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colllab.bsky.social
Lecturer in Immunobiology at QUB - innate immunity, inflammasome, NLRP3, dose response curve, and bad pun enthusiast. Views expressed are mine alone.
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📢 Calling all female African scientists. Applications open for the EMBL-UNESCO 3-month residencies in infection biology: 🪴 Grow your network 🧪Develop your skills 🧠Exchange knowledge with international colleagues Deadline: 31 March 2025 www.embl.org/about/info/s... #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Yet another assault on scientists everywhere by the NYT today - when will it stop?! #spellingbee 🐝

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

Applications for undergraduate summer studentships @wwiem-qub.bsky.social are now open. We would love to host enthusiastic students from anywhere in the world in Belfast! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🧪💊🌎 Details: www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

I am thrilled to share our latest article that has been published in @cp-immunity.bsky.social. We describe a new role for NLRP3 outside of its #inflammasome complex, where it can regulate microglial #metabolism & key metabolites that affect the epigenetic landscape(1) www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Would love to talk to ECRs who might be interested in applying for a post-doctoral fellowship to study human inflammasomes! The Royal Society Newton International Fellowships are open to anyone outside the UK. More details in the post below

Thrilled to start 2025 with our latest findings! Yersinia invades macrophage cytosol to activate caspase-11 when caspase-8 or YopJ are inactive. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I was today years old when I learned that Asparagine the first ever amino acid to be isolated and it was from... Asparagus #doh #nonessential information

What Happens When Some Cells Are More Dad Than Mom (and Vice Versa)? Latest from us. Published today. News here www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/what-ha... article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @stewart_ojay @BogunovicLab and a huge international team thank you 🙏🏼

I'm dead...this is like a real anime on @netflix.com! www.netflix.com/au/title/810...

So excited to have our new paper out now! Pyroptotic EVs “transplant” gasdermin pores from dying cells onto bystander cells, propagating pyroptosis and inflammation. t.co/XgU6jt15aF 1/3 #innate_immunity #immunoSky #celldeath #ExtracellularVesicles @uconnresearch.bsky.social

As my inaugural post on BlueSky, I’m happy to share the first cancer-related study from Pyrocellfluencers spearheaded by Sara Orehek. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.

A starter pack for PhD students and Postdocs in Immunology to connect 🔽 Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list. Let's build the upcoming immuno community! #ImmunoSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/RABVXY4

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Discovery of a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Human NLRP3 with a Novel Binding Modality and Mechanism of Action https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.21.629867v1

President Higgins' final Christmas message - well worth a watch 🎄♥️

Our Editors’ Choice of articles published in #Science #Immunology this year is out now! This free sample collection will be available online to read until the end of February 2025! bit.ly/SciImm_free

Very happy that our team "Deck the Colls" won the annual Christmas table quiz (again!) @wwiem-qub.bsky.social thanks to quizmaster extraordinaire @shemandshaun.bsky.social 🎄🍾

A lovely celebration of all the @wwiem-qub.bsky.social PhD and MSc graduates today. Congrats to everyone and especially to our dapper MSc student (now PhD candidate) Thomas! 🎉🎄🍾

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

Here are the Science family journal editors currently on Bluesky, including the whole Science Immunology crew! 🧪 go.bsky.app/CQytTHw

Had the privilege of hosting Prof Botond Roska from the IOB at WWIEM QUB to deliver the 2024 Barcroft medal lecture today - his talk on using optogenetic therapies to restore vision was incredibly inspiring!! 👀 💉👓💚

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🦋 We're in the process of moving here from X. Join us, follow & share your research & publications (cytokine related or outside the boundaries, published or pre-pub), job openings, meetings & informal gatherings where great ideas are born & cultivated @cytokinesociety.bsky.social

I’ve made a Starter Pack of #innateimmunity and #inflammation researchers to follow! Please contact me to get added or to suggest others to add. We are just getting started 😎 #immunosky #academicchatter go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB