Stefan Oehlers
@oehlerslab.org
Principal Investigator, Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab (A*STAR ID Labs, Singapore)
@astar-idlabs.bsky.social
Zebrafish models of infection and immunity
www.oehlerslab.org
@astar-idlabs.bsky.social
Zebrafish models of infection and immunity
www.oehlerslab.org
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Stefan Oehlers
@oehlerslab.org
· Aug 7
Telomerase reverse transcriptase is required for resistance to mycobacterial infection
Age is an important risk factor for infections such as tuberculosis (TB). Telomerase is expressed in immune cells yet leukocyte telomere length declines during ageing suggesting an age-dependent loss ...
www.biorxiv.org
Our follow up paper exploring tert in the context of infection: Telomerase reverse transcriptase is required for resistance to mycobacterial infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A*STAR/KCL PhD scholarship available!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Joint A*STAR - King’s College London PhD Studentships in Biomedical Science 2026/27
King's College London is seeking outstanding and motivated students to join our university and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
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January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
A*STAR/KCL PhD scholarship available!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
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📣Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology #BBinLB webinar series hosted by the @leukocytebiology.bsky.social
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
January 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
📣Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology #BBinLB webinar series hosted by the @leukocytebiology.bsky.social
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
Over the past weeks I have been reading the earliest papers on zebrafish development, and came to realize that in the “canonized" version of zebrafish history we neglect some important people pre-Streisinger. I will try to correct here the record. Let’s start with Edward C. Roosen-Runge. (1/7)
January 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Over the past weeks I have been reading the earliest papers on zebrafish development, and came to realize that in the “canonized" version of zebrafish history we neglect some important people pre-Streisinger. I will try to correct here the record. Let’s start with Edward C. Roosen-Runge. (1/7)
NZ is the other country that allows this. But most people can't afford the full cost of meds if it's outside the public system so you never really see the ads
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
NZ is the other country that allows this. But most people can't afford the full cost of meds if it's outside the public system so you never really see the ads
My citations are at an all time high. What a science Christmas present from Google scholar
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My citations are at an all time high. What a science Christmas present from Google scholar
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Enterococcus faecalis: an overlooked cell invader | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYEnterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are human pathobionts that exhibit a dual lifestyle as commensal and pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenic lifestyle is associated with specific conditions involving host susceptibility and intestinal ...
journals.asm.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
only another 26 days to go for the full year streak!
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
only another 26 days to go for the full year streak!
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
We're looking for a Research Assistant / Senior Research Assistant to join our team. If you're interested in studying the extracellular matrix and tumour microenvironment in cancer, then get in touch. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We're looking for a Research Assistant / Senior Research Assistant to join our team. If you're interested in studying the extracellular matrix and tumour microenvironment in cancer, then get in touch. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
garvan.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/garvan_insti...
garvan.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/garvan_insti...
I'm not sure how jokingly that is now it's out of the bag. I've had the pleasure of interacting with Jeff at conferences since the 2000s, will lobby for him to host trivia at upcoming zebrafish meetings.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'm not sure how jokingly that is now it's out of the bag. I've had the pleasure of interacting with Jeff at conferences since the 2000s, will lobby for him to host trivia at upcoming zebrafish meetings.
Marco posing with carbs? Expected more reviews of the local protein bar scene
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Marco posing with carbs? Expected more reviews of the local protein bar scene
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me [email protected]. Thanks!
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me [email protected]. Thanks!
Right? I thought it was getting a bit R18 too
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Right? I thought it was getting a bit R18 too
I do not envy the ego management element associated with @zebrafishrock.bsky.social operations. It only took a decade to arrange a 10% reciprocal discount between IZFS and ZDMS...
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I do not envy the ego management element associated with @zebrafishrock.bsky.social operations. It only took a decade to arrange a 10% reciprocal discount between IZFS and ZDMS...
Listen and answer the question that was asked, not the question that you memorised an answer to
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Listen and answer the question that was asked, not the question that you memorised an answer to
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
Registration is open for the SJINML Public Lecture with Dr Margaret McFall-Ngai: The Power of Symbiosis in Shaping Our Biosphere. If you’ve wondered about sustainability or if probiotics really work, this talk may have the answer.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Registration is open for the SJINML Public Lecture with Dr Margaret McFall-Ngai: The Power of Symbiosis in Shaping Our Biosphere. If you’ve wondered about sustainability or if probiotics really work, this talk may have the answer.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
3 Dec, SMU. Light refreshments available.
Published version up at @natcomms.nature.com
New data with Aspergillus getting into tuberculous granulomas and growing like it's a member of the extended Myco family
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New data with Aspergillus getting into tuberculous granulomas and growing like it's a member of the extended Myco family
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Published version up at @natcomms.nature.com
New data with Aspergillus getting into tuberculous granulomas and growing like it's a member of the extended Myco family
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New data with Aspergillus getting into tuberculous granulomas and growing like it's a member of the extended Myco family
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
I had a retail experience with someone saying they'll give me something "FOC". Thought they were trying to insult me, turns out it means "free of charge" 🤷♂️
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I had a retail experience with someone saying they'll give me something "FOC". Thought they were trying to insult me, turns out it means "free of charge" 🤷♂️
Wait, what do you have against PUN-TASTIC acryonyms?
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Wait, what do you have against PUN-TASTIC acryonyms?
I have this framed on my office wall www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/keeps-...
Keeps You Going | Poorly Drawn Lines
Comics by Reza Farazmand
www.poorlydrawnlines.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I have this framed on my office wall www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/keeps-...
Do most of your administrative announcements (EDMs, I thought this was a music genre...) also reach you in the form of graphics that are invisible to the search function?
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Do most of your administrative announcements (EDMs, I thought this was a music genre...) also reach you in the form of graphics that are invisible to the search function?
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
Know the difference.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Know the difference.
Reposted by Stefan Oehlers
👇👇Last days to submit your abstract to be considered for a short talk! Deadline 24 November!https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting/travel/c42026
Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales, March 2026, in Cape Town, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
👇👇Last days to submit your abstract to be considered for a short talk! Deadline 24 November!https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting/travel/c42026
This explains the recent outbreak of arts and crafts in @astar-idlabs.bsky.social @vignuzzilab.bsky.social @alnajifg.bsky.social
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
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Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This explains the recent outbreak of arts and crafts in @astar-idlabs.bsky.social @vignuzzilab.bsky.social @alnajifg.bsky.social
Moxi. Warning: "potentially irreversible" side effects from working in my lab
It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Moxi. Warning: "potentially irreversible" side effects from working in my lab
Palpable relief that we're in a field founded by someone who seemed like a fundamentally good person
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Palpable relief that we're in a field founded by someone who seemed like a fundamentally good person