Some pics from our annual lab autumn walk! We went to the lovely Blenheim palace to get some steps in & enjoy the autumn leaves🍁🚶‍♀️🌳

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!🧫🫶
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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!🥳👏🎉

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!🍰🍪🧁
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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👩‍🔬🧠
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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🧫💉
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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!🧫💐🦠🌼
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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!☀️

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Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰

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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!🧫🦠

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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👩‍🔬🇮🇹🧑‍🔬

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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!🧬🍺👩‍🔬

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We had a great day at the lovely Wytham Woods Chalet for our lab retreat this year! A special thanks to Prof David Withers @witherslab.bsky.social for joining us for an excellent guest talk☀️🌳

Thanks to the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimmfoundation.bsky.social and Joana Bom for hosting us in Oeiras last week, even if the weather wasn't perfect!☔️👩‍🔬

Our first post on Bluesky!

Throwing it back to two weeks ago at the #IMMOX’25 Genetic Variation & Barrier Immunity Conference - various lab members presented their work, with @gemmala.bsky.social and @fabsal.bsky.social giving fantastic talks!🧬👩‍🔬