Régis Joulia
@regisjoulia.bsky.social
Our group of research is based at Imperial College and NHLI looking at blood vessels and mast cells in the lungs 🔬
We are funded by the Wellcome Trust, BHF and Acteria foundation.
We are funded by the Wellcome Trust, BHF and Acteria foundation.
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Régis Joulia
@regisjoulia.bsky.social
· May 21
A single-cell spatial chart of the airway wall reveals proinflammatory cellular ecosystems and their interactions in health and asthma - Nature Immunology
Here, the authors use single-cell spatial transcriptomics to profile the airway wall landscape in health and during asthma. Discrete proinflammatory ecosystems containing alarmins, chemokines and a un...
www.nature.com
🚨 We did it! Our latest work—led by my lab and the @lloydlab.bsky.social is now published in Nature Immunology! 🎉
Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology
Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology
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I’m so excited to share that my paper on the role of itaconate in allergic airway disease and asthma has just been published in @allergy-eaaci.bsky.social!
You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#itaconate #allergy #asthma #immunometabolism #innateimmunity
You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#itaconate #allergy #asthma #immunometabolism #innateimmunity
October 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I’m so excited to share that my paper on the role of itaconate in allergic airway disease and asthma has just been published in @allergy-eaaci.bsky.social!
You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#itaconate #allergy #asthma #immunometabolism #innateimmunity
You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#itaconate #allergy #asthma #immunometabolism #innateimmunity
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We are recruiting!!! Postdoc position available in my lab to develop this exciting project with @alexfsantos2401.bsky.social advance our understanding of food allergy and oral tolerance in early life. #ILC #organoids #FoodAllergy
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...
Research Associate | King's College London
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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are recruiting!!! Postdoc position available in my lab to develop this exciting project with @alexfsantos2401.bsky.social advance our understanding of food allergy and oral tolerance in early life. #ILC #organoids #FoodAllergy
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...
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We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
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Barrier sites under the microscope! 🔬
Discover how our skin, gut & lungs fight infection, heal, and keep our microbiota happy. Don’t miss this session at #BSI25!
PS. Early bird registration closes on Wednesday 22 October ⚡
Discover how our skin, gut & lungs fight infection, heal, and keep our microbiota happy. Don’t miss this session at #BSI25!
PS. Early bird registration closes on Wednesday 22 October ⚡
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Barrier sites under the microscope! 🔬
Discover how our skin, gut & lungs fight infection, heal, and keep our microbiota happy. Don’t miss this session at #BSI25!
PS. Early bird registration closes on Wednesday 22 October ⚡
Discover how our skin, gut & lungs fight infection, heal, and keep our microbiota happy. Don’t miss this session at #BSI25!
PS. Early bird registration closes on Wednesday 22 October ⚡
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Don’t waste your time with formatting changes, submit your format free manuscript to MI and support society-sponsored journals.
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Don’t waste your time with formatting changes, submit your format free manuscript to MI and support society-sponsored journals.
🌟 It was a real pleasure to present our latest spatial data yesterday at the @10xgenomics.bsky.social Single Cell & Spatial Event !
An inspiring day with exciting innovations from 10x, great discussions, and an incredible venue. 🚀
@imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
An inspiring day with exciting innovations from 10x, great discussions, and an incredible venue. 🚀
@imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🌟 It was a real pleasure to present our latest spatial data yesterday at the @10xgenomics.bsky.social Single Cell & Spatial Event !
An inspiring day with exciting innovations from 10x, great discussions, and an incredible venue. 🚀
@imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
An inspiring day with exciting innovations from 10x, great discussions, and an incredible venue. 🚀
@imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
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Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!
🚨 We are #recruiting! 🚨My lab is looking for a highly motivated Research Technician to join us for the next 3 years.
👉 Apply via the link www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... or feel free to reach out for more information!
👉 Apply via the link www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... or feel free to reach out for more information!
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨 We are #recruiting! 🚨My lab is looking for a highly motivated Research Technician to join us for the next 3 years.
👉 Apply via the link www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... or feel free to reach out for more information!
👉 Apply via the link www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... or feel free to reach out for more information!
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New paper alert - congratulations, Franz & team 🥳
Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology www.jacionline.org/article/S009...
Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology www.jacionline.org/article/S009...
Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease
www.jacionline.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
New paper alert - congratulations, Franz & team 🥳
Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology www.jacionline.org/article/S009...
Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology www.jacionline.org/article/S009...
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For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?
You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?
