Wouter T'Jonck

Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677333v1

Congratulations @lizihegarty.bsky.social !

📢 Open Positions 📢
We're hiring motivated PhDs & Postdocs to join a cutting-edge research program @VIBLifeSciences @ugent
🔬in vivo CRISPR screens
💻Multi-omics, Modelling & Deep Learning
🧬Macrophages, Liver homeostasis, Regeneration & Metastasis
💶ERC AdG, FWO & Cancer Grant

YouTube video by Helena Aegerter Learning about Charcot-Leyden crystals in mucus with Miles and Slime

The New Scientist @newscientistnl.bsky.social has selected me for their Talent in Science competition: Vote for me here!
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If you need a little convincing, I made a little video explaining why researching mucus is so important
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IRR researchers and colleagues discover that the common childhood virus, RSV, leaves lasting ‘immune memory’ in lungs.

Proteins that help fight infection (MHCs) stay elevated, boosting protection for subsequent infections but also increases the risk of allergies.

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You asked, we listened!

We have had multiple requests for late breaking abstracts for #EMDS2025. So, we have managed to squeeze in 15 more opportunities for poster presentation.

Submit your abstract at www.emds2025.com - first come, first served.

Deadline: 22.08.25 (or when 15 slots allocated!)

🔬Imaging
👩🏻‍🔬micro-dissections
🧙🏻single cell
🦴fate mapping

All you KNEEd to know about synovial macrophages. Fantastic collaborators and work with @drbmalengier.bsky.social showing the establishment of protective macrophages in the joint 🐁

How does it look like? When? How? Answers below 👇

Lab Technician - VIB We are looking for a highly motivated and talented lab technician to join our team at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research which is focused on understanding the functional heterogeneity of m...

📢 We are hiring…. Looking for a lab technician to join the team to support our efforts investigating myeloid cell functional heterogeneity in health and disease! Interested? Please apply here: jobso.id/mvfh

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📆 Reminder: EMDS Save the Date

Quick reminder that the European #Macrophage & #DC Society meeting is taking place in Edinburgh from 16th - 18th September. Great line up of speakers in place.

Spaces will be limited, so put in your diary now. Website will go live in the coming weeks!

Spatially restricted and ontogenically distinct hepatic macrophages are required for tissue repair scRNA-seq has uncovered ontogenically distinct hepatic macrophage populations, but their functions remain unclear. Here, De Ponti et al. identify recruited LAMs and resident LAM-like KCs in multiple l...

With my first Bluesky post, I am very happy to share our latest study led by PhD student Federico De Ponti and postdoc Ania Bujko www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

REMINDER - EMDS25

The European Macrophage & Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS) meeting will take place in Edinburgh from 16-18th Sept.

Website & registration details coming soon.

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Good luck Calum!

Great talk by @gastrogrj.bsky.social at #EMDS24 describing our work on itaconate as a molecular handbrake restraining monocyte function in intestinal inflammation. @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social