Nabina Pun
nabinapun.bsky.social
Nabina Pun
@nabinapun.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @witherslab.bsky.social at University of Oxford | Immuno-oncology
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Excited to share my PhD work (in @douglaspdyer.bsky.social’s lab) now published in Mucosal Immunology! 🥳
Our study explores how the immune system protects the gut during radiotherapy.
🔗 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
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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
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This study was fantastically led by @NabinaPun98 working together with @UCytlak. Nabina did an amazing job leading the charge into a new area for our lab and is now at the start of what is going to be a truly fantastic career in research, watch this space for more to come!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Excited to share my PhD work (in @douglaspdyer.bsky.social’s lab) now published in Mucosal Immunology! 🥳
Our study explores how the immune system protects the gut during radiotherapy.
🔗 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 5:51 PM
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In this weeks @oxcio.bsky.social seminar, our PostDoc Pascale presented her current progress on setting up #SingleCellSequencing experiments and their analysis for the @witherslab.bsky.social in Oxford! 🖥️💡🐭
Exciting!!!
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Excited to share our latest review article, "Cellular Cosmetics: How Innate Lymphoid Cells Can Recontour the Tumour Microenvironment”!

This article aims to stimulate discussions on targeting these adaptable immune cells to enhance immunotherapy strategies.
Review @eurjimmunol.bsky.social Cellular Cosmetics: How Innate Lymphoid Cells Can Recontour the Tumor Microenvironment @nabinapun.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It was so good to present my work in the withers lab for the first time!! 😎
Today we kicked off the @oxcio.bsky.social weekly seminar presenting our most recent achievements🔬
Our PostDoc @nabinapun.bsky.social gave insight into her research on myeloid cells in the TME our RA @ioannisguida.bsky.social presented a conclusion of his work in the #WithersLab before he leaves us!
September 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🐣 We followed with our Junior PIs telling us about their questions for the next 5 years 💡 Lots of exciting, cutting-edge new ideas that will hopefully materialise soon and bring even more new questions to #CIO 🤓 🥳 #CIOawayday @galvez-cancino.bsky.social @mjwsim.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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✨ Kicking off #CIOawayday with our senior PIs sharing the experiments that changed their careers 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧫 A reminder that serendipity, curiosity, and pub chats can spark groundbreaking ideas 🤓 Clearly science thrives on kindness and collaboration and we got a lot of that in #CIO 😉🙃 #ScienceLife
July 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Today we’re at the @britsocimm.bsky.social Bristol Immunolgy Group presenting some of our recent data!
June 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#BeckerProfile @iashiamulholland.bsky.social

From taking a 12-year break after high school to raising a family & working in industry, to researching lung inflammation & the endothelial glycocalyx in the Dyer Lab - read about Iashia's journey into academia! 👇

sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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McClure, @hepworth-lab.bsky.social, Konkel et al. outline a Th17-to-Tfh plasticity during #periodontitis that is protective and limits periodontal pathology. https://buff.ly/41fwVq4

📘 In Host–Microbe Interactions 2025 👉 https://buff.ly/40XMv8r
February 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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After a great few weeks settling into my new lab with @jcstark.bsky.social at the @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social , I’m thrilled to share I have been awarded a TBBCF postdoc fellowship! This award will fund the next 2 years of my research targeting glycans for the treatment of breast cancer 🦠
February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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So pleased to share the first study from out @cruk-mi.bsky.social led by Nabina Pun with Mark Travis, Tim Illidge and Urszula Cytlak www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Had a great time co-authoring this new review with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social and Alanna Kelly!

Interested in what's going on in the niche microenvironments ILCs call home? Then check out the pre-proof version, online now at @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social !
February 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM