An excellent lecture in a beautiful Oxford University Museum - it has been such a pleasure to host Paul at the Kennedy!
20.05.2025 10:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@udalovalab.bsky.social
A research group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social trying to understand how the inflammatory response is controlled on the molecular level https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups/genomics-of-inflammation
An excellent lecture in a beautiful Oxford University Museum - it has been such a pleasure to host Paul at the Kennedy!
20.05.2025 10:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulationsπto our talented DPhil student Julia @juliasalafranca.bsky.social who was awarded two prizes at the 2025 Kennedy Trust Network Conference! One for her flash talk and another for a group grant pitch: 'Enhancing ocular drug delivery using an integrated device: Eye-lectric'.
07.03.2025 16:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0DPhil student Marah, holding a certificate for the Penny Moore Female Scholarship Award.
A massive congratulations to our amazing DPhil student Marah who received the Penny Moore Female Scholarship Award for the quality of her oral talk, poster, and engagement at the 12th IDA Symposium in Capetown!π
18.02.2025 11:09 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#KIRDataSci new social networking event! Great to see many Kennedy people turning up. See you again in a month!
30.01.2025 19:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New opening at #KIRDataSci - come and join our team as Research Computing Administrator to keep it running!
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Two external speakers, three Kennedy presenters, many interested attendants, and one AI workshop special cake!
14.11.2024 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The first Kennedy Data Science Platform workshop "AI applications in Biomedical research" is about to start. Featuring Turing AI fellow @cwcyau from @bdi_oxford, @JoshuaABull from @OxUniMaths, and Kennedy own examples of AI use!
14.11.2024 12:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Deadlines are approaching for @KeystoneSymp #MyeloidCells: Roles in Different Tissue #Microenvironment, this March in Hannover! See scholarship, abstract and discount reg dates: http://keysym.us/KSMyeloid25 #KSMyeloid25
30.10.2024 21:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting?eventid=7080
deadline for short talk abstract submissions and scholarships is coming up - do not miss Dec 05!
Shout out for @juliasalafranca and Kristina Zec for designing a new public engagement activity, which demonstrates how people with arthritis handle objects, and presenting it at Oxford science ideas festival last weekend!
14.10.2024 15:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A fascinating discussion on philosophical issues of science and medicine with Oceane Gustave, a Philosophy PhD student from @ecolenormalesup. Delighted that our own phylosopher Chris @arthritisbham could join in!
03.10.2024 15:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A beauty of neutrophils! Artistic expressions by attendants of @neutrophil2024 during coffee and lunch breaks. Guess which one was contributed by our own @AnandaMukh7422 ?
19.09.2024 14:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Excellent @neutrophil2024 meeting once again! Amazing talks and posters yesterday and today! The field has definitely expanded and still growing!!
18.09.2024 12:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Explore emerging research with field leaders @KeystoneSymp #MyeloidCells: Roles in Different Tissue #Microenvironment, this March in Hannover! http://keysym.us/KSMyeloid25 #KSMyeloid25Β https://x.com/BelfordJenny/status/1765448238272770517/photo/1
04.09.2024 19:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.22.609132 - check out our new preprint - discovery of Zfp263 as a key checkpoint of neutrophil development. @AbhiD23 says: βThis discovery opens up new possibilities for targeting neutrophil-driven conditions, from inflammatory diseases to certain cancers."
23.08.2024 20:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At this year's @KirOxford retreat @DrSarahSpear presented on her research project, @juliasalafranca talked about patient involvement and public engagement (featuring @AdaLiebenau's choreographed neutrophil dance) and Irina guided us through the KIR strategy for the next few years
12.07.2024 14:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Udalova lab having fun at the @KirOxford retreat's treasure hunt ππ
Among the tasks we had to find 3 ducks in Oxford, a colourful storefront (check out thr improved mannequins!) and a bus going to the airport
Just back from another @AegeanConf on Innate immunity in hot and sunny Loutraki! Reunited with old friends, made new ones, presented two stories, discussed many others, danced Greek dances, and @juliasalafranca received a trainee award! Thanks to the organisers!!
11.06.2024 17:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New Doctor in the House! Congratulations to @capyBara_bs for successfully defending her thesis and for celebrating in style! Huge thanks to @LennonLab and @arthritisbham for the enjoyable viva examination!
26.04.2024 14:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some snapshots of @AbhiD23 at #EPW2024, who presented on the novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation. Abhi found fascinating to learn all about phagocytes!
27.03.2024 11:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Chairing the Innate Immunity and Signalling session at #OIS2024, a meeting showcasing the immunology research in Oxford. Catch some of the Udalova lab members at the coffee break for a chat on our neutrophil and macrophage research! @bsicongress
18.03.2024 14:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Udalova lab has joined the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF), with @Erinke1 as our champion to make our research more sustainable!
14.03.2024 13:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Professor Irina Udalova appointed to the MRCβs Infections and Immunity Board https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-irina-udalova-appointed-to-the-mrc2019s-infections-and-immunity-board
05.03.2024 15:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The last day of @KeystoneSymp Myeloid cells 2024! Little snow but lots of interesting new meetings and discussions! Back from lunch in town with @SarrisLab and @Sixt_Lab. Thanks again to the organisers @AndrsHidalgo16, @DanielaQuail and @lai9uan, whom we all missed dearly!
01.02.2024 05:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The first fruit of collaboration between @UdalovaLab and @FritzscheLab:
Neutrophil nucleus: shaping the past and the future. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37480361/
Final group celebration of the year... Oxford is getting ready for a break... Merry Christmas to all our friends and colleagues around the globe!
22.12.2023 21:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The paper contains beautiful CosMX images that integrate with the scRNAseq findings to investigate the spatial distribution of myeloid cells. Authors found M1 macrophages & neutrophils close to inflamed mucosal surfaces. Granulomas showed a high abundance of IDA macrophages. 6/7
07.12.2023 16:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For our last Journal Club of the year, @AbhiD23 presented the exciting paper of @ibd_bcn, which examined myeloid cells in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) across age and treatment variables -> https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40156-6
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Another year, another amazing #BSI2023! A new kid on the block - session on mechanoimmunology, chaired by Irina and @DessiMalinova. Great talks on mechanosensing by @spencerSK1 and @ActonLab, as well as our own @capyBara_bs . Watch this area becoming a mainstream in a few years!
06.12.2023 12:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Big welcome to @LinhNguyen160, who completed her PhD training @hkust on development and function of myeloid cells in the zebrafish brain. She now applies her stellar imaging and genomic skills to dissecting spatiotemporal neutrophil behaviour in the gut. Funded by @The_MRC
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