pm CET 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/yefis-platfo...

📅🍁 Join yEFIS Five Career Fridays this fall! Thinking about a career beyond academia? 🤔 For immunology PhDs, the options are endless – but the market is tough 🤯. Join us this October & November as we talk to professionals who turned their PhDs into 5 very different career paths 👩‍🔬➡️💼

🚨 Don't miss yEFIS webinar 🚨 👉 Democratizing NGS Data Analysis: From Sequencing to Insights with Platforma 🗓️ October 7th 🕓 4.00pm CEST 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/yefis-platfo...

Don't miss this webinar! 👩🏼‍💻 🗓️ Sept 25 | 🕒15:00 CEST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yefis2025-ia2

🧬 From bone marrow-on-a-chip to thymus-in-a-dish, immune organoids are changing how we study immunity - one dish at a time. Check out Johanna’s blog post here 👉 syis-ecr.org/2025/09/02/i... @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

Join us for next week’s seminar where we’ll hear about 🧬 T cells and 🦠 E. coli! @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

🏆Congratulations to our award winners: Pascal Naef – best short talk presentation, Laura Zaragoza – best flash presentation and Marija Jokic – best poster. Thanks to everyone who participated! You made this day a success! #SYIS #Immunology #Workshops #CareerDevelopment @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

✍️Final Takeaway If you’re considering an #ERC application: → Dream big ✨ → Test your ideas with peers💡 → Build layered experiments 🧫 → Prepare thoroughly for the interview 🗣️💬 → And be ready for the admin and hiring challenges 👩🏼‍💻 #ERCGrant #ResearchCareers

👉Choosing Your Panel Wisely Both grantees applied in very specific #ERC panels — not always the obvious ones. Though their projects involved immunology, one framed it as tissue physiology, another as stem cell biology. 🧫🧬 Why? Because it fit better and gave their ideas the right audience.💬

🚨 yEFIS Webinar 🚨 Democratizing NGS Data Analysis: From Sequencing to Insights with Platforma 📅 Oct 7, 16:00 CET | 💻 Online Discover how to do clonotyping, B-cell maturation, specificity prediction & single-cell analysis without coding. 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yefis-platfo...

🤔 What They’d Do Differently? Both grantees admitted they rushed their proposals. Looking back, they wished they had started earlier and enjoyed shaping the ideas into a strong narrative. ⏳ ❗Lesson: give yourself time. Don’t just race to the deadline. #GrantWriting #ERCGrant

🚨 Present your work at the NextGen Immuno Journal Club! 👥 Hosted by EFIS Gender & Diversity Taskforce, yEFIS Equity & Diversity WG & yEFIS Immune Collaborators 📅 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏆 The Biggest Surprises After Winning❓ The biggest surprises after securing an #ERC? → The paperwork is extensive 📃 → The shift from doing experiments to managing people and budgets is real → Recruiting good people is harder than expected

🗣️Interview Preparation The #ERC interview is tough, but preparation makes the difference. Both grantees ran multiple mock interviews with scientists outside their fields. By the real interview, they could answer questions calmly and clearly. 💬 #ERCGrant #AcademicCareers

📝 Application Writing Strategy One grantee broke the proposal into smaller project aims, then combined them into a bigger story.🎯 ✴️Lesson: start small, then scale into something ambitious. #GrantWriting #ERCGrant

⚖️ Balancing Ambition vs Feasibility How do you balance ambition and feasibility in an #ERC project? 💡 → Don’t dismiss ideas as “too much” too soon → Seek feedback to calibrate scope → Build multi-layered experiments so no single result makes or breaks the project #ERCGrant #AcademicLeadership

Developing the Idea✨ 👉 Both #ERC winners had their big ideas well before applying.💡 They tested them on colleagues again and again: “Is this too ambitious?” Feedback helped refine and sharpen the proposals.💬 Your network is an asset — use it. #ERCGrant #ScienceAdvice

