Fränze Progatzky
@franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
Group Leader @kiroxford.bsky.social Wellcome Career Development Fellow
Peripheral #glia in barrier tissue #immunology
#NewPI #FirstGen | Mother | she/her 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups/peripheral-glia-and-immunity
Peripheral #glia in barrier tissue #immunology
#NewPI #FirstGen | Mother | she/her 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups/peripheral-glia-and-immunity
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Upcoming seminar:
🎓Dr Fränze Progatzky @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social, @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social
📢"Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity"
📅 4:30-5:30PM, Thur 16 October
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
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#CITIID
🎓Dr Fränze Progatzky @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social, @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social
📢"Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity"
📅 4:30-5:30PM, Thur 16 October
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
buff.ly/IPj6StT
#CITIID
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Upcoming seminar:
🎓Dr Fränze Progatzky @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social, @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social
📢"Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity"
📅 4:30-5:30PM, Thur 16 October
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
buff.ly/IPj6StT
#CITIID
🎓Dr Fränze Progatzky @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social, @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social
📢"Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity"
📅 4:30-5:30PM, Thur 16 October
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
buff.ly/IPj6StT
#CITIID
In case you missed it: @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social co-authored this recent review with our lab on glia in barrier organs in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social We summarise cutting-edge findings and highlight future directions for the field - timely reading: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Glial-immune interactions in barrier organs
Neuro-immune interactions within barrier organs, such as lung, gut, and skin, are
crucial in regulating tissue homeostasis, inflammatory responses, and host defence.
Our rapidly advancing understandin...
www.mucosalimmunology.org
August 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In case you missed it: @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social co-authored this recent review with our lab on glia in barrier organs in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social We summarise cutting-edge findings and highlight future directions for the field - timely reading: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Huge congratulations to @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social from the lab who has been awarded the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in the skin focusing on the role of peripheral glial cells #proudPI
Julia Karjalainen, A DPhil candidate at the Kennedy Institute, has been awarded a competitive Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in skin disease!
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/julia-k...
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/julia-k...
Julia Karjalainen Awarded Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship
Julia Karjalainen, A DPhil candidate at the Kennedy Institute, has been awarded a competitive Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in skin disease.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Huge congratulations to @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social from the lab who has been awarded the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in the skin focusing on the role of peripheral glial cells #proudPI
Thank you @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social - I look forward to engaging with the community.
July 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thank you @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social - I look forward to engaging with the community.
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Congratulations to Dr Fränze Progatzky, who has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her research into glial cell biology!
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
Dr Fränze Progatzky wins Lister Prize
Dr Fränze Progatzky, Principal Investigator in Tissue Biology and Wellcome Career Development Fellow, has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her outstanding science.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Congratulations to Dr Fränze Progatzky, who has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her research into glial cell biology!
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
Thanks Adrien!
July 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Thanks Adrien!
Excited to be part of this newly awarded MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology. Together with colleagues from Oxford and Manchester we will investigate how environmental exposures contribute to chronic inflammatory diseases.
Huge news! A £50M MRC CoRE will bring together Manchester & Oxford to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory disease.
The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...
The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...
New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) will investigate how the environment interacts with our immune system to trigger chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, ...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Excited to be part of this newly awarded MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology. Together with colleagues from Oxford and Manchester we will investigate how environmental exposures contribute to chronic inflammatory diseases.
Reposted by Fränze Progatzky
Are you interested in the gut-immune-brain axis (GIBA)? 🧠💡
We are building a national research network to improve understanding of the connection between the gut and nervous system.
Join our growing community 👇
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We are building a national research network to improve understanding of the connection between the gut and nervous system.
Join our growing community 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Are you interested in the gut-immune-brain axis (GIBA)? 🧠💡
We are building a national research network to improve understanding of the connection between the gut and nervous system.
Join our growing community 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
We are building a national research network to improve understanding of the connection between the gut and nervous system.
Join our growing community 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Deeply honoured to have been awarded the
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Research Prize alongside such inspiring fellow researchers.
The award will enable us to study how the peripheral nervous system, through glial cells, regulates tissue repair in the gut, lung and skin. 🧬🖥️🔬
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Research Prize alongside such inspiring fellow researchers.
The award will enable us to study how the peripheral nervous system, through glial cells, regulates tissue repair in the gut, lung and skin. 🧬🖥️🔬
We are very proud to introduce our brand new 2025 #ListerFellows! This year there are eight Prize recipients. lister-institute.org.uk/a-warm-welco...
June 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Deeply honoured to have been awarded the
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Research Prize alongside such inspiring fellow researchers.
The award will enable us to study how the peripheral nervous system, through glial cells, regulates tissue repair in the gut, lung and skin. 🧬🖥️🔬
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Research Prize alongside such inspiring fellow researchers.
