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Madhvi Menon
@madhvimenon.bsky.social
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Immunologist at the University of Manchester | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Studying B cells in airway inflammation and autoimmunity | She/her
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carersinstemm.bsky.social
Less than 3 weeks until our final report launch event
9th Dec. (London) 10am

We will be welcoming a fantastic panel:
🌟Jo O'Leary (UKRI)
🌟Sara Mole (UCL)
🌟John Tregoning (Imperial)
🌟Katie Perry (Daphne Trust)
🌟Jennie Evans (BSI)
🌟Ilaria Meazzini (RSC)

Register here: www.carersinstemm.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine.

time.com/7333975/dei-...

This presents the case in the context of lupus.
DEI Isn’t Wasteful. It’s Necessary for Good Medicine
Lupus patients pay the price when we erase inclusion from medical research.
time.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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britsocimm.bsky.social
Sign up to our online #bioinformatics course to:

🔸Gain expert statistical analysis & #R skills
🔸Explore #omic datasets with many experimental groups & #ClinicalData in R
🔸Work on #proteomics, bulk RNA-seq & #GeoMx

Book onto the Feb 2026 course now: https://bit.ly/47kXFaC
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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sheencr.bsky.social
so excited to share our article in @nature.com Immunology on the many challenges of climate change has for our immune function, infection susceptibility and disease and the need for new ways to research this. Will do a thread later! 🧪 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
The role of ecoimmunology in tackling the emerging threats of climate change and the exposome
Nature Immunology - Climate change creates a multitude of challenges over the human life-course, influencing our exposomes and shaping immune function — requiring researchers to consider...
urldefense.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
madhvimenon.bsky.social
Big experiment day in the Menon lab 🧪🧫🔬
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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douglaspdyer.bsky.social
So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social 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 5:23 PM
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lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Join us at the Wellness Walkthrough: A Community Health Fair this 📆 Saturday, 1st November (🕛 12–4 PM) at 📍Castlemere Community Centre, Rochdale!

🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
Wellness Walkthrough: A Community Health Fair, Saturday, 1st November (12–4 PM) at Castlemere Community Centre, Rochdale. Dr Madhvi Menon from the Lydia Becker Institute will be in attendance to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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whelanfj.bsky.social
📣 PhD opportunity led by @madhvimenon.bsky.social with @kathelse.bsky.social , @tracyh9494.bsky.social , and me open now:

"Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Infection: The Role of the Microbiota in Shaping Lymphocyte Dynamics"

apps due 15 November 2025 📣

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(Bicentenary) Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Infection: The Role of the Microbiota in Shaping Lymphocyte Dynamics at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (Bicentenary) Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Infection: The Role of the Microbiota in Shaping Lymphocyte Dynamics at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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profjudiallen.bsky.social
Friday we celebrated our new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology: a joint venture with Oxford that we call MOXIE (Manchester-Oxford Immunology of the Exposome). This challenging adventure is off to a great start. @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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hepworth-lab.bsky.social
Postdoc opportunity in the lab for a budding ILC biologist.

Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word.

Ad closes in 4 weeks.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate - mucosal immunology and innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology:Oxford Road
The Hepworth laboratory within the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at the University of Manchester wish to appoint a laboratory-based Research Associate to an exciting project in mucosal immunology and innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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marionpepper.bsky.social
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tertiary lymphoid structures support the development of allergen-specific progenitor CD4+ T cells
Tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells (TRM) are key sentinels of the adaptive immune response that provide a rapid, robust inflammatory response upon reactivation in non-lymphoid tissues. While CD4+ TRM...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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emmaschambers.bsky.social
I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Age‐Associated Inflammatory Monocytes Are Increased in Menopausal Females and Reversed by Hormone Replacement Therapy
Post-menopausal females (> 64 years) have an increase in frequency of inflammatory monocyte populations with defective phagocytosis as compared to pre-menopausal (< 40 years) females. Hormone Replace....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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labliston.bsky.social
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/...
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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douglaspdyer.bsky.social
We now have a very exciting technician post advertised as part of our long term Wellcome Trust funded team investigating the role of the glycocalyx during CNS inflammation. Supporint the lab, developing glycan analysis and research experience www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Technician in the Glyco-immunology (Dyer) Lab:Oxford Road
Include: background, duties, essential skills and experience, length of contract, full or part-time. Keep to 150 words.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine honors the discovery of regulatory T cells (T-regs).

In this piece, our Director Prof Tracy Hussell @tracyh9494.bsky.social explains how the recipients discovered T-regs - transforming autoimmune disease research.

#ImmunoSky

theconversation.com/nobel-prize-...
Nobel prize awarded for discovery of immune system’s ‘security guards’
The discovery of cells that prevent the immune system from hurting the body is paving the way for new treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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drtesutherland.bsky.social
Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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douglaspdyer.bsky.social
We have a new Postdoc position advertised as part of our recent long-term Wellcome funding to join an established Postdoc and technician. I’m so excited to explore the role of the glycocalyx in CNS-inflammation. So many tools and expertise to work with! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in in Neuro-Immunology and Extraceullar Matrix Biology (ImmunoMatrix):Oxford Road
Our Glyco-Immunology (Dyer) lab has produced published and preliminary data demonstrating that an under-appreciated structure, the glycocalyx, on endothelial- and immune- cells regulates immune cell recruitment by:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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labliston.bsky.social
🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets

The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
madhvimenon.bsky.social
🔔 Fantastic opportunities to join us as part of the new and exciting @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
@lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

Check out the details 👇

Please spread the word! #immunosky
exposomeimmunology.bsky.social MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social · Sep 8
WE ARE HIRING! www.manchester.ac.uk/exposome-jobs

Vacancies inc. 3x PDRA positions, 2x data scientists and a Transition Fellowship in Air Pollution.

Join us as we embark on a 14 year journey to understand how the exposome impacts immune regulation and chronic inflammation.

#hiring #immunosky
September 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
🎓 6x fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships 🎓

We are recruiting our first cohort of PhD students to start Oct 2026.

Students will shape their own projects within supervisory teams spanning the universities of Manchester & Oxford.

www.findaphd.com/phds/program/mrc-core-in-exposome-immunology/?p6899
FindAPhD : MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology at The University of Manchester
Apply for a PhD: MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology at The University of Manchester
www.findaphd.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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therad-lab.bsky.social
There's one week left to apply for postdoc positions in my group. Links to apply below!
#academicjobs #researchjobs #immunosky
August 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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tovah-shaw-lab.bsky.social
I am recruiting for a postdoc that wants to work on an exciting project on gut macrophages, TGFb signalling, and colon cancer! Please see the link for details - elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join the Shaw lab to investigate identify the regulatory function of NRROS/LRRC33 in gastrointestinal macrophage development a...
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August 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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mpolychronidou.bsky.social
Dental floss as a #vaccination strategy? This study shows that floss-based vaccination can deliver protein, inactivated virus, peptide-presenting immunogenic nanoparticles, mRNA & induces #immuneresponses protecting against infectious disease in mice ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #immunity
Floss-based vaccination targets the gingival sulcus for mucosal and systemic immunization - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Floss-based vaccination exploits the leaky junctional epithelium of the gingival sulcus to deliver different types of vaccine, inducing robust mucosal and systemic immunity and providing protection ag...
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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mcsinton.bsky.social
So excited to go to the IUIS and present our work on adipose tissue and systemic immunometabolism!
iuis-online.bsky.social International Union of Immunological Societies @iuis-online.bsky.social · Jul 23
Meet @mcsinton.bsky.social, immunometabolism researcher & Wellcome Fellow @ Manchester. He’ll present “Fat on the frontline: fuelling immunity in chronic infection.” https://loom.ly/CwagY2g #Immunosky @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
#ListerFellow Lizzy Rosser's research into juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and uveitis is driven by curiosity—and shaped by the voices of young patients and their families.

🧠 Comment how connection with patients and their families makes a difference 👇

📖 lister-institute.org.uk/the-bigger-p...
July 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM