Orlando Ross
@orlandorosss.bsky.social
PhD candidate at MRC CMM, working on #Candida albicans and #helminths in the gut - Horsnell and Cook Labs #immunologist #mycologist #parasitologist
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🎶 …and a partridge in a petri 🎶
The labs are feeling festive! Some of our team have decorated their petri-tree, complete with an Eppendorf star 🌟
Thanks to Will Newton, @orlandorosss.bsky.social Abby Potton, @harry-osborne.bsky.social and Matheus Araujo for spreading the cheer!
#ImageOfTheWeek
The labs are feeling festive! Some of our team have decorated their petri-tree, complete with an Eppendorf star 🌟
Thanks to Will Newton, @orlandorosss.bsky.social Abby Potton, @harry-osborne.bsky.social and Matheus Araujo for spreading the cheer!
#ImageOfTheWeek
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎶 …and a partridge in a petri 🎶
The labs are feeling festive! Some of our team have decorated their petri-tree, complete with an Eppendorf star 🌟
Thanks to Will Newton, @orlandorosss.bsky.social Abby Potton, @harry-osborne.bsky.social and Matheus Araujo for spreading the cheer!
#ImageOfTheWeek
The labs are feeling festive! Some of our team have decorated their petri-tree, complete with an Eppendorf star 🌟
Thanks to Will Newton, @orlandorosss.bsky.social Abby Potton, @harry-osborne.bsky.social and Matheus Araujo for spreading the cheer!
#ImageOfTheWeek
That’s a wrap on #BSI25! Days 3 and 4 were filled with even more incredible talks, excellent posters and of course, the Congress party! I’ve had such a wonderful time in Liverpool learning, networking and sharing my work.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
That’s a wrap on #BSI25! Days 3 and 4 were filled with even more incredible talks, excellent posters and of course, the Congress party! I’ve had such a wonderful time in Liverpool learning, networking and sharing my work.
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Its my great pleasure to say the latest paper from our group is now out: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Check it out! We found that immune cell activation in the sputum identifies severe asthma patients. Massive thanks to the patients for agreeing to give sputum and blood samples.
Check it out! We found that immune cell activation in the sputum identifies severe asthma patients. Massive thanks to the patients for agreeing to give sputum and blood samples.
Activation status of airway immune cells is a defining feature of severe asthma, regardless of fungal sensitisation
Global estimates of asthma prevalence are rising, with an estimated 262 million affected
individuals in 2019.1 Purported reasons for this rapid rise include urbanisation of
lower- and middle-income co...
www.mucosalimmunology.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Its my great pleasure to say the latest paper from our group is now out: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
Check it out! We found that immune cell activation in the sputum identifies severe asthma patients. Massive thanks to the patients for agreeing to give sputum and blood samples.
Check it out! We found that immune cell activation in the sputum identifies severe asthma patients. Massive thanks to the patients for agreeing to give sputum and blood samples.
#BSI25 day 2! Another wonderful day of immunology and a chance to discuss my PhD research during the first poster session. Meeting so many people, discussing cutting-edge immunology and sharing our passions for science! @mrccmm.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
#BSI25 day 2! Another wonderful day of immunology and a chance to discuss my PhD research during the first poster session. Meeting so many people, discussing cutting-edge immunology and sharing our passions for science! @mrccmm.bsky.social
Excellent first day at #BSI25! Huge diversity of talks, brilliant networking opportunities and incredibly cool immunology on show! Bring on day 2! @britsocimm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Excellent first day at #BSI25! Huge diversity of talks, brilliant networking opportunities and incredibly cool immunology on show! Bring on day 2! @britsocimm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
Delighted to be an awardee of the BSI’s Career Enhancing Grant, enabling me to undertake a research visit to Dr. Alisha Chetty’s lab at University of Cape Town 🧫🧬
🎉 We’re excited to announce our November 2025 BSI #Career Enhancing Grant awardees!
Over £33,000 has been awarded to 8 outstanding members, supporting innovative research across #immunology. Congratulations to all!
See the projects we're supporting here: bit.ly/4ptQwMx
Over £33,000 has been awarded to 8 outstanding members, supporting innovative research across #immunology. Congratulations to all!
See the projects we're supporting here: bit.ly/4ptQwMx
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Delighted to be an awardee of the BSI’s Career Enhancing Grant, enabling me to undertake a research visit to Dr. Alisha Chetty’s lab at University of Cape Town 🧫🧬
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Read our latest blog post from Sarah Newman, 1st year medical student and NIHR School for Primary Care Research intern who joined the CAESAR team this summer.
@riddmj.bsky.social
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
@capcbristol.bsky.social
caesar.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/13/h...
@riddmj.bsky.social
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
@capcbristol.bsky.social
caesar.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/13/h...
August 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Read our latest blog post from Sarah Newman, 1st year medical student and NIHR School for Primary Care Research intern who joined the CAESAR team this summer.
@riddmj.bsky.social
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
@capcbristol.bsky.social
caesar.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/13/h...
@riddmj.bsky.social
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
@capcbristol.bsky.social
caesar.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/13/h...
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🔬 #imageoftheweek Researchers at MRC CMM are exploring how Trichuris muris (a gut worm infecting 800M+ people) interacts with Candida albicans, a yeast found in most humans. Could they help or hinder each other?
📸 by @orlandorosss.bsky.social
#science #research #health #phd
📸 by @orlandorosss.bsky.social
#science #research #health #phd
August 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🔬 #imageoftheweek Researchers at MRC CMM are exploring how Trichuris muris (a gut worm infecting 800M+ people) interacts with Candida albicans, a yeast found in most humans. Could they help or hinder each other?
📸 by @orlandorosss.bsky.social
#science #research #health #phd
📸 by @orlandorosss.bsky.social
#science #research #health #phd
Reposted by Orlando Ross
🧫 Today's #ImageOfTheWeek is a dual species biofilm featuring Candida glabrata (pink) & Staphylococcus aureus (gold). These dense biofilms are resistant to antifungal drugs, making treatment extremely challenging.
📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social
#AMR #fungi #research
📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social
#AMR #fungi #research
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🧫 Today's #ImageOfTheWeek is a dual species biofilm featuring Candida glabrata (pink) & Staphylococcus aureus (gold). These dense biofilms are resistant to antifungal drugs, making treatment extremely challenging.
📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social
#AMR #fungi #research
📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social
#AMR #fungi #research
Palestine will be free.
June 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Palestine will be free.
Free Palestine. 🍉
May 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Free Palestine. 🍉
Had such an amazing day attending the GREMI meeting on epithelial immunity at the Institut Pasteur! #immunosky #GREMI
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Had such an amazing day attending the GREMI meeting on epithelial immunity at the Institut Pasteur! #immunosky #GREMI
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We’re thrilled to announce that applications for the FAILSAFE grants are NOW OPEN!
Grants of up to £250k available for innovative research tackling fungal antimicrobial resistance and advancing global health.
Learn more and apply here: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou...
#GlobalHealth #FAILSAFE
Grants of up to £250k available for innovative research tackling fungal antimicrobial resistance and advancing global health.
Learn more and apply here: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou...
#GlobalHealth #FAILSAFE
December 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for the FAILSAFE grants are NOW OPEN!
Grants of up to £250k available for innovative research tackling fungal antimicrobial resistance and advancing global health.
Learn more and apply here: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou...
#GlobalHealth #FAILSAFE
Grants of up to £250k available for innovative research tackling fungal antimicrobial resistance and advancing global health.
Learn more and apply here: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou...
#GlobalHealth #FAILSAFE
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Subscribe to this list to keep up to date with all of the incredible research coming out of the CMM 🍄🔬👩🔬
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December 13, 2024 at 11:52 AM
We've created a starter pack so that you can follow members of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in one go! We'll be updating this pack as members join Bluesky! 🦋
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Subscribe to this list to keep up to date with all of the incredible research coming out of the CMM 🍄🔬👩🔬
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Subscribe to this list to keep up to date with all of the incredible research coming out of the CMM 🍄🔬👩🔬
Reposted by Orlando Ross
Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
December 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
Hey, #mycosky #immunosky #microsky 👋🏻
Earlier in the year, we published a paper where we found that HPLM (human plasma-like media) induces Cryptococcus neoformans growth that closely represents those morphologies found in vivo 🧫🦠
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Earlier in the year, we published a paper where we found that HPLM (human plasma-like media) induces Cryptococcus neoformans growth that closely represents those morphologies found in vivo 🧫🦠
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Human plasma-like medium (HPLM) induces Cryptococcus neoformans in vivo cell morphologies | mSphere
We provide a description of new in vitro culture condition using the human plasma-like medium that supports the formation
of the full range of in vivo cell morphologies of C. neoformans.
doi.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Hey, #mycosky #immunosky #microsky 👋🏻
Earlier in the year, we published a paper where we found that HPLM (human plasma-like media) induces Cryptococcus neoformans growth that closely represents those morphologies found in vivo 🧫🦠
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Earlier in the year, we published a paper where we found that HPLM (human plasma-like media) induces Cryptococcus neoformans growth that closely represents those morphologies found in vivo 🧫🦠
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
#mycology, even at the weekends. Mushrooms on the moors, and mushrooms in our composter at the allotment. Back to the microscopic fungi tomorrow!
December 1, 2024 at 3:34 PM
#mycology, even at the weekends. Mushrooms on the moors, and mushrooms in our composter at the allotment. Back to the microscopic fungi tomorrow!
So fun to have a chance to display some biofilm electron microscopy as part of an art gallery earlier this year! Check out some of the amazing artwork researchers (artists) at the @mrccmm.bsky.social displayed and the stories behind these images!
We're excited to share our fungal artworks, commissioned for the Hidden World of Killer Fungi exhibit! These captivating visuals bring ground-breaking research to life. Now available online shorturl.at/N090i Thanks to @darrenthomson.bsky.social #MedicalMycology #Fungi #MycoSky #FungalFriday
November 29, 2024 at 2:14 PM
So fun to have a chance to display some biofilm electron microscopy as part of an art gallery earlier this year! Check out some of the amazing artwork researchers (artists) at the @mrccmm.bsky.social displayed and the stories behind these images!