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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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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.

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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🦠🧫

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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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Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰

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Profiling MicroRNA from Poo to Understand Gut Health and Disease Improving the detection of small RNAs in fecal samples paves the way for novel, non-invasive biomarkers to monitor intestinal health.

So nice to have the work from my PhD on faecal microRNAs featured in The Scientist magazine www.the-scientist.com/profiling-mi...

It’s been a great week in Prague for the Food, Microbiota, and Immunity conference! Claire gave a great talk and Dehui won an award for her poster presentation👏☀️🦠 #FMI2025 @dehuic.bsky.social

We had a great time showing off our fabulous Gut Wall and making microbe pom poms with members of the public at the BRC Health Research Showcase last week at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre!🧫🦠

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Sharing some more pics from a fantastic week in Alghero for the ENII Advanced Immunology Summer School - we are all very sad to be leaving sunny Sardinia behind! Thanks to the wonderful organisers and speakers for an amazing week👩‍🔬🇮🇹🧑‍🔬

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Members of the lab have been having an excellent week at the ENII Summer School for Advanced Immunology! Tarrion, Emma, Rachel, and Sumaiya have presented their work as some great short talks and posters☀️🇮🇹

Shoutout to our wonderful postdocs, India and Avery, for giving a fab talk at Pint of Science this week!🧬🍺👩‍🔬

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How fast is your gut? The answer to this question is important to your health If you aren’t sure how fast your gut is moving, the ‘sweetcorn test’ is one way to figure it out.

Why is the speed of your gut important for your microbiome and gut health? An overview I wrote with @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-fast-is-...

Very pleased to have been awarded a grant from the @ox.ac.uk Returning Carers' Fund to support me in my journey learning data science based at the @kiroxford.bsky.social, @ndorms.bsky.social.

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More good news this week - awarded a Junior Research Fellowship with @kelloggoxford.bsky.social starting Michaelmas term. A dream come true for a scientist with an educational pedagogy leaning.

Looking forwarded to meeting the many #teachers in training and graduate students.

#lifelonglearners

We had a great day at the lovely Wytham Woods Chalet for our lab retreat this year! A special thanks to Prof David Withers @witherslab.bsky.social for joining us for an excellent guest talk☀️🌳

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Thanks to the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimmfoundation.bsky.social and Joana Bom for hosting us in Oeiras last week, even if the weather wasn't perfect!☔️👩‍🔬