Finally home after having such a great time at #ASI2024, now reunited with two very happy cats

Last week was very busy #ASI2024. Thanks to the organising team for the invitation to present my poster, as well as chair the Basic and Clinical Immunology session! Until next year! #Immunology #immunosky

Last week there were 50 @garvaninstitute.bsky.social Immunologists at #ASI2024 with no less than 30 talks and posters presented by them! Prestigious prizes went to our Abi Grootveld, @lggray95.bsky.social, Chris Jara, and Etienne Masle-Farquhar - future leaders in Immunology! Well done to them all!

This brings us to the last day #ASI2024 & a packed auditorium still bringing the energy! Laura Mackay kept it real talking about TRM cells & breast cancer. Kenji Kabashima talking about perivascular immune hubs in the skin. Claudier Kemper took us on a TdF through complosome - who knew!...

... #ASI2024 would not be complete without the conference dinner limerick competition won by Jarrod Kennedy & table 27:

For Ideas grants Suzanne waited,
But the news left her deflated,
If you've no Ideas,
Then have a few beers,
Next round just call yourself David!

But can you spot the bursa?

...leading to THE highlight of #ASI2024 the Lafferty Debate chaired by Misty Jenkins featuring for AFF. Alex Davenport (C), Di Yu & Deborah Burnett & NEG. Antje Blumenthal (C), Vanessa Bryant & @ianparish.bsky.social with brilliant ROFL monologue about coffee...

Photo by @kimljacobson.bsky.social

#ASI2024 day 3 was a big day for B cells! Julie Zikherman showed how particulate Ag bypass LYN inhibition, @montserrat-anguera.bsky.social showed how XCI in T cells contribute to SLE, there was a whole B cell session featuring @kimljacobson.bsky.social @iancockburn.bsky.social & Julia Ellyard...

Had a fantastic week at #asi2024, it was such a great experience to be a student representative this year and help run the Postgraduate Workshop and Student Night!

It's been a whirlwind #ASI2024 only now catching my breath! Filling in the gaps...

Day 2 highlights Peter Doherty Medals awarded by Peter Doherty to Susan Christo & Carolien van de Sandt from the Peter Doherty Institute! Bookended by extraordinary Burnett Oration by the one & only Carola Vinuesa.

Well that’s a wrap for #ASI2024. Congratulations and well done to Ellise Roper and Zichen He from my lab for their first presentations at a national meeting. #BurnettLab

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Well that’s a wrap at #ASI2024 with hilarious traditions - the #nutbush, limericks, debates… plus 2 posters presented and so much fascinating immunology shared. I hope to be back soon! 🇨🇦 ✈️ 🇦🇺

This week I've been hanging out with Ryan from Cell Signaling Technologies at #ASI2024 - last day tomorrow to stop by for a chat and to pick up some NEB and CST swag!

Co-chairing today’s mucosal immunology session at #ASI2024

Fantastic #ASI2024 plenary session by @labphan.bsky.social showing us in vivo B cell-macrophage interactions. His team’s beautiful microscopy images also used in this year’s conference logo (as seen on the lectern :)
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Hi all! I’m the Precision Immunology Program manager at the @garvaninstitute.bsky.social in Sydney. Previously a hands-on researcher and now passionate about connecting brilliant minds and helping progress meaningful translational research! Find me at #ASI2024 this week :)

First poster session wrapped up at #ASI2024 😁

Day 3 of #asi2024 ended with an incredible and moving Burnet Oration by @carovinuesa.bsky.social

What an epic day 1 #ASI2024! So many brilliant talks. Highlight was Prof Antony Basten’s Foundation Lecture on the origin story of the “Australian model” of double fellowship in clinical & laboratory immunology. Did you know Jacques Miller, Gus Nossal and Don Metcalfe all trained at RPAH lab?

Come find me at poster #49 at #ASI2024 if you’re interested in gut #eosinophils and their response to an enteric #Salmonella infection 🐭

Or read about it here: doi.org/10.1128/iai....

& stay tuned, another poster from me coming later this week #oraltolerance 🍳🥜

Excited for a week of immunology #ASI2024

The #ASI2024 SIG Workshops did not disappoint. Great range talks. Some highlights. Carola Vinuesa taking us on a TdF through TLR7 and monogenic SLE. Marcel Nold on his Anakinra Pilot study (comes with light sabre!) and @lggray95.bsky.social looking at XCI in SLE. Day 1 about officially start!

Such a fantastic first day at #ASI2024 organising the Postgraduate Workshop and Social Night! A big thank you to all our speakers/panel members for their valuable time and wisdom!

First post on Bluesky is a thank Lara, January and @mollieboyd.bsky.social for the invitation and lovely gift to present the career talk and Q&A panel at today's postgraduate workshop #asi2024

Stunning day in Sydney to kick off #ASI2024 so much incredible immunology research happening in Australia and New Zealand. Views from the meeting venue 🤩

Kicking off the week with CAR-T cell talks at the Tumour Immunology special interest group #ASI2024
Loving the talk from Dr Tessa Gargett on the evolution (and efficacy) of vector constructs 👊👊

Tmrw is the start of #ASI2024 at the ICC in #Sydney. If you want to talk B cells | macrophages | germinal centres | vaccine-induced immunity | autoimmunity | SLE | all things immunology or if you are new to the Emerald City and just want tips on where to go pls mssg me!