The award will enable us to study how the peripheral nervous system, through glial cells, regulates tissue repair in the gut, lung and skin. 🧬🖥️🔬
Reposted by Fränze Progatzky
@dr-vmosienko.bsky.social showing the 100+ crowd that came to #Sheffield for the 1st UK glia network meeting. Next one will be in Bristol in 2026 & we have a very special international guest confirmed ✨ #BNA2025
#astrocyte #microglia #schwann #oligodendrocyte #microglia #neuroscience
#astrocyte #microglia #schwann #oligodendrocyte #microglia #neuroscience
April 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@dr-vmosienko.bsky.social showing the 100+ crowd that came to #Sheffield for the 1st UK glia network meeting. Next one will be in Bristol in 2026 & we have a very special international guest confirmed ✨ #BNA2025
#astrocyte #microglia #schwann #oligodendrocyte #microglia #neuroscience
#astrocyte #microglia #schwann #oligodendrocyte #microglia #neuroscience
See you later!
April 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
See you later!
🚨 We have TWO exciting open positions in our lab! 🚨
We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as:
🔬 Research Assistant
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc
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📢 Please share!
We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as:
🔬 Research Assistant
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc
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Research Assistant (177885)
We are looking for a Research Assistant with a background in immunology/neurobiology to join the interdisciplinary laboratory of Dr Fränze Progatzky at the Kennedy Institute.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🚨 We have TWO exciting open positions in our lab! 🚨
We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as:
🔬 Research Assistant
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/bioinfo...
📢 Please share!
We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as:
🔬 Research Assistant
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/bioinfo...
📢 Please share!
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First Post on blue-sky. We are hiring! Post-doctoral position available in the neuroimmunology of stroke. Please check out link below and share elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
First Post on blue-sky. We are hiring! Post-doctoral position available in the neuroimmunology of stroke. Please check out link below and share elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Reposted by Fränze Progatzky
📢 LAST CHANCE to submit your abstracts for BSI Oxford and
@immunologyoxford.bsky.social's #OIS25 Symposium
This is your opportunity to take part in this celebration Oxford's outstanding #immunology research 🔬
Submissions are open until midnight on Friday 7th Feb 👉 bit.ly/4elJmnG
@immunologyoxford.bsky.social's #OIS25 Symposium
This is your opportunity to take part in this celebration Oxford's outstanding #immunology research 🔬
Submissions are open until midnight on Friday 7th Feb 👉 bit.ly/4elJmnG
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📢 LAST CHANCE to submit your abstracts for BSI Oxford and
@immunologyoxford.bsky.social's #OIS25 Symposium
This is your opportunity to take part in this celebration Oxford's outstanding #immunology research 🔬
Submissions are open until midnight on Friday 7th Feb 👉 bit.ly/4elJmnG
@immunologyoxford.bsky.social's #OIS25 Symposium
This is your opportunity to take part in this celebration Oxford's outstanding #immunology research 🔬
Submissions are open until midnight on Friday 7th Feb 👉 bit.ly/4elJmnG
I had a great time writing this review with @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social and Sofia Hain. Watch this space for what’s next for these two brilliant researchers in my lab as they set out on their journeys to make exciting discoveries about glial-immune interactions in barrier organs! 🚀
January 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I had a great time writing this review with @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social and Sofia Hain. Watch this space for what’s next for these two brilliant researchers in my lab as they set out on their journeys to make exciting discoveries about glial-immune interactions in barrier organs! 🚀
📣 New Review Alert!
Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS?
Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs?
Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin!
#GlialCells #ImmuneSystem
Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS?
Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs?
Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin!
#GlialCells #ImmuneSystem
Glial-immune interactions in barrier organs are reviewed by @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social and colleagues:
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
January 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📣 New Review Alert!
Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS?
Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs?
Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin!
#GlialCells #ImmuneSystem
Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS?
Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs?
Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin!
#GlialCells #ImmuneSystem
Reposted by Fränze Progatzky
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.
Ideal for a broad range of candidates pls reach out to chat with us.
January 15, 2025 at 1:37 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
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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...
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
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...
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...
Check out today’s (12th January 2025) Biomedical Picture of the Day by @lucaverger.bsky.social from our lab showing beautiful glial cells in the skin
#proudPI
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#proudPI
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BPoD | Glial Versatility
BPoD (Biomedical Picture of the Day) is a free educational resource showcasing biomedical imagery. Managed by the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences the website aims to engage the general public. Imag...
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January 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Check out today’s (12th January 2025) Biomedical Picture of the Day by @lucaverger.bsky.social from our lab showing beautiful glial cells in the skin
#proudPI
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#proudPI
bpod.org.uk