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Tara Sutherland
@drtesutherland.bsky.social
Lecturer at Aberdeen University | Immune cell - matrix crosstalk | Lung diseases | Imaging | 🇦🇺🦘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 | Owner of a ridiculous dog and 3 cats
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Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
www.science.org
Still time to join our Flow Cytometry Core at the University of Aberdeen as a lead scientist
We're looking for a Lead Scientist to join Flow Cytometry Centre in Aberdeen! Fantastic opportunity to deliver services, work with varied research groups, promote cytometry and further develop the facility. Aberdeen is a great place to live/work- APPLY NOW www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/cyto...
Cytometry Facility Lead Scientist (IMS313A) | University of Aberdeen
A Lead Cytometry expert post is available for a highly motivated flow cytometrist to deliver cytometry services, promote and develop the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre (IFCC).  This post is for a highly...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
A new study from @drtesutherland.bsky.social (@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social) suggests future asthma treatments could reverse lung damage.

Funded by @medresfdn.bsky.social + @asthmaandlung.org.uk, this research may transform care for asthma + other fibrosis-linked diseases.💡

📖➡️ https://bit.ly/4mHTOKq
Research points to new treatment target for asthma
A new way to treat asthma symptoms and even repair previously irreversible lung damage could be on the horizon following the discovery of a potential new therapeutic target by Foundation-funded Dr Tara Sutherland and a team of scientists at the University of Aberdeen.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We're looking for a Lead Scientist to join Flow Cytometry Centre in Aberdeen! Fantastic opportunity to deliver services, work with varied research groups, promote cytometry and further develop the facility. Aberdeen is a great place to live/work- APPLY NOW www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/cyto...
Cytometry Facility Lead Scientist (IMS313A) | University of Aberdeen
A Lead Cytometry expert post is available for a highly motivated flow cytometrist to deliver cytometry services, promote and develop the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre (IFCC).  This post is for a highly...
www.abdnjobs.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Exciting work by @drtesutherland.bsky.social!
#ScienceImmunology uncovers chitinase like proteins as key drivers of airway ECM remodeling, blocking Ym1 can reverse it!

#Immunology #RespiratoryResearch #SciOpen #TUP
Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Now in #Science #Immunology, @drtesutherland.bsky.social & al report chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) make distinct contributions to airway pathology independent of #IL13- & #IL17 –mediated signaling in 🐀 #asthna model! CLPs orchestrate airway #ECM remodeling, & can be both protective & detrimental!
Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Aberdeen is hiring - Neuroimmunology Lectureship! Really exciting opportunity to join our supportive, collaborative and multidisciplinary Institute to carry out cutting edge translation research. Not to mention the scenery in the North East of Scotland is amazing www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
Lecturer in Neuroimmunology, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition (MED243A) | The University of Aberdeen
Browse and apply for current job openings at the University of Aberdeen across various schools, departments and roles, including admin and academic.
www.abdn.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Looking forward to @emds2025.bsky.social in my home town of Edinburgh this week! Will be at poster 48 on Wednesday with our work characterising macrophage dynamics in severe allergic asthma models.
September 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025. We're lucky to have 2 postdocs in our Aberdeen Uni lab @mattoburgess.bsky.social and Dr.Anton. You guys are amazing, innovative, hardworking scientists, and so supportive of everyone and everything that happens in the lab & beyond. Thanks for everything you do!
September 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu
July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
June 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Immune responses are complex, often defying rigid classifications. The authors of a Comment article in Nature Reviews Bioengineering argue that researchers should rely on comprehensive single-cell data to guide analysis and should remain open to unexpected immunological complexity. 🔒
Oversimplified immunology is holding biomaterials back - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Immune responses are complex, often defying rigid classifications. Instead of interpreting results according to reductionist categories, researchers should rely on comprehensive single-cell data to guide analysis and should remain open to unexpected immunological complexity.
go.nature.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Who's ready for another @thestemvillage.bsky.social Immunology Seminar Series? If you haven't seen these before, we invite LGBTQ+ immunologists to present online to the wider immunology community. If you'd like to present or attend, please drop a mention below #immunosky 🧪 #academicsky
April 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Cheering on the Lab’s UG Honours student Ronya in the University of Aberdeen rowing race today!
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Still time to apply for this truly interdisciplinary BBSRC funded PhD project in Aberdeen with @mdmorgan.bsky.social and myself. Develop computation models to analyse ECM-cell interactions and then test them a lab setting! Deadline 17th Jan
Eastbio PhD time! This project is a cracker (not biased at all). ECM-cell cross-talk in the thymus and lung using spatial proteomics & developing computational models to analyse data with the amazing @mdmorgan.bsky.social lab. You'll get support, training and development opportunities. So excited!
MORE PHDS! @drtesutherland.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD candidate for a BBSRC DTP project at the interface of spatial proteomics and extracellular matrix biology: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…
Ideal for a broad range of candidates pls reach out to chat with us.
January 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
We just can't stop recruiting!