You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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📢 Meet #BSICambridge25 speaker: @regisjoulia.bsky.social
Dr Régis Joulia, @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded Group Leader @imperialnhli.bsky.social, will be speaking on mast cells in the lungs at the 2025 Cambridge Immunology Forum.
🎟️ Register now: buff.ly/jhoEQJ0
@britsocimm.bsky.social
Dr Régis Joulia, @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded Group Leader @imperialnhli.bsky.social, will be speaking on mast cells in the lungs at the 2025 Cambridge Immunology Forum.
🎟️ Register now: buff.ly/jhoEQJ0
@britsocimm.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢 Meet #BSICambridge25 speaker: @regisjoulia.bsky.social
Dr Régis Joulia, @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded Group Leader @imperialnhli.bsky.social, will be speaking on mast cells in the lungs at the 2025 Cambridge Immunology Forum.
🎟️ Register now: buff.ly/jhoEQJ0
@britsocimm.bsky.social
Dr Régis Joulia, @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded Group Leader @imperialnhli.bsky.social, will be speaking on mast cells in the lungs at the 2025 Cambridge Immunology Forum.
🎟️ Register now: buff.ly/jhoEQJ0
@britsocimm.bsky.social
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NHLI's Joulia Lab made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁📽️
Check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. With thanks to
Wellcome Trust & Acteria
Watch it here: youtu.be/Skp_CNWOYSA
Check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. With thanks to
Wellcome Trust & Acteria
Watch it here: youtu.be/Skp_CNWOYSA
What is happening at the lung wall during immune response and what goes wrong in asthma?
YouTube video by Imperial NHLI
youtu.be
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
NHLI's Joulia Lab made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁📽️
Check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. With thanks to
Wellcome Trust & Acteria
Watch it here: youtu.be/Skp_CNWOYSA
Check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. With thanks to
Wellcome Trust & Acteria
Watch it here: youtu.be/Skp_CNWOYSA
We made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁🎬 Designed for the public, students & patients—check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work.
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
August 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁🎬 Designed for the public, students & patients—check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work.
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
🎉 Exciting news! I’ve recently been elected to the @britsocimm.bsky.social Congress Committee and to the Board of the @societymucosalimm.bsky.social (SMI) representing the voices of ECRs! Looking forward to working with these fantastic scientific organisations.
www.immunology.org/news/new-bsi...
www.immunology.org/news/new-bsi...
New BSI committee members 2025 | British Society for Immunology
www.immunology.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🎉 Exciting news! I’ve recently been elected to the @britsocimm.bsky.social Congress Committee and to the Board of the @societymucosalimm.bsky.social (SMI) representing the voices of ECRs! Looking forward to working with these fantastic scientific organisations.
www.immunology.org/news/new-bsi...
www.immunology.org/news/new-bsi...
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🚨 Review Alert
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
Frontiers | Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain
The vasculature of the central nervous system (CNS) is a highly specialized structure that delivers oxygen and nutrients to energy-demanding neural cells whi...
www.frontiersin.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🚨 Review Alert
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
Reposted by Régis Joulia
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
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)
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🚨 The Menon lab is hiring a postdoc!
Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases
@ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases
@ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Mucosal Immunology :Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
June 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🚨 The Menon lab is hiring a postdoc!
Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases
@ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases
@ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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#Immunologists - have you signed up for BSI's @london-immuno.bsky.social 1d conference yet?
Fri 11th July
Speakers include: Jan Böttcher, Tao Dong, @labliston.bsky.social, @beecell.bsky.social, Claudia Mauri & Claire Malone
REPOST to share as widely as poss
www.immunology.org/events/diver...
Fri 11th July
Speakers include: Jan Böttcher, Tao Dong, @labliston.bsky.social, @beecell.bsky.social, Claudia Mauri & Claire Malone
REPOST to share as widely as poss
www.immunology.org/events/diver...
Diversity in immunology | British Society for Immunology
www.immunology.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#Immunologists - have you signed up for BSI's @london-immuno.bsky.social 1d conference yet?
Fri 11th July
Speakers include: Jan Böttcher, Tao Dong, @labliston.bsky.social, @beecell.bsky.social, Claudia Mauri & Claire Malone
REPOST to share as widely as poss
www.immunology.org/events/diver...
Fri 11th July
Speakers include: Jan Böttcher, Tao Dong, @labliston.bsky.social, @beecell.bsky.social, Claudia Mauri & Claire Malone
REPOST to share as widely as poss
www.immunology.org/events/diver...
