The Powrie Lab
Powrie Lab news and Mucosal Immunology content! Based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social
Posts are by members of the Powrie Lab, not necessarily representative of the lab as a whole.
- New year, new paper! Thrilled to share that our review “Contextualising TH17 cells in cancer” is out now! Congratulations to Declan & team for a fantastic, in depth overview🥳 Go give it a read here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @natrevimmunol.nature.com @kiroxford.bsky.social
- Last night was our Lab Christmas party! Special thanks to Claire and Nick for organising some excellent party games for us (guessing the flavour of Skittles whilst blindfolded is much harder than you’d think!) and to Branca for hosting us🎅🎄🌟 @kiroxford.bsky.social @nickilott.bsky.social
- An excellent opportunity, please have a look at the position below!🧫👩🔬
- Hiring: Group Leader in Microbiome Studies! ✨ The successful candidate would establish & lead a new research group in human microbiome science, advancing understanding of microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions in health & disease. Apply by 22 Dec. www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/jobs/kennedy...
- We’re hiring! Two postdoctoral research positions are available in our lab - one in mucosal immunology, and one in exposome immunology (MRC CoRE)! Apply by December 22nd!🎄 Position 1: tinyurl.com/2mh44tn4 Position 2: tinyurl.com/5ffzxsfb @kiroxford.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
- Congratulations to our fantastic DPhil student, Henry, for defending his PhD thesis today!! It’s been a pleasure to have Henry in the lab & we miss him already! Go check out the review (linked below) if you’d like to see some of his work🥳🧑🔬 @kiroxford.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40252635/
- We’re very proud of our very own Dr Alice Bertocchi for winning a Kennedy Trust Transition Fellowship! Keep up the amazing work as always, Ali!🥳❤️
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- Day 4 and the final day of the BSI saw a fantastic talk from @labliston.bsky.social about Tregs in the brain and an excellent session devoted to “Barriers, bugs, and breakdowns” - right up our street! Thank you to all organisers and presenters @britsocimm.bsky.social for a great week in Liverpool🫶
- Day 3 of the BSI was a busy one, with Yuqing & Dehui presenting posters, and Ffion giving an excellent talk all about AMR Klebsiella dynamics in the gut! It was also great to see Dave Withers give a fantastic plenary talk!🧫🧬 @dehuic.bsky.social @yuqinglong.bsky.social @witherslab.bsky.social
- Day 2 of the BSI saw Gemma & Rachel from the lab presenting posters, as well as the lovely Anna Ahlback from the Maloy lab delivering a great talk on Hh infection and its impact on DSS colitis (go check out their new preprint!)👩🔬 @gemmala.bsky.social @rachelanscombe.bsky.social @aahlback.bsky.social
- Day 1 of the BSI 2025 on Monday saw the wonderful Judi Allen deliver a fabulous keynote talk! We were also very excited to see Judi share the news of our new MRC Exposome Immunology Manchester/Oxford collaboration👩🔬 @profjudiallen.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social
- Delighted to share that Fiona was awarded the FSI EFIS-IL Lecture Award last week as a keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Meeting of the French Society for Immunology! We’d like to warmly thank the SFI for the award, it was a pleasure to attend!🇫🇷👩🔬 @sfi-immunologie.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
- We’re thrilled to share that we’re part of the Experimental Medicine Collaboration (EMC) with GSK! The EMC will put translational science at the forefront of developing treatments for immune mediated inflammatory diseases👩🔬🧬🧫 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11... @gsk.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
- Some pics from our annual lab autumn walk! We went to the lovely Blenheim palace to get some steps in & enjoy the autumn leaves🍁🚶♀️🌳
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- Interested in joining the Powrie Lab? We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study the neutralisation capacity of human anti-IL-10 autoantibodies. You’ll be part of our new MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology!🧫🦠 Find out more here & apply by 11th Nov: bulletin.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/c/126QDJVBd0...
- Throwing it back a few weeks to the final meeting of the CRUK grand challenges optimisticc study! We had a great time in Boston discussing progress in the colorectal cancer & microbiome field - it’s been a real pleasure being part of this group!🧫🫶 @elayton13.bsky.social
- We’re delighted to hear that our favourite cell type (Regulatory T cells!) have been recognised in the Nobel Prize this year! Huge congratulations to Mary, Fred, and Shimon for their pivotal work in the field & here’s to many exciting Treg advances to come!🥳👏🎉
- Reposted by The Powrie LabA small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
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- September meant it was the Powrie labs turn to organise an institute social! We hosted “The Great Kennedy Bake Off” and had lots of tasty entries, as well as a cake decorating competition! Congratulations to our winners - Lynn for best bake and Osheen for best decorating!🍰🍪🧁 @kiroxford.bsky.social
- We had a fab time at our student symposium (KISS2025) this week! We really enjoyed everyone’s talks and poster presentations, with some super exciting keynote speakers! Amit, Natasha, and Rachel gave great overview talks and poster presentations on their DPhil projects👩🔬🧠 @kiroxford.bsky.social
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- Reposted by The Powrie LabWE ARE HIRING! www.manchester.ac.uk/exposome-jobs Vacancies inc. 3x PDRA positions, 2x data scientists and a Transition Fellowship in Air Pollution. Join us as we embark on a 14 year journey to understand how the exposome impacts immune regulation and chronic inflammation. #hiring #immunosky
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- We had a great time at Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference this week! It was especially exciting to be there for a session devoted entirely to Regulatory T cells🧫💉 @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
- We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼 @britsocimm.bsky.social @greenmanfest.bsky.social
- Some very exciting news to share!!
- Huge news! A £50M MRC CoRE will bring together Manchester & Oxford to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory disease. The CoRE will be Directed by Prof Judi Allen (Manchester) & co-Directed by Prof Dame Fiona Powrie, Director of the KIR. www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ps5...
- If you haven’t already signed up to The Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference 2025 yet, this is your reminder to! Based in Oxford on the 15th/16th of September, it’ll be a great opportunity to get up to date on recent progress in the field of Microbiome Science🦠🧫 web.cvent.com/event/9d50cf...
- It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️ @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
- Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰 @microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social
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- It’s been a great week in Prague for the Food, Microbiota, and Immunity conference! Claire gave a great talk and Dehui won an award for her poster presentation👏☀️🦠 #FMI2025 @dehuic.bsky.social
- We had a great time showing off our fabulous Gut Wall and making microbe pom poms with members of the public at the BRC Health Research Showcase last week at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre!🧫🦠 @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social @gemmala.bsky.social @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social
- Sharing some more pics from a fantastic week in Alghero for the ENII Advanced Immunology Summer School - we are all very sad to be leaving sunny Sardinia behind! Thanks to the wonderful organisers and speakers for an amazing week👩🔬🇮🇹🧑🔬 @efis-immunology.bsky.social
- Members of the lab have been having an excellent week at the ENII Summer School for Advanced Immunology! Tarrion, Emma, Rachel, and Sumaiya have presented their work as some great short talks and posters☀️🇮🇹
- Shoutout to our wonderful postdocs, India and Avery, for giving a fab talk at Pint of Science this week!🧬🍺👩🔬 @pintofscience.uk @indiabrough.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
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- Reposted by The Powrie LabMore good news this week - awarded a Junior Research Fellowship with @kelloggoxford.bsky.social starting Michaelmas term. A dream come true for a scientist with an educational pedagogy leaning. Looking forwarded to meeting the many #teachers in training and graduate students. #lifelonglearners
