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Maini Lab @IIT UCL
@mainilab.bsky.social
A friendly immunology lab, focused on harnessing adaptive immunity in tissues for optimal frontline defence against hepatitis B, liver cancer and coronaviruses.
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We're delighted to see immunologists once again recognised by the #NobelPrize! 🏆

Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system.

More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...
British Society for Immunology response to 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | British Society for Immunology
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October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Our paper is out! Check out this beautiful story where we uncovered that the costimulatory molecule ICOS is detrimental for PD-1+ CD8 T cells.
Sustained ICOS signaling reduces memory-like features of progenitor exhausted CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection and liver cancer.
July 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Antigen-specific antibodies secreted by plasma cells are rapidly identified using microfluidics and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) go.nature.com/4dHLaHB
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Rapid discovery of monoclonal antibodies by microfluidics-enabled FACS of single pathogen-specific antibody-secreting cells - Nature Biotechnology
Antigen-specific antibodies secreted by plasma cells are rapidly identified using microfluidics and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS).
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June 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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1/ 🚨 Hot off the press in Nature Immunology: CD4⁺ T cells can license Kupffer cells to rescue dysfunctional CD8⁺ T cells in the liver. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is just the proving ground—this is a paradigm shift in tissue immunity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵(1/11)
June 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Don’t miss this great scientific meeting and HBV family reunion
I am proud of organizing, together with Dr. Lena Allweiss, the #HBVmeeting2025! The place to be to connect with the #HBV scientific community!

The Registration and Abstract Submission Portal are officially OPEN!

🔗 Visit www.hbvmeeting.org for details, key deadlines and access to the portals.
March 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This will be an interesting project and great new lab-check out this post-doc position with our colleague Doug Fink @IIT UCL
Looking for a research assistant post in London? 🤔

Interested in how anti-cytokine auto-antibodies are associated with immune dysfunction and disease during ageing? 🎯

Then do consider applying for this exciting post 👇
#ImmunoSky #IDSky @uclmedsci.bsky.social

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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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March 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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We are very proud to bring you a highly requested new type of event this year 🙌:

an ECR Careers Meeting 🤩

Join us Thurs. 13th March at the UCL IIT/Pears Building (Hampstead, London)

🚨Registration is FREE! Follow this link to register NOW! www.immunology.org/events/bsi-l...

For more details👇
BSI London Immunology Group ECR careers meeting | British Society for Immunology
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February 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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#hiring #postdoc
We are looking for a postdoc to work on anti-tumor gamma delta T cells in breast cancer metastasis mouse models. Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Don’t forget to apply by 18th Feb for our 3 year Wellcome post-doc to join our great team working on HBV tissue immunity! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...
UCL hiring Research Fellow (Maini Lab) in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:45:46 AM. About usApplications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Division of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Many of the extended 4th floor IIT family went out to celebrate Chinese New Year #YearOfTheSnake 🐍 - such a lovely evening 😊
February 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Looking for an #immunology #postdoc?
Then I *THOROUGHLY RECOMMEND* @mainilab.bsky.social

Incredibly supportive PI & environment
Cutting-edge science🧪 (dissecting hepatic #immunity in people w/ #hepatitisB & #cancer)
Fab team & collabs
Great institute

APPLY NOW: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...
UCL hiring Research Fellow (Maini Lab) in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:45:46 AM. About usApplications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Division of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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January 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Any post-docs interested in dissecting host-pathogen interactions in tissue- check out our advert on LinkedIn to join us @UCL IIT Pears Building! #immunosky
UCL hiring Research Fellow (Maini Lab) in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:45:46 AM. About usApplications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Division of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Open call for new research groups @pasteur.fr in Paris lots of immunology themes welcome #immunosky #IDsky #Scisky 🧪🥼🔬 get in touch if you have questions
December 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Thrilled to share that our paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... is featured in a fantastic Nature News & Views piece by thomastueting.bsky.social! 🎉 Grateful for the spotlight on our research and its impact on understanding cancer immunology. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 👀👉 rdcu.be/d3cRz
A lipid made by tumour cells reprograms immune cells
Insights into how cancer cells become unresponsive to therapy.
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December 14, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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An excellent PhD opportunity available in our team: long-range consequences of parasite infection, gut-lung communication and helminth-viral co-infection. Part of the EastBio training programme. Closing date 17th January. Please get in touch!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EastBio: Long-range consequences of intestinal helminth infection. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Long-range consequences of intestinal helminth infection. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 12, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Thanks all for another great year's team work @UCL IIT and for all those fun Secret Santa pressies that kept us guessing!
#immunosky
Such a privilege to work with this fabulous group of people ❤️
Secret Santa, some lunch time fizz and plenty of laughs.

Staying in, is the new going out 😊

#immunosky #scienceisfun
December 11, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Speaker line up for #EMBOTissueImmunity to take place in Basel 🇨🇭 26-29 August 2025. Come join @maurogaya.bsky.social and I for some fantastic #immunology along the Rhine! Please share this invitation - we hope you will join us. Registrations will be open soon.
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Also out now.. after peer review, our analysis of blood transcriptional biomarkers of acute respiratory viral infection leveraging the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge model: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SARS-CoV-2 human challenge reveals biomarkers that discriminate early and late phases of respiratory viral infections - Nature Communications
It’s not always clear whether blood biomarkers are differentially expressed in the time course of viral infections. In this SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study, the authors identify distinct single-gene ...
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November 30, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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More #evidence for the existence of #CD8 #Regulatory #Tcells www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check our previous paper also> #KIR+CD8+ #T cells suppress pathogenic T cells and are active in autoimmune diseases and COVID-19 | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Circulating tumor-reactive KIR+CD8+ T cells suppress anti-tumor immunity in patients with melanoma - Nature Immunology
Tumor-antigen-specific CD8+ T cells are generally thought to help fight against cancer, but here the authors identify a subpopulation of CD8+ T cells that are associated with a poor clinical outcome i...
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December 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Engineering T cells with capability for a switch in specificity
www.cell.com/immunity/ful... for better homing agents, to improve safety and efficacy vs cancer and other emerging T cell interventions
T-Switch: A specificity-based engineering platform for developing safe and effective T cell therapeutics
Abdelfattah et al. developed an engineering platform (T-Switch) for the creation, modification, and high-throughput profiling of T cell receptors (TCRs) to desired targets, particularly self-antigens....
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December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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A vaccine platform targeting lung-resident memory CD4+ T-cells provides protection against heterosubtypic influenza infections in mice and ferrets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 29, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Our top-rated #bioinformatics #training course 'Omic data analysis and visualisation using R' starts in less than 2 weeks (9 Dec)

Perfect for those who want to gain new #DataAnalysis and #omics skills 🤩

Don't miss out! Book your place now 👉 bit.ly/4gXvxOF
November 26, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Are neutrophils "good" or "bad"?
Rana Herro reviews the current literature here: rdcu.be/d0Rt7
The diverse roles of neutrophils from protection to pathogenesis
Nature Immunology - In this Review, Herro and Grimes summarize the most recent key findings surrounding protective versus pathogenic functions of neutrophils, elaborating on phenotype-specific...
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November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM