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Zania Stamataki

@zania-stamataki.bsky.social
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Medical Research Foundation Fellow | Viral Immunologist | Liver lover | Imaging geek | Associate Professor, Group leader at stamatakilab.com

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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A pleasure to speak with Jasmin Fox-Skelly for this piece for BBC Future on why a global outbreak of pneumonic plague is unlikely. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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Why a global outbreak of pneumonic plague is unlikely
A Russian lab technician has died at a plague research centre in Siberia, but there are many reasons pneumonic plague is usually easily contained.
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I will never stop loving Germinal Centre images 🤓♥️🔬
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A festive catch-up of collaborators from the Functional Genomics Screening Lab (FGSL), @milnerinst.bsky.social MRC and @astra-zeneca.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social after the excellent Bright Sparks talks in Liverpool #BSI25
Five scientists from different immunology institutions in Birmingham and Cambridge, in front of Christmas lights and The Beatles Story sign in Liverpool
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Gavi @gavi.org · 03/11/2025
Every zombie movie asks the same questions epidemiologists ask during real outbreaks: How did this start? How many are infected? How do we contain it? Turns out stories about the undead are powerful public health teaching tools. 🔗 Read more if you dare... bit.ly/4nFpdxE via @uk.theconversation.com
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Zombies, jiangshi, draugrs, revenants − monster lore is filled with metaphors for public health
The ways in which zombies are spawned − and contained − reflect a range of public health principles.
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
ICYMI – Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/22/m...
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Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane
Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - News
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Nature @nature.com · 27/10/2025
This bird flu virus has become better adapted to infect humans go.nature.com/3WTOZ6e
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This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic
Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet.
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
ECRs with proposals on the cusp of funding (solid red) ended up having higher quality work later in their career than ECRs whose proposals squeaked by getting funded (solid blue). Wondering if part of this is a grit effect with revising rejected work. (Full disclosure: I would be a blue dot).
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/10/2025
‘Gamechanging’ HIV prevention jab to be approved for England and Wales
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‘Gamechanging’ HIV prevention jab to be approved for England and Wales
Long-acting injection offers an alternative to daily pills taken to protect against the virus A “gamechanging” injection to prevent HIV is set to be approved for use in England and Wales. The long-acting jab, administered every two months, will offer an alternative to the daily pills used to protect against the virus. Continue reading...
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“How long will the bioinformatics analysis take?” If you’ve ever been asked that… you know the answer: It depends. Here’s why: 🧵
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Medical Research UK @medicalresearchuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🦠🏆This week, three scientists won the 2025 #NobelPrize for their discoveries about the immune system’s security guards - regulatory T cells. Dr @zania-stamataki.bsky.social is building on this breakthrough, working to develop new therapies for autoimmune and liver conditions.🔬
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🔥 thread on infections praying on vulnerable freshers at uni (and not just freshers). And yes, there is loads of covid currently, and rhinovirus is increasing according to @ukhsa.bsky.social - get some rest and take good care of yourselves 🤧🫖☕️
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Get your Zoster vaccine! @naturemedicine.bsky.social A consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia in 100M US adults after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics, with zoster vaccines reducing risk of dementia in dose-dependent manner www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Freshers' Flu, the seasonal viruses that pray on vulnerable students. Great to work with @joshelgin.bsky.social and @sheencr.bsky.social on this piece for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Freshers' flu: Why is it so hard for students to dodge?
It's not the actual flu, and it's rarely serious, but when thousands of students arrive on campus they bring a cocktail of viruses.
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...
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Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing
Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud
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Joe Grove @grovearmada.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses. 🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk 📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠
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Viro3D
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Medical Research UK @medicalresearchuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It's #ResearchAppreciationDay tomorrow! 👩‍🔬 A huge thank you to the researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals working behind the scenes to drive medical breakthroughs. 🙌 Without them, many of the treatments and discoveries we rely on today wouldn’t exist. @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Beautiful day, beautiful campus! #QEHospital University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📣Professor Alex Richter, presenting "Testing times: developing diagnostics to meet contemporary healthcare challenges" @bsi-midlands.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
❤️🔬 Exciting developments discussed at The Future of AI in Microscopy and Image Analysis meeting, organised by COMPARE at the University of Birmingham! Excellent hosting by Davide Calebiro and team, and lovely to see Edalat Radfar's tour of our UoB #Snouty, and the robotic arm that feeds it!
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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
📆 Get your diaries out! The International Bioinformatics Hackathon is back 🧬🖥️
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 11/05/2025
#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #oncosky #Neurosky #immunosky #pedsky #publichealth 60 years after its discovery as the first human tumour virus, #EpsteinBarrvirus (EBV)-specific therapies & #vaccines have entered #clinicaltrials.
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🎊 Congratulations to our postgraduate students presenting at the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy #PGRGala2025 🎊
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Fantastic presentation by @maurogaya.bsky.social visiting our Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy as part of our @britsocimm.bsky.social seminar series #immunosky #virosky @ciml.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Mauro Gaya from CIML immunology presentation on B cell memory in barrier tissues, at our seminar series
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The beautiful river Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Peaceful night photo of the river Clyde in Glasgow, showing bridges, reflected  lights, and a few fluffy clouds
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Th1 cells express Tfh effector molecules and associate with B cells at the T-B border following viral infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Steven Bollipo @stevenbollipo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
European HCC guidelines: biopsy before immunotherapy! Is that what you all following? @atoosarabiee.bsky.social @renumathyd.bsky.social @ebtapper.bsky.social #liversky #gastrosky www.annalsofoncology.org/action/showP...
