Tracy Hussell
@tracyh9494.bsky.social
Mucosal Immunologist, President of the British Society of Immunology, Director of the Lydia Becker Institute - University of Manchester.
@madhvimenon.bsky.social thank you Madhvi for organising the nomination!
December 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@madhvimenon.bsky.social thank you Madhvi for organising the nomination!
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Delighted to share our new pre-print from PhD student Ziyun Zhang joint with @tracyh9494.bsky.social demonstrating that lung alveolar macrophages have a dense glycocalyx and interstitial macrophages do not, @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Airway macrophage specific expression of a dense glycocalyx and its remodelling following viral infection
The glycocalyx is best studied for its regulation of immune cell trafficking from the vasculature into inflamed tissues. The glycocalyx is composed of a range of glycans and glyco-proteins that form a...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Delighted to share our new pre-print from PhD student Ziyun Zhang joint with @tracyh9494.bsky.social demonstrating that lung alveolar macrophages have a dense glycocalyx and interstitial macrophages do not, @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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
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🧬 Explore how TCRs, BCRs & HLAs shape immunity in “Decoding and harnessing diversity in adaptive immune receptor repertoires.”
From omics to modelling, discover new insights driving personalised medicine & vaccine innovation. #BSI25
From omics to modelling, discover new insights driving personalised medicine & vaccine innovation. #BSI25
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🧬 Explore how TCRs, BCRs & HLAs shape immunity in “Decoding and harnessing diversity in adaptive immune receptor repertoires.”
From omics to modelling, discover new insights driving personalised medicine & vaccine innovation. #BSI25
From omics to modelling, discover new insights driving personalised medicine & vaccine innovation. #BSI25
Venomous reptiles to Ozempic. We must protect science funding.
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Venomous reptiles to Ozempic. We must protect science funding.
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We are looking for a motivated student to join our teams to do a PhD focused on immune responses to pollutants and viruses. Details on how to apply can be found in the link! @sheencr.bsky.social @tracyh9494.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(Bicentenary) Understanding how air pollutants alter viral immune responses. at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (Bicentenary) Understanding how air pollutants alter viral immune responses. at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We are looking for a motivated student to join our teams to do a PhD focused on immune responses to pollutants and viruses. Details on how to apply can be found in the link! @sheencr.bsky.social @tracyh9494.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement.
go.nature.com/3J74xjN
go.nature.com/3J74xjN
The world’s first plastics treaty is in crisis: can it be salvaged?
Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement.
go.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement.
go.nature.com/3J74xjN
go.nature.com/3J74xjN
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Learn bioinformatics from scratch with our highly rated beginners’ #bioinformatics #training course!
Running 8–19 December 2025, this course will teach you R, omic data analysis, & how to create publication-quality plots.
BSI members receive a discount! https://bit.ly/4maNpqF
Running 8–19 December 2025, this course will teach you R, omic data analysis, & how to create publication-quality plots.
BSI members receive a discount! https://bit.ly/4maNpqF
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Learn bioinformatics from scratch with our highly rated beginners’ #bioinformatics #training course!
Running 8–19 December 2025, this course will teach you R, omic data analysis, & how to create publication-quality plots.
BSI members receive a discount! https://bit.ly/4maNpqF
Running 8–19 December 2025, this course will teach you R, omic data analysis, & how to create publication-quality plots.
BSI members receive a discount! https://bit.ly/4maNpqF
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We're delighted to see immunologists once again recognised by the #NobelPrize! 🏆
Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system.
More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...
Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system.
More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...
British Society for Immunology response to 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | British Society for Immunology
www.immunology.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We're delighted to see immunologists once again recognised by the #NobelPrize! 🏆
Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system.
More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...
Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system.
More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...
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Had a fantastic time at Dangerous Matter – a powerful opera on the history of vaccination, premiered at the RNCM in collaboration with the University of Oxford. It’s been a privilege to be involved in project – from speaking at the Science and Industry Museum workshop to hosting students in the lab.
June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Had a fantastic time at Dangerous Matter – a powerful opera on the history of vaccination, premiered at the RNCM in collaboration with the University of Oxford. It’s been a privilege to be involved in project – from speaking at the Science and Industry Museum workshop to hosting students in the lab.
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These plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the food web
go.nature.com/44TofaH
go.nature.com/44TofaH
Millions of tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the ocean
These plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the food web
go.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
These plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the food web
go.nature.com/44TofaH
go.nature.com/44TofaH
Congratulations on receiving the MBE
June 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Congratulations on receiving the MBE
New technologies provide more detailed information. What old concepts should we revisit? To start - do all lymphocytes really express CD45?
