Lydia Becker Institute
@lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
Researchers from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation at The University of Manchester. Fundamental and translational immunology addressing key concepts in health & disease.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker-institute/
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker-institute/
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Was so proud of Dr Deepak Selvakumar who successfully defended his thesis exploring the immunology of cutaneous Crohns disease just 2weeks after his final surgey exam!!!
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Was so proud of Dr Deepak Selvakumar who successfully defended his thesis exploring the immunology of cutaneous Crohns disease just 2weeks after his final surgey exam!!!
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
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New paper out from the lab, led by Maddy Hurry. We investigate how stroke leads to peripheral complications in the gut through dysregulation of IgA mediated host-commensal crosstalk.
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Cerebral ischaemic stroke results in altered mucosal antibody responses and host-commensal microbiota interactions
Stroke is a devastating neurological event with a high risk of mortality that results in long-term sequalae that extend beyond the central nervous sys…
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November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New paper out from the lab, led by Maddy Hurry. We investigate how stroke leads to peripheral complications in the gut through dysregulation of IgA mediated host-commensal crosstalk.
@lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
@diiirm.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
@diiirm.bsky.social
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changing policies on food avoidance are having impacts on the incidence of peanut allergies in children. What the new research shows and how policies changed- my latest in @theconversation.com @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social 🧪#HealthPolicy #Allergy
Are peanut allergies actually declining?
Introducing potentially allergic foods early on may actually help reduce the risk of developing a life-changing allergy.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
changing policies on food avoidance are having impacts on the incidence of peanut allergies in children. What the new research shows and how policies changed- my latest in @theconversation.com @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social 🧪#HealthPolicy #Allergy
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Thanks goes to Critical technical and conceptual contributions from @iashiamulholland.bsky.social 🧪 #glycotime
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thanks goes to Critical technical and conceptual contributions from @iashiamulholland.bsky.social 🧪 #glycotime
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Delighted to share our new pre-print from PhD student Ziyun Zhang joint with @tracyh9494.bsky.social demonstrating that lung alveolar macrophages have a dense glycocalyx and interstitial macrophages do not, @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Airway macrophage specific expression of a dense glycocalyx and its remodelling following viral infection
The glycocalyx is best studied for its regulation of immune cell trafficking from the vasculature into inflamed tissues. The glycocalyx is composed of a range of glycans and glyco-proteins that form a...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Delighted to share our new pre-print from PhD student Ziyun Zhang joint with @tracyh9494.bsky.social demonstrating that lung alveolar macrophages have a dense glycocalyx and interstitial macrophages do not, @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stimulating day at MRC Biomedicine Science Conference. Super keynote from Sarah Teichmann, Entertaining and thought provoking talk from George Davey Smith, MRC Millennium Medal recipient, and amazing views from the loo
@mendelrandom.bsky.social @ukri.org
@mendelrandom.bsky.social @ukri.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Stimulating day at MRC Biomedicine Science Conference. Super keynote from Sarah Teichmann, Entertaining and thought provoking talk from George Davey Smith, MRC Millennium Medal recipient, and amazing views from the loo
@mendelrandom.bsky.social @ukri.org
@mendelrandom.bsky.social @ukri.org
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Climate change poses multiple challenges to our health. Our new article coauthored with @kathelse.bsky.social considers the rise in infections and pollution combines with the impact of climate change on our immune system and what we need to do to better understand this 🧪 🧵#EcoImmunology
The role of ecoimmunology in tackling the emerging threats of climate change and the exposome
Nature Immunology - Climate change creates a multitude of challenges over the human life-course, influencing our exposomes and shaping immune function — requiring researchers to consider...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Climate change poses multiple challenges to our health. Our new article coauthored with @kathelse.bsky.social considers the rise in infections and pollution combines with the impact of climate change on our immune system and what we need to do to better understand this 🧪 🧵#EcoImmunology
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so excited to share our article in @nature.com Immunology on the many challenges of climate change has for our immune function, infection susceptibility and disease and the need for new ways to research this. Will do a thread later! 🧪 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
The role of ecoimmunology in tackling the emerging threats of climate change and the exposome
Nature Immunology - Climate change creates a multitude of challenges over the human life-course, influencing our exposomes and shaping immune function — requiring researchers to consider...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
so excited to share our article in @nature.com Immunology on the many challenges of climate change has for our immune function, infection susceptibility and disease and the need for new ways to research this. Will do a thread later! 🧪 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
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The weather has turned. No boats can cross. The small team on island have the experience to reshape our field plans so the work continues safely and without exhausting people. This is the reality of a “wild laboratory” @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The weather has turned. No boats can cross. The small team on island have the experience to reshape our field plans so the work continues safely and without exhausting people. This is the reality of a “wild laboratory” @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social
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Big experiment day in the Menon lab 🧪🧫🔬
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Big experiment day in the Menon lab 🧪🧫🔬
📣 PhD studentship opportunity. Join us at the Becker for a fully-funded 4-year Bicentenary PhD studentship – “Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria”.
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(Bicentenary) Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (Bicentenary) Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📣 PhD studentship opportunity. Join us at the Becker for a fully-funded 4-year Bicentenary PhD studentship – “Defining contributions of non-IgE-mediated mechanisms in solar urticaria”.
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
*Deadline is this Sat 15th November*
📌 Apply now & please share: #ImmunoSky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Well done @nabinapun.bsky.social getting your Radnet @cruk-mi.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social PhD work out
CCR2-driven monocyte recruitment is protective against radiotherapy-induced intestinal toxicity
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Well done @nabinapun.bsky.social getting your Radnet @cruk-mi.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social PhD work out
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We had a quieter day yesterday even managing to watch the Celebrity Traitors final but today we have been busy again preparing for our next of two further baseline days on Fluke Street
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We had a quieter day yesterday even managing to watch the Celebrity Traitors final but today we have been busy again preparing for our next of two further baseline days on Fluke Street
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PhD opportunity working with me, Mark Viney, Iris Mair and Rowan Bancroft studying the Isle of May wild mice is open now! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(BBSRC NWD) Capillaria hepatica – a neglected and understudied zoonotic parasitic nematode at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD) Capillaria hepatica – a neglected and understudied zoonotic parasitic nematode at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
PhD opportunity working with me, Mark Viney, Iris Mair and Rowan Bancroft studying the Isle of May wild mice is open now! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪
Immunology 101: Monoclonal antibodies
What monoclonals are and how we use them therapeutically.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪
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We are in the middle of our second of four “baseline” days on our Fluke Street grid. Releasing the mice back on to the grid is always good to watch @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We are in the middle of our second of four “baseline” days on our Fluke Street grid. Releasing the mice back on to the grid is always good to watch @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social
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Thanks so much for inviting me, it was a great day and a particularly impressive group of students!!
Day 2 of the Matrix Biology PhD course and we’re in the new Fælleshuset building starting our group work brain storming. Thanks to @douglaspdyer.bsky.social and @tranejoan.bsky.social for laying the foundations of ECM biology in yesterday’s lectures!
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Thanks so much for inviting me, it was a great day and a particularly impressive group of students!!
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A few more weeks to apply for this postdoc in mucosal immunology and ILC biology, please share in your networks and with interested candidates.
Postdoc opportunity in the lab for a budding ILC biologist.
Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word.
Ad closes in 4 weeks.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word.
Ad closes in 4 weeks.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate - mucosal immunology and innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology:Oxford Road
The Hepworth laboratory within the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at the University of Manchester wish to appoint a laboratory-based Research Associate to an exciting project in mucosal immunology and innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A few more weeks to apply for this postdoc in mucosal immunology and ILC biology, please share in your networks and with interested candidates.
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We are back on the Isle of May for our final winter season of our BBSRC funded research exploring the effects of environment on immunity. Traps are out and we are having an evening by the fire @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We are back on the Isle of May for our final winter season of our BBSRC funded research exploring the effects of environment on immunity. Traps are out and we are having an evening by the fire @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social
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What a week! So pleased to now also see the peer reviewed version in Science Signaling of @megtriesscience.bsky.social PhD work joint with the Saunders lab, see her great thread for explanation below www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What a week! So pleased to now also see the peer reviewed version in Science Signaling of @megtriesscience.bsky.social PhD work joint with the Saunders lab, see her great thread for explanation below www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
👏 Congratulations to former Becker @wellcometrust.bsky.social ICD PhD student @megtriesscience.bsky.social on her first-author paper in Science Signaling!
My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover!
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
👏 Congratulations to former Becker @wellcometrust.bsky.social ICD PhD student @megtriesscience.bsky.social on her first-author paper in Science Signaling!
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Amazing work from @megtriesscience.bsky.social so proud of you and how this story has turned out!! @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social
My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover!
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Amazing work from @megtriesscience.bsky.social so proud of you and how this story has turned out!! @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social
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Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.
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So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
CCR2-driven monocyte recruitment is protective against radiotherapy-induced intestinal toxicity
Radiotherapy (RT) is essential in treating abdominal and pelvic cancers but often
damages the healthy tissues, particularly the intestines, leading to radiation-induced
toxicities with limited treatme...
www.mucosalimmunology.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...