Lydia Becker Institute
@lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Researchers from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation at The University of Manchester. Fundamental and translational immunology addressing key concepts in health & disease.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker-institute/
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker-institute/
📣 PhD studentship opportunity. Join us at the Becker for a fully-funded 4-year Bicentenary PhD studentship – “Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria”.
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(Bicentenary) Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (Bicentenary) Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📣 PhD studentship opportunity. Join us at the Becker for a fully-funded 4-year Bicentenary PhD studentship – “Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria”.
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Well done @nabinapun.bsky.social getting your Radnet @cruk-mi.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social PhD work out
CCR2-driven monocyte recruitment is protective against radiotherapy-induced intestinal toxicity
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Well done @nabinapun.bsky.social getting your Radnet @cruk-mi.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social PhD work out
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We had a quieter day yesterday even managing to watch the Celebrity Traitors final but today we have been busy again preparing for our next of two further baseline days on Fluke Street
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We had a quieter day yesterday even managing to watch the Celebrity Traitors final but today we have been busy again preparing for our next of two further baseline days on Fluke Street
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PhD opportunity working with me, Mark Viney, Iris Mair and Rowan Bancroft studying the Isle of May wild mice is open now! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(BBSRC NWD) Capillaria hepatica – a neglected and understudied zoonotic parasitic nematode at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD) Capillaria hepatica – a neglected and understudied zoonotic parasitic nematode at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
PhD opportunity working with me, Mark Viney, Iris Mair and Rowan Bancroft studying the Isle of May wild mice is open now! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪
Immunology 101: Monoclonal antibodies
What monoclonals are and how we use them therapeutically.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪
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We are in the middle of our second of four “baseline” days on our Fluke Street grid. Releasing the mice back on to the grid is always good to watch @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We are in the middle of our second of four “baseline” days on our Fluke Street grid. Releasing the mice back on to the grid is always good to watch @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social
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Thanks so much for inviting me, it was a great day and a particularly impressive group of students!!
Day 2 of the Matrix Biology PhD course and we’re in the new Fælleshuset building starting our group work brain storming. Thanks to @douglaspdyer.bsky.social and @tranejoan.bsky.social for laying the foundations of ECM biology in yesterday’s lectures!
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Thanks so much for inviting me, it was a great day and a particularly impressive group of students!!
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A few more weeks to apply for this postdoc in mucosal immunology and ILC biology, please share in your networks and with interested candidates.
Postdoc opportunity in the lab for a budding ILC biologist.
Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word.
Ad closes in 4 weeks.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word.
Ad closes in 4 weeks.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate - mucosal immunology and innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology:Oxford Road
The Hepworth laboratory within the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at the University of Manchester wish to appoint a laboratory-based Research Associate to an exciting project in mucosal immunology and innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A few more weeks to apply for this postdoc in mucosal immunology and ILC biology, please share in your networks and with interested candidates.
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We are back on the Isle of May for our final winter season of our BBSRC funded research exploring the effects of environment on immunity. Traps are out and we are having an evening by the fire @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We are back on the Isle of May for our final winter season of our BBSRC funded research exploring the effects of environment on immunity. Traps are out and we are having an evening by the fire @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social
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What a week! So pleased to now also see the peer reviewed version in Science Signaling of @megtriesscience.bsky.social PhD work joint with the Saunders lab, see her great thread for explanation below www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What a week! So pleased to now also see the peer reviewed version in Science Signaling of @megtriesscience.bsky.social PhD work joint with the Saunders lab, see her great thread for explanation below www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
👏 Congratulations to former Becker @wellcometrust.bsky.social ICD PhD student @megtriesscience.bsky.social on her first-author paper in Science Signaling!
My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover!
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
👏 Congratulations to former Becker @wellcometrust.bsky.social ICD PhD student @megtriesscience.bsky.social on her first-author paper in Science Signaling!
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Amazing work from @megtriesscience.bsky.social so proud of you and how this story has turned out!! @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social
My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover!
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Amazing work from @megtriesscience.bsky.social so proud of you and how this story has turned out!! @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social
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Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.
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So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
CCR2-driven monocyte recruitment is protective against radiotherapy-induced intestinal toxicity
Radiotherapy (RT) is essential in treating abdominal and pelvic cancers but often
damages the healthy tissues, particularly the intestines, leading to radiation-induced
toxicities with limited treatme...
www.mucosalimmunology.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
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🧠 Thanks for joining us this #WorldStrokeDay!
From research breakthroughs to patient involvement, and clinical trials, we’ve shared how we’re shaping the future of stroke care.
📖 Read the full roundup here:
linkedin.com/posts/geoffr...
#StrokeResearch #GJBRC #StrokeCare
From research breakthroughs to patient involvement, and clinical trials, we’ve shared how we’re shaping the future of stroke care.
📖 Read the full roundup here:
linkedin.com/posts/geoffr...
#StrokeResearch #GJBRC #StrokeCare
World Stroke Day: spotlight on research at the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre | Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre
🧠 Every five minutes, someone in the UK suffers a stroke.
🔬 Our researchers are working across discovery science, experimental medicine, and clinical care to change that.
👉 Read on to see how thei...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🧠 Thanks for joining us this #WorldStrokeDay!
From research breakthroughs to patient involvement, and clinical trials, we’ve shared how we’re shaping the future of stroke care.
