Attached are the last three anti-TB posters sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation in France before WWII. They advise on how to avoid or combat TB with simple measures of hygiene. Anti-mycobacterial drugs had not been discovered yet 😀

Our London #WorldTBDay2019 symposium will be streamed live here: bit.ly/2VYhSwK (password is TBDay). Join us online if you can't be there in person. The day's lineup and timetable are at ucl.ac.uk/tb/world-tb-da… - talk titles to follow soon. LSHTM TB Centre The Francis Crick Institute

Excellent grand round The HTD from Gabriele Pollara on what causes pathology in Tuberculosis. The HTD we contribute to the North London TB Service bit.ly/2FsRBBa based Whittington Health NHS Trust where patients concerned they may have TB can be seen at one of our walk-in clinic

Let's keep in mind that TB is not only infectious but also genetic, as shown in this classic 1943 paper. Defeating TB will require an understanding of its human genetic and immunological basis, at the molecular and cellular levels. academic.oup.com/jhered/article… #WorldTuberculosisDay

Blood transcriptional biomarkers improve stratification of short-term disease risk in TB contacts Up to 50% PPV for progression to active #TB! IDSA Team Mahdad Noursadeghi @antijroe Dr Cristina Venturini @rishgupta1986 Benny Chain Ibrahim Abubakar & Innate2Adaptive academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Our latest paper using machine learning to discover early markers for disease risk in TB contacts is out in CID academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Delighted to hear that our paper on tissue metabolism shaping immune responses to TB was one of JID's most downloaded papers in last 2 years! (esp cos only been out 1 year! 😉) #immunometabolism IDSA academic.oup.com/jid/article/21…

Fantastic depiction of the powerful efficacy of vaccines against infectious diseases (source: sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/h… in @sciencemagazine)

QuantiFish: our new tools to quantify dissemination of pathology in #zebrafish Authors: David Stirling @DrElizaGil Phil Elks @Myco_Traps Mahdad Noursadeghi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New post available in our group at UCL for a post-doctoral bioinformatician interested in functional genomics of human immune responses in tuberculosis: atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/… Please RT.

Our paper on QuantiFish - a #zebrafish fluorescence analysis tool - has been published in Scientific Reports! Many thanks to everyone involved, especially Gillian Tomlinson. nature.com/articles/s4159…

New in Annals of the ATS... Q: What is the incremental value of the new TB2 antigen tube in the QuantiFERON Plus assay for predicting incident TB among recent contacts? A: It is highly correlated with the TB1 tube, so any added value is likely to be v. subtle! doi.org/10.1513/Annals…

Yes, everyone, there is indeed a biological process called VOMOCYTOSIS 🤮 #HIV #cryptococcus Out now in PLOS Pathogens and 👏 to Lucy Bell David Stirling Mahdad Noursadeghi Leanne Taylor-Smith Dalan Bailey & Robin May - is now over on BLUESKY instead.

The UK has now performed >10,000 tests for #SARSCoV2! Can see clear increase in testing when case definition widened to increase Italy & Iran. Now >1200 tests / day 😯 Herculean effort by @PHE_uk labs from a standing start. #COVID19 (source: Department of Health and Social Care data).

Postdoc/RA position integrating cutting-edge human and zebrafish models to study the immunopathogenesis of TB, using transcriptomics and CRISPR

I have a PhD😃🥂😮‍💨in TB Vaccinology With huge thanks to my supervisors Benny Chain & Mahdad Noursadeghi, my great pals in Innate2Adaptive & UCL Division of Infection & Immunity esp T cell vaccine Lab UCL 🧬👩🏽‍💻 & Tahel Ronel, my examiners and my family & all who provided childcare Dedicated to my dear father, Prof Richard Wise

Our Nature Microbiology asking what’s special about pandemic HIV Capsid is finally out. Thanks to Lorena Zuliani Alvarez, PhD for her green fingers, patience and general brilliance. Here’s some answers to the questions we get from eg @stuartjdneil

🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 Ever wondered what the role of IL-6 was in TB? 🤔 A Mendelian randomisation analysis using data from 16 GWAS later... 🎯 Reduced IL-6 signalling ➡️ *lower* risk of TB disease! 1st author-Gus Hamilton #TB #Tuberculosis #IDtwitter medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 1/6

TLDR: Blood RNA biomarkers for TB? ..still limited by specificity & can’t be used for confirmatory test. What about triage test? No advantage to direct Mtb PCR testing for people who produce sputum!

Great to have you back Lucy Bell - looking forward to working with you again🥳