Zania Stamataki

I will never stop loving Germinal Centre images 🤓♥️🔬

Five scientists from different immunology institutions in Birmingham and Cambridge, in front of Christmas lights and The Beatles Story sign in Liverpool

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

We loved your Bright Sparks presentation @hollysedgwick.bsky.social, many congratulations 👏

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.

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

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - News

ICYMI – Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest tools and techniques in microscopy.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/22/m...

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.

This bird flu virus has become better adapted to infect humans

go.nature.com/3WTOZ6e

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).

‘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...

‘Gamechanging’ HIV prevention jab to be approved for England and Wales

“How long will the bioinformatics analysis take?”
If you’ve ever been asked that… you know the answer:
It depends. Here’s why: 🧵

🦠🏆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.🔬

🔥 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 🤧🫖☕️

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...

All these things 👆
Perhaps another article, if of interest, for @theconversation.com?

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.

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...

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

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing
www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...

🚨 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 🧪 🦠

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

Beautiful day, beautiful campus! #QEHospital University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social

📣Professor Alex Richter, presenting "Testing times: developing diagnostics to meet contemporary healthcare challenges" @bsi-midlands.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

❤️🔬 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!

📆 Get your diaries out! The International Bioinformatics Hackathon is back 🧬🖥️

#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.

🎊 Congratulations to our postgraduate students presenting at the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy #PGRGala2025 🎊

Mauro Gaya from CIML immunology presentation on B cell memory in barrier tissues, at our seminar series

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

Peaceful night photo of the river Clyde in Glasgow, showing bridges, reflected lights, and a few fluffy clouds

The beautiful river Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland
❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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...

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...

“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

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

Measles-spreading parties are extremely dangerous.