Vivien Shek
@vshek.bsky.social
Decoding immune responses to S. mansoni in the MacDonald lab 🪱🔬📊
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Please join us today for EIG mini symposium at 13:30 in IRR South seminar room 1.05 for fantastic talks on vaccines and T cells by @prof-tregoning.bsky.social @joyedwardshicks.bsky.social and @gregersj.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Please join us today for EIG mini symposium at 13:30 in IRR South seminar room 1.05 for fantastic talks on vaccines and T cells by @prof-tregoning.bsky.social @joyedwardshicks.bsky.social and @gregersj.bsky.social
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📣 We’re thrilled to announce the 5th Scottish Immunology Groups Network symposium! #SIGNET26
🗓️ 11 March 2026
📍 Perth, Scotland
A full day of cutting-edge research, collaboration & networking across the Scottish #Immunology community. Register here: https://bit.ly/3LxUJA5
🗓️ 11 March 2026
📍 Perth, Scotland
A full day of cutting-edge research, collaboration & networking across the Scottish #Immunology community. Register here: https://bit.ly/3LxUJA5
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📣 We’re thrilled to announce the 5th Scottish Immunology Groups Network symposium! #SIGNET26
🗓️ 11 March 2026
📍 Perth, Scotland
A full day of cutting-edge research, collaboration & networking across the Scottish #Immunology community. Register here: https://bit.ly/3LxUJA5
🗓️ 11 March 2026
📍 Perth, Scotland
A full day of cutting-edge research, collaboration & networking across the Scottish #Immunology community. Register here: https://bit.ly/3LxUJA5
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Coming up: Postdoctoral fellowship mini-workshop as a part of the SPPIRIT Forum series. EMBO, Marie Curie, and Wellcome Early Career fellows will share their advice on fellowship applications.
Join us at 12 noon on Thursday 14th November!
Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us at 12 noon on Thursday 14th November!
Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Coming up: Postdoctoral fellowship mini-workshop as a part of the SPPIRIT Forum series. EMBO, Marie Curie, and Wellcome Early Career fellows will share their advice on fellowship applications.
Join us at 12 noon on Thursday 14th November!
Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us at 12 noon on Thursday 14th November!
Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Had such a great time at the ECR Research Symposium hosted by @sppirit-network.bsky.social It was fantastic to catch up with my fellow McWormers 🪱 and meet so many new faces. So nice to hear about all the exciting parasitology research happening across 🏴
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Had such a great time at the ECR Research Symposium hosted by @sppirit-network.bsky.social It was fantastic to catch up with my fellow McWormers 🪱 and meet so many new faces. So nice to hear about all the exciting parasitology research happening across 🏴
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📢 Just 1 month to go until our SPPIRIT ECR symposium
📝 Abstract deadline extended to 10 October 2025 - don’t miss out!
📝 Abstract deadline extended to 10 October 2025 - don’t miss out!
📢 7 weeks to go until our SPPIRIT symposium
A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.
🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h
Secure your spot today!
A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.
🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h
Secure your spot today!
Hostbusters: SPPIRITed to Roslin
Bringing together ECR parasitologists from across Scotland to network and showcase their science.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📢 Just 1 month to go until our SPPIRIT ECR symposium
📝 Abstract deadline extended to 10 October 2025 - don’t miss out!
📝 Abstract deadline extended to 10 October 2025 - don’t miss out!
Delighted to share this story from my PhD! 🎉 🪱
Latest McSorley lab paper is out! Led by Vivien @vshek.bsky.social, this is a story about the immunomodulators from H. polygyrus bakeri (Hpb), and how their analysis led to the identification of HpBoRB, a secreted protein which binds host RELM-beta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Delighted to share this story from my PhD! 🎉 🪱
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The end of #EMDS2025 - so much amazing science, and great to meet up in person with so many friends and colleagues (and make some new ones!). Very proud of @vshek.bsky.social and @nwasowska.bsky.social winning poster prizes for the team - well done both!
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The end of #EMDS2025 - so much amazing science, and great to meet up in person with so many friends and colleagues (and make some new ones!). Very proud of @vshek.bsky.social and @nwasowska.bsky.social winning poster prizes for the team - well done both!
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📢 7 weeks to go until our SPPIRIT symposium
A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.
🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h
Secure your spot today!
A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.
🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h
Secure your spot today!
Hostbusters: SPPIRITed to Roslin
Bringing together ECR parasitologists from across Scotland to network and showcase their science.
tinyurl.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📢 7 weeks to go until our SPPIRIT symposium
A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.
🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h
Secure your spot today!
A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.
🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h
Secure your spot today!
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Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026!
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
September 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026!
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
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A real pleasure to be a part of this beautiful new study on T cell responses in repeat controlled human infection vs natural infection with #schistosomes, spearheaded by @emmahoulder.bsky.social with many wonderful colleagues #helminths #ImmunoSky #IDSky 🪱 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
T cell responses in repeated controlled human schistosome infection compared to natural exposure - Nature Communications
In schistosomiasis-endemic regions, the cyclical nature of infection and treatment complicates understanding of host immune responses. Repeated controlled human Schistosoma mansoni infection, designed...
www.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A real pleasure to be a part of this beautiful new study on T cell responses in repeat controlled human infection vs natural infection with #schistosomes, spearheaded by @emmahoulder.bsky.social with many wonderful colleagues #helminths #ImmunoSky #IDSky 🪱 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣 Open postdoc position in my lab to investigate how Toxoplasma acquires nutrients. Join me at the University of Edinburgh. Closing date 14th August. More details below ⬇️
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Postdoctoral researcher to join the Maclean lab to investigate the metabolism of the human parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📣 Open postdoc position in my lab to investigate how Toxoplasma acquires nutrients. Join me at the University of Edinburgh. Closing date 14th August. More details below ⬇️
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🚨 Postdoc alert! Amazing opportunity to work on Toxoplasma with @youngtoxolab.bsky.social in Edinburgh. Check it out!
Postdoc position open to investigate chronic Toxoplasma infection!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Postdoctoral researcher to join the Young lab to investigate secreted proteins during chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection.
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July 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🚨 Postdoc alert! Amazing opportunity to work on Toxoplasma with @youngtoxolab.bsky.social in Edinburgh. Check it out!
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HpBoRB, a helminth-derived CCP domain protein which binds RELMβ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656348v1
May 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
HpBoRB, a helminth-derived CCP domain protein which binds RELMβ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656348v1
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Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
This project will seek to understand the basis of increased virulence after long term coinfection by a combination of genomic, transcriptomic and laboratory manipulation of the selected parasite lines...
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May 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
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Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Fully and generously funded by a donation from the Kyner-Field family with full fees at overseas level. Join us!
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
June 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Fully and generously funded by a donation from the Kyner-Field family with full fees at overseas level. Join us!
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
💉🐭🪱
🚨 New McSorley lab paper just out in Cell Reports!
Very happy to see this published - it has been a lot of work, and its turned into a really nice story.
In it, we show that HpARI+HpBARI can be used as vaccines
Tutorial thread below (1/16):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very happy to see this published - it has been a lot of work, and its turned into a really nice story.
In it, we show that HpARI+HpBARI can be used as vaccines
Tutorial thread below (1/16):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vaccination against helminth IL-33 modulators permits immune-mediated parasite ejection
The murine intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hpb) modulates the host immune response via the Hpb alarmin release inhibitor (HpARI)…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
💉🐭🪱
Reposted by Vivien Shek
Vaccination against helminth IL-33 modulators permits immune-mediated parasite ejection
Vaccination against helminth IL-33 modulators permits immune-mediated parasite ejection
The helminth immunomodulators from the HpARI and HpBARI families can block IL-33 responses. Smyth and Hodge et al. show that vaccination with these immunomodulatory proteins can raise blocking antibody responses against them, allowing the development of effective anti-parasite type 2 immunity and ejection of the parasite.
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May 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Vaccination against helminth IL-33 modulators permits immune-mediated parasite ejection
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🚨 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!!
Head to www.emds2025.com to register and submit your abstracts. Full programme is now available.
NB: Spaces are limited, so don't delay, register today!
@britsocimm.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social
@societymucosalimm.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.nature.com
Head to www.emds2025.com to register and submit your abstracts. Full programme is now available.