Associate professor in cell and molecular biology @dunnschool, with a preference for immunology, inflammation and/or infection - all defined broadly

Come and be our colleague

Deadline 28 Feb, please spread the word

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
January 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Still time to apply to join our lab in Aberdeen as a post-doc, in a well-funded position. If you're interested in immune-ECM cross talk and want to use cutting edge spatial technologies, apply now. www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...
Research Fellow (IMS301RX) | University of Aberdeen
The Sutherland lab, based at the University of Aberdeen, studies lung diseases at the interface between immunology and extracellular matrix biology. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, creat...
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January 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
🗓️Three weeks to go until the BSI-CVIG online seminar exploring spatial #omics technologies in #immunology!

🧫 Come along to find out how these advanced technologies can be applied across different tissues and species

Register today👉 bit.ly/423kpJi

#CVIG25
January 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Very pleased to be hanging up the office biolegend calendar for 2025….. very impressed with Morgan (a PhD student from the lab) taking out Jan with one of his many amazing lung confocal images!
January 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Congratulations to Hannah!!! PhD viva done with no corrections. @drtesutherland.bsky.social very proud of her first PhD student. Allen lab is so privileged to have Hannah with us this past 2 years ago.
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
New year, new job? Work in a great place, with brilliant and supportive people, doing cool stuff….about a week left to apply!
Join the Sutherland Lab in Aberdeen! We have a research fellow opening to explore IL-13 regulation of hyaluronan extracellular matrices drug lung injury, repair and chronic pathology with funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/research/job...
Research Fellow, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition (IMS301R) | The University of Aberdeen
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December 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
We are hiring! Programme Leader Track positions @mrc-lms.bsky.social up for grabs by up-and-coming researchers with a great start to their career who now aim to establish their own group in a translational discovery science institute of world leading excellence. lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
December 17, 2024 at 7:06 PM
If single cell genomics and quantitative genetics is your thing….check out this PhD project from Mike’s Lab. You’ll get support, an excellent mentor/supervisor and amazing scientist. APPLY NOW
December 18, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Tara Sutherland
Still cannot believe it’s been nearly a week since I passed my viva 🌟 very proud to be the first Sutherland Lab baby and looking forward to seeing everything the future holds for this wonderful group @drtesutherland.bsky.social
What a journey! So proud of you @hetompkins.bsky.social for getting through the last 4 years and passing your viva (and enjoying it). Thanks for joining the lab way back and being the first graduate of the Sutherland lab.
December 17, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Eastbio PhD time! This project is a cracker (not biased at all). ECM-cell cross-talk in the thymus and lung using spatial proteomics & developing computational models to analyse data with the amazing @mdmorgan.bsky.social lab. You'll get support, training and development opportunities. So excited!
MORE PHDS! @drtesutherland.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD candidate for a BBSRC DTP project at the interface of spatial proteomics and extracellular matrix biology: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…
Ideal for a broad range of candidates pls reach out to chat with us.
https://findaphd.com/phds/project/e…
December 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM