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Maini Lab @IIT UCL

@mainilab.bsky.social
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A friendly immunology lab, focused on harnessing adaptive immunity in tissues for optimal frontline defence against hepatitis B, liver cancer and coronaviruses.

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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Congratulations to @gloryanne.bsky.social and our radiology, oncology and immunology teams for pioneering fine needle aspiration of HCC to tailor immunotherapy. We show that intratumoral neutrophils may predict CPI resistance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fine needle aspirates characterise the hepatocellular carcinoma immune niche to predict immune checkpoint inhibitor outcomes
Antitumour immunity involves a complex balance of immune effectors and regulators, many of which are adapted or compartmentalised within the local mic…
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It was such fun to gather Maini lab with @pallettlab.bsky.social @tcellvaccineucl.bsky.social @adas1.bsky.social and Alan Zhuang's labs for our Secret Santa lunch before the holidays. What a great bunch of smiles- proud they consider themselves the #ExtendedMainiFamily 😀
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We're delighted to see immunologists once again recognised by the #NobelPrize! 🏆 Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system. More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...
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British Society for Immunology response to 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | British Society for Immunology
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Kamphorst LAB @kamphorstlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Our paper is out! Check out this beautiful story where we uncovered that the costimulatory molecule ICOS is detrimental for PD-1+ CD8 T cells. Sustained ICOS signaling reduces memory-like features of progenitor exhausted CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection and liver cancer.
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The costimulatory molecule ICOS limits memory-like properties and function of exhausted PD-1+CD8+ T cells
Understanding regulation of progenitor exhausted CD8+ T (Tpex) cell differentiation is important for immunotherapies. Humblin et al. report that sustained ICOS costimulation is detrimental to PD-1+CD8...
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 27/06/2025
Antigen-specific antibodies secreted by plasma cells are rapidly identified using microfluidics and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) go.nature.com/4dHLaHB rdcu.be/etg8W
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Rapid discovery of monoclonal antibodies by microfluidics-enabled FACS of single pathogen-specific antibody-secreting cells - Nature Biotechnology
Antigen-specific antibodies secreted by plasma cells are rapidly identified using microfluidics and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS).
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Iannacone Lab @iannaconelab.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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)
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Don’t miss this great scientific meeting and HBV family reunion
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This will be an interesting project and great new lab-check out this post-doc position with our colleague Doug Fink @IIT UCL
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London Immunology Group @london-immuno.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We are very proud to bring you a highly requested new type of event this year 🙌: an ECR Careers Meeting 🤩 Join us Thurs. 13th March at the UCL IIT/Pears Building (Hampstead, London) 🚨Registration is FREE! Follow this link to register NOW! www.immunology.org/events/bsi-l... For more details👇
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BSI London Immunology Group ECR careers meeting | British Society for Immunology
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Nature @nature.com · 25/02/2025
Nature research paper: Human-correlated genetic models identify precision therapy for liver cancer go.nature.com/41qNkbs
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Human-correlated genetic models identify precision therapy for liver cancer - Nature
As proof of principle, an analysis using a suite of human-aligned immunocompetent mouse models of hepatocellular carcinoma identifies a promising therapeutic candidate, cladribine, which acts in a highly effective subtype-specific manner in combination with standard-of-care therapy.
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Seth Coffelt @coffeltlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
#hiring #postdoc We are looking for a postdoc to work on anti-tumor gamma delta T cells in breast cancer metastasis mouse models. Apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...
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University of Glasgow - Explore - Jobs at Glasgow - Appointments - Research Associate (Breast Cancer Now) [164192]Search iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Don’t forget to apply by 18th Feb for our 3 year Wellcome post-doc to join our great team working on HBV tissue immunity! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...
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UCL hiring Research Fellow (Maini Lab) in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:45:46 AM. About usApplications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Division of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Many of the extended 4th floor IIT family went out to celebrate Chinese New Year #YearOfTheSnake 🐍 - such a lovely evening 😊
Large group of people celebrating Chinese new year. The photo includes some one dressed in a red traditional Lion Dance costume too.
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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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...
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UCL hiring Research Fellow (Maini Lab) in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:45:46 AM. About usApplications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Division of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Any post-docs interested in dissecting host-pathogen interactions in tissue- check out our advert on LinkedIn to join us @UCL IIT Pears Building! #immunosky
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UCL hiring Research Fellow (Maini Lab) in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:45:46 AM. About usApplications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Division of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Darragh Duffy @darraghduffy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Open call for new research groups @pasteur.fr in Paris lots of immunology themes welcome #immunosky #IDsky #Scisky 🧪🥼🔬 get in touch if you have questions
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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thrilled to share that our paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... is featured in a fantastic Nature News & Views piece by thomastueting.bsky.social! 🎉 Grateful for the spotlight on our research and its impact on understanding cancer immunology. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 👀👉 rdcu.be/d3cRz
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A lipid made by tumour cells reprograms immune cells
Insights into how cancer cells become unresponsive to therapy.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Why do some people, despite SARS-CoV-2 exposure, not develop an infection? An ultra-early interferon response blocks Covid www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... adds to protection from pre-existing, cross-reactive T cells in some people
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An ultra-early, transient interferon-associated innate immune response associates with protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection despite exposure
Our interferon-associated signature of early SARS-CoV-2 infection characterises a subgroup of exposed, uninfected contacts in three independent cohorts who may have successfully aborted infection prior to induction of adaptive immunity. The earlier transient upregulation of signature genes in PCR-negative compared to PCR-positive CHIM volunteers suggests that ultra-early interferon-associated innate immune responses correlate with, and may contribute to, protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Perona Lab, Edinburgh, UK @peronalab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
An excellent PhD opportunity available in our team: long-range consequences of parasite infection, gut-lung communication and helminth-viral co-infection. Part of the EastBio training programme. Closing date 17th January. Please get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EastBio: Long-range consequences of intestinal helminth infection. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Long-range consequences of intestinal helminth infection. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks all for another great year's team work @UCL IIT and for all those fun Secret Santa pressies that kept us guessing! #immunosky
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Carolyn King @immunologyking.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Speaker line up for #EMBOTissueImmunity to take place in Basel 🇨🇭 26-29 August 2025. Come join @maurogaya.bsky.social and I for some fantastic #immunology along the Rhine! Please share this invitation - we hope you will join us. Registrations will be open soon.
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Mahdad Noursadeghi @mnoursad.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Also out now.. after peer review, our analysis of blood transcriptional biomarkers of acute respiratory viral infection leveraging the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge model: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SARS-CoV-2 human challenge reveals biomarkers that discriminate early and late phases of respiratory viral infections - Nature Communications
It’s not always clear whether blood biomarkers are differentially expressed in the time course of viral infections. In this SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study, the authors identify distinct single-gene ...
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saligramalab.bsky.social @saligramalab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
More #evidence for the existence of #CD8 #Regulatory #Tcells www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check our previous paper also> #KIR+CD8+ #T cells suppress pathogenic T cells and are active in autoimmune diseases and COVID-19 | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Circulating tumor-reactive KIR+CD8+ T cells suppress anti-tumor immunity in patients with melanoma - Nature Immunology
Tumor-antigen-specific CD8+ T cells are generally thought to help fight against cancer, but here the authors identify a subpopulation of CD8+ T cells that are associated with a poor clinical outcome i...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Engineering T cells with capability for a switch in specificity www.cell.com/immunity/ful... for better homing agents, to improve safety and efficacy vs cancer and other emerging T cell interventions
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T-Switch: A specificity-based engineering platform for developing safe and effective T cell therapeutics
Abdelfattah et al. developed an engineering platform (T-Switch) for the creation, modification, and high-throughput profiling of T cell receptors (TCRs) to desired targets, particularly self-antigens....
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A vaccine platform targeting lung-resident memory CD4+ T-cells provides protection against heterosubtypic influenza infections in mice and ferrets www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Our top-rated #bioinformatics #training course 'Omic data analysis and visualisation using R' starts in less than 2 weeks (9 Dec) Perfect for those who want to gain new #DataAnalysis and #omics skills 🤩 Don't miss out! Book your place now 👉 bit.ly/4gXvxOF
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Lee Grimes Lab @leegrimeslab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Are neutrophils "good" or "bad"? Rana Herro reviews the current literature here: rdcu.be/d0Rt7
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The diverse roles of neutrophils from protection to pathogenesis
Nature Immunology - In this Review, Herro and Grimes summarize the most recent key findings surrounding protective versus pathogenic functions of neutrophils, elaborating on phenotype-specific...
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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Slowly but surely the migration from 🐦➡️🦋 is happening and those from our Institute are moving too ❤️ You can find those working at the UCL institute for immunity and transplantation (aka the 🍐🍐 building, if you know, you know) here: go.bsky.app/84owGLt #immunosky #academicsky 🧪
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Maini Lab @IIT UCL @mainilab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great review of receptor ligand pairs mediating NK regulation of T cells
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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨4yr PhD in Infection & Immunity🚨 Hosted at #UCL in the new Institute for Immunity & Transplantation (Pears Building, north London) 3x6wk rotations before selecting a lab for PhD Deadline: Jan 10 (Home tuition Fees+stipend) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #AcademicSky #PhDOpportunity #Immunosky
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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