"So the activated C1 cleaves C4 into C4a and C4b, which binds to the microbial surface. C4b then binds C2, which is cleaved by C1s into C2a and C2b, forming the C4b2b complex, also known as C3 convertase, which cleaves C3 into C3a and C3b."

scientist after sequencing lots of single cells

"The scientific community needs to engage with all sectors of society in a thoughtful, energetic campaign in support of educators, researchers and communicators so that the ability to discern the truth becomes part of our children’s DNA." Timothy Caulfield scientificamerican.com/article/young-…

A good time recently for papers! Here is the first from the team UniSA Future Industries Institute were the development of MAPC dressings can be used to accelerate diabetic healing. This technology is being developed further by the team TekCyte frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Surely there is a better way to show each day in AGL's electricity app 😅 Terrible data presentation AGL

A beautiful review out this week by our group describing how the microbiota can influence how well cancer treatments work - congrats Stephen Blake and colleagues!

We're looking for healthy, young (18-35yo) participants in Adelaide for our new study! Participants must be willing to take a course of antibiotics 💊 + undergo vaccination 💉and multiple blood draws 🩸+ self-collect stool samples 💩 ➡️Find out more here sahmri.org.au/avirs

SAHMRI researchers are seeking healthy individuals to help understand how to make vaccines more effective for more people. We're looking to determine whether gut bacteria influence immune responses after vaccination. 🦠 Find out more ➡ sahmri.org.au/avirs

Bravo Anita Kral for a fabulous talk Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻 Sharing her ‘lung in a dish’ work on asthma! BD Biosciences Communications Award session #ASI2023NZ Centre for Cancer Biology @ACILab

Loving the spatial biology at #ASI2023NZ this year - Carl Feng presenting an approach to spatially assess TB granulomas and classify lesion types Carl Feng Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology

If your employer wants you to use multi-factor authentication, then I would say they need to provide you with two internet-connected devices to do it. I'm all for improved security, but since when was it ok to make my personal phone essential for accessing my work email account?

Excited for our first Seattle Kraken game @ Climate Pledge arena - all the way from Australia! 🏒 #seakraken

Really excited to contribute to this collaborative project - demonstrating the importance of colostrum in mucosal immune development

After weeks of training, this week myself and 17 other local scientists tried our hand at comedy at Adelaide Fringe over five sold-out shows. I had a blast making my science funny with Future Science Talks ! 💉💩🦠🎭

Answer any immunology question with knowledge graphs + novel hypothesis + insights immunologpt.com

Our lab at SAHMRI is looking for a Research Assistant 🔬- ideally someone with experience handling clinical samples, and some basic skills in either immunology, microbiology or molecular biology 🧫🧬🩸 sahmri.org.au/careers-and-st…