Prof at Edinburgh University. Immunologist. Inflammation, infection, helminths, allergy, metabolism and the microbiome - also on @profandrewmac.bsky.social
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“Bite size immunology” @grainger_konkel review immunity at the gingiva mucosalimmunology.org/articl…
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Tiny the tapeworm is ready to go at Royal Welsh! Come and see all our amazing parasite 🪱 #Wormlove @AberUni @AberDLSAGB
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I will be presenting tomorrow if anyone is going. Can't wait to see old friends @maria_tokuyama, @PCHo_Lab and more!!
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This was a great discussion about the future of immunology! Well worth a read for anyone who wasn't able to join the meeting!
Wonder where immunology is heading? The 4th Immunology Workshop in Lofoten, organised by the Spurkland lab, sparked many interesting discussions! Check out the conclusions👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @anspurk @pawborowicz @ImmunologyKing @MichaelLDustin @EJohnWherry @KoretzkyGary
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Drs Francisca Mutapi, Amadou Garba, Mark Woolhouse & Paul Kazyoba discuss #paediatric #schistosomiasis: last mile preparations for deploying paediatric #praziquantel. #arPZQ #Schistosoma #implementation @PIG_Edinburgh @EdinburghUni @NIMR_Tanzania @WHO
authors.elsevier.com/a/1jSUN…
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The “Atopic March” occurs when individuals with one atopic disorder are more likely to develop other allergies. The connection between #AtopicDermatitis and #FoodAllergy is reviewed here: mucosalimmunology.org/articl…
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What if we could map every cell in the body, revealing its location and molecular identity? In this @NatureMethods perspective, we discuss the new era of 3D-omics by tissue clearing and AI, called Deep 3D Histology: rdcu.be/dNBe8 PDF: bit.ly/3WaD0QU 🧵👇🏼
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Here's the one that goes on all the posters for people to say "ooh nice images". Goblet cells = best cells
#FluorescenceFriday #FluorescentFriday
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REVIEW @ScienceMagazine
Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease
science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126…
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@MFIG_Bertuzzi describes fascinating study of how lung airway epithelial cells kill spores of Aspergillus and Cryptococcus. Mannose and surfactant dependent uptake and host dependent killing.@MRCcmm @BritSocMedMyc
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McGeachy @cornellvet discusses new work from McClure et al. @grainger_konkel @Hepworth_Lab (hubs.la/Q02H5bK50) on a model of periodontitis that shows location-dependent divergence in Th17 plasticity, with limited conversion in inflamed gingiva. hubs.la/Q02H5fnk0
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Lu Huang @immcells and colleagues including @zijingzzz show #neutrophils can serve as a permissive niche for #tuberculosis mucosalimmunology.org/articl…
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Interested in immune responses in human schistosomiasis? 🪱
Koen Stam and I found an inflammatory symptom-associated response at week 4 that developed into a regulatory/Th2 response from week 8.
Thanks to brilliant team led by Maria Yazdanbakhsh & Meta Roestenberg👩🔬👩⚕️🩷
Controlled experimental infections with #Schistosoma mansoni reveal how the human #immune response to #schistosomiasis changes over time.
Read this research and more in the July issue of Science #Immunology: scim.ag/7zC
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Super grateful for the chance to present work on HA matrices in 🫁 in our favourite 🪱 model @ Proteoglycans GRC 2024. #PGGRC – at New Hampshire, USA
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Key chart to keep in mind as the Conservatives suffer their worst ever defeat:
The Tories didn’t lose this election because they were too right wing on some issues or too left wing on others.
They lost because voters of all stripes judged them to be incompetent and dishonest.
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Just in case Brexit was not enough to debilitate UK science, shoot yourself in the other foot.
New analysis from the @royalsociety shows just how high UK visa costs for researchers are compared to upfront costs for similar visa routes in 13 other countries.
Here, we take a look at how the UK compares to countries in the G7 included in the analysis 🔍⤵️ 1/5
ALT Bar chart shows the upfront costs for similar visa routes for researchers in the UK, US, France, Italy, Germany and Japan. UK costs are multiple times higher than other countries and the biggest factor for this is the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS).