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Gemma Moncunill

@moncunill.bsky.social
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Group Leader at CaixaResearch Institute Associate Research Professor at @isglobal.org Systems Immunology, Vaccines & Infectious Diseases #malaria #systemsimmunology #genderequity

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Malaria Immunology Lab at ISGlobal @malaria-immuno.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This week we are sharing a video where our group leaders, Carlota Dobaño and @moncunill.bsky.social, explain our research on immune responses, vaccines and longterm impact of infections. It was filmed in our new lab space at the Barcelona Science Park, where we moved this September.
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Gemma Moncunill @moncunill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Such a great experience! 😊
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Malaria Immunology Lab at ISGlobal @malaria-immuno.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
1/ This week our research group made an important discovery: scientists look fantastic in Dutch academic togas 🎓✨ Our two PIs went to Leiden to take part in not one, but two PhD thesis defenses! This experience was filled with rich scientific discussions… and a definite Hogwarts-like atmosphere.
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Malaria Immunology Lab at ISGlobal @malaria-immuno.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
1/ Last week, @moncunill.bsky.social and Rebeca Santano attended the #LongCOVIDIntl in Boston, where they presented our work on antibody signatures and T-cell phenotypic differences between long COVID and recovered individuals, a work carried out in collaboration with IDIAPJGol.
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Malaria Immunology Lab at ISGlobal @malaria-immuno.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
1/ This week, part of our team attended the CIBER-BBN-INFEC Annual Meeting in Sevilla.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The Drain of Scientific Publishing arxiv.org/pdf/2511.04820
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Malaria Immunology Lab at ISGlobal @malaria-immuno.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
👋 Hi Bluesky! We are the Malaria Immunology Lab at @isglobal.org Our research focuses on understanding immune responses not only to malaria but also to COVID19, long COVID, helminth infections and other infectious diseases 🦟💉🦠🪱 Follow us for updates on our projects, publications and lab life!
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Malaria Immunology Lab at ISGlobal @malaria-immuno.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This week our PhD student Silvia Ruiz Rius led our Journal Club session with an excellent presentation on recent findings about Tfh cells and their associations with antibody responses in malaria. 💬 What papers or topics have sparked interesting conversations in your journal clubs lately?
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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...
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Gemma Moncunill @moncunill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Greetings from the #WORMVACS annual meeting in Siena! 👋 🪱💉We are discussing the past year’s progress in the search for a #helminth vaccine and agreeing on the next steps in tackling #NeglectedTropicalDiseases. Learn more ➡️ wormvacs.org #HaDEA @ec.europa.eu @isglobal.org
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 24/10/2025
Longitudinal cohort studies are essential to understand diseases, identify risk factors and guide #PublicHealth action. During #COVID19, #ENDVOCproject united 33 cohorts from 24 countries to study emerging variants and the burden of #LongCovid. @horizoneu.bsky.social
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END-VOC Issues Strategic Recommendations to Strengthen Cohort-Based Research for Future Health Threats
The recommendations call on researchers, authorities and funders to ensure consistent protocols, robust infrastructure, and flexible ethical and funding mechanisms Longitudinal cohort studies, which track individuals over time, have proven invaluable for understanding disease progression, identifying risk factors, and evaluating interventions such as vaccines. During the COVID-19
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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Pre-print alert 🚨 We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum disrupt the blood-brain barrier
Plasmodium falciparum accumulation at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark of cerebral malaria, a life-threatening complication. Conversely, the contribution of the immune response to vascular ...
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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Just hot out of the press! Rory developed a 3D microvessel model that recapitulates physiological pericyte coverage. We found that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt the barrier and halt ang-1 secretion. The activator AKB-9778 could rescue barrier disruption! Congratulations, Rory!
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 29/09/2025
#Noma has been reported for the first time in Mozambique, revealing an incidence similar to Ethiopia & Nigeria. Despite being preventable and treatable, this devastating disease still affects children living in extreme poverty and remains overlooked by health systems.