NB: Spaces are limited, so don't delay, register today!
@britsocimm.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social
@societymucosalimm.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.nature.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!!
Head to www.emds2025.com to register and submit your abstracts. Full programme is now available.
NB: Spaces are limited, so don't delay, register today!
@britsocimm.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social
@societymucosalimm.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.nature.com
Head to www.emds2025.com to register and submit your abstracts. Full programme is now available.
NB: Spaces are limited, so don't delay, register today!
@britsocimm.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social
@societymucosalimm.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.nature.com
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The spring EIG session is coming this Thursday on 1st of May. Please join us from 13:30 in @edinuni-irr.bsky.social IRR South seminar room 1.05 for fantastic talks by Dr. Elizabeth Mann, Dr. Tovah Shaw and Prof. Hamida Hammad. See you there!
April 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The spring EIG session is coming this Thursday on 1st of May. Please join us from 13:30 in @edinuni-irr.bsky.social IRR South seminar room 1.05 for fantastic talks by Dr. Elizabeth Mann, Dr. Tovah Shaw and Prof. Hamida Hammad. See you there!
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Very excited to share this collaborative work led by Kyriaki Neophytou. An extracellular Argonaute from a nematode parasite is transmitted to host cells and the non-vesicular form is functionally important (and now a vaccine candidate). An Argonaute vaccine... who would have thought.
A non-vesicular Argonaute protein is transmitted from nematode to mouse and is important for parasite survival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646544v1
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Very excited to share this collaborative work led by Kyriaki Neophytou. An extracellular Argonaute from a nematode parasite is transmitted to host cells and the non-vesicular form is functionally important (and now a vaccine candidate). An Argonaute vaccine... who would have thought.
Reposted by Vivien Shek
Welcome to the BSky account for EMDS2025.
Please follow us to hear about updates & deadlines for EMDS2025: Scotland Edition.
Check out www.emds2025.com for full details - registration will open soon.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the wonderful city of Edinburgh in September.
Please follow us to hear about updates & deadlines for EMDS2025: Scotland Edition.
Check out www.emds2025.com for full details - registration will open soon.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the wonderful city of Edinburgh in September.
March 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Welcome to the BSky account for EMDS2025.
Please follow us to hear about updates & deadlines for EMDS2025: Scotland Edition.
Check out www.emds2025.com for full details - registration will open soon.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the wonderful city of Edinburgh in September.
Please follow us to hear about updates & deadlines for EMDS2025: Scotland Edition.
Check out www.emds2025.com for full details - registration will open soon.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the wonderful city of Edinburgh in September.
Excited to start this next chapter in the @profandrewmac.bsky.social Lab! I’ll be exploring how Schistosoma mansoni shapes immune responses in the gut. Looking forward to new discoveries, collaborations, and plenty of worm talk! 🪱🐌🔬
March 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Excited to start this next chapter in the @profandrewmac.bsky.social Lab! I’ll be exploring how Schistosoma mansoni shapes immune responses in the gut. Looking forward to new discoveries, collaborations, and plenty of worm talk! 🪱🐌🔬
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Join us in Edinburgh in September for the 38th European #Macrophage and #DendriticCell Society meeting! We have a great lineup of speakers and are looking forward to all the fantastic talks and interactions that make this meeting special. #EMDS #ImmunoSky 🧪🏴🔬 www.emds2025.com
EMDS 2025. Online registration by Cvent
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March 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Join us in Edinburgh in September for the 38th European #Macrophage and #DendriticCell Society meeting! We have a great lineup of speakers and are looking forward to all the fantastic talks and interactions that make this meeting special. #EMDS #ImmunoSky 🧪🏴🔬 www.emds2025.com
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I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
March 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
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Our search for a flow cytometry core facility manager for King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, is finally live. Join us!
Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended.
Apply by 17 March.
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Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended.
Apply by 17 March.
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Flow Facility Manager
We are looking for a facility manager for the SBS flow cytometry core facility. This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) with most of that time expected to be on campus in the flow facility. W...
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February 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Our search for a flow cytometry core facility manager for King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, is finally live. Join us!
Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended.
Apply by 17 March.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended.
Apply by 17 March.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...