The Powrie Lab
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Powrie Lab news and Mucosal Immunology content! Based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social
Posts are by members of the Powrie Lab, not necessarily representative of the lab as a whole.
Posts are by members of the Powrie Lab, not necessarily representative of the lab as a whole.
Some pics from our annual lab autumn walk! We went to the lovely Blenheim palace to get some steps in & enjoy the autumn leaves🍁🚶♀️🌳
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some pics from our annual lab autumn walk! We went to the lovely Blenheim palace to get some steps in & enjoy the autumn leaves🍁🚶♀️🌳
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A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics.
#exposome #immunology
#exposome #immunology
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics.
#exposome #immunology
#exposome #immunology
Interested in joining the Powrie Lab? We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study the neutralisation capacity of human anti-IL-10 autoantibodies. You’ll be part of our new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology!🧫🦠
Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...
Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...
bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Interested in joining the Powrie Lab? We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study the neutralisation capacity of human anti-IL-10 autoantibodies. You’ll be part of our new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology!🧫🦠
Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...
Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...
Throwing it back a few weeks to the final meeting of the CRUK grand challenges optimisticc study! We had a great time in Boston discussing progress in the colorectal cancer & microbiome field - it’s been a real pleasure being part of this group!🧫🫶
@elayton13.bsky.social
@elayton13.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Throwing it back a few weeks to the final meeting of the CRUK grand challenges optimisticc study! We had a great time in Boston discussing progress in the colorectal cancer & microbiome field - it’s been a real pleasure being part of this group!🧫🫶
@elayton13.bsky.social
@elayton13.bsky.social
We’re delighted to hear that our favourite cell type (Regulatory T cells!) have been recognised in the Nobel Prize this year! Huge congratulations to Mary, Fred, and Shimon for their pivotal work in the field & here’s to many exciting Treg advances to come!🥳👏🎉
October 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
We’re delighted to hear that our favourite cell type (Regulatory T cells!) have been recognised in the Nobel Prize this year! Huge congratulations to Mary, Fred, and Shimon for their pivotal work in the field & here’s to many exciting Treg advances to come!🥳👏🎉
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A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
October 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
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Happy #treg day everyone - congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi and to all the immunologists who have contributed to this incredible field. See our collection: www.nature.com/collections/...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy #treg day everyone - congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi and to all the immunologists who have contributed to this incredible field. See our collection: www.nature.com/collections/...
September meant it was the Powrie labs turn to organise an institute social! We hosted “The Great Kennedy Bake Off” and had lots of tasty entries, as well as a cake decorating competition! Congratulations to our winners - Lynn for best bake and Osheen for best decorating!🍰🍪🧁
@kiroxford.bsky.social
@kiroxford.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
September meant it was the Powrie labs turn to organise an institute social! We hosted “The Great Kennedy Bake Off” and had lots of tasty entries, as well as a cake decorating competition! Congratulations to our winners - Lynn for best bake and Osheen for best decorating!🍰🍪🧁
@kiroxford.bsky.social
@kiroxford.bsky.social
We had a fab time at our student symposium (KISS2025) this week! We really enjoyed everyone’s talks and poster presentations, with some super exciting keynote speakers! Amit, Natasha, and Rachel gave great overview talks and poster presentations on their DPhil projects👩🔬🧠
@kiroxford.bsky.social
@kiroxford.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We had a fab time at our student symposium (KISS2025) this week! We really enjoyed everyone’s talks and poster presentations, with some super exciting keynote speakers! Amit, Natasha, and Rachel gave great overview talks and poster presentations on their DPhil projects👩🔬🧠
@kiroxford.bsky.social
@kiroxford.bsky.social
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#PooTriviaQuiz is coming up for #BiologyWeek
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September 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#PooTriviaQuiz is coming up for #BiologyWeek
Sponsored by Wooclap - helps people teach and learn.
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It's free and family-friendly but you do need to register to reserve a space on the Zoom call.
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It's free and family-friendly but you do need to register to reserve a space on the Zoom call.