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#EVBOSeminarSeries Moderated by Joanna Kalucka. Speakers: Ralf Adams and Mariona Graupera. ⏰When: Wednesday, 18th June 2025, 3PM EU time (2PM UK). Place: online. See you there! For registration evbo.org
June 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#EVBOSeminarSeries Moderated by Joanna Kalucka. Speakers: Ralf Adams and Mariona Graupera. ⏰When: Wednesday, 18th June 2025, 3PM EU time (2PM UK). Place: online. See you there! For registration evbo.org
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Joulia et al use single cell spatial transcriptomics to profile the lung in health and during asthma and identify discrete proinflammatory spatial niches that produce alarmins and chemokines. Read it here: rdcu.be/epjN7
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A single-cell spatial chart of the airway wall reveals proinflammatory cellular ecosystems and their interactions in health and asthma
Nature Immunology - Here, the authors use single-cell spatial transcriptomics to profile the airway wall landscape in health and during asthma. Discrete proinflammatory ecosystems containing...
rdcu.be
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Joulia et al use single cell spatial transcriptomics to profile the lung in health and during asthma and identify discrete proinflammatory spatial niches that produce alarmins and chemokines. Read it here: rdcu.be/epjN7
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our latest work on how nerves safeguard lung fibrosis. Congrats to Dr. Hiroki and collaborators. @cp-immunity.bsky.social @kavithascranton.bsky.social @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgarymed.bsky.social @libininstitute.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
Nociceptor neurons suppress alveolar macrophage-induced Siglec-F+ neutrophil-mediated inflammation to protect against pulmonary fibrosis
Sensory innervation impacts several lung diseases, but whether it influences pulmonary
fibrosis (PF) is unclear. Hiroki et al. report that depletion of TRPV1+ nociceptors
leads to worsening of inflamm...
www.cell.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our latest work on how nerves safeguard lung fibrosis. Congrats to Dr. Hiroki and collaborators. @cp-immunity.bsky.social @kavithascranton.bsky.social @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgarymed.bsky.social @libininstitute.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
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Our researchers have created the first high-res map of the lung airway wall, revealing how cell organisation & interactions are disrupted in asthma 🫁
Published in @natimmunol.nature.com, it's a key step towards understanding the mechanisms that drive the disease
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264294/...
Published in @natimmunol.nature.com, it's a key step towards understanding the mechanisms that drive the disease
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264294/...
Pioneering spatial map of the airways could transform understanding of asthma | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Researchers have identified distinct differences in the spatial organisation of cells in the airway of healthy people and those with asthma.
www.imperial.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Our researchers have created the first high-res map of the lung airway wall, revealing how cell organisation & interactions are disrupted in asthma 🫁
Published in @natimmunol.nature.com, it's a key step towards understanding the mechanisms that drive the disease
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264294/...
Published in @natimmunol.nature.com, it's a key step towards understanding the mechanisms that drive the disease
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264294/...
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We have a funded PhD studentship on RSV antibodies working with RQ bio, deadline June 30
www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
MRC MultiSci iCASE Studentships
MRC MultiSci iCASE Studentships enable graduates with excellent honours degrees to undertake a three and a half year training programme, which includ...
www.imperial.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We have a funded PhD studentship on RSV antibodies working with RQ bio, deadline June 30
www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
🚨 We did it! Our latest work—led by my lab and the @lloydlab.bsky.social is now published in Nature Immunology! 🎉
Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology
Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology
A single-cell spatial chart of the airway wall reveals proinflammatory cellular ecosystems and their interactions in health and asthma - Nature Immunology
Here, the authors use single-cell spatial transcriptomics to profile the airway wall landscape in health and during asthma. Discrete proinflammatory ecosystems containing alarmins, chemokines and a un...
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🚨 We did it! Our latest work—led by my lab and the @lloydlab.bsky.social is now published in Nature Immunology! 🎉
Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology
Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology
Reposted by Régis Joulia
Here we share our opinions on "Practical considerations for data exploration in quantitative cell biology"
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Joanna, Hanna and I worked quite a bit on this piece and I hope you find it useful
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing it
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Joanna, Hanna and I worked quite a bit on this piece and I hope you find it useful
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing it
Practical considerations for data exploration in quantitative cell biology
Summary: We present practical guidelines for data exploration in quantitative cell biology that are designed to help yield reliable conclusions and promote a collaborative, transparent approach to dat...
journals.biologists.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Here we share our opinions on "Practical considerations for data exploration in quantitative cell biology"
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Joanna, Hanna and I worked quite a bit on this piece and I hope you find it useful
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing it
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Joanna, Hanna and I worked quite a bit on this piece and I hope you find it useful
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing it