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Alex Clarke

@ajclarke.bsky.social
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Immunologist. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford. www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/research/resea…

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Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen @annexnguyen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In conversation with @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk about how we define disease and how that shapes everything from mechanism to care. This piece reflects some of the questions that led me to my current 🔬 work. Ft. @ndorms.bsky.social @ajclarke.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @utoronto.ca @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
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Changing the Way We See Disease
The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity which brings together and develops exceptional people who are impatient with the way things are and have the courage to act.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 09/03/2026
SLE (#lupus) is associated with genetic variants in the X-linked gene TASL. Julia Johnstone, @ajclarke.bsky.social &co show that TASL is required for B cell activation, age-associated B cell formation and lupus-like disease #InMice, suggesting its potential as a therapeutic target 🧪
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The adaptor protein TASL is required for age-related B cell emergence and lupus-like disease development in mice
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a chronic autoimmune disease that mostly affects women and it is associated with genetic variants in the X-linked gene encoding the adaptor protein TASL. This study…
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Lizzy Rosser @bcellsrosser.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Very proud that our investigating uveitis pathogenesis in young people living with arthritis is out today @natcomms.nature.com. A real team science effort made possible by collaborations across hospital & researchers with support of patients. Check it out 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Altered B cell activation contributes to the immunopathogenesis of childhood arthritis-associated uveitis - Nature Communications
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) associated uveitis can cause vision loss in children, but mechanisms remain unclear. The authors here identify elevated CD19+IgD-CD27- double negative type 1 B cell...
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David Finlay @davidfinlaytcd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
****2-NBDG does not measure glucose uptake**** Just your regular reminder of this fact 😁. See the rigorous proof of this fact in @lindavsinclair.bsky.social 2020 paper. This paper was 6 years ago!! Stop using 2NBDG to measure glucose uptake already 🙄 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Single Cell Glucose Uptake Assays: A Cautionary Tale
Assays to monitor the metabolic state or nutrient uptake capacity of immune cells at a single cell level are increasingly in demand. One assay, used by many immunologists, employs 2-(N-(7-Nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)Amino)-2-Deoxyglucose ...
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NDORMS, University of Oxford @ndorms.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen for being awarded a Fighting Blindness Canada 2025 Clinician-Scientist Emerging Leader award! The award recognises her work on preventing sight-threatening complications of thyroid eye disease. bit.ly/4a7xGX0
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Immunometabolism researchers are meeting in Newcastle on 16-17 April! Join us for 2 days of fantastic immunometabolism research, Bright Sparks sessions & networking with the community. #UKimmunomet26 Submit your abstract by 5 March and register now 👉 bit.ly/493uE45
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Sophie Acton @actonlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Tumor-draining Lymph nodes - Online event next week! follow the link to register On January 13 from 11:30 – 1:00 pm ET, @thelundlab.bsky.social , Dr. Ivan Maillard, @actonlab.bsky.social , & Dr. Burkhard Ludewig will discuss lymph node remodeling in cancer: events.cancer.gov/dcb/tdln #TLDNForums
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Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes: Gaps and Opportunities Forum Series (Overview) | Events Registration
OverviewLymph node (LN) metastasis is a hallmark of disease progression in most solid tumors and remains one of the most consistent predictors of poor prognosis and reduced overall survival. In partic...
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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Don't miss out on your chance to attend "Fuelling the immune response IV: #UKimmunometabolismMeeting2026" Those that have joined before will know these are fantastic meetings providing an open & productive forum to discuss really cool science 📆16-17th April www.immunology.org/events/fuell...
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Fuelling the immune response IV: UK immunometabolism meeting 2026 | British Society for Immunology
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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Congratulations to Prof Alex Clarke, who has received a prestigious €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant to study cellular metabolism in lymphoid tissues! www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/prof-al...
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Prof Alex Clarke wins ERC Consolidator Grant
Prof Alex Clarke, Associate Professor at the Kennedy Institute and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, has received a prestigious €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to study cellul...
