The Powrie Lab

Congratulations to our fantastic DPhil student, Henry, for defending his PhD thesis today!! It’s been a pleasure to have Henry in the lab & we miss him already! Go check out the review (linked below) if you’d like to see some of his work🥳🧑‍🔬

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We’re very proud of our very own Dr Alice Bertocchi for winning a Kennedy Trust Transition Fellowship! Keep up the amazing work as always, Ali!🥳❤️

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology (183191) You will lead delivery of a CoRE research project, managing your own research and coordinating project activities to meet deadlines. The role includes developing and adapting scientific techniques, an...

We are hiring a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to study how microbiomes influence barrier biology and shape responses to viral infection!

This post is part of the exciting new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology.

Apply by December 18 👇

www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Day 4 and the final day of the BSI saw a fantastic talk from @labliston.bsky.social about Tregs in the brain and an excellent session devoted to “Barriers, bugs, and breakdowns” - right up our street! Thank you to all organisers and presenters @britsocimm.bsky.social for a great week in Liverpool🫶

Day 3 of the BSI was a busy one, with Yuqing & Dehui presenting posters, and Ffion giving an excellent talk all about AMR Klebsiella dynamics in the gut! It was also great to see Dave Withers give a fantastic plenary talk!🧫🧬
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Day 2 of the BSI saw Gemma & Rachel from the lab presenting posters, as well as the lovely Anna Ahlback from the Maloy lab delivering a great talk on Hh infection and its impact on DSS colitis (go check out their new preprint!)👩‍🔬
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Day 1 of the BSI 2025 on Monday saw the wonderful Judi Allen deliver a fabulous keynote talk! We were also very excited to see Judi share the news of our new MRC Exposome Immunology Manchester/Oxford collaboration👩‍🔬
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Delighted to share that Fiona was awarded the FSI EFIS-IL Lecture Award last week as a keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Meeting of the French Society for Immunology! We’d like to warmly thank the SFI for the award, it was a pleasure to attend!🇫🇷👩‍🔬
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Oxford and GSK launch Experimental Medicine Collaboration | GSK invests £10 million over five years to establish the Experimental Medicine Collaboration with the University of Oxford.

We’re thrilled to share that we’re part of the Experimental Medicine Collaboration (EMC) with GSK! The EMC will put translational science at the forefront of developing treatments for immune mediated inflammatory diseases👩‍🔬🧬🧫

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

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Some pics from our annual lab autumn walk! We went to the lovely Blenheim palace to get some steps in & enjoy the autumn leaves🍁🚶‍♀️🌳

A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics.

#exposome #immunology

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Interested in joining the Powrie Lab? We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study the neutralisation capacity of human anti-IL-10 autoantibodies. You’ll be part of our new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology!🧫🦠

Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...

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Throwing it back a few weeks to the final meeting of the CRUK grand challenges optimisticc study! We had a great time in Boston discussing progress in the colorectal cancer & microbiome field - it’s been a real pleasure being part of this group!🧫🫶
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We’re delighted to hear that our favourite cell type (Regulatory T cells!) have been recognised in the Nobel Prize this year! Huge congratulations to Mary, Fred, and Shimon for their pivotal work in the field & here’s to many exciting Treg advances to come!🥳👏🎉

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...

Happy #treg day everyone - congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi and to all the immunologists who have contributed to this incredible field. See our collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

September meant it was the Powrie labs turn to organise an institute social! We hosted “The Great Kennedy Bake Off” and had lots of tasty entries, as well as a cake decorating competition! Congratulations to our winners - Lynn for best bake and Osheen for best decorating!🍰🍪🧁
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We had a fab time at our student symposium (KISS2025) this week! We really enjoyed everyone’s talks and poster presentations, with some super exciting keynote speakers! Amit, Natasha, and Rachel gave great overview talks and poster presentations on their DPhil projects👩‍🔬🧠
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WE ARE HIRING! www.manchester.ac.uk/exposome-jobs

Vacancies inc. 3x PDRA positions, 2x data scientists and a Transition Fellowship in Air Pollution.

Join us as we embark on a 14 year journey to understand how the exposome impacts immune regulation and chronic inflammation.

#hiring #immunosky

FindAPhD : MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology at The University of Manchester Apply for a PhD: MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology at The University of Manchester

🎓 6x fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships 🎓

We are recruiting our first cohort of PhD students to start Oct 2026.

Students will shape their own projects within supervisory teams spanning the universities of Manchester & Oxford.

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We had a great time at Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference this week! It was especially exciting to be there for a session devoted entirely to Regulatory T cells🧫💉
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We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼
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Some very exciting news to share!!

If you haven’t already signed up to The Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference 2025 yet, this is your reminder to! Based in Oxford on the 15th/16th of September, it’ll be a great opportunity to get up to date on recent progress in the field of Microbiome Science🦠🧫

web.cvent.com/event/9d50cf...

It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️

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