Vivien Shek
@vshek.bsky.social
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Decoding immune responses to S. mansoni in the MacDonald lab 🪱🔬📊
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sppirit-network.bsky.social
📢 Just 1 month to go until our SPPIRIT ECR symposium

📝 Abstract deadline extended to 10 October 2025 - don’t miss out!
sppirit-network.bsky.social
📢 7 weeks to go until our SPPIRIT symposium

A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.

🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h

Secure your spot today!
Hostbusters: SPPIRITed to Roslin
Bringing together ECR parasitologists from across Scotland to network and showcase their science.
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vshek.bsky.social
Delighted to share this story from my PhD! 🎉 🪱
henrymcsorley.bsky.social
Latest McSorley lab paper is out! Led by Vivien @vshek.bsky.social, this is a story about the immunomodulators from H. polygyrus bakeri (Hpb), and how their analysis led to the identification of HpBoRB, a secreted protein which binds host RELM-beta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Graphic abstract of paper showing the identification of HpBoRB, a worm protein which binds RELM-beta
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profandrewmac.bsky.social
The end of #EMDS2025 - so much amazing science, and great to meet up in person with so many friends and colleagues (and make some new ones!). Very proud of @vshek.bsky.social and @nwasowska.bsky.social winning poster prizes for the team - well done both!
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sppirit-network.bsky.social
📢 7 weeks to go until our SPPIRIT symposium

A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research.

🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h

Secure your spot today!
Hostbusters: SPPIRITed to Roslin
Bringing together ECR parasitologists from across Scotland to network and showcase their science.
tinyurl.com
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hanniepower.bsky.social
Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026!
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
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biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
HpBoRB, a helminth-derived CCP domain protein which binds RELMβ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656348v1
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parasitematt.bsky.social
Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Fully and generously funded by a donation from the Kyner-Field family with full fees at overseas level. Join us!
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
vshek.bsky.social
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henrymcsorley.bsky.social
🚨 New McSorley lab paper just out in Cell Reports!

Very happy to see this published - it has been a lot of work, and its turned into a really nice story.

In it, we show that HpARI+HpBARI can be used as vaccines

Tutorial thread below (1/16):

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vaccination against helminth IL-33 modulators permits immune-mediated parasite ejection
The murine intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hpb) modulates the host immune response via the Hpb alarmin release inhibitor (HpARI)…
www.sciencedirect.com
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emds2025.bsky.social
🚨 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!!

Head to www.emds2025.com to register and submit your abstracts. Full programme is now available.

NB: Spaces are limited, so don't delay, register today!

@britsocimm.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social
@societymucosalimm.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.nature.com
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edinburghimmuno.bsky.social
The spring EIG session is coming this Thursday on 1st of May. Please join us from 13:30 in @edinuni-irr.bsky.social IRR South seminar room 1.05 for fantastic talks by Dr. Elizabeth Mann, Dr. Tovah Shaw and Prof. Hamida Hammad. See you there!
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amyhbuck.bsky.social
Very excited to share this collaborative work led by Kyriaki Neophytou. An extracellular Argonaute from a nematode parasite is transmitted to host cells and the non-vesicular form is functionally important (and now a vaccine candidate). An Argonaute vaccine... who would have thought.
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
A non-vesicular Argonaute protein is transmitted from nematode to mouse and is important for parasite survival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646544v1
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emds2025.bsky.social
Welcome to the BSky account for EMDS2025.

Please follow us to hear about updates & deadlines for EMDS2025: Scotland Edition.

Check out www.emds2025.com for full details - registration will open soon.

We look forward to welcoming you all to the wonderful city of Edinburgh in September.
vshek.bsky.social
Excited to start this next chapter in the @profandrewmac.bsky.social Lab! I’ll be exploring how Schistosoma mansoni shapes immune responses in the gut. Looking forward to new discoveries, collaborations, and plenty of worm talk! 🪱🐌🔬
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profandrewmac.bsky.social
Join us in Edinburgh in September for the 38th European #Macrophage and #DendriticCell Society meeting! We have a great lineup of speakers and are looking forward to all the fantastic talks and interactions that make this meeting special. #EMDS #ImmunoSky 🧪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔬 www.emds2025.com
EMDS 2025. Online registration by Cvent
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peronalab.bsky.social
I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
We're based in the Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh. Photo shows the main staircase in the entrance to the Ashworth, stone steps from the 1920s, decorated with a series of bright, colurful banners depicting the science that's tackled in the building.
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peronalab.bsky.social
Our search for a flow cytometry core facility manager for King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, is finally live. Join us!

Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended.

Apply by 17 March.

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Flow Facility Manager
We are looking for a facility manager for the SBS flow cytometry core facility. This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) with most of that time expected to be on campus in the flow facility. W...
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henrymcsorley.bsky.social
Christmas biscuits from the lab!! I must get a new red check shirt…
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henrymcsorley.bsky.social
PhD available in the excellent @peronalab.bsky.social of Georgia Perona-Wright. The only downside of the PhD for the student is that I will also be involved. Its a cool project and will be a fun collaboration!
peronalab.bsky.social
An excellent PhD opportunity available in our team: long-range consequences of parasite infection, gut-lung communication and helminth-viral co-infection. Part of the EastBio training programme. Closing date 17th January. Please get in touch!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EastBio: Long-range consequences of intestinal helminth infection. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Long-range consequences of intestinal helminth infection. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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henrymcsorley.bsky.social
Congratulations @vshek.bsky.social ! First PhD from the Dundee Mcsorley lab, second one will be coming from Nicole (left) very soon hopefully!
Vivien Shek, her PhD thesis, and Nicole. It is very cold today!
vshek.bsky.social
Grateful for every moment, every challenge, and every bit of growth. Here’s to new beginnings and all that lies ahead! 🥂📘 #PhD #Graduation #Milestone #Gratitude