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We love T cells, anti-tumour immunity and imaging! Lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford.

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Lung structural cells are altered by influenza virus leading to rapid immune protection following re-challenge @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.08.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Defining the genetic determinants of CD8+ T cell receptor repertoire in the context of immune checkpoint blockade Immune checkpoint blockade influences the genetically determined relationship between TCR repertoire and HLA alleles in cancer.

๐Ÿ“ฃFirst paper from the lab is out in @science.orgโ€ฌ! ๐Ÿ“ฃhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu3461 Itโ€™s well known that HLA shapes the TCR repertoire โ€” but how does this change under immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)?

28.07.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dr Frรคnze Progatzky wins Lister Prize Dr Frรคnze 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 Frรคnze Progatzky, who has been awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize to support her research into glial cell biology!

www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...

@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social

21.07.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Probabilistic migration events drive transient tissue residency of lymphocytes during homeostasis Tissue-resident lymphocytes form a phenotypically and functionally distinct analog to the corresponding circulatory lymphocyte populations. Residential CD8 T cells, in particular, are identified as having prolonged residence in the tissues and key functions in recall responses at tissue-environmental interfaces, although the dwell time in individual tissues has yet to be resolved. Residential CD4 T cells, regulatory T cells, B cells, and NK cells have been demonstrated to share phenotypic properties with residential CD8 T cells, but the migratory kinetics are even more poorly defined. Here we used probabilistic modelling on a large parabiosis dataset, covering multiple time-points and tissues, to calculate migration kinetics and dwell times of multiple lymphocyte subsets across a diverse set of tissues. Markov chain modelling identified distinct cell type-specific and tissue-specific residency patterns. The liver and gut were prone to prolonged residency compared to other tissue types, and a hierarchy of residency was observed with CD8 T cells and NK cells demonstrating longer residency than CD4 conventional T cells and regulatory T cells, which in turn resided in tissues longer than B cells. With few exceptions, however, average residency was at least an order of magnitude shorter than the life-span of the mouse, indicating a more dynamic form of steady-state tissue residency than usually assumed. Together these data provide a comprehensive model of a pan-tissue shared program in lymphocyte tissue residence, as well as identifying cell type- and organ-specific modification of the migratory kinetics. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, 222442/Z/21/Z European Research Council, TissueTreg

I'm excited about a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social story that just went live! This one takes a #computational #immunology approach to understanding #tissueresident lymphocytes. The story highlights the extra value mathematical modelling can bring to biology. ๐Ÿงต1/10

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

09.07.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Subclonal immune evasion in non-small cell lung cancer Dijkstra et al. investigate whether individual cancer subclones differ in their immune evasion capacity. They establish organoids representing distinct subclones from multi-region lung cancer biopsies...

Subclonal immune evasion in non-small cell lung cancer: Cancer Cell www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

06.07.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our new review article led by Jordan Kramer:

Platforms for studying cellโ€“cell recognition by immune cells

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

31.05.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dear uLIPSTIC users,

We have been getting reports that, under some more inflammatory settings like TB or chronic LCMV infection, uLIPSTIC-expressing lymphocytes adoptively transferred into cre-negative uLIPSTIC hosts may be rejected at later timepoints (>1 wk).

29.05.2025 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are still a few places left for this major @oxfordcancer.bsky.social fixture. We are keeping registration open until places are filled so sign up now!

20.05.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Model figure - in EAC cancers, as chromosomal instability (CIN) increases, we found that a CIN-driven cGAS-dependent axis drives myeloid directed chemokine expression and recruitment of tumor-favoring myeloid populations

Model figure - in EAC cancers, as chromosomal instability (CIN) increases, we found that a CIN-driven cGAS-dependent axis drives myeloid directed chemokine expression and recruitment of tumor-favoring myeloid populations

Incoming - new preprint alert from the Parkes lab led by @brunobeernaert.bsky.social Full bluetutorial follows! 1/ 11 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.05.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination Vaccines generate long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells (Bmems) that may re-enter secondary germinal centers (GCs) to further mutate their B cellโ€ฆ

Happy #DayofImmunology! Congrats @ramadhenni.bsky.social & Alexandra Carey Hoppรฉ it's out (finally!) @cp-cell.bsky.social! Incredibly grateful to co-leads @mlmunier.bsky.social, Vanessa Venturi & Tony Kelleher & all brilliant folks @garvaninstitute.bsky.social & Kirby Inst. for fantastic collab! ๐Ÿงต

29.04.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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CMV serostatus is associated with improved survival and delayed toxicity onset following anti-PD-1 checkpoint blockade - Nature Medicine Analysis of multiple cohorts of patients with melanoma demonstrates a positive association between cytomegalovirus serostatus and overall survival in patients treated with monotherapy but not combinat...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Proud of my group and collaborators for this work published today in Nature Medicine. We find Cytomegalovirus, which has a profound impact on T cell immunity, is associated with distinct clinical outcomes in patients receiving checkpoint immunotherapy for melanoma.

23.04.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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DPhil in Cancer Science We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click 'Accept all cookies' we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you won't see this messageโ€ฆ

Last chance to apply for our 2025 DPhil in Cancer Science Programme!

๐Ÿฅผ We are open to applications from Medical Undergraduates

๐Ÿ“š We also have 3 GSK-Oxford DPhil studentships available.

๐Ÿ“ข Deadline: Noon 25th April.

Apply below โฌ‡๏ธ @medsci.ox.ac.uk

www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/study#how-to...

23.04.2025 09:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now published @cp-iscience.bsky.social
Work lead by David Lecky & Lozan Sheriff in collaboration with @therad-lab.bsky.social and @cameron-wraith.bsky.social showing how IFNg augments T Cell receptor signal strength to enhance type 1 Regulatory T (Tr1) cell development

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

11.04.2025 07:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics - Nature Methods The authors present a computational framework that leverages mechanical force inference and spatial transcriptomics to enable analyses of the interplay between the transcriptomic and mechanical state.

๐Ÿšจ Paper Alert ๐Ÿšจ
Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods๐Ÿ‘‡!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

17.03.2025 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 139    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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TBK1 and IKKฮต prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of both RIPK1 and NLRP3 death pathways TBK1 and IKKe prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells.

The loss of TBK1, or both TBK1 and the related kinase IKKฮต, results in uncontrolled cell deathโ€“driven inflammation. We show that TBK1/IKKฮต prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

07.03.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Cecelia: a multifunctional image analysis toolbox for decoding spatial cellular interactions and behaviour Nature Communications - Integrated solutions for the analysis of complex 3D and live cell images remain scarce. Here, the authors present Cecelia, an image analysis toolbox based on R and Python,...

I need to try this!
rdcu.be/ebfVl

25.02.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues Immune responses lie at the heart of almost every aspect of human health, including host responses to infection, autoimmunity, cancer, metabolism and aging. While adaptive immune responses by B and Tโ€ฆ

๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ”ฌ We are very excited to organize an EMBO workshop on Immunity in Barrier Tissues with Carolyn King! @immunologyking.bsky.social

๐Ÿ“ Where: Basel, Switzerland
๐Ÿ“… When: 26thโ€“29th August 2025
๐Ÿ“ Registration deadline: 30th May 2025

Check out the program and details ๐Ÿ”—

#EMBOBarrierTissues @embo.org

25.02.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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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 Frรคnze Progatzky at the Kennedy Institute.

๐Ÿšจ We have TWO exciting open positions in our lab! ๐Ÿšจ

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

๐Ÿ”ฌ Research Assistant
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

๐Ÿ’ป Bioinformatics Postdoc
www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/bioinfo...

๐Ÿ“ข Please share!

24.02.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 77    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Intravital imaging of pulmonary lymphatics in inflammation and metastatic cancer @jem.org @simoncleary.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1084/jem....

20.02.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oxford and GSK launch ยฃ50million immuno-prevention programme to advance novel cancer research Global biopharma company GSK invests up to ยฃ50 million in a collaboration with Oxford to advance the understanding of how cancer develops, which could inform future development of vaccines to prevent ...

www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

27.01.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-ฮณโ€“producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis
@sciimmunology.bsky.social @mmr2.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

28.01.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tissue-resident memory CD8 T cell diversity is spatiotemporally imprinted - Nature Profiling of the location and transcriptome of tissue-resident memory CD8 T cell formation at single-transcript resolution finds regionalized signalling as the basis of immune diversity in t...

It turns out the immune system is playing 4D chess while we thought it was just playing checkers. Using #spatialtranscriptomics from @10xgenomics.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social we were able to peek into the secret lives of tissue resident T cells in the gut as they form after infection 1/n

22.01.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The OT-I TCR is often criticised as being very high-affinity and displaying unusual behaviour compared to other TCR transgenics. New work from @tcell.bsky.social shows this might not be the case. Will I still use OT-I and all the wonderful tools associated with it? Yes I will!

16.01.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MuSpAn: A Toolbox for Multiscale Spatial Analysis The generation of spatial data in biology has been transformed by multiplex imaging and spatial-omics technologies, such as single cell spatial transcriptomics. These approaches permit a detailed mapp...

FYI for anyone interested in MuSpAn - we've updated the preprint this week with the full SI. Now featuring more examples of how various different spatial metrics can be strung together in order to make spatial pipelines focussed on specific biological questions!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

09.01.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Two studies published in @nature.com today showing that Tpex-like cells develop independent from acute or chronic infection

#Tpex

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

09.01.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Serial intravital microscopy reveals temporal dynamics of autoreactive germinal centers in the spleen
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

09.01.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

05.01.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd love to be added if there is still some room ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ

05.01.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing!

04.01.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oops, @naturecomms.bsky.social !

04.01.2025 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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