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mdphdintraining.bsky.social @mdphdintraining.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Celebrating the end of a long 2025 ✨ Grateful for the people, the science, and the moments of community along the way, from our lab Christmas dinner to the department’s Christmas lunch 🕯️ Wishing you all a restful and joyful holiday season🎄 #HappyHolidays #Itisalmost2026
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Yang Luo @y-luo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🚨 New preprint from the lab! We’re excited to share “Improving population-scale disease prediction through multi-omics integration” by Ng et al. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Ecstatic to share out latest research looking at the role of mitochondrial ABHD11 in controlling T-cell responses. We think this may be a viable target for autoimmunity. Please do give it a read, we would love to hear your thoughts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitochondrial ABHD11 inhibition drives sterol metabolism to modulate T-cell effector function - Nature Communications
α/β-hydrolase domain-containing protein 11 (ABHD11) is a mitochondrial hydrolase, and its expression in CD4 + T-cells has been linked to remission status in rheumatoid arthritis. Here the authors repo...
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Really thrilled to have been involved in this project. It’s an absolute mammoth of a paper looking at the way T-cell leukaemia exploits inflammation to colonise the meninges. Congratulations to Nitesh and @kseniam.bsky.social 🍸 Please give it a read! www.jci.org/articles/vie...
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JCI - T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia exploits a neural proinflammatory pathway to colonize the meninges
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Really pleased to share the labs first publication in paediatric T-cell leukaemia. We find that the type 2 diabetes drug canagliflozin possesses anti-leukaemic effects that can be enhanced via dietary restriction of serine. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Canagliflozin synergises with serine restriction mediating anti-leukaemic effects in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is a haematological malignancy commonly driven by NOTCH1 activating mutations. A concomitant feature asso…
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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
On Monday 20 October, Dr James Peters will join us to present 'The promise of proteomics: insights into autoimmune disease pathogenesis and translational potential'. Our External Seminars are open to any member of the University of Oxford. Don't miss it! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ef1...
A purple and white poster reads 'The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology External Seminar: The promise of proteomics: insights into autoimmune disease pathogenesis and translational potential'. The speaker is Dr James Peters from Imperial College London. 20 October 2025, in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, 12:00-13:00. Open to all members of the University of Oxford. Hosted by Alex Clarke.
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Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Do you want to do a PhD with me and Mike Devine? Of course you do! Or if not, maybe you know someone who does? @devinelab.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Beale & Devine Lab | Role of the V1H subunit of the V-ATPase in neurons and cell-autonomous immune responses
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Dinis Calado @diniscalado.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New preprint from the lab! Lactate, a tumor-derived metabolite, blocks B cells from entering tumors and forming tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs). Congratulations Victoire Boulat - in a great collaboration with Anita Grigoriadis! tinyurl.com/3vvk9kec #Immunology #TLS #CancerMetabolism #Bcells
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Yang Luo @y-luo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🌟 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
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Judi Allen @profjudiallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Become part of our new MRC Centre, working across Manchester and Oxford to solve a major challenge of our time - how does the immune system become dysregulated by environmental exposures to cause chronic disease. www.manchester.ac.uk/exposome-jobs @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
SOOOOO excited to see this online IN REAL-LIFE!! Here, we review the latest in hepatic tissue-resident #Tcell biology. We draw on a metaphor proposed by Robert Louis Stevenson [1886] to highlight the fact a cell can manifest different behaviours & actions depending on environmental context 🧪
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mdphdintraining.bsky.social @mdphdintraining.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A shoutout to the event organizers and presenters! Also, to the Clarke Lab, which received several awards this year 🏆 #Rheumatology #Immunology #KISS2025 #OxfordResearch #OxfordUni
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NDORMS, University of Oxford @ndorms.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔬 🧫 🖥️ 🧬 Applications are now open to study at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social next year! Look at available projects, meet our supervisors and find out what it’s like studying at the University of Oxford. www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study
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Fully-funded four-year PhD studentships available at the Kennedy Institute in Oxford
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mdphdintraining.bsky.social @mdphdintraining.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Kennedy Institute Student Symposium | Day 1 💡 Hosted by the kiroxford.bsky.social! Such a brilliant day filled with science, multidisciplinary ideas, and inspiring presentations. It was wonderful to hear about everyone’s projects and to get thoughtful feedback on my own!
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Alex Clarke @ajclarke.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Great work Tom!
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Tom Riffelmacher @tom-riffel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just in time for #Cd1Mr12025 Our Review on Innate-like T cell Metabolism is out! Access free here: rdcu.be/eEV67 Please share with your Immunometabolism friends! @cd1mr1.bsky.social @lji.org @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com @natrevimmunol.nature.com
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Metabolic control of innate-like T cells - Nature Reviews Immunology
Functional and metabolic properties of innate-like T cells — namely, iNKT cells, MAIT cells and some γδ T cells — differ from those of conventional T cells. This Review describes how metabolic pathway...
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MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🎓 6x fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships 🎓 We are recruiting our first cohort of PhD students to start Oct 2026. Students will shape their own projects within supervisory teams spanning the universities of Manchester & Oxford. www.findaphd.com/phds/program/mrc-core-in-exposome-immunology/?p6899
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FindAPhD : MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology at The University of Manchester
Apply for a PhD: MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology at The University of Manchester
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MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
WE ARE HIRING! www.manchester.ac.uk/exposome-jobs Vacancies inc. 3x PDRA positions, 2x data scientists and a Transition Fellowship in Air Pollution. Join us as we embark on a 14 year journey to understand how the exposome impacts immune regulation and chronic inflammation. #hiring #immunosky
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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Did you know that we have: 📆 A packed external seminar series, open to anyone from the University of Oxford. 🎊 Themed, fun monthly social events for Kennedy staff and students. 🙋 Support for Kennedy researchers to run their own events. Check out what we do! www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/events
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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Want to coordinate our exciting seminar series, and be the go-to person for events at the Kennedy Institute? We're hiring an Administrative Assistant (Meetings, Events, and Communications!) Apply by 12 Sept. 👇 www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/adminis...
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Administrative Assistant (Meetings, events, and Communications) (181623)
The Administrative Assistant will lead the scheduling and administration of external and internal seminars, with management and faculty meetings, social events, and special events such as institute re...
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Yang Luo @y-luo.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🎓 New PhD opportunity in our lab @kiroxford.bsky.social @oxforduni.bsky.social We're exploring host–microbiome genetic interactions in IBD using population-scale data 🧬🦠 🔗 kennedy.ox.ac.uk/.../deciphering-host2013microbiome-genetic-interactions-in-inflammatory-bowel-disease #PhD #Genetics
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Bittersweet farewell weeks at @kiroxford.bsky.social, a place pivotal to my growth as an independent scientist. With deep gratitude for this chapter, I'm thrilled to begin the next at @unibas.ch @biomedizin.unibas.ch, where my lab will study organelle inheritance in T cells in the context of ageing.
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RyanLab_TCD @ryanlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
It was a pleasure to write this News & Views piece with Eloïse marques on the latest work from the lab of Jing Fan @natmetabolism.nature.com ⬇️⬇️ News & Views: Macrophages say NO to nucleotide synthesis and salvage instead nature.com/articles/s42... Article: nature.com/articles/s42...
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Macrophages say NO to nucleotide synthesis and salvage instead - Nature Metabolism
Metabolic reprogramming is a well-established hallmark of macrophage activation, coordinating bioenergetic and biosynthetic pathways to support immune effector functions. A new study now reveals a pre...
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Yang Luo @y-luo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📣First paper from the lab is out in @science.org‬! 📣https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu3461 It’s well known that HLA shapes the TCR repertoire — but how does this change under immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)?
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Defining the genetic determinants of CD8+ T cell receptor repertoire in the context of immune checkpoint blockade
Immune checkpoint blockade influences the genetically determined relationship between TCR repertoire and HLA alleles in cancer.
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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Huge news! A £50M MRC CoRE will bring together Manchester & Oxford to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory disease. The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR. www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...
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New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) will investigate how the environment interacts with our immune system to trigger chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, ...
