Welcome all to Pentridge Prison, Melbourne, for the Melbourne Immunotherapy Network Spring Symposium. Get your mugshot taken, and hear about the local translational immuno-landscape! www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org

Here's an updated poster for the Melbourne Immunotherapy Network, Spring Symposium & Dinner. For details and registration, please visit this link: www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org
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Allegedly, a dozen eggs may soon cost $250 in Melbourne. Dear students of immunology & immunotherapy, spend your $ instead on the Melbourne Immunotherapy Network Symposium & Dinner (2-3 Sept, Pentridge Prison). You can translate without breaking eggs!
www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org

Pls re-post: Melbourne Immunotherapy Network Spring Symposium, 2-3 Sept 2025, at Pentridge Prison (No current inmates BTW). www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org
$250 for students (inc. networking drinks, conference dinner in prison hall, and after-dinner speaker - to be announced soon). C U behind bars!

Ever wondered what the immune system looks like up close? With a technique called Spatial Transcriptomics, we detected ~20,000 genes in the spleen, and converted the data into a zoom-able interactive app with DEPT IT agency, to inform school kids etc about immune cells & health. Do you like it?

Saba Asad had to deal with COVID lockdowns, home schooling her kids, a tough mouse breeding program and more; yet 3 years later her PhD Oration on B cell scRNAseq in malaria was fab! Well done, Saba. Good luck with thesis submission. Read her pre-print work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Register TODAY: Melbourne Immunotherapy Network, 2-day Spring Symposium, Pentridge Prison, Coburg! 2-3 Sept '25.
Student Early Bird: $250, inc. conference dinner (No metal prison trays, I promise!)
Click below to register and submit your Abstract.
www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org/registration

Just a quick reminder from Roald Dahl in 1962. Vaccination protects against measles…..

An exciting day at @thedohertyinst.bsky.social today, since we welcome our 2025 cohort of Honours students at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. It’s going to be a rewarding year for all concerned!

If you're interested in vaccines, cancer immunotherapy, blocking autoimmune disease, early detection of disease etc, check out the Melbourne Immunotherapy Network: www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org/background
Here are our supporting institutions below. Come along to our September meeting in Melbourne.

This may be the 1st Immunotherapy Meeting to be held in a PRISON! We will discuss how scientific discoveries can be best developed to detect, treat, and prevent human diseases for which the immune system is either the cause or a potential cure. Registration opens soon: www.melbourneimmunotherapy.org

A taste of 2025: In a B-cell scRNA-seq pre-print, we temporally map B cell activation processes in the spleen during malaria, inc. class-switch recombination, proliferation, somatic hypermutation and bystander activation. Click below, and let me know your thoughts!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also in mid-2024, we used Spatial Transcriptomics (Slide-seqv2) with Fei Chen at @broadinstitute.org to study CD4+ T cell differentiation in malaria. You can mine the data here: haquelab.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/spatial_gui/
You can read the Cell Reports paper for FREE here: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

In mid-2024, we mapped the in vivo recall responses of splenic CD4+ T cells during blood-stage re-infection with malaria parasites. You can mine the data for yourself here: haquelab.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/cd4_re-infec...
You can read the Nature Comms paper for free here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As an introduction to Bluesky, I'll summarise a few of our recent studies. In mid-2023, we used scRNA-seq of malaria parasites directly ex vivo to discover that trophozoite stages uniquely slowed their maturation when experiencing systemic inflammation in the host.
journals.asm.org/doi/epdf/10....