Standard grants should be 5 years. Tenure track should be 7 years. Expectations have gone up so much, lower is just unrealistic. Short grant cycles are bad for science, and bad for scientists, just increasing the pressure and tension while reducing creativity and reproducibility

Join us virtually or in London The Crick on Thurs 25th April to celebrate the Day of Immunology. This year we will focus on the immune system in pregnancy and in early life eventbrite.co.uk/e/immunity-in-… with British Society for Immunology nature Nature Immunology

Out now in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Employing Snow flake (individuals) and Snow shovel (population) approaches in defining and developing broadly protective vaccines @ Dr Peter Marks (FDA) and @ Prof Galit Alter (Moderna) #worldvaccinecongress2024 #wvc #vaccineimmunity #vaccinedevelopment

Employing Snow flake (individuals) and Snow shovel (population) approaches in defining and developing broadly protective vaccines @ Dr Peter Marks (FDA) and @ Prof Galit Alter (Moderna) #worldvaccinecongress2024 #wvc #vaccineimmunity #vaccinedevelopment World Vaccine Congress

How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Excited to share this #StrepA human challenge preprint from a 🌟 team. Hannah Frost Danika Hill Nikki Moreland Reuben McGregor Alana Whitcombe LicciardiLab Jonathan Carapetis et al. Before/after serum IgG & saliva IgA for 19 #StrepA antigens & more 😊 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Flt3L-/- humans!!!

Biggest paper yet from the lab out now in Immunity! It is a massive #openscience resource on #tissueTregs, and what makes #Tregs tick in the #tissues. Spoiler-alert: Tissue Tregs are really different from what we all thought. 🧵 1/21 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A guard of honour to salute Prof Glenda Gray, President & CEO of the SAMRC. Having served 10yrs within this role, her leadership leaves the nobility of impactful scientific outcomes that are dedicated to improving the health of all South Africans. Thank you for your commitment.

🏆 StrepA Outbreak Prevention Team Institute for Molecular Bioscience are awarded the AIDRC Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/bIqXK4VfFMI

Can targeting the immune checkpoint TIGIT improve bacterial clearance during infection? Check out our latest study by Timothy McCulloch and collaborators ICB - the journal exploring TIGIT blockade as potential immunotherapy for infection. Translational Research Institute UQ Medicine shorturl.at/XNIJU

Dalot is not a left-back, we are conceding silly goals because of him. Why not play Harry Amas? #PORMUN

How is Bruno Fernandez a Man Utd Captain??? 😂😂😂#PORMUN

(1/4) Our newest discovery on B-cell memory, just published Immunity: the development of memory B cells from germinal centers requires IL-9 derived from T cells, which instructs MBC development through the action of transcription factor ZBTB18. cell.com/immunity/fullt…

Build that Man his Statue, ONE HARRY MAGUIRE!! Manchester United Legend….

"Maternal #GutMicrobiota influences immune activation at the maternal-fetal interface affecting pregnancy outcome" nature.com/articles/s4146…

An mRNA vaccine encoding five conserved Group A Streptococcus antigens | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…