Oxford Immunology Network

@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @joshuabull.bsky.social mathematician extraordinaire scoops a vice chancellors award for research excellence this afternoon
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Research with Human Tissue Samples on the International Space Station, with Dr Ghada Alsaleh Exciting developments are underway at the Space Innovation Lab at the University of Oxford! The launch of human tissue samples to the International Space Station marks a bold and forward-looking step ...

A new podcast episode out today! Learn about Ghada Alsaleh's pioneering work with samples on the International Space Station: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/research-hum...

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Find out more about our 2025 Medawar Immunology prizewinner Sooraj Achar's groundbreaking research on T cell antigen recognition: www.immunology.ox.ac.uk/news/sooraj-...
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Vaccine-enhanced competition permits rational bacterial strain replacement in the gut Colonization of the intestinal lumen precedes invasive infection for a wide range of enteropathogenic and opportunistic pathogenic bacteria. We show that combining oral vaccination with engineered or ...

#WeekendRead! #MicrobiotaPower! @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social Diard Lentsch &co show @science.org oral vaccination combined with a pathogen competitor microbial strain prophylactically or therapeutically protects against Salmonella or Coli via competing for energy substrates & CD4 T-dependent IgA!

Dr Joshua Bull

👏 Congratulations to @joshuabull.bsky.social from the Mathematical Institute.

Dr Josh Bull has been shortlisted for the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards in the Breakthrough Researcher Award category for his work analysing large spatially resolved data.

And a huge thank you to our final speaker Professor Helen Byrne for giving us a fascinating insight into the intersections between mathematics and biology: 'Mathematical Insights into Tumor-Immune Interactions: Navigating an Evolving Landscape'. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social #OIS25

We also had a great talk from Shawn Sun: 'Characterising transcriptomic features of peripheral blood mononuclear cells to low pH at single-cell resolution.' @imm.ox.ac.uk #OIS25

Some great talks in our final session of the day on interdisciplinary immunology. First was Dr Alastair Corbin from Pathios Therapeutics, 'Targeting Acidic Immune Suppression in Cancer with PTT-4256: a first-in-class small molecule inhibitor of GPR65'. #OIS25

And huge congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Mark Asquith Memorial Award, Daniel Beckers @kiroxford.bsky.social #OIS25

Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Peter Medawar Prize for Immunology, Sooraj Achar @kiroxford.bsky.social #OIS25

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And now we have Dr Pablo Cespedes Donoso's talk 'Unravelling sialylation-dependent regulation of T-cell immunity: Harnessing human-specific research tools from the lymphoid organoid and explant research hub'

A great talk from Dana Costigan @drakesmith-lab.bsky.social @rdmoxford.bsky.social 'Iron deprivation counteracts systemic autoimmune inflammation caused by Treg depletion'

Then we hear from Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya on tick-inspired treatments for type 1 diabetes @rdmoxford.bsky.social #OIS25

...and then a wonderful talk from Dr Kate Attfield: 'Genome-wide analysis of Aquaporin-4-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and MOG antibody-associated disease: Insights into comorbidities and future therapeutic approaches'. @ndcnoxford.bsky.social #OIS25

After lunch Professor Tim Elliott @oxcio.bsky.social gives some updates on Immunotherapy Advances @imtadvances.bsky.social #OIS25

And Dr Jeremy Fry @proimmune.bsky.social takes us into the lunchbreak with his talk 'Ankyrons™ - Next-generation target binding reagents beyond antibodies'

Professor Petros Ligoxygakis takes us into a different species with his talk 'Toll/NF-κB signalling regulates the Drosophila intestinal landscape' @petrosligoxygakis.bsky.social #OIS25 @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social

...followed by a great talk from Shannon Nicole Russel: 'Macrophage metabolic programming facilitates enhanced immune response in pancreatic cancer'. @oncology.ox.ac.uk #OIS25

Jinyi Zhao giving a talk

Jinyi Zhao gets us started after the coffee break with a fascinating talk: 'Trained immunity enhances monocyte-T-cell pathogenic crosstalk in Ankylosing Spondylitis' @ndorms.bsky.social #OIS25

Beining Li giving a talk

....and thanks to Beining Li for a brilliant talk on the peptide specificity of KIR with yeast display of HLA-C #OIS25 @oxcio.bsky.social

Alexander Redmond gives a talk

Thank you to Alexander Redmond for a great talk on the Type I Interferon Receptor #OIS25
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Professor Frances Platt speaking at a lectern

A great start to the @britsocimm.bsky.social Oxford Immunology Symposium with a fascinating talk from Professor Frances Platt on the NPC cellular pathway. #OIS25

Hey Oxford immunologists! 👋 Excited to see you all at the Oxford Immunology Symposium tomorrow. I’ll be chairing the Innate Immunity session with Prof. Borrow at 9 AM—so don’t be late! 😉🔥 #InnateImmunity #BSI
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We wanted to make something a bit abstract that tries to represent MuSpAn, using the MuSpAn package itself. In the end, we thought it'd be fun to add it to our list of tutorials! (docs.muspan.co.uk/latest/tutor...)

You can follow the process of making it here:

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🚨 Last chance to register for BSI Oxford and @immunologyoxford.bsky.social's Oxford Immunology Symposium! #OIS25

📅 Date: 24 March 2025
📍 Location: Oxford Mathematical Institute
🎤 Featuring talks on adaptive & innate immunity and interdisciplinary insights

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don't forget to book your place at the Oxford BSI Symposium on 24th March!

Starvation and infection: The role of sickness-associated anorexia in metabolic adaptation during acute infection This episode discusses the following article: Jindal, J, Hill, J, Harte, J, Dunachie, S, and Barbara Kronsteiner, B, Starvation and infection: The role of sickness-associated anorexia in metabolic ada...

We have a new podcast episode! Dr. Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl discusses a fascinating article: 'Starvation and infection: The role of sickness-associated anorexia in metabolic adaptation during acute infection'. Listen at podcasts.ox.ac.uk/starvation-a...

IOI awards £5m to Oxford consortium to develop new therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a curable disease, yet millions of people fall ill or die of TB due to antimicrobial resistance.

Now a consortium led by Oxford Biology Dr Rachel Tanner aims to develop new therapies to tackle TB thanks to a £5m grant from @ineosoxford.bsky.social

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