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📢Registration for the #DayofImmunology webinar is open!

🔬Regulatory T Cells: Guardians of Immune Balance
🗓️April 29 at 15:00 CET

💥 Start the buzz & register to save your spot at this rock star webinar featuring outstanding speakers!

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(4/5) Don’t miss this chance to hear from an emerging scientist at the crossroads of immunology × neuroscience × development!

(5/5) A big thank you to our sponsor @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social ✨

(3/5) Inês is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sarina Ravens’ lab (Hannover Medical School, DE) and a recent i3S — University of Porto PhD graduate.

ySPI Season webinars: Winter session Registration in the Winter session of the ySPI Season Webinars “Meningeal IL-17-producing γδ T cells drive bacterial brain invasion in neonatal meningitis and long-term ADHD-like behaviour.”, Inês Lor...

(2/5) 🔬 Talk: Meningeal IL‑17⁺ γδ T cells drive bacterial brain invasion in neonatal meningitis and long‑term ADHD‑like behaviour.
🗓 Feb 26, 2026 | 11:00–12:00 GMT
💻 Online — registration required: forms.gle/Rzbk1WyY7TUoQwRB7

(1/5) 🚨 The ySPI Winter Webinar is coming!
We’re kicking off the 2026 season with Inês Lorga, who’ll share her research on how the immune system shapes brain infection and development in early life 🧠🦠

#AcademicCareers #PhDLife #PostdocLife #ResearchCareers #NonLinearCareers #CareerDevelopment​ #Mentoring #ScienceCareers #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchCulture #ySPI #Immunology #CareerTalk @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social

(7/7) Stay tuned – this is just the beginning of the series, and we’re looking forward to more open conversations in the next ySPI events. 💬✨
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(6/7) Problem choice & decision trees: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Adrian Liston’s career resources: www.listonlab.uk/careers/
Positive research culture (lab): wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341
Positive research culture (organisation): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(5/7) Missed the session and want to explore these ideas? Here are key resources we mentioned. 🔗
Strategic PhD career building: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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(4/7) Years 3–4: Develop several realistic options in parallel, then choose your lead direction and invest — learn the language, grow your network, and reshape your CV so it clearly tells that story. 📚🤝

(3/7) Years 1–2: Get really good at what your current or ideal role needs, then systematically test a few directions with small “markers” (courses, shadowing, side projects, events). Keep curiosity high, pressure low. 🌟

(2/7) Instead of the usual “pick one path and stick to it”, we explored a 3–5 year framework to explore, de‑risk and then commit: 🔄
Year 1 – Master your skills 🛠️
Year 2 – Systematic exploration 🧭
Year 3 – Parallel plans, low pressure 🌱
Year 4 – Choose and double down 🚀

(1/7) What a fantastic start to our new ySPI webinar series! ✨
Today we hosted our very first Career Talk with Prof. @labliston.bsky.social, packed with honest insights about how messy and non‑linear research careers really are. 🎓

🎤 First Keynote Announcement

✨ Femke van Wijk

Professor of Tissue Immunology, @umcutrecht

🧬 “A Journey in Translational Immunology and Team Science”

📍 Prague | 29 June – 1 July 2026

🔗 More speakers coming soon!

#yEFIS2026 #KeynoteSpeaker #Immunology

#EarlyCareerResearchers #ScienceCommunity #AcademicLife #ResearchOpportunities #WebinarSeries #ScienceTalks #PhDLife #PostdocLife #YoungScientists #ySPI @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social

👉 Submit your abstract: forms.gle/HPDyFxQnyuUB...

Questions? Reach out: yspi@spimunologia.org
Let’s build a vibrant community for young scientists! 🔬💡

💬 Each session: 30-min talk + 15-min discussion.
💰 Selected speakers receive a cash prize.

🗓️ Dates:
❄️ Winter – Feb 26
🌼 Spring – Apr 30
☀️ Summer – Jun 18
🍂 Autumn – Nov 26

🚀 Exciting news from ySPI!
We're launching our new Season Webinars — created by early-career researchers, for early-career researchers.

A space to share your work, spark meaningful discussions, and grow together 🌱

Postdoctoral researcher in spatial transcriptomics and immunology

🧬 Postdoc Opportunity

Junior postdoctoral position in spatial transcriptomics & immunology at Inserm UMR1227 (Brest, France).

Focus on Visium HD, Xenium, CosMx and single-cell transcriptomics in Sjögren’s disease.

📩 marie.frutoso@univ-brest.fr

🔗 More info:
www.yefis.org/resources/jo...

#ySPI #SPI #ECR #PhDLife #Postdoc #CareerDevelopment #AcademicCareers
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ySPI Career Seminars: Adrian Liston Adrian Liston's webinar on how to build career options into your PhD/post-doc January 16th (10:30AM - 12PM GMT)

(6/6)🔗 Register here: forms.gle/aGGhvPjqNZMz...
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of today’s leading scientists and ask your questions directly.

(5/6) Beyond his scientific achievements and multiple prizes and fellowships, he is deeply committed to mentoring early career researchers and promoting equity in academia.

(4/6) Professor Liston’s research focuses on the cellular control of immune/tolerance switches and how defects in these processes can lead to autoimmunity, primary immunodeficiencies, diabetes and neuropathology.

(3/6) 📌 Talk title: “Building Career Options into Your PhD/Post-doc”
Perfect for PhD students and postdocs who want to proactively shape their professional journey, inside and outside academia.
🗓️ Date: 16 January 2026
🕥 Time: 10:30–12:00 GMT
🌍 Online webinar

(2/6) We are thrilled to welcome Professor @labliston.bsky.social as the first guest in the series.
He will speak on how to strategically build career options during your PhD or postdoc.

(1/6) 🚀New in 2026: ySPI Career Seminars
We are launching the ySPI Career Seminars, an initiative by our Young SPI (ySPI) group to support early career researchers.

🎄✨ This Holiday season, our immune system is fully activated by teamwork, science, and festive hats 🧬🎅
Merry Christmas from the ySPI team!
#yspi
#MerryChristmas
#HolidaySeason
#Immunology
#Science
#Research

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