Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 02/02/2026🦠 Aspergillosis Day | Follow-up Yesterday, Feb 1, we marked Aspergillosis Day with Martin Hoenigl (Medical University of Graz) taking on the 30 Seconds Challenge, answering questions on fungal infections, climate change and the future of research. 👀🌍 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 131
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026(1/5) 🚨 The ySPI Winter Webinar is coming! We’re kicking off the 2026 season with Inês Lorga, who’ll share her research on how the immune system shapes brain infection and development in early life 🧠🦠 133
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026(1/7) What a fantastic start to our new ySPI webinar series! ✨ Today we hosted our very first Career Talk with Prof. @labliston.bsky.social, packed with honest insights about how messy and non‑linear research careers really are. 🎓 162
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026🚀 Exciting news from ySPI! We're launching our new Season Webinars — created by early-career researchers, for early-career researchers. A space to share your work, spark meaningful discussions, and grow together 🌱 154
Reposted by Rita GomesyEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · 08/01/2026🧬 Postdoc Opportunity Junior postdoctoral position in spatial transcriptomics & immunology at Inserm UMR1227 (Brest, France). Focus on Visium HD, Xenium, CosMx and single-cell transcriptomics in Sjögren’s disease. 📩 marie.frutoso@univ-brest.fr 🔗 More info: www.yefis.org/resources/jo...yefis.orgPostdoctoral researcher in spatial transcriptomics and immunology 126
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026(1/6) 🚀New in 2026: ySPI Career Seminars We are launching the ySPI Career Seminars, an initiative by our Young SPI (ySPI) group to support early career researchers. 1119
Rita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 20/11/2025One month to submit your research! Don't miss it! 🧫🔬👩🏻🔬 000
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Science: It’s Fundamental! Join us on Nov 24, 2 PM at ICVS for a debate on the role of fundamental science in health innovation with top Portuguese researchers. 📍 Zulmira Simões Auditorium, UMinho | 🎫 Free entry 011
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025📣 Save the Date! Join us in Coimbra for the 51st Annual Meeting of the SPI! 📅 18–20 March 2026 📍 Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, PT Theme: Immunity by Design - Biotechnology for Biomedical Transformation 📝 Abstract deadline: 1st December 2025 Info: www.spimunologia.org/news/li-spi-... 152
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 29/09/2025ICVS brought science to all ages at NEI 2025! From virtual reality to microscopy and fun kids’ activities, thousands joined us at Forum Braga to explore health research and meet our scientists. Thank you for being part of this amazing night! Read more: icvs.uminho.pt/icvs-showcas... 021
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 30/09/2025🔬 Advanced Seminars are back this October at ICVS! Starting Oct 2 | 1 PM | A0.03 with Bruno Almeida – IPLEXMED: Driving the Next Generation of Diagnostics from Lab to Life. Don’t miss this month’s top talks on cancer, ALS, climate & more! #ICVSAdvancedSeminars 033
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 26/09/2025We’re at Forum Braga and it’s ON! 🔬🧠🎉 The ICVS is live at European Researchers’ Night 2025: full of science, games, VR and fun for all ages! Free activities until midnight. Join us now! #ICVS #NEI2025 #ForumBraga 161
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The ICVS is at the European Researchers' Night 2025 | TODAY at Forum Braga! 🧠🔬🕶️ Free science activities for all ages from 14:30 to 00:00. Come explore the brain, microbes, VR labs & more. Don't miss it! #ICVS #NEI2025 #ScienceForEveryone 121
Reposted by Rita GomesRita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025We are currently hosting a Research Topic at Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (IF 4.8). 🦠🔬👩🔬 "Immunometabolic Circuits in Host-Pathogen Interaction". Article submission has been extended to December 22nd! www.frontiersin.org/research-top... 156
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 25/09/2025ICVS will be at the European Researchers' Night 2025! 📍 Forum Braga | Sept 26 | From 14h30 to 24h Explore science with us: VR lab, microscope, microbes, games & more! Free for all ages! Don’t miss it! #NEI2025 #ICVS #Braga #ScienceForEveryone 151
Rita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Happy to share the latest work of this amazing team!! 👩🏻🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧬Macrophage-expressed MS4A4A could be a biomarker of joint inflammation in RA 🔬MS4A4A+ macrophages could be a target to amplify the therapeutic activity of corticosteroids @airens.bsky.social 050
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Off to @iuis-online.bsky.social 2025? 🇵🇹🔬👩🔬🌍 Don't forget to tag us @yspi.bsky.social ! We want to hear all about your Congress experience! 142
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 01/08/2025ICVS researcher Agostinho Carvalho receives $450,000+ grant to study sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease, in collaboration with national and international partners. More info 👉 icvs.uminho.pt/agostinho-ca... 011
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Meet the ySPI team! We are a dynamic group of Portuguese early-career immunologists committed to promote immunology, collaboration and science dissemination. 132
Reposted by Rita GomesySPI @yspi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025We are proud to present ySPI, the newly established youth initiative of the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI), approved in April 2025. The ySPI has been created by and for young scientists. Our mission is to connect, support students and young researchers who are passionate about immunology. 2115
Reposted by Rita GomesIan Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Fungal infections are getting harder to treat. The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comFungal infections are getting harder to treatThe fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it. 33821
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 11/07/2025🌿 During the ICVS Retreat 2025, ICVS signed a protocol with OIÁ Plast and Asteroide Fértil to boost sustainability and circular economy efforts. Together, we aim to tackle non-recyclable lab plastic waste. ♻️ A key step toward a greener future! 🍃 #ICVS #Sustainability 031
Rita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025We are currently hosting a Research Topic at Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (IF 4.8). 🦠🔬👩🔬 "Immunometabolic Circuits in Host-Pathogen Interaction". Article submission has been extended to December 22nd! www.frontiersin.org/research-top... 156
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 10/07/2025📣 ICVS Advanced Seminar | Today, 12h Auditorium A0.03 – School of Medicine, UMinho 🎙️ Delfim Duarte “Ironing out the role of iron in hematopoiesis and leukemia” Join us for another session of ICVS's Advanced Seminars! #ICVSAdvancedSeminars 011
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 10/07/2025🎓 ICVS secures over €2.27M from FCT for 11 research projects in neuroscience, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases & more. A major boost for scientific excellence! 🔗 Learn more: icvs.uminho.pt/icvs-secures... 053
Reposted by Rita GomesEFIS_Immunology @efis-immunology.bsky.social · 01/07/2025👏 Congratulations to this year’s winners for 2025 Day of Immunology prizes awarded by EFIS: 🥇 German Society for Immunology (DGfI) & Young German Society for Immunology (yDGfI) 🥈 Young Turkish Society for Immunology (yTSI) 🥉 Young Portuguese Society for Immunology (ySPI 142
Rita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The stars of the team!!💫 Best poster - @marcelasiloliveira.bsky.social ICVS science photo contest - Inês Pereira and @dsrib.bsky.social 120
Reposted by Rita GomesyEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🚀 yEFIS Board Elections 2025! We’re looking for 3 young immunologists to lead yEFIS: 🔹 Spokesperson 🔹 Vice-Spokesperson 🔹 Treasurer 🗓️ Apply by 28 July 2025 👉 forms.gle/ExpLxtDynpn7... Be part of shaping the future of yEFIS! 🌟 121
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 27/06/2025💡 Flash Session I showcased studies on asthma, spinal repair and brain function: great science, great energy! #ICVSRetreat2025 011
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🧾 Posters Session I. Thoughtful discussion and great visuals! #ICVSRetreat2025 011
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Open discussion time! Teams tackled big questions about collaboration and resources. #ICVSRetreat2025 011
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 30/04/2025📢 ICVS Student Seminar | Monday, 1 PM 📢 Join us for a talk by Ana Raquel Fernandes on “Metabolic circuits of immune regulation and function during fungal infection.” 📍 Auditorium A0.02, School of Medicine, UMinho. Don’t miss it! 063
