Stefan Oehlers
@oehlerslab.org
Principal Investigator, Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab (A*STAR ID Labs, Singapore)
@astar-idlabs.bsky.social
Zebrafish models of infection and immunity
www.oehlerslab.org
@astar-idlabs.bsky.social
Zebrafish models of infection and immunity
www.oehlerslab.org
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Stefan Oehlers
@oehlerslab.org
· Aug 7
Telomerase reverse transcriptase is required for resistance to mycobacterial infection
Age is an important risk factor for infections such as tuberculosis (TB). Telomerase is expressed in immune cells yet leukocyte telomere length declines during ageing suggesting an age-dependent loss ...
www.biorxiv.org
Our follow up paper exploring tert in the context of infection: Telomerase reverse transcriptase is required for resistance to mycobacterial infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My man French Kev is getting quite the welcome to England!
February 12, 2026 at 12:19 AM
My man French Kev is getting quite the welcome to England!
Easier than fighting the snails in our facility!
February 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Easier than fighting the snails in our facility!
Singapore travel grants available! I'm encouraging my former lab manager turned PhD student to attend for the microbiome aspects. He can give @jfrawls.bsky.social and @sergemostowylab.bsky.social some hands on refresher training 😂
February 7, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Singapore travel grants available! I'm encouraging my former lab manager turned PhD student to attend for the microbiome aspects. He can give @jfrawls.bsky.social and @sergemostowylab.bsky.social some hands on refresher training 😂
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Our EMBO workshop is now live. Visit us in Bath this summer for a two week workshop designed to help you study host-microbe interactions in the zebrafish, and develop the bioinformatics skills needed to analyse the complex data sets that arise from microbiomic studies.
Computational and experimental microbiomics
The critical contribution of microbiota to animal, plant and environmental health is now widely accepted. Progress has been driven by two parallel approaches: in silico analyses of large -omics data …
meetings.embo.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Our EMBO workshop is now live. Visit us in Bath this summer for a two week workshop designed to help you study host-microbe interactions in the zebrafish, and develop the bioinformatics skills needed to analyse the complex data sets that arise from microbiomic studies.
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💡 Interested in mechano-immunology (or biology of adult B-ALL) ?
💥 We have an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship offer for you
@ec.europa.eu
🖥️ : euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
🏙️ Where ? In beautiful #Strasbourg #CRBS @inserm.fr @unistra.fr
🥼 Interested ?
📧 jacky.goetz@inserm.fr
💥 We have an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship offer for you
@ec.europa.eu
🖥️ : euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
🏙️ Where ? In beautiful #Strasbourg #CRBS @inserm.fr @unistra.fr
🥼 Interested ?
📧 jacky.goetz@inserm.fr
LinkedIn
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February 6, 2026 at 7:36 AM
💡 Interested in mechano-immunology (or biology of adult B-ALL) ?
💥 We have an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship offer for you
@ec.europa.eu
🖥️ : euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
🏙️ Where ? In beautiful #Strasbourg #CRBS @inserm.fr @unistra.fr
🥼 Interested ?
📧 jacky.goetz@inserm.fr
💥 We have an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship offer for you
@ec.europa.eu
🖥️ : euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
🏙️ Where ? In beautiful #Strasbourg #CRBS @inserm.fr @unistra.fr
🥼 Interested ?
📧 jacky.goetz@inserm.fr
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Lactic acid lover? Check out @ronni.bsky.social 's new work in
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing how Enterococcus faecalis-derived LA suppresses macrophage activation, in turn promoting bacterial persistence and polymicrobial wound infection in vivo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing how Enterococcus faecalis-derived LA suppresses macrophage activation, in turn promoting bacterial persistence and polymicrobial wound infection in vivo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Enterococcus faecalis-derived lactic acid suppresses macrophage activation to facilitate persistent and polymicrobial wound infections
Macrophage activation is essential for innate immunity and antimicrobial defense. We show that Enterococcus faecalis suppresses macrophage activation …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Lactic acid lover? Check out @ronni.bsky.social 's new work in
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing how Enterococcus faecalis-derived LA suppresses macrophage activation, in turn promoting bacterial persistence and polymicrobial wound infection in vivo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing how Enterococcus faecalis-derived LA suppresses macrophage activation, in turn promoting bacterial persistence and polymicrobial wound infection in vivo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tonight/tomorrow morning! Using the zebrafish to explore host genetic susceptibility and live image our model of post TB Mycobacterium abscessus
Preview some of the videos bsky.app/profile/oehl...
Preview some of the videos bsky.app/profile/oehl...
📣Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology #BBinLB webinar series hosted by the @leukocytebiology.bsky.social
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
January 28, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Tonight/tomorrow morning! Using the zebrafish to explore host genetic susceptibility and live image our model of post TB Mycobacterium abscessus
Preview some of the videos bsky.app/profile/oehl...
Preview some of the videos bsky.app/profile/oehl...
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Excited to share work led by the wonderful Gopi Viswanathan examining roles of granuloma neutrophils &defining bacterial transcriptional profiles within mycobacterial granulomas. Cool collab with Qingyun Liu at UNC for evolutionary analysis of granuloma-specific genes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Granuloma dual RNA-seq reveals composite transcriptional programs driven by neutrophils and necrosis within tuberculous granulomas
Dual host-pathogen transcriptional profiling defines granuloma-specific programs during mycobacterial infection.
www.science.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Excited to share work led by the wonderful Gopi Viswanathan examining roles of granuloma neutrophils &defining bacterial transcriptional profiles within mycobacterial granulomas. Cool collab with Qingyun Liu at UNC for evolutionary analysis of granuloma-specific genes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We’re delighted to see this out today! Latest work from the lab reveals insights into the evolution of brain immunity and the developmental and evolutionary plasticity of lymphatic endothelial cells.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders - Nature
Transcription factor osr2 is identified as a specific marker and regulator of mural lymphatic endothelial cell (muLEC) differentiation and maintenance, and muLECs and border-associated macrophages sha...
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:42 PM
We’re delighted to see this out today! Latest work from the lab reveals insights into the evolution of brain immunity and the developmental and evolutionary plasticity of lymphatic endothelial cells.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Follow for cutting-edge science and an overall lovely human being 👩🔬
First post from the Foley lab, celebrating our relocation to the University of Bath.
January 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Follow for cutting-edge science and an overall lovely human being 👩🔬
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A*STAR/KCL PhD scholarship available!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Joint A*STAR - King’s College London PhD Studentships in Biomedical Science 2026/27
King's College London is seeking outstanding and motivated students to join our university and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
shorturl.at
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
A*STAR/KCL PhD scholarship available!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
📣Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology #BBinLB webinar series hosted by the @leukocytebiology.bsky.social
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
January 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
📣Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology #BBinLB webinar series hosted by the @leukocytebiology.bsky.social
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
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Over the past weeks I have been reading the earliest papers on zebrafish development, and came to realize that in the “canonized" version of zebrafish history we neglect some important people pre-Streisinger. I will try to correct here the record. Let’s start with Edward C. Roosen-Runge. (1/7)
January 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Over the past weeks I have been reading the earliest papers on zebrafish development, and came to realize that in the “canonized" version of zebrafish history we neglect some important people pre-Streisinger. I will try to correct here the record. Let’s start with Edward C. Roosen-Runge. (1/7)
NZ is the other country that allows this. But most people can't afford the full cost of meds if it's outside the public system so you never really see the ads
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
NZ is the other country that allows this. But most people can't afford the full cost of meds if it's outside the public system so you never really see the ads
My citations are at an all time high. What a science Christmas present from Google scholar
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My citations are at an all time high. What a science Christmas present from Google scholar
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🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Enterococcus faecalis: an overlooked cell invader | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYEnterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are human pathobionts that exhibit a dual lifestyle as commensal and pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenic lifestyle is associated with specific conditions involving host susceptibility and intestinal ...
journals.asm.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
only another 26 days to go for the full year streak!
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
only another 26 days to go for the full year streak!
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We're looking for a Research Assistant / Senior Research Assistant to join our team. If you're interested in studying the extracellular matrix and tumour microenvironment in cancer, then get in touch. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We're looking for a Research Assistant / Senior Research Assistant to join our team. If you're interested in studying the extracellular matrix and tumour microenvironment in cancer, then get in touch. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
garvan.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/garvan_insti...
garvan.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/garvan_insti...
I'm not sure how jokingly that is now it's out of the bag. I've had the pleasure of interacting with Jeff at conferences since the 2000s, will lobby for him to host trivia at upcoming zebrafish meetings.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'm not sure how jokingly that is now it's out of the bag. I've had the pleasure of interacting with Jeff at conferences since the 2000s, will lobby for him to host trivia at upcoming zebrafish meetings.
Marco posing with carbs? Expected more reviews of the local protein bar scene
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Marco posing with carbs? Expected more reviews of the local protein bar scene
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Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
Right? I thought it was getting a bit R18 too
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Right? I thought it was getting a bit R18 too
I do not envy the ego management element associated with @zebrafishrock.bsky.social operations. It only took a decade to arrange a 10% reciprocal discount between IZFS and ZDMS...
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I do not envy the ego management element associated with @zebrafishrock.bsky.social operations. It only took a decade to arrange a 10% reciprocal discount between IZFS and ZDMS...
Listen and answer the question that was asked, not the question that you memorised an answer to
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Listen and answer the question that was asked, not the question that you memorised an answer to
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Registration is open for the SJINML Public Lecture with Dr Margaret McFall-Ngai: The Power of Symbiosis in Shaping Our Biosphere. If you’ve wondered about sustainability or if probiotics really work, this talk may have the answer.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Registration is open for the SJINML Public Lecture with Dr Margaret McFall-Ngai: The Power of Symbiosis in Shaping Our Biosphere. If you’ve wondered about sustainability or if probiotics really work, this talk may have the answer.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.