📢 Free online lecture series (15–16 Sept) by Austrian Business Agency on opportunities in Life Sciences in Austria. Topics: funding, tax benefits, immigration law & more. 👉 Info: www.b2match.com/e/virtual-re... #LifeSciences #ResearchOpportunities #Austria

🎓From Postdoc to PI Is an #ERC just a continuation of postdoc work? Not really. Both grantees said the ERC looks for bold projects, not incremental steps. One took existing data and asked entirely new questions — that became the project. #ERCGrant #ResearchFunding

📢 ERC Grant Webinar Recap 👇 🔴 The Beginning 💡 Neither of our ERC grantees originally planned to apply. Both were nudged (read: urged) by senior mentors who saw their potential before they did. 💡Lesson: Sometimes you need someone else to push you. Listen to them. #ERCGrant #AcademicCareers

📢 ERC Grant Webinar Recap 🙏Big thanks to Stefanie Kristin Wculek & Krzysztof Szade for sharing their ERC Starting Grant journeys, the project shaping, application ups & downs, and life after the award. Stay tuned!✨ We'll be posting new insights from the webinar every day!

Farewell, #IUIS2025! 🌍 #SPI and #ySPI acknowledge the outstanding contributions and memorable experiences that made this congress exceptional. Proud of our members’ talks, orals and posters, showcasing the key role of Portuguese researchers in advancing #Immunology. 1/2

Absolutely inspiring to listen to and exchange with leading scientists at #IUIS2025 last week. I also had the pleasure of supporting early career researchers behind the scenes during our YI session at the DGfI satellite symposium. 🥳🥳🥳 @dgfi-yi.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

Join fellow Next Gen Immunologists on Oct 22 for an afternoon of learning & networking! Get ready for talks from academic & industry experts followed by some snacks and drinks! Please register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @meduniwien.ac.at @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @cemm.oeaw.ac.at ÖGAI

👶✈️ Balancing caregiving and academic travel? Join Dr. Laura Pallett for "The Dual Demands of Academic Travel and Caregiving" 🗓️ Sept 25 | 🕒15:00 CEST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yefis2025-ia2 Hosted by the Improving Academia group of yEFIS

✨ Wrapping up an inspiring week at #IUIS2025! Grateful for the science, connections & community 🥳 Big thanks to @standardbiotools.bsky.social, @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social, IUIS Junior, Next Generation of Immunologists, @efis-immunology.bsky.social & @iuis-online.bsky.social for supporting ECRs 🙏

🌟Cheers to the #ACTERIA Early Career Awardees! #EFIS is proud to have supported young scientists and hope Vienna inspired you with new connections, and ideas. 🤝Here’s to the next 50 years of advancing science together!💙 @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @eurjimmunol.bsky.social @iannaconelab.bsky.social

Awesome performance of the band composed of great immunologists, including our Editor-in-Chief Matteo Iannacone behind the keyboard, at the #IUIS2025 Congress Party! 🎹🎸🎶

EJI & EFIS are proud to announce the brand-new ECR Article of the Year Award 🏆 Presented by EJI’s Editor-in-Chief Matteo Iannacone at #IUIS2025, this prize celebrates outstanding research by early career researchers published in EJI 🎉 Check the eligibility criteria here👇 bit.ly/3Hvn9t5

Steffen Jung announced Andreas Radbruch as keynote speaker at #IUIS2025, highlighting his strong support for European Immunology and the importance of backing EJI and European research! Andreas presenting his newest EJI article by Schneider-Revueltas et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Full immersion in immunology geekdom at #IUIS2025, with the most amazing temporary tattoos at the @yefis-immunology.bsky.social booth. The only pity is that my left hand does not have the fine motor control to similarly decorate my right hand...

NGI at the IUIS in Vienna 🤗 Great science, great community & a lot of inspiration🔬🧪🧬 @iuis-online.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

🎬 Last Day of #iuis2025! We hope you enjoyed the congress party & are well recovered for another day of exciting talks & networking! As we say farewell, please make sure to grab a postcard designed by @nextgenimmuno.bsky.social/ @yefis-immunology.bsky.social on your way out for your desks & fridges