🦠 NEW | Fully funded PhDs in #virology

We are excited to offer three fantastic opportunities to do joint PhDs between @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social. Funded for UK home students.

Deadline for applications: Fri 8 May 26

Links and details below ⬇️

Current Vacancies

Our Wild Immunology team is looking for a new research veterinarian.

The project will involve 5-7 day field trapping trips a few times per year and assisting with caring for animals during vaccine trials with captive and wild devils.
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14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.

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More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“You are not here because your experiments always work. You are here because you can think.”

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Global immunology education: 20 years of Immunopaedia - Nature Reviews Immunology Immunopaedia is a free educational platform that teaches immunological concepts through clinical case studies.

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Ecological vaccination: A strategy to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats Harnessing natural behaviors to vaccinate wild bats reduces zoonotic spillover risk while supporting conservation.

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Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy - Nature In a mouse model, environmental immunostimulation in early life led to cross-reactive adaptive immune memory and reduced type II immune responses to allergens, indicating a mechanistic relationship be...

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A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

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Human gut M cells resemble dendritic cells and present gluten antigen - Nature An intestinal organoid model recapitulates human microfold (M) cell function and transcriptomic profiling and biochemical assays demonstrate that M cells uptake and present antigens to the immune syst...

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Human gut M cells resemble dendritic cells and present gluten antigen - Nature An intestinal organoid model recapitulates human microfold (M) cell function and transcriptomic profiling and biochemical assays demonstrate that M cells uptake and present antigens to the immune syst...

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Naturalized immune responses are stable over years in a colony of laboratory mice with wild-derived microbiota The transfer of microbiota and pathogens from wild mice to genetically tractable laboratory mice has been shown to enhance modeling of human immune responses in preclinical studies. However, the long-...

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Giant Rats Trained to Sniff Out Tuberculosis in Africa Known for detecting land mines, the rodents could also help detect disease.

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Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Identification of genetic mechanisms for resistance to Piscirickettsia salmonis Salmon Rickettsial Syndrome (SRS) is an emerging disease in Atlantic s...

#PhD position available with CSIRO and @utas.edu.au to investigate the genetic mechanisms for resistance to Piscirickettsia salmonis in Atlantic salmon. The project would be primarily in vitro based with fish cell lines and hopefully implementing a gecko screen.

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Current Vacancies

I am recruiting a research assistant for a vaccine project. This will be a laboratory study that involves making viral vectors and testing in the lab.

Find my @utas.edu.au @menzies-research.bsky.social email and contact me if interested.

#WildImmunology

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Clonal persistence dominates homeostatic intestinal IgA responses Gut plasma cells secrete IgA, which prevents infections, neutralizes toxins, and regulates the gut microbiota. Simons et al. demonstrate that stable IgA production results not from the persistence of ...

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🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Thrilled to share our latest research out today in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social! This work is another great outcome of my amazing clinical research partnership with first author Samantha Chan and RMH. @wehi-research.bsky.social #immunology #research #JCI

Sequential class switching generates antigen-specific gut IgA from IgG1 B cells IgA antibodies protect mucosal surfaces from foreign antigens. Siniscalco et al. identify germinal center (GC)-independent and GC-derived pathways of gut IgA generation following immunization. Sinisca...

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Human lung CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cell-derived interferon-γ orchestrates subset-specific antiviral programming in airway epithelial cells Mattingly et al. use human lung cells to show that virus-specific CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cells trigger epithelial antiviral defenses via IFNγ. This early protective response varies by epithelia...

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A Hell of a Disease: Can Science Save the Tasmanian Devil? A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, survival, and hope.

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Australia’s world-first social media ban is a ‘natural experiment’ for scientists Researchers will study the effects of the policy on young people’s mental health, social interactions and political engagement.

This week, Australia became the first country to ban children aged under 16 from using most social media platforms

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Lamprey FOXN1 rescues the block of thymic epithelial cell development in the mouse Foxn1-deficient thymic rudiment | PNAS All vertebrate adaptive immune systems exhibit distinct lymphocyte lineages. In jawless vertebrates, such as lampreys, T-like cells are thought to ...

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Lamprey FOXN1 rescues the block of thymic epithelial cell development in the mouse Foxn1-deficient thymic rudiment | PNAS All vertebrate adaptive immune systems exhibit distinct lymphocyte lineages. In jawless vertebrates, such as lampreys, T-like cells are thought to ...

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Building a Linear Regression Model in R to Predict AFL Crowds Can this model beat the baseline?

@jaseziv.bsky.social can you your model be adapted to show attendance over time following new stadium construction? I suspect attendance would spike, but would only remain high if the team has a high winning percentage.
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Heterologous two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen in pregnant women in Rwanda: a randomized controlled phase 3 trial - Nature Medicine In this phase 3 trial, a two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen in healthy pregnant women in Rwanda was found to be safe and immunogenic in women and offspring through passive transfer.

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Impact of the indigenous rotavirus vaccine Rotavac in the Universal Immunization Program in India during 2016–2020 - Nature Medicine In this multicentered observational study, Rotavac, an indigenous, monovalent, live, attenuated, oral rotavirus vaccine, had an adjusted vaccine efficacy of 54% and protected against severe gastroente...

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