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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
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 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
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
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🎓 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
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
🎓 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
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
We had a great time at Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference this week! It was especially exciting to be there for a session devoted entirely to Regulatory T cells🧫💉
@kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
@kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We had a great time at Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference this week! It was especially exciting to be there for a session devoted entirely to Regulatory T cells🧫💉
@kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
@kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼
@britsocimm.bsky.social
@greenmanfest.bsky.social
@britsocimm.bsky.social
@greenmanfest.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼
@britsocimm.bsky.social
@greenmanfest.bsky.social
@britsocimm.bsky.social
@greenmanfest.bsky.social
Some very exciting news to share!!
Huge news! A £50M MRC CoRE will bring together Manchester & Oxford to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory disease.
The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...
The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR.
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...
New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) will investigate how the environment interacts with our immune system to trigger chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, ...
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk
July 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Some very exciting news to share!!
If you haven’t already signed up to The Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference 2025 yet, this is your reminder to! Based in Oxford on the 15th/16th of September, it’ll be a great opportunity to get up to date on recent progress in the field of Microbiome Science🦠🧫
web.cvent.com/event/9d50cf...
web.cvent.com/event/9d50cf...
Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference 2025.
web.cvent.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you haven’t already signed up to The Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference 2025 yet, this is your reminder to! Based in Oxford on the 15th/16th of September, it’ll be a great opportunity to get up to date on recent progress in the field of Microbiome Science🦠🧫
web.cvent.com/event/9d50cf...
web.cvent.com/event/9d50cf...
It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰
@microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
@microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰
@microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
@microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
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So nice to have the work from my PhD on faecal microRNAs featured in The Scientist magazine www.the-scientist.com/profiling-mi...
Profiling MicroRNA from Poo to Understand Gut Health and Disease
Improving the detection of small RNAs in fecal samples paves the way for novel, non-invasive biomarkers to monitor intestinal health.
www.the-scientist.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So nice to have the work from my PhD on faecal microRNAs featured in The Scientist magazine www.the-scientist.com/profiling-mi...
It’s been a great week in Prague for the Food, Microbiota, and Immunity conference! Claire gave a great talk and Dehui won an award for her poster presentation👏☀️🦠 #FMI2025 @dehuic.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’s been a great week in Prague for the Food, Microbiota, and Immunity conference! Claire gave a great talk and Dehui won an award for her poster presentation👏☀️🦠 #FMI2025 @dehuic.bsky.social
We had a great time showing off our fabulous Gut Wall and making microbe pom poms with members of the public at the BRC Health Research Showcase last week at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre!🧫🦠
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@gemmala.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@gemmala.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We had a great time showing off our fabulous Gut Wall and making microbe pom poms with members of the public at the BRC Health Research Showcase last week at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre!🧫🦠
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@gemmala.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@gemmala.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social
Sharing some more pics from a fantastic week in Alghero for the ENII Advanced Immunology Summer School - we are all very sad to be leaving sunny Sardinia behind! Thanks to the wonderful organisers and speakers for an amazing week👩🔬🇮🇹🧑🔬
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sharing some more pics from a fantastic week in Alghero for the ENII Advanced Immunology Summer School - we are all very sad to be leaving sunny Sardinia behind! Thanks to the wonderful organisers and speakers for an amazing week👩🔬🇮🇹🧑🔬
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
@efis-immunology.bsky.social
Members of the lab have been having an excellent week at the ENII Summer School for Advanced Immunology! Tarrion, Emma, Rachel, and Sumaiya have presented their work as some great short talks and posters☀️🇮🇹
May 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Members of the lab have been having an excellent week at the ENII Summer School for Advanced Immunology! Tarrion, Emma, Rachel, and Sumaiya have presented their work as some great short talks and posters☀️🇮🇹
Shoutout to our wonderful postdocs, India and Avery, for giving a fab talk at Pint of Science this week!🧬🍺👩🔬
@pintofscience.uk
@indiabrough.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@pintofscience.uk
@indiabrough.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Shoutout to our wonderful postdocs, India and Avery, for giving a fab talk at Pint of Science this week!🧬🍺👩🔬
@pintofscience.uk
@indiabrough.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@pintofscience.uk
@indiabrough.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
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Why is the speed of your gut important for your microbiome and gut health? An overview I wrote with @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-fast-is-...
How fast is your gut? The answer to this question is important to your health
If you aren’t sure how fast your gut is moving, the ‘sweetcorn test’ is one way to figure it out.
theconversation.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why is the speed of your gut important for your microbiome and gut health? An overview I wrote with @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-fast-is-...