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Noma, the forgotten disease that remains invisible - ISGLOBAL
An ISGlobal study confirms the presence of noma disease in Mozambique and warns that the problem is global
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La Directa @ladirecta.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
La ferroviària basca CAF, una de les empreses "responsables de sostenir" un govern genocida que apareixen documentades en un nou informe d'Amnistia Internacional
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La ferroviària basca CAF, entre les còmplices del govern d'Israel segons Amnistia Internacional
La publicació del seu darrer informe coincideix amb la fi del termini que l’ONU va establir fa un any a Israel per deixar els territoris ocupats. Durant el dia hi ha convocades mobilitzacions per denunciar l'incompliment i els crims a Palestina
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La Directa @ladirecta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Els científics Europeus hem de demanar que Israel sigui expulsat amb efecte immediat de l’Àrea de Recerca Europea L'opinió de l'investigador Javier del Campo
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Ciència contra el genocidi
L’Estat d’Israel utilitza la seva posició dins del món científic i acadèmic per blanquejar la colonització del territori palestí. Alhora, en molts casos, la seva recerca i innovació acaba al servei de la tecnologia militar o bé es fa servir per desenvolupar unes capacitats que sostenen genocidi
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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
La comunitat científica ha de sumar-se a la pressió a Israel per aconseguir aturar el genocidi a Gaza. Mantenir-se neutral és ser-ne còmplice. 🍉 Feu una ullada a l’opinió que em publiquen les companyes de @ladirecta.bsky.social 👇 directa.cat/ciencia-cont...
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Ciència contra el genocidi
L’Estat d’Israel utilitza la seva posició dins del món científic i acadèmic per blanquejar la colonització del territori palestí. Alhora, en molts casos, la seva recerca i innovació acaba al servei de...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social offers this nice example of measles vaccines in @plosglobalpublichealth.org article [Artwork by Fahim Akbar] journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 12/07/2025
La Plataforma de Resposta Immunitària i Biomarcadors d’#ISGlobal rep la certificació ISO 9001:2015. Un reconeixement internacional a la qualitat i eficiència en l’àmbit de la recerca biomèdica.
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ISGlobal obté la certificació ISO 9001:2015 per a la Plataforma de resposta immunitària i biomarcadors - ISGLOBAL
El reconeixement internacional avala l’excel·lència operativa i el compromís amb la qualitat en el disseny i l’anàlisi de respostes immunitàries i biomarcadors
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Alberto Garcia-Basteiro @agbasteiro.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We just published a piece about the participation of people deprived of liberty in #tuberculosis vaccine trials. Should they be protected from research, or through research? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social @isglobal.org @mtbi.bsky.social
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We are travelling back in time! So tragic!! As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa
As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid @themrise.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
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The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do
Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid.
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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🆕 Out now in JEM (@jeukmicro.bsky.social‬)! Using rrn gene and organelle phylogenies from recovered cysts, we describe 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘢, an apicomplexan parasite found in the ovaries of the Japanese sea cucumber 🥚 🥒 🇯🇵 dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #ProtistsOnSky
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The Sea Cucumber‐Infecting Parasite Apostichocystis gudetama gen. nov. sp. nov. Expands Marine‐Host‐Specific Clade of Apicomplexans
Unknown ellipsoid bodies, later classified as apicomplexan cysts, are prevalent in the ovaries of Japanese sea cucumbers (Apostichopus japonicus), where they can lead to lower fecundity in infected i....
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La Directa @ladirecta.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#OPINIÓ | Catalunya, un refugi per a la investigació acadèmica només d’alguns països directa.cat/catalunya-un-refugi-per… ✍️ Un text de Javier del Campo, Investigador de l’Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC – Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 29/04/2025
Cuando surgen nuevas amenazas sanitarias, la #inmunología ofrece respuestas que salvan vidas. ¿Estamos escuchando a la ciencia? En el #DíaMundialDeLaInmunización, Carlota Dobaño, @moncunill.bsky.social y @sarukhan.bsky.social hablan de ello en @lavanguardia.com: www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025042...
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La inmunología: una ciencia que nos protege hoy y mañana, por Grupo de Inmunología de la Malaria de ISGlobal
Escrito por Carlota Dobaño, Gemma Moncunill y Adelaida Sarukhan (ISGlobal) Cuando surgen nuevas amenazas sanitarias, la inmunología ofrece respuestas que salvan vidas.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 25/04/2025
Non-biological factors linked to disease transmission can affect vaccine efficacy estimated in clinical trials. In @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social, authors explore the impact of disease transmission on #malaria vaccine efficacy estimates: tinyurl.com/2dpke6ma #WorldMalariaDay
Figure showing simulated vaccine efficacy estimates based on the month of vaccination completion using data from the highly seasonal site of Nanoro (Burkina Faso). Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved.
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WHO @who.int · 25/04/2025
It’s #WorldMalariaDay The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000. The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled. bit.ly/MalariaDay2025
Since 2000, 2.2 billion malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted.
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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... “Vaccines have saved 154 million lives globally since the launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization by the World Health Organization in 1974 and are one of the great triumphs of medicine”
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Combating vaccine revisionism - Nature Medicine
The scientific community must take a strong and active stand against vaccine revisionism — the false narrative that there is insufficient evidence to support the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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del Campo Lab @delcampolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Feliç #SantJordi! In Catalunya, today we celebrate love, literature and dragons, exchanging books and roses🐉 🌹 📖 . Honoring the dragon of the legend of Sant Jordi, today’s #Midweekmicrobe is Dracomyxa pallida, a giant ameboid freshwater foraminifer #ProtistsOnSky 📷 Wylezich et al. 2014
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del Campo Lab @delcampolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So today, let's celebrate all dragons - big, small, from the ones found in old legends to the ones that we find under microscopes🐉 🔬 See the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pr... And more on the Catalan Sant Jordi tradition: www.barcelona.cat/culturapopul... www.barcelona.cat/santjordi/en...
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 08/04/2025
Three doses of mRNA #COVID19 vaccine induce a long-lasting antibody response. This is the main conclusion of an #ISGlobal-led study in healthcare workers followed for 3 years. 🟠 www.isglobal.org/en/-/vacunac...
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 08/04/2025
“Our data suggest that updated vaccines are key, especially for those previously infected,” says #ISGlobal researcher @moncunill.bsky.social. The study is part of the Horizon Europe #ENDVOC project, which uses global cohorts to analyse the impact of #COVID variants. 🔗 endvoc.eu
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Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Long-lasting antibody B-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 three years after the onset of the pandemic
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Long-lasting antibody B-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 three years after the onset of the pandemic
Molinos-Albert et al. developed an integrative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 antibody B-cell responses in a cohort of 113 healthcare workers followed since the beginning of the pandemic during a 3-year period. The authors report that despite differential kinetics, COVID-19-recovered and -naive individuals developed comparable and long-lasting immunity.
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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Milers d’investigadors veuen coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica i fins i tot la seva integritat física arreu del planeta. Que farà el Govern? Seria d’agraïr que la política de #recerca del país no estigués basada en mesures efectistes (i cíniques si em permeteu). 🧵 govern.cat/salapremsa/n...
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President Illa: "Oferirem més de 70 places a investigadors d'excel·lència que puguin veure coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica als Estats Units"
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 31/03/2025
"Booster doses remain essential for protection [against #COVID19], but our findings highlight the need to reassess vaccine formulations and schedules." #ENDVOC
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A Switch to IgG4 Antibodies After COVID-19 Vaccination May Increase the Risk of Breakthrough Infections
For over three years, ENDVOC researchers analysed the quantity and function of different antibody classes in a cohort of healthcare workers who received mRNA vaccine booster doses    During the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of vaccines were developed, with mRNA vaccines leading the way in Western countries. These vaccines
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 28/03/2025
For over 3 years, #ENDVOC followed healthcare workers to study post-vaccination immunity against #COVID19. Their findings raise new questions about long-term protection.
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A Switch to IgG4 Antibodies After COVID-19 Vaccination May Increase the Risk of Breakthrough Infections
For over three years, ENDVOC researchers analysed the quantity and function of different antibody classes in a cohort of healthcare workers who received mRNA vaccine booster doses    During the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of vaccines were developed, with mRNA vaccines leading the way in Western countries. These vaccines
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Rob Brierley @robbrierley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h... #MedSky #HepSky #IDSky #LiverSky
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries (Gift Article)
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
2 new #LongCovid reports: —Factors influencing (such as vaccination protection dose response, Table) bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... —Post-Omicron (5% developed LC, increased w/ reinfection) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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La Directa @ladirecta.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#ENTREVISTA | "Volem cotitzar i tenir descans, com ha de poder fer tota treballadora" directa.cat/volem-cotitzar-i-tenir-… Conversa amb Maria José Tavira Sánchez i Guillermina Sanisidro Fontecha, del Sindicat de mares en la diversitat funcional
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"Volem cotitzar i tenir descans, com ha de poder fer tota treballadora"
S’han aplegat i es presenten com a sindicat perquè, reivindiquen, no paren de treballar des que es lleven fins que van a dormir, sigui dilluns o sigui diumenge
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Global South countries should never rely on charity for essential medicines, vaccines and tools The 'trickle down' model has failed, repeatedly www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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Global Health Technologies: Time To Re-Think The ‘Trickle Down’ Model
Technologies are critical for addressing global health needs, but the ‘trickle down’ model has limitations. If the end goal is to save lives and do it quickly, then innovations from the Global South m...
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Cristina Saez @crisaez.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Dones investigadores arreu del món lideren recerques per combatre el biaix en el coneixement sobre la fisiologia i la salut en la dona. Avui en parlem a @ara.cat
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