Fränze Progatzky

Glial-immune interactions in barrier organs Neuro-immune interactions within barrier organs, such as lung, gut, and skin, are crucial in regulating tissue homeostasis, inflammatory responses, and host defence. Our rapidly advancing understandin...

In case you missed it: @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social co-authored this recent review with our lab on glia in barrier organs in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social We summarise cutting-edge findings and highlight future directions for the field - timely reading: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Huge congratulations to @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social from the lab who has been awarded the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in the skin focusing on the role of peripheral glial cells #proudPI

Congrats Yang

Thanks @deefitzgerald.bsky.social

Thank you @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social - I look forward to engaging with the community.

Dr Fränze Progatzky wins Lister Prize Dr Fränze Progatzky, Principal Investigator in Tissue Biology and Wellcome Career Development Fellow, has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her outstanding science.

Congratulations to Dr Fränze Progatzky, who has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her research into glial cell biology!

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Thanks Adrien!

Excited to be part of this newly awarded MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology. Together with colleagues from Oxford and Manchester we will investigate how environmental exposures contribute to chronic inflammatory diseases.

Are you interested in the gut-immune-brain axis (GIBA)? 🧠💡

We are building a national research network to improve understanding of the connection between the gut and nervous system.

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Deeply honoured to have been awarded the
@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Research Prize alongside such inspiring fellow researchers.

The award will enable us to study how the peripheral nervous system, through glial cells, regulates tissue repair in the gut, lung and skin. 🧬🖥️🔬

Thanks @therad-lab.bsky.social !

@dr-vmosienko.bsky.social showing the 100+ crowd that came to #Sheffield for the 1st UK glia network meeting. Next one will be in Bristol in 2026 & we have a very special international guest confirmed ✨ #BNA2025

#astrocyte #microglia #schwann #oligodendrocyte #microglia #neuroscience

See you later!

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Research Assistant (177885) We are looking for a Research Assistant with a background in immunology/neurobiology to join the interdisciplinary laboratory of Dr Fränze Progatzky at the Kennedy Institute.

🚨 We have TWO exciting open positions in our lab! 🚨

We are looking for talented, highly motivated, and collaborative individuals to join our dynamic team as:

🔬 Research Assistant
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💻 Bioinformatics Postdoc
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First Post on blue-sky. We are hiring! Post-doctoral position available in the neuroimmunology of stroke. Please check out link below and share elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📢 LAST CHANCE to submit your abstracts for BSI Oxford and
@immunologyoxford.bsky.social's #OIS25 Symposium

This is your opportunity to take part in this celebration Oxford's outstanding #immunology research 🔬

Submissions are open until midnight on Friday 7th Feb 👉 bit.ly/4elJmnG

I had a great time writing this review with @juliakarjalainen.bsky.social and Sofia Hain. Watch this space for what’s next for these two brilliant researchers in my lab as they set out on their journeys to make exciting discoveries about glial-immune interactions in barrier organs! 🚀

📣 New Review Alert!

Do you think glial cells are simply neuronal support cells in the CNS?

Did you know glial cells are integral to barrier organs?

Check out our latest review exploring the fascinating crosstalk between glia and immune cells in the gut, lung and skin!
#GlialCells #ImmuneSystem

Still time to apply for this truly interdisciplinary BBSRC funded PhD project in Aberdeen with @mdmorgan.bsky.social and myself. Develop computation models to analyse ECM-cell interactions and then test them a lab setting! Deadline 17th Jan

We just can't stop recruiting!

Associate professor in cell and molecular biology @dunnschool, with a preference for immunology, inflammation and/or infection - all defined broadly

Come and be our colleague

Deadline 28 Feb, please spread the word

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Check out today’s (12th January 2025) Biomedical Picture of the Day by @lucaverger.bsky.social from our lab showing beautiful glial cells in the skin
#proudPI

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Congrats @hetompkins.bsky.social

Hi can you please add me too. Thank you

3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
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Beyond classical immunity: Mast cells as signal converters between tissues and neurons Mast cells act as “signal converters,” translating immunological and tissue signals into host-protective behaviors. They sense antigen and possibly toxins driving avoidance behavior, which can prevent inflammation and tissue damage. Beyond classical immunity, mast cells rapidly activate antigen expulsion responses and initiate nociception. These reflexes promote host-protective behavior and maintain tissue integrity.

Beyond classical immunity: Mast cells as signal converters between tissues and neurons: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

A prenatal skin atlas reveals immune regulation of human skin morphogenesis - Nature A comprehensive multi-omics reference atlas of prenatal human skin shows that innate immune cells crosstalk with non-immune cells to perform pivotal roles in skin morphogenesis, including the formatio...

Fantastic paper by @mhaniffa.bsky.social @humancellatlas.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We know #macrophages are versatile but inducing skin vascularisation! 🤩
#immunosky #medsky 🧪 #morphogenesis #organoid #spatialtranscriptomics #singlecellsequencing

We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @pasteur.fr all details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

Great idea to start a weekly lab meeting. We tried the 'flashlight' 🔦 today and it was a total success.

We now use the 🔦 at the beginning of every lab meeting, together with a short discussion about sustainability ♻️ 🍃initiatives.