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- 🎉 Registration OPEN! 🎉 The 3rd yEFIS Symposium is now open for registration! 📍 Prague | 📅 29 June – 1 July 2026 ✨ Keynotes • Talks • Posters • Workshops • Networking 📝 Abstract submission open 👉 Register via QR code or at yefis.org #yEFIS2026
- Reposted by yEFISWe are proud to share highlights of the ISI Annual Award for Immunology 2025 to Prof Derek Doherty @tcddublin.bsky.social🏆 As part of the ceremony, Prof Doherty gave a public lecture on “Harnessing the immune system to treat cancer.” 🎥 Watch the lecture here tcd.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... ☘️🔬
- Reposted by yEFIS🏆Nominations are OPEN for the 2026 EJI-EFIS Prize for the ECR Article of the Year! Best paper published in EJI (2025) by an early-career researcher wins €5,000 + travel grant to ECI 2027 (Florence)✈️ 🔗 Details & eligibility: bit.ly/41GeiMi 🫵 Self-nominations encouraged!
- Reposted by yEFIS🚨Happening tomorrow! Registration for free via the link 👇 #EFIS #EFISEducationTaskForce #LandmarkDiscoveriesInImmunology @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuisjuniorcomm.bsky.social
- 📢#EFIS Education Task Force webinar series in 2026! 💡Join us for an inspiring webinar exploring landmark discoveries that have shaped modern immunology. 🗓️27 Jan ⏰ 5:00 pm (CET) Registration is free, but places are limited—secure your spot via 👉 www.efisedu.de/webinar 🌍Share with your colleagues!
- Reposted by yEFIS⏰Last week to apply for #EFIS Eastern Star Award! 💡Check it out below and share with colleagues👇 🔗https://www.efis.org/efis/awards/eastern-star-award #immunology @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuisjuniorcomm.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social
- 📣Calling out to immunology leaders! 🌟 #EFIS Eastern Star Award - supporting immunology research in #EasternEurope with up to €10,000 for project consumables. 🌍Up to 3 awards annually for PIs from EFIS-affiliated societies. 🗓 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 🔗 www.efis.org/efis/awards/... #Immunology
- 🎤 Fourth Keynote Announcement Our keynote lineup is now complete – meet our final keynote speaker! ✨ Pavel Tolar Professor of B Cell Immunology, @ucl 📍 Prague | 29 June – 1 July 2026 🔗 Registration opens soon! #yEFIS2026 #KeynoteSpeaker #Immunology
- 🧬 Keynote title: “More than a trigger: the central role of B cell receptor signalling in B cell immunity and pathology”
- Pavel Tolar leads a research group focusing on B cell immunology. His work has been instrumental in uncovering how B cell receptor signalling enables antigen recognition and presentation, and how dysregulation of these processes contributes to immunodeficiency, allergy, and B-cell lymphomas.
- 🎤 Third Keynote Announcement Our keynote lineup is growing – meet our next keynote speaker! ✨Jenny Mjösberg Professor of Tissue Immunology, @karolinskainstitutet 🧬 Expertise: Innate lymphoid cells & mucosal immunology 📍 Prague | 29 June – 1 July 2026
- Jenny Mjösberg leads research focusing on the role of human innate lymphoid cells and T cells in mucosal homeostasis and inflammation.
- Her work has been pivotal in defining human ILC subsets and uncovering their heterogeneity, regulatory mechanisms, and relevance in airway and gastrointestinal diseases, including asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, and colorectal cancer.
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- Reposted by yEFISMark your calendars for April 29th as this year's #DayofImmunology webinar highlights the #RegulatoryTCell; the guardians within our immune system! Learn more👇 #DOI2026 #Tregs #ImmuneBalance @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social
- 🧬 Regulatory T cells are the unsung heroes keeping your immune system in check. And this year, they’re the stars of #DayofImmunology. 📅 April 29 is coming fast. 🎥 Catch up on past webinars: loom.ly/2L-Vo74 🔗 Learn more: loom.ly/yWRSIP0 #DOI2026 #Tregs #ImmunoHub #ImmuneBalance
- Reposted by yEFIS📢 We are hiring! 2 #Postdoctoral Positions in #NeuroImmunology in my group at @unisr.bsky.social , fully funded for 2 years. @syis-ecr.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social Details below 👇
- Reposted by yEFIS🚨Deadline coming up! 💡Don't miss your chance! Find out more about the #EFIS Eastern Star Awards 👇 @yefis-immunology.bsky.social
- 📣Calling out to immunology leaders! 🌟 #EFIS Eastern Star Award - supporting immunology research in #EasternEurope with up to €10,000 for project consumables. 🌍Up to 3 awards annually for PIs from EFIS-affiliated societies. 🗓 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 🔗 www.efis.org/efis/awards/... #Immunology
- Reposted by yEFIS🗞️January edition of the #EFIS NewsFlash is here! Check it out 👇 european-federation-of-immunological-societies.kit.com/posts/efis-n... @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social @eurjimmunol.bsky.social @dgfi-org.bsky.social @sfi-immunologie.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social
- 🎤 Second Keynote Announcement Meet our next keynote speaker: ✨ Ondřej Štěpánek (@imgprague) 🧬 “Signaling pathways instruct fate choices in T cells” 📍 Prague | 29 June – 1 July 2026 🔗 Registration opens soon! #yEFIS2026 #Keynote #Immunology
- 👉 Ondřej Štěpánek leads the Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity in Prague, where his research focuses on how T cells integrate receptor and co-receptor signals to guide fate decisions, shape tolerance, immunity, and disease.
- 👉 His work bridges molecular signaling with autoimmunity, tumor immunity, and thymic development.
- 📣 Reminder: see you today at 2 PM! 🎉
- 📣 Save the date! 🔹 Breaking the Maternal Wall | Panel Discussion 🗓 Jan 14 | 🕑 14:00 CET 🎙️ Motherhood & careers in science, academia & industry 📝 Register: tinyurl.com/yefis2026-ia1
- 📣 The Società Italiana di Immunologia, Immunologia Clinica e Allergologia (SIICA) is delighted to announce that registrations are now open for the Virtual Advanced School of Immunology (SoI) 2026, to be held March 2–5, 2026, online! 🌐 Register here 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- For further information, please contact siica.school@siica.it and consult the detailed program. 📑
- 🎤 First Keynote Announcement ✨ Femke van Wijk Professor of Tissue Immunology, @umcutrecht 🧬 “A Journey in Translational Immunology and Team Science” 📍 Prague | 29 June – 1 July 2026 🔗 More speakers coming soon! #yEFIS2026 #KeynoteSpeaker #Immunology
- Reposted by yEFIS👉 Submit your abstract: forms.gle/HPDyFxQnyuUB... Questions? Reach out: yspi@spimunologia.org Let’s build a vibrant community for young scientists! 🔬💡
- Reposted by yEFIS🚀 Exciting news from ySPI! We're launching our new Season Webinars — created by early-career researchers, for early-career researchers. A space to share your work, spark meaningful discussions, and grow together 🌱
- 🎉 The Romanian Society of Immunology (SIR) is launching the Young Romanian Society of Immunology (yRSI)! If you are an early-career immunologist from the SIR looking to connect with others in the field, now is your chance to get involved! 👉Join yRSI and become part of the community.
- 🔗 Here are all the links you need: - yRSI LinkedIn Community Page: www.linkedin.com/company/youn... - SIR LinkedIn Community Page: www.linkedin.com/in/romanian-... - SIR Facebook Page: web.facebook.com/profile.php?... -yRSI Facebook Page: web.facebook.com/profile.php?...
- 📣 Save the date! 🔹 Breaking the Maternal Wall | Panel Discussion 🗓 Jan 14 | 🕑 14:00 CET 🎙️ Motherhood & careers in science, academia & industry 📝 Register: tinyurl.com/yefis2026-ia1
- 🧬 Postdoc Opportunity Junior postdoctoral position in spatial transcriptomics & immunology at Inserm UMR1227 (Brest, France). Focus on Visium HD, Xenium, CosMx and single-cell transcriptomics in Sjögren’s disease. 📩 marie.frutoso@univ-brest.fr 🔗 More info: www.yefis.org/resources/jo...
- Reposted by yEFIS(1/6) 🚀New in 2026: ySPI Career Seminars We are launching the ySPI Career Seminars, an initiative by our Young SPI (ySPI) group to support early career researchers.
- Reposted by yEFIS📣Calling out to immunology leaders! 🌟 #EFIS Eastern Star Award - supporting immunology research in #EasternEurope with up to €10,000 for project consumables. 🌍Up to 3 awards annually for PIs from EFIS-affiliated societies. 🗓 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 🔗 www.efis.org/efis/awards/... #Immunology
- 🎉✨ Happy Holidays from yEFIS! ✨ Thank you for being part of our amazing community in 2025. Wishing you joyful holidays and an inspiring 2026! We can’t wait to keep growing together! 💛❄️🥂
- Reposted by yEFIS🎉Happy Holidays from EFIS! ✨Wishing our immunology community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring start to the new year. 🔬Thank you for your dedication, collaboration, and contributions to advancing immunological research across Europe and beyond. 🙌 Here’s to an exciting year ahead!
- Reposted by yEFIS📚This prize will first be recognized at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI) and then formally conferred at the ECI 2027 in Florence where 2025, 2026 and 2027 prize winners will be invited to present their research. @yefis-immunology.bsky.social
- Reposted by yEFISZum Jahresende noch ein Anliegen in eigener Sache 😊 wir haben eine befristete Stelle frei und freuen uns auf 📃 Bewerbungen. Vielen Dank! @dgfi-yi.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social
- 🤝 To promote representation and diversity, yEFIS is creating a 🌟 Rising Star 🌟 list of researchers to support speaker selection. 📝 Please nominate rising stars in your network via this form: 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe73pDfFGYBi_hKVqNjkFA65tcb5_KRx3LGpirBzmNMR6dyug/viewform
- 🔗https://www.yefis.org/yefis/working-groups/equity-diversity-wg
- 🎉 The new yEFIS website is now live! 🌐 We’re happy to share that our new website is officially online, check it out 👉https://www.yefis.org/
- 🎉 Welcome @irishimmunology.bsky.social!
- 👋Bluesky! The Irish Society for Immunology and young ISI just landed! We’re excited to share immunology news, events and research from across Ireland. Follow along to connect with us! ☘️ @efis-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social
- Reposted by yEFIS🎉 Celebrating Excellence in Immunology! We’re proud to share a special feature and a video from the first-ever #EFIS Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony during #IUIS2025, honoring Prof. Klaus Rajewsky. Watch the 📽️ and read the full piece on our website 👇 www.efis.org/news/celebra...
- 👉 Save the date! SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works. 🎙️Expert talks 💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session ✍️ More details coming soon!
- Reposted by yEFIS🙂 Warm invitation to the next DGfI Young Immunologists - Seminar Series on Dec 9, 2025 | 17:00 (CET) | via Zoom. 💡Registration is free: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Further information: dgfi.org/young-immuno... @dgfi-yi.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuisjuniorcomm.bsky.social
- 📢 We're SO EXCITED to host Prof. Jean-Laurent Casanova (@casanovalab.bsky.social) for our upcoming YI Seminar. If you're someone excited about the the human genetics of infectious diseases, this ain't a seminar you should miss! Do register at shorturl.at/J6gPh
- 👉 During our 5th General Assembly, we officially kicked off a new chapter for #yEFIS, and we’re excited to present our newly elected Board! 🎉
- Meet the team leading yEFIS forward 👇 Dr Eleonora Timperi — Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Dr Vivien Kohlhaas — The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom Dr Martin Martín González-Rodríguez — Tampere University, Finland Dr Myriam Nabhan — University College Dublin, Ireland
- Our new Board has already begun working to strengthen the voice and visibility of early-career immunologists across Europe, and we can’t wait to share what’s coming next.
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- Reposted by yEFIS🧬 Have you taken the survey yet? EFIS, yEFIS & University of Exeter want to hear from anyone working in immunology. loom.ly/Ud8A7s4 @efis-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social
- 📢 Happening today!
- ✨ Save the date! 📅 19 November • 2 PM CET 🧬 Join the EACR–yEHA–yEFIS webinar on CAR T cells 🔗 Registration: www.eacr.org/meeting/free...
- 📣 Save the Date! We are excited to share that the 3rd yEFIS Symposium will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from 🗓️ 29th June to 1st July 2026! 🔗 Stay tuned for registration details and the full program!
- 🌟 Big thanks to the @efis-immunology.bsky.social Board and the Romanian Society of Immunology for hosting us in Bucharest! 🙌 Special thanks to Elena Georgiana Dobre for her dedication in building the young Romanian immunology community together with #yEFIS!
- Reposted by yEFISA big #thankyou to all speakers, attendees and organizers for the great 19th #EFISonTour Symposium on Nov 14 at the Victor Babes National Institute in Bucharest. Wide range of topics were covered - looking forward to continued collaboration in #immunology in the region! #romaniansocietyofimmunology
- ✨ Save the date! 📅 19 November • 2 PM CET 🧬 Join the EACR–yEHA–yEFIS webinar on CAR T cells 🔗 Registration: www.eacr.org/meeting/free...
- Reposted by yEFIS🔥 Hot off the press in EJI! 📝 A new Commentary by Zens & van Gisbergen (bit.ly/4i5PJiE) reveals how the bone marrow forms a diverse, compartmentalized niche for resident T cells by 🔎 highlighting key findings from Schneider Revueltas et al. (bit.ly/47Y7I5G) and Pulvirenti et al. (bit.ly/4pcoFQZ).
- 📢 Don’t miss today’s episode! 👇
- yEFIS Career Fridays Episode 5️⃣: Bridging science and medicine 🧪💊 🗓️ November 14th 13:00 CET 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yefiscareer2...
