Diana E Matei
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Diana E Matei
@dianaematei.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Rosser group at UCL investigating the role of dietary and bacterial metabolites in arthritis with a focus on B cell development and function 🔬🧑‍🔬🥦🦠
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Yes I’m reposting myself! Vote!!!
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And we've officially reached the end of #BSI25 🤩
Thank you @britsocimm.bsky.social cannot wait for the next one! Now let's go put all we learnes into practice 😁🙌
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Always a pleasure to catch up on collaborators work and see what they do with tissues we share 😊 great work Chloe and cannot wait to see what comes next! 👏🤩 #BSI25
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Incredibly proud of @hollysedgwick.bsky.social for a fantastic presentation at the Bright Sparks in Immunology PhD session #BSI25
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Second @bcellsrosser.bsky.social talk #BSI25 and so proud to have helped with this amazing project for Vicky's PhD! It's all about the gut ofc 😁👏👏
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Congrats to @bcellsrosser.bsky.social et al. for one of @arthritisuk.bsky.social's top research outputs for 2025.

🗳️Now vote

Click below and choose 5️⃣ (other papers are available, but today we are unashamedly biased and proud of Lizzy's excellent work)

www.arthritis-uk.org/our-research...
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Congratulations to the authors! Find the original paper here by @hlpeks.bsky.social et al. 👉 rupress.org/jem/article/...
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Now more than usual (since I'm considering applying for a sex-differences based fellowship) I enjoyed and appreciated @ciurtinlab.bsky.social talk #BSI25! We really really need to sex-dissegregate our data!! ♂️♀️
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Very excited to see this very fresh and preliminary data out in the wild #BSI25 and hope many got to see and appreciate - very well done Ben!! 👏💪
@bcellsrosser.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Loving #BSI25, especially @ciurtinlab.bsky.social and @emmaschambers.bsky.social highlighting our paper in @jem.org is one of #ArthritisUK top research output of ‘25! If you have 5 minutes, give us a vote (number 5) below, sex differences in the immune system:

www.arthritis-uk.org/our-research...
Research Highlight of the Year
Arthritis UK Research Highlight of the Year: celebrate the outstanding work that’s made a real impact over the past year.
www.arthritis-uk.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Too many good talks so hard to choose #BSI25! For now let's see how our @arrdept-ucldom.bsky.social HoD Derek Gilroy presents the great story of @oliviabracken.bsky.social 's PhD 👏🤩
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Excited for all the amazing talks at the #BSI25! Here we go with the most special of them - #BrightSparks 👏
PS this venue is insane!!
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Left too early today for #BSI25 so slight change in the 'walk me out' pic 😁 we'll take the Bluey jammie no worries and here's to all the amazing immunology from all across the country 🤩🥰
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Delighted to share our new @natrevrheum.nature.com article: “Insights into the pathogenesis of childhood-onset SLE in the past decade”
Grateful to an amazing team of co-authors and editors for building and shaping this work.
We hope it helps the field and guides future discoveries.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Less than 3 weeks until our final report launch event
9th Dec. (London) 10am

We will be welcoming a fantastic panel:
🌟Jo O'Leary (UKRI)
🌟Sara Mole (UCL)
🌟John Tregoning (Imperial)
🌟Katie Perry (Daphne Trust)
🌟Jennie Evans (BSI)
🌟Ilaria Meazzini (RSC)

Register here: www.carersinstemm.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Join us at the Wellness Walkthrough: A Community Health Fair this 📆 Saturday, 1st November (🕛 12–4 PM) at 📍Castlemere Community Centre, Rochdale!

🔬 @madhvimenon.bsky.social will be there to discuss her research exploring how the immune system drives #COPD and other chronic diseases. #ImmunoSky
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Fantastic meeting in Paris yesterday with @sexdiffimmunity.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social. Was an absolute pleasure to share our data and make new connections in this important space ✨
Today we meet face to face for the first time!
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Age‐Associated Inflammatory Monocytes Are Increased in Menopausal Females and Reversed by Hormone Replacement Therapy
Post-menopausal females (> 64 years) have an increase in frequency of inflammatory monocyte populations with defective phagocytosis as compared to pre-menopausal (< 40 years) females. Hormone Replace....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Rosser team takes its fake blood on the road! Olive oil prep and a hand crank centrifuge as our primary learning tool 😹 thanks to the @medresfdn.bsky.social and @newscientist.com live for a rewarding experience 👀
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Today we meet face to face for the first time!
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Catch these fantastic session openers from @heather--cross.bsky.social and @bcellsrosser.bsky.social this morning, both presenting sex differences #immunosky research from @arrdept-ucldom.bsky.social!
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Barrier sites under the microscope! 🔬

Discover how our skin, gut & lungs fight infection, heal, and keep our microbiota happy. Don’t miss this session at #BSI25!

PS. Early bird registration closes on Wednesday 22 October ⚡
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sunday the 19th - Go go go!! 🔬🧑‍🔬❤️
Come visit the Rosser group at @newscientist.com live on Sunday (Excel Centre)! I read New Scientist every week as a child & this is our 1st big public engagement event! Find us at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand, we can’t wait to chat & hear feedback… our mission is to make our science comms TOTP!
October 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My husband and I are both in STEMM so to help us with the guilt of travelling for conferences we made it into a cute tradition of being walked to the bus/train by our cute lil helper (who is 4 TODAY 🥹🥹)
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
@bcellsrosser.bsky.social shining some more needed light on one of the worst rheumatological conditions out there, with a very very strong female bias - yes many luckily reach remission but what about those that don't? what is the cause anyway...? Read read!
The autoimmune disease lupus, which affects mainly women, can have wide-ranging impacts on health and quality of life.
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM