Killer T cell targets for understudied #influenzaB viruses are in short supply. Our study in Nature Communications describes new targets & how responses change across human life & tissues – a🧵⬇ nature.com/articles/s4146… Tejas Menon Carolien van de Sandt Katherine Kedzierska Doherty Institute (1/15)

🚨Study on #LongCovid phenotyping, identifying potential treatments.⬇️

Thanks to our members for their work as part of the PHOSP-COVID study Collaborative Group!

'findings…support use of antiviral or immunomodulatory agents in controlled therapeutic trials”

nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are really please to have our paper on Long Covid subtypes out today in Nature Immunology. This project worked with PHOSP-COVID study cohort to delve into what is different in those with persistent symptoms. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Here's a short thread on what we found:

🌎A global consortium of researchers specialising in human challenge studies is embarking on a project to develop advanced virus-blocking #vaccines . 💉

The project called MusiCC will be led by Imperial College London, funded by CEPI
Horizon Europe🇪🇺.👇
imperial.ac.uk/news/251961/gl…

🚨We are LIVE! 🙌

We are SO excited to invite you all to our upcoming yearly meeting: Visualising Immunology 🌟

Registration is now OPEN! ✍️

📅Friday 12th July 2024
📍Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, London, UK

#Visualisingimmuno24

SMI members Ryan Thwaites Ryan Thwaites and Peter Openshaw Peter Openshaw demonstrate Nature Communications that early responses in the nasal mucosa predict the type of antibody responses to live attenuated influenza vaccines : nature.com/articles/s4146…
#SMIMemberPaper

I am recruiting! Please come join me - looking for an excellent research officer with immunology and viral expertise w a genomics slant 👇 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/916…

📢We're hiring!📢
Our friendly and dynamic team in Prof Katherine Kedzierska laboratory is looking for a Research Assistant in Immunology and Virology.
Job details and application instructions are below 👇
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/915999/…

Are you looking for funded #PhD project?

Join our Dr Lucy Thorne (Lucy Thorne) to research innate immune barriers to emerging viruses to help our understanding of which viruses pose the the most risk for future pandemics.

Apply by 23 Feb👇
findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

🚨 We are back!!! 🚨

We'll be kicking off series 3 next week on Thursday 22nd! 🙌

👉 With our new format on Microsoft Teams at 4pm

Make sure to add the meeting invite to your calendar to get reminders before the meetings start!

Help us reach more people by reposting! 😁

Activation of #interferon responses following #SARSCoV2 infection are detectable in peripheral blood before in nasal fluid, indicates findings from a human challenge study involving previously unexposed volunteers. scim.ag/5Q5 Imperial College London Chris Chiu

🥼 Postdoc job alert - come join us!🥼

We're looking for a postdoc to interrogate the localisation & zonation of liver #Tcells , and how they interact w/ neighbouring cells using high dimensional imaging technologies - is this you!?

ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… -

Apply by 20/2/24

🚨 MRC-funded Postdoctoral research associate position available. Exciting project with Anand Shah to study mechanisms of innate immune dysregulation in bronchiectasis. 2yr duration w/ potential to extend.Great opportunities for CV/career development imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…

**Please Share** A fully-funded #PhDposition is available in my group Blizard Institute to examine how chronic inflammation in the human airway affects antibody responses to common respiratory pathogens. Apply by 23rd Feb, more info and link here : findaphd.com/phds/project/t…