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Deborah Dunn-Walters

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Professor of Immunology. Antibodies, Ig repertoire. B cell development. Immune system Ageing. Chair of Board Vivensa Foundation. Ass Dean R&I University of Surrey.

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Thank you ☺️. Is a reflection of the fantastic researchers I work with! Currently listening to some great ECR talks from Vivensa funded projects. Love my job πŸ˜ƒ

22.05.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Launch day! Looking forward to the Annual Symposium today. A future where everyone can age well on their terms? Learn more about the Vivensa Foundation by...
πŸ”— Reading: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/announc...
πŸ”— Watching: youtu.be/gDgPUbu2RYI
#VivensaFoundation #FundingForAgeingWell

29.04.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inaugural lecture. Not a linear path in academia. People places and persistence are important. As are passion and curiosity, resilience, kindness. Glad you kept with it, we are all the better for having you as a colleague. Well done Prof Sian Henson.

10.02.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Associate in Mucosal Immunology :Manchester

🚨 The Menon lab is hiring a postdoc!

Interested in mucosal immunology? Come join our team to study lung-infiltrating B cell dynamics in COPD & other chronic lung diseases @ukri.org @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

Please help spread the word #ImmunoSky

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

16.01.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-c... Annual conference of the British Society of Gerontology in Surrey this Summer. Abstract submission open until the end of the month.

17.01.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Conserved heavy/light contacts and germline preferences revealed by a large-scale analysis of natively paired human antibody sequences and structural data. Antibody next-generation sequencing (NGS) datasets have become crucial to develop computational models addressing this successful class of therapeutics. Although antibodies are composed of both heavy ...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... useful database πŸ‘

23.12.2024 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Equal Pay Day 2024 will be 20th November Today, the Fawcett Society announces that November 20th is the date of Equal Pay Day 2024, the day in the year when, based on the gender pay gap, women overall in the UK stop being paid compared to me...

www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/news/equal-p... for the first time since 2013 the gender pay gap got wider instead of narrower. I mean really, this is 2024. Surely this should have been fixed by now πŸ™„

20.11.2024 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Metabolic rewiring controlled by HIF-1Ξ± tunes IgA-producing B-cell differentiation and intestinal inflammation - Cellular & Molecular Immunology Cellular & Molecular Immunology - Metabolic rewiring controlled by HIF-1Ξ± tunes IgA-producing B-cell differentiation and intestinal inflammation

β€œConsequently, supplementation with acetyl-CoA improved defective IgA production in Hif1a-deficient B cells and limited experimental colitis”

#IBD #colitis

Metabolic rewiring controlled by HIF-1Ξ± tunes IgA-producing B-cell differentiation and intestinal inflammation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

17.11.2024 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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How engineered T cells are changing the face of some autoimmune diseases via B cell depletion
science.org/content/arti...

14.11.2024 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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Time is running out for you to book your place for the BSI
#ImmuneTherapies24 Summit πŸ‘‰ bit.ly/4eYp306

This event will bring together #clinical, academic and
#industry thought leaders from across the #ImmuneTherapies field 🀩

πŸ—“οΈ 25-26 November

18.11.2024 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Great, please add me. Ta

17.11.2024 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vaccines are life-saving.

16.11.2024 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 256    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Thank you to Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman at the @wsj.com. Measles. 1/

16.11.2024 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1068    πŸ” 421    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 74

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