📖 Read the full roundup here:
linkedin.com/posts/geoffr...
#StrokeResearch #GJBRC #StrokeCare
From research breakthroughs to patient involvement, and clinical trials, we’ve shared how we’re shaping the future of stroke care.
📖 Read the full roundup here:
linkedin.com/posts/geoffr...
#StrokeResearch #GJBRC #StrokeCare
Join us at the Wellness Walkthrough: A Community Health Fair this 📆 Saturday, 1st November (🕛 12–4 PM) at 📍Castlemere Community Centre, Rochdale!
🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Join us at the Wellness Walkthrough: A Community Health Fair this 📆 Saturday, 1st November (🕛 12–4 PM) at 📍Castlemere Community Centre, Rochdale!
🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
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A huge honour to be a recipient of the Delphine Parrott award and give a memorial lecture. Delphine was the 1st female professor at the University of Glasgow and a groundbreaking immunologist. Also great to be introduced by Allan Mowatt as an honorary Scot! @immunememorylab.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A huge honour to be a recipient of the Delphine Parrott award and give a memorial lecture. Delphine was the 1st female professor at the University of Glasgow and a groundbreaking immunologist. Also great to be introduced by Allan Mowatt as an honorary Scot! @immunememorylab.bsky.social
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Wonderful to see this lovely data out in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social! Congratulations to @nabinapun.bsky.social, @douglaspdyer.bsky.social & colleagues of @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social & @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social! 👏
#monocyte #radiotherapy #intestinal #toxicity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#monocyte #radiotherapy #intestinal #toxicity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
CCR2-driven monocyte recruitment is protective against radiotherapy-induced intestinal toxicity
Radiotherapy (RT) is essential in treating abdominal and pelvic cancers but often damages the healthy tissues, particularly the intestines, leading to…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Wonderful to see this lovely data out in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social! Congratulations to @nabinapun.bsky.social, @douglaspdyer.bsky.social & colleagues of @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social & @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social! 👏
#monocyte #radiotherapy #intestinal #toxicity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#monocyte #radiotherapy #intestinal #toxicity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Such an honour to be nominated and recognised for our work in Ardwick to try and help residents to avoid pollution by creating a green walking route that avoids some of the polluted hot spots there
🎉 Congratulations to @sheencr.bsky.social and the team at @ardwickclimate.bsky.social on winning ‘Best Health Creation Approach to Seeking and Using Community Insight’ at the 2025 Excellence in Health Creation Awards! 🏆
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Such an honour to be nominated and recognised for our work in Ardwick to try and help residents to avoid pollution by creating a green walking route that avoids some of the polluted hot spots there
🎉 Congratulations to @sheencr.bsky.social and the team at @ardwickclimate.bsky.social on winning ‘Best Health Creation Approach to Seeking and Using Community Insight’ at the 2025 Excellence in Health Creation Awards! 🏆
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🎉 Congratulations to @sheencr.bsky.social and the team at @ardwickclimate.bsky.social on winning ‘Best Health Creation Approach to Seeking and Using Community Insight’ at the 2025 Excellence in Health Creation Awards! 🏆
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
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Great to work with budding young scientists as they designed experiments to investigate air pollution! @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Great to work with budding young scientists as they designed experiments to investigate air pollution! @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
🗣️Tomorrow, for our next @britsocimm.bsky.social MIG seminar, we'll be joined by Dr Dinis Calado from @crick.ac.uk :
“Good and Evil Plasma Cells: Guardians & Saboteurs of Immunity”
📅 Thursday 23rd October
🕐 12 pm
📍 Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
#ImmunoSky
“Good and Evil Plasma Cells: Guardians & Saboteurs of Immunity”
📅 Thursday 23rd October
🕐 12 pm
📍 Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
#ImmunoSky
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🗣️Tomorrow, for our next @britsocimm.bsky.social MIG seminar, we'll be joined by Dr Dinis Calado from @crick.ac.uk :
“Good and Evil Plasma Cells: Guardians & Saboteurs of Immunity”
📅 Thursday 23rd October
🕐 12 pm
📍 Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
#ImmunoSky
“Good and Evil Plasma Cells: Guardians & Saboteurs of Immunity”
📅 Thursday 23rd October
🕐 12 pm
📍 Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
#ImmunoSky
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A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics.
#exposome #immunology
#exposome #immunology
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics.
#exposome #immunology
#exposome #immunology
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Proud of my colleague Prof Fiona Thistlethwaite - Chair and Abstract Discussant at the Developmental Therapeutics track here at #ESMO25.
#AICTteam
#TeamManchester 🐝
@mcrcnews.bsky.social
#AICTteam
#TeamManchester 🐝
@mcrcnews.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Proud of my colleague Prof Fiona Thistlethwaite - Chair and Abstract Discussant at the Developmental Therapeutics track here at #ESMO25.
#AICTteam
#TeamManchester 🐝
@mcrcnews.bsky.social
#AICTteam
#TeamManchester 🐝
@mcrcnews.bsky.social
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Fantastic to be with colleagues from Oxford today to discuss what we can do with @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social to explore how exposome factors like pollution and viral infection shape immune function and development of non communicable inflammatory disease @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fantastic to be with colleagues from Oxford today to discuss what we can do with @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social to explore how exposome factors like pollution and viral infection shape immune function and development of non communicable inflammatory disease @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social