Alessandro Matera

Photo of all our team members at our international lab dinner, with some of the dishes at the front of the picture

Celebrating our annual international lab dinner 🎉 👨🏽‍🍳 🧑🏻‍🍳

We are so fortunate to have this amazing team of motivated scientists, and very talented cooks 🤩 sharing delicious food & culture from around the world 🌍🌎🌏

Grateful for our #international #team 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧🇪🇬🇩🇪🇵🇹🇲🇽🇮🇪 - this truly enriches our science 🙏 🙌

How can we reawaken the body’s own anti-viral defenses to fight brain cancer?

Delighted to share our new study where we now answer this question, led by the brilliant @alvarezprado.bsky.social who is now an independent PI at LIH Luxembourg 👏👏

#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🧪
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A conference that will explore how the involvement of cancer advocates can lead to impactful cancer research. Do not miss it!

EACR-@themarkfdn.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded for a period of three years and support excellent postdoctoral researchers in laboratories throughout Europe. Is that you?

Apply by 20 August: eacr.org/eacr-fellows...

Cell Press: STAR Protocols STAR Protocols is an open access, peer-reviewed journal from Cell Press. We offer structured, transparent, accessible, and repeatable step-by-step experimental and computational protocols from all are...

In vitro assay for #microglial #engulfment and #degradation of #synaptosomes in fixed and live samples, using #confocal imaging. Curious how it works? Check out our article (@ACCompagnion and @paolicellilab.bsky.social) in @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social.

star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4321

Have you submitted your abstract for Cancer Neuroscience yet? You still have one month left to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to showcase your own research and explore this exciting and rapidly evolving topic with international leaders of the field.

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Wishing our amazing postdoc @lbejarano.bsky.social continued success and happiness - as she leaves us to start her own lab in Spain 🎉🥳

Leire has been one of the most positive, creative, and kind scientists I've had the privilege to mentor - we shall all miss you so much!

#NewPI 🤩
#ProudMentor 😊

Interested in learning more about cancer models that span in vitro investigations to in vivo cancer biology? Join the EACR in Essen, from 23-25 Sept 2025 for Goodbye Flat Biology! 🔬🧪 #CancerResearch #Oncology

Why do brain metastases resist #immunotherapy — even when the same cancer responds outside the #brain? 🧠🧪💥

We just published a study diving into this question ⏬

Led by an amazing (former) PhD student in my lab —Vladimir Wischnewski 🎉

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@cp-cellreports.bsky.social

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thrilled to see our vascular atlas across primary and metastatic brain tumors finally out in Immunity! 😍 🍾

Thanks to @johannajoyce.bsky.social for her invaluable mentorship and to all the authors involved! 🎉

How does the #vasculature regulate #immune cell infiltration & function across different brain tumors? 🧠🧪

Excited to share our latest study in #Immunity where we uncover some interesting answers— led by the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social 🤩👏🏻

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@cp-immunity.bsky.social

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Well done to the first recipients of the EACR-Mark Foundation postdoc fellowships 🎉🎊