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Mavin Kashyap @mn-kashyap.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“Alright my Liver?” @anniejarcher.bsky.social presenting at Overcoming inequalities in liver disease event in Birmingham on the great work conducted as part of this NHSE funded programme in delivering outreach clinics to detect early stage liver disease and support onward management. #liversky
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JCI insight @insight.jci.org · 04/03/2025
Emanual Maverakis et al. use single-cell and bulk RNA-seq and immunohistochemistry to characterize necrobiosis and identified SPP1 and CCL5 as novel therapeutic targets for NL and NXG, rare diseases without a highly effective therapy: buff.ly/7htsyLe
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Measles-spreading parties are extremely dangerous.
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
'More than 3 million doses of anti-D containing Harrison's blood have been issued to Australian mothers since 1967.' ❤️👶🤱
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Gavi @gavi.org · 04/03/2025
Why do people share health #misinformation? Research shows it’s often out of genuine concern, not malice. Here’s why empathy is a key approach in changing the conversation:
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Six rules to tackle health misinformation
VaccinesWork spoke to Professor Liam Smeeth, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, on their new key principles to inform the fight against misinformation.
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Atoosa Rabiee @atoosarabiee.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Again and again Continue HCC surveillance based on diagnosis of cirrhosis prior to SVR. This study showed NIT dynamics do not reliably exclude those at risk for HCC post SVR 👇🏼 @jhepatology.bsky.social #Liversky
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The #WHO put out a detailed statement on the ongoing outbreak of unknown cause happening in the north western DRC. Health authorities & WHO experts are on the ground working to determine the cause & strengthen response efforts. Here’s what we know so far. 🧵👇 www.afro.who.int/countries/de...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo deepens investigation on cluster of illness and community deaths in Equateur province
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and experts from World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A call for the United States to continue investing in science journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @acasadevall1.bsky.social @bladerlab.bsky.social @goodrumviruslab.bsky.social Highlights of U.S. government-funded advances in biomedical sciences/healthcare:
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today is #RareDiseaseDay! Join us in raising awareness for individuals with a rare disease, with over 3.5 million people living with a rare disease in the UK alone. 📖 Read more about rare diseases and the work of the BSI-CIPN in our latest blog: bit.ly/4kmwIsX
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Regulatory T cells constrain T cells of shared specificity to enforce tolerance during infection @science.org
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"Over the past five years, more than 1,200 people died after they got close to the top of a waiting list for a transplant but were skipped, The Times found." #medsky #liversky #kidney #heart #liver #transplant
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Katrina Ray @heykatray.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
#liversky #gastrosky
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Unfortunately, this sort of disruption has dangerous consequences for all - viruses know no borders. #virosky #medsky #flu #vaccine #influenza
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
An enormous amount of work, to tailor models to human liver cancer for precision therapy -congratulations Tom Bird and team 👏 #gastrosky #medsky #immunosky #liversky
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
My first presentation with a Bluesky quote - discussing how to target enclysis to boost liver cancer immunotherapies #liversky #immunosky #virosky #medsky #hepatitis #virus -thanks to @aek-tuekprakhon.bsky.social for the 📸
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EASL @easlnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In today's #readoftheweek📚 learn about the ALNE model and how it generates quantitative and accurate differential diagnosis between cases with AIH or PBC. Read here this JHEP Reports article: www.jhep-reports.eu/article/S258... @jhepatology.bsky.social #LiverSky
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Rob Brierley @robbrierley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
NHS to expand opt-out HIV and hepatitis testing www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.... #IDSky #LiverSky #HepSky
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NHS to expand opt-out HIV and hepatitis testing - BBC News
The NHS will automatically test patients for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C unless they opt out at 90 hospitals.
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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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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The double-glazed ceiling: new PIs face continuing precarity - increasing bottlenecks in the article by Charitini Stavropoulou and Ian Viney @resprofnews.bsky.social #ECR #researchcareers @ukri.org @acmedsci.bsky.social @royalsociety.org Check out the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Transitioning to independence in medical research: A qualitative study using a systems theory perspective
Early career researchers' transition to independence in academia is critical. Funding bodies across the world have established early career schemes sp…
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 12/02/2025
Regulatory T cells converted from Th1 cells in tumors suppress #cancer immunity via CD39, say Sang-Nee Tan, Chen Dong and colleagues (Westlake University): buff.ly/3ED6d1G #TumorImmunology #SolidTumors #LymphocyteBiology
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
20 years of research on giant viruses www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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20 years of research on giant viruses - npj Viruses
npj Viruses - 20 years of research on giant viruses
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Invest in your potential with our Career Enhancing Grants 🙌 These grants are here to support you in navigating the world of #immunology and reaching new heights in your #career 🚀 Apply now! bit.ly/3QedNDL Deadline: 27 March
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BSI Career Enhancing Grants | British Society for Immunology
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Viroscope @viroscope.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The beauty behind the infection. Human lung cells infected with influenza A virus (H3N2). Viral Nucleoprotein in cyan, ER exit sites in red and Nuclei in orange. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt
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Joanna Pylvänäinen @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I put together a small guide on how to get started with Fiji. Please distribute to anyone who might benefit form this! zenodo.org/records/1477... #imageanalysis #fiji #imagej #training
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Image handling using Fiji - training materials
Description:This training package provides a guide to image processing and analysis using ImageJ/Fiji, an open-source software widely used in biological and medical imaging. The manual includes step-b...
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