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Ali Dvorscek @alidvorscek.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Incredibly excited to share my final project from Monash which was recently published in @jimmunol.bsky.social! Together with Jesse Mulder from the Robinson Group @robinsonmj.bsky.social, we found a role for IL-21 in allergy responses by promoting type 2 memory B cell formation. Check it out !👇🏼
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Mauro Gaya @maurogaya.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨🦠🔬 Last month to register to the EMBO workshop on Adaptive Immunity in Barrier Tissues. 📍 Where: Basel, Switzerland 📅 When: 26th–29th August 2025 📝 Registration deadline: 30th May 2025 Childcare support & travel grants from @embo.org and @efis-immunology.bsky.social #EMBOBarrierTissues
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Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues
Immune responses lie at the heart of almost every aspect of human health, including host responses to infection, autoimmunity, cancer, metabolism and aging. While adaptive immune responses by B and T…
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Michelle Linterman @linterman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great to have our paper out in @pnas.org showing that lung B cells in ectopic germinal centers undergo affinity maturation. @smguillaume.bsky.social @wsfoster.bsky.social @sanmarti92.bsky.social @emae-watson.bsky.social Silvia Innocentin, Grant Kennedy & Alice Denton. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Lung B cells in ectopic germinal centers undergo affinity maturation | PNAS
The lungs are constantly exposed to the external environment and a myriad of antigenic challenges within the air. Chronic exposure to allergens and...
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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics - Nature Methods
The authors present a computational framework that leverages mechanical force inference and spatial transcriptomics to enable analyses of the interplay between the transcriptomic and mechanical state.
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Balthasar Heesters @heesters.gitlab.io · 13/03/2025
Interested in germinal center regulation? Should we coddle our immune system? Two more weeks to apply! 3 year funding
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the worst thing you can do for your immune system is to coddle it ..
ALT: the worst thing you can do for your immune system is to coddle it ..
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JelenaBezbradicaLab @jelenalab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The loss of TBK1, or both TBK1 and the related kinase IKKε, results in uncontrolled cell death–driven inflammation. We show that TBK1/IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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TBK1 and IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of both RIPK1 and NLRP3 death pathways
TBK1 and IKKe prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells.
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EMBO Reports @emboreports.org · 03/03/2025
Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social and co-workers @crick.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social show that #caspase cleavage of #influenza A #virus M2 disrupts M2-LC3 interaction and regulates virion production. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Fränze Progatzky @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨 We have TWO exciting open positions in our lab! 🚨 We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as: 🔬 Research Assistant www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/bioinfo... 📢 Please share!
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Research Assistant (177885)
We are looking for a Research Assistant with a background in immunology/neurobiology to join the interdisciplinary laboratory of Dr Fränze Progatzky at the Kennedy Institute.
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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Perivascular RELM-positive synovial macrophages recruit monocytes at the onset of inflammatory arthritis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Shruti Naik @drshrutinaik.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Call your congressional representatives and senators! Save AMERICAN SCIENCE!
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Delgoffe Lab @delgoffelab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Are you interested in a postdoc with our group studying cancer immunometabolism? If you’re at #KSTcells25 @keystonesymposia.bsky.social DM me and let’s chat!
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Carola Vinuesa @carovinuesa.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The US is withdrawing from the Paris agreement and from the WHO, responsible for the eradication small pox, near eradication of polio and the Ebola vaccine amongst many other. This is a dark day for humanity. Sadly, it will be our children and the next generations that will suffer the consequences.
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Petter Brodin @petterbrodin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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
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Camila Consiglio @consigliocr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
‼️‼️ Last few days to apply to join us as a #PostDoc in #SystemsImmunology and explore mechanisms of #SexDifferences in #Human #Immunity at Lund University in #Sweden More info on how to apply below (please RT)
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Hannah Isles @hannah-isles.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This week in #ScienceImmunology: Germinal Center B cells require asparagine (Asn) #metabolism for their function. GC B cells can acquire exogenous Asn from their local environment, but when Asn is limited, they utilise the enzyme asparginine synthetase. @ajclarke.bsky.social @yfy1.bsky.social
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Asparagine availability controls germinal center B cell homeostasis
Asparagine metabolism is a critical regulator of germinal center B cell function.
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Yavuz Yazicioglu @yfy1.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Thrilled to share our latest work on how the non-essential amino acid #asparagine metabolically regulates germinal centers. Huge thanks to my PhD supervisor @ajclarke.bsky.social, colleagues, and collaborators at the @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk and @crick.ac.uk www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Asparagine availability controls germinal center B cell homeostasis
Asparagine metabolism is a critical regulator of germinal center B cell function.
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