June 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New technologies provide more detailed information. What old concepts should we revisit? To start - do all lymphocytes really express CD45?
Side effects of common treatments need more research!
June 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Side effects of common treatments need more research!
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The most popular use of AI was to edit papers, and here, career stage mattered.
Early career academics were far more likely to have used, or think it was acceptable to use, AI in editing their work.
Early career academics were far more likely to have used, or think it was acceptable to use, AI in editing their work.
May 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The most popular use of AI was to edit papers, and here, career stage mattered.
Early career academics were far more likely to have used, or think it was acceptable to use, AI in editing their work.
Early career academics were far more likely to have used, or think it was acceptable to use, AI in editing their work.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A very interesting read for anyone who is interested in how prior assumptions may influence progress. In Immunology, new techniques enable us to rewrite the past. Sometimes the old concepts need checking
A very interesting read for anyone who is interested in how prior assumptions may influence progress. In Immunology, new techniques enable us to rewrite the past. Sometimes the old concepts need checking
Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics
Theoretical physicists are in thrall to a misguided mindset that allows viable ideas to be advanced only by overturning what already exists.
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A very interesting read for anyone who is interested in how prior assumptions may influence progress. In Immunology, new techniques enable us to rewrite the past. Sometimes the old concepts need checking
A very interesting read for anyone who is interested in how prior assumptions may influence progress. In Immunology, new techniques enable us to rewrite the past. Sometimes the old concepts need checking
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Need to learn the basics of immunology?
Our new 'Foundations of Immunology' course on 19 June is designed for scientists, HCPs, and students who want to understand one of the most vital and fast-evolving areas of science and medicine.
➡️Register now: bit.ly/4itgnAk
Our new 'Foundations of Immunology' course on 19 June is designed for scientists, HCPs, and students who want to understand one of the most vital and fast-evolving areas of science and medicine.
➡️Register now: bit.ly/4itgnAk
May 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Need to learn the basics of immunology?
Our new 'Foundations of Immunology' course on 19 June is designed for scientists, HCPs, and students who want to understand one of the most vital and fast-evolving areas of science and medicine.
➡️Register now: bit.ly/4itgnAk
Our new 'Foundations of Immunology' course on 19 June is designed for scientists, HCPs, and students who want to understand one of the most vital and fast-evolving areas of science and medicine.
➡️Register now: bit.ly/4itgnAk
Let us hope that sense prevails. You would have thought COVID was the perfect example of the importance of science
Innovation takes time
US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t
https://go.nature.com/44s6cc5
US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t
https://go.nature.com/44s6cc5
Renewal of NIH grants linked to more innovative results, study finds
Nature - Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.
go.nature.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Let us hope that sense prevails. You would have thought COVID was the perfect example of the importance of science
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👏Congratulations to Katie Lowles from our Wellcome Trust ICD PhD Programme supervised by Joan Chang, Karl Kadler and our Director @tracyh9494.bsky.social on her first manuscript on macrophage regulation of fibroblast collagen deposition through circadian rhythms.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Macrophages promote collagen deposition through circadian regulation of fibroblasts
Collagen deposition in fibroblasts, the primary collagen-producing cells, is regulated by both macrophages and the circadian rhythm, although how these regulatory processes interact with one another i...
www.biorxiv.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
👏Congratulations to Katie Lowles from our Wellcome Trust ICD PhD Programme supervised by Joan Chang, Karl Kadler and our Director @tracyh9494.bsky.social on her first manuscript on macrophage regulation of fibroblast collagen deposition through circadian rhythms.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is happening globally. We need to use our influence and voice to protect the future of Science.
A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
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#Episky
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#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is happening globally. We need to use our influence and voice to protect the future of Science.
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#BeckerProfile @iashiamulholland.bsky.social
From taking a 12-year break after high school to raising a family & working in industry, to researching lung inflammation & the endothelial glycocalyx in the Dyer Lab - read about Iashia's journey into academia! 👇
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
From taking a 12-year break after high school to raising a family & working in industry, to researching lung inflammation & the endothelial glycocalyx in the Dyer Lab - read about Iashia's journey into academia! 👇
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#BeckerProfile @iashiamulholland.bsky.social
From taking a 12-year break after high school to raising a family & working in industry, to researching lung inflammation & the endothelial glycocalyx in the Dyer Lab - read about Iashia's journey into academia! 👇
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...
From taking a 12-year break after high school to raising a family & working in industry, to researching lung inflammation & the endothelial glycocalyx in the Dyer Lab - read about Iashia's journey into academia! 👇
sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...