Prof of Molecular Immunology at University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of the Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre at UoB. Father of two manic girls.
Joined September 2012
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Exciting day for us launching our new #DiversityandInclusion framework! I’m so proud of the team and our membership for all we’ve done to date, but there’s always more we can do. Have a read to see how we are going to take this forward with our members and wonderful community 👇
✨Today we launch our #DiversityAndInclusion framework which renews our commitment to #EDI
It outlines how we’re going to work with our members & #immunology community to ramp up our work
#EDI is vital to the future of #immunology!
Read more ➡️bit.ly/3GwFroZ 1/n
ALT Cover of the British Society for Immunology diversity and inclusion framework featuring different coloured blocks and diverse characters dressed as construction workers as part of 'work in progress' concept
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26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK. #Uvalde
Great to get McMurray et al out in Cell Reports, a page turner about transcriptional control of adaptive gd T cells. Thx to all co-authors and congrats to the talented @JackMcMurray. Strong similarities to ab T cells bring things back to ligand recognition as key gd USP.
Thanks to all who contributed to this study, @martindavey85 @DrAnoukvB @WillcoxCarrie @MariaSharif_ @helenmed @Jamie_Rossjohn and others, and congratulations to first author @JackMcMurray 🥳
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An ‘immunoantibiotic’ drug launches a two-pronged attack on antibiotic-resistant microbes. Learn more this terrific N&V by @Youcef_Mehellou & @profbenw
go.nature.com/3bvqshm
Super-impressive study by Singh et al in Nature on an ‘immunoantibiotic’ approach to tackle drug resistant microbes, enlisting help from γδ T cells. Check out our News and Views, co-authored with @Youcef_Mehellou. go.nature.com/3bvqshm @NatureNV @ImmunologyUoB @IMIBirmingham
Massive congratulations to David Bending for scooping an MRC Career Development Fellowship ! Great to see a young scientist get career-changing support. So happy for him and @BendingLab.
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Signed, sealed, delivered, installed and operational ! Thanks to @menala76 and the GE team for setting up our new ÄKTA Pure. Here's to the next 17 years ! #AKTA #chromatography #proteinpurification
In case you've been wondering what γδ T cells have been getting up to over the last 500m years, check out our latest review.
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Check out our new paper in Immunity 👉🏻 “Butyrophilin-like 3 Directly Binds a Human Vγ4+ T Cell Receptor Using a Modality Distinct from Clonally-Restricted Antigen”
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#gdTcells @forum_gd @unibirm_MDS @CIIC_UoB @ImmunologyUoB @ImmunityCP #immunology #Tcells
Read our Nat Comm study suggesting some human gamma delta T cells are MUCH more adaptive than thought ! bit.ly/2lDzNab #immunology
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Mike Stubbington (Sanger Centre), seminar: “Exploring T cell fate and clonality using single cell transcriptomes”. TODAY Mon 9th S104, 3pm
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Welcome to Week 2 of our Cancer Immunotherapy MOOC at Future Learn.Q: Why is cancer such a challenge for the immune system? #FLCancerTherapy
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Great to see over 300 folks have played our ImmuneSmart Cell Challenge !
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#FLCancerTherapy
Massive thanks to Heather Long for all her work on the #FLCancerTherapy #mooc, and UoB's awesome MOOC team for making it happen
Fantastic to get our Cancer Immunotherapy #mooc going. Inspiring to see so many folks from around the world engaging! #FLCancerTherapy
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Still time to sign up if you want to learn why Cancer Immunotherapy is a step-change in cancer treatment.
futurelearn.com/courses/canc…
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Welcome to everyone starting our Cancer Immunotherapy MOOC today at Future Learn (#FLCancerTherapy). We hope you enjoy the course !!