Reposted by Rita GomesCatarina A. Rodrigues @crodrigues7.bsky.social · 29/04/2025❌POSTPONED❌ Due to a nationwide power outage in Portugal, we unfortunately have to postpone today’s Day of Immunology webinar. Although power is being restored, we are still facing technical challenges that prevent us from running the event as planned. 📅 The new date will be announced very soon 013
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 23/04/2025🧠🧬✨ Day of Immunology – April 29 Don’t miss this special event celebrating the power of young minds in science! 🔬 Samuel Gonçalves, from ICVS, will be speaking on Infection and the Immune System, bringing insight from cutting-edge research in immunology. 084
Reposted by Rita GomesCatarina A. Rodrigues @crodrigues7.bsky.social · 22/04/2025🧠🧬✨ We are extremely happy to invite you to join us this April 29th (10h30–12h WEST) for an exciting celebration of the Day of Immunology. We’re shining a spotlight on brilliant ECRs who are exploring the immune system from every angle: 🧠 |🦠|🔁|🧒|🧫 🔗 Scan the QR code and join us! 254
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 14/04/2025April 13 – World Sarcoidosis Day Over 1.2M live with this rare, often misdiagnosed disease. At ICVS, the i3D team researchers raise awareness with a photo series. 📸 Facts in photos ℹ️ More at: fibralung.pt #Sarcoidosis #ICVS 098
Rita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Happy to have been part of this great team! Here our latest work published on Cell Death and Disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMonocyte-macrophage membrane expression of IL-1R2 is a severity biomarker in sepsis - Cell Death & DiseaseCell Death & Disease - Monocyte-macrophage membrane expression of IL-1R2 is a severity biomarker in sepsis 051
Reposted by Rita GomesRebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Nice article in The Telegraph today about importance of fungal infections and the need for more research. Lots of quotes from UK researchers! www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...telegraph.co.ukFungal infections are ‘taking over the world’. Can they be stopped?As a landmark WHO report warns of a lack of treatments and diagnosis, we investigate a threat that now kills twice as many people as TB 0247
Reposted by Rita GomesGALActIC @galactic-europe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025New Medical Study Starting Soon 🔬 The logo was designed in collaboration with Galactic Partners, with professional support from Esra Sedik. Follow us for more! @martinhoenigl.bsky.social @agocarvalho.bsky.social @simonfeys.bsky.social 164
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 02/04/2025ICVS Researchers at Colégio Leonardo Da Vinci! This week, students from preschool to the 2nd cycle are celebrating Science Week with fun, interactive activities. Our researchers explored neuroscience with the little ones and now focus on microbiology and biochemistry. Inspiring future scientists! 232
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 31/03/2025🔬💡 ICVS Researchers Join Innovative GALActIC Study to Combat IAPA! Researchers of the I3D team are part of this European project, aiming to improve the identification and treatment of Influenza-associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis and enhance patient care! 🙌 More at: icvs.uminho.pt/icvs-researc... 093
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 20/02/2025🚨 Exciting News from ICVS! 🚨 João do Canto Gomes, Samuel Gonçalves, and Vitória Baptista have been awarded ESCMID grants for their research on malaria, fungal infections, and multiple sclerosis. 🧬 🔗 [Full article here] icvs.uminho.pt/icvs-researc... #ICVS #Research #ESCMID #InfectiousDiseases 052
Reposted by Rita GomesMathieu Lepas @mlepas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Happy International Day of Women in Science! 👩🔬🎉✨ I’m incredibly grateful to work alongside such admirable role models. Thank you for making science more inclusive, vibrant, and empowering for everyone! 0173
Reposted by Rita GomesICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute | UMinho @icvs-uminho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025🌍💡 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women at ICVS driving innovation in biomedicine. Their groundbreaking work inspires the next generation to break barriers in STEM. Watch the video and let’s empower girls to pursue science! 👩🔬✨ #WomenInScience and #GirlsInSTEM 094
Rita Gomes @ritaasgomes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025We are currently hosting a Research Topic at Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (IF 4.6) entitled "Immunometabolic Circuits in Host-Pathogen Interaction". Article submission is open till June 16th! www.frontiersin.org/research-top... 052