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Fränze Progatzky
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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
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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
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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kiroxford.bsky.social
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
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
franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
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.
July 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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ukgibanetwork.bsky.social
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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July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
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 The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 19
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
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ukglia.bsky.social
@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
April 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
🚨 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!
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
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dr-l-mcculloch.bsky.social
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
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britsocimm.bsky.social
📢 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
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
📣 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
mucosalimmunol.bsky.social Mucosal Immunology @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social · Jan 9
Glial-immune interactions in barrier organs are reviewed by @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social and colleagues:
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
January 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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drtesutherland.bsky.social
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
drtesutherland.bsky.social Tara Sutherland @drtesutherland.bsky.social · Dec 17
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!
mdmorgan.bsky.social Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · Dec 14
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
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dunnschool.bsky.social
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
franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
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

bpod.org.uk
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...
bpod.org.uk
January 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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liddelowsa.bsky.social
3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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ejvillablanca.bsky.social
Beyond classical immunity: Mast cells as signal converters between tissues and neurons: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Beyond classical immunity: Mast cells as signal converters between tissues and neurons
Mast cells act as “signal converters,” translating immunological and tissue signals into host-protective behaviors. They sense antigen and possibly toxins driving avoidance behavior, which can prevent inflammation and tissue damage. Beyond classical immunity, mast cells rapidly activate antigen expulsion responses and initiate nociception. These reflexes promote host-protective behavior and maintain tissue integrity.
www.cell.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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viennaairwaylab.bsky.social
Fantastic paper by @mhaniffa.bsky.social @humancellatlas.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We know #macrophages are versatile but inducing skin vascularisation! 🤩
#immunosky #medsky 🧪 #morphogenesis #organoid #spatialtranscriptomics #singlecellsequencing
A prenatal skin atlas reveals immune regulation of human skin morphogenesis - Nature
A comprehensive multi-omics reference atlas of prenatal human skin shows that innate immune cells crosstalk with non-immune cells to perform pivotal roles in skin morphogenesis, including the formatio...
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December 10, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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amazeld.bsky.social
We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @pasteur.fr all details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...
Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
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December 8, 2024 at 3:04 PM
franzeprogatzky.bsky.social
Great idea to start a weekly lab meeting. We tried the 'flashlight' 🔦 today and it was a total success.

We now use the 🔦 at the beginning of every lab meeting, together with a short discussion about sustainability ♻️ 🍃initiatives.
johannajoyce.bsky.social Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Sep 5
One year ago we started a new experiment in the lab - not a scientific one, but a social one!

We now use the 'flashlight' 🔦 at the start of every lab meeting ⏬

Its been great to hear from so many people who love it too - maybe try it out for your group also?

🧪⚕️🩺

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How I made my lab meetings more inclusive with a rapid-relay technique
Johanna Joyce’s use of the ‘flashlight’ method has helped her lab members to connect and be more mindful about their science. Johanna Joyce’s use of the ‘flashlight’ method has helped her lab members ...
www.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Join Dr Jess Wade on 10 December for the Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture as she explores the technologies of the future, how the most exciting science happens at the intersection between disciplines, and why we need to overhaul research culture to bring the most benefit to society and the economy.
December 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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drtesutherland.bsky.social
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
www.abdn.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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Follow the next generation of immunologists #Immunosky.
immunosketch.bsky.social ImmunoSketch @immunosketch.bsky.social · Dec 4
A starter pack for PhD students and Postdocs in Immunology to connect 🔽

Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list.
Let's build the upcoming immuno community!

#ImmunoSky 🧪

go.bsky.app/RABVXY4
December 4, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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sorengrubb.bsky.social
🧠NON-NEUROCENTRIC STARTER PACKS FOR BRAIN RESEARCH:

I this thread 🧵 I will post starter packs for fields of research not directly related to neurons: #meninges, #vasculature, #glia, #immunecells, #dementia, #headache, #microscopy, and resources to get started with #Bluesky.
November 30, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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psalmotoxin.bsky.social
How does mechanosensation work? Nerves are critical, but recent work from Gary Lewin, Patrik Ernfors et al (nature.com/articles/s41...) builds on findings a few years ago that Schwann cells are involved in nociception (science.org/doi/10.1126/...) #neuroscience #touch #pain 🧪
February 10, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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joletmimpen.bsky.social
It is great to finally share our systematic review on structural extracellular matrix components in soft tissues in osteoarthritis!

Congratulations to my co-authors Iwan Raza and @sarahsnelling.bsky.social.

boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1...
Defining the extracellular matrix in non-cartilage soft-tissues in osteoarthritis: a systematic review | Bone & Joint
Defining the extracellular matrix in non-cartilage soft-tissues in osteoarthritis: a systematic review
boneandjoint.org.uk
December 3, 2024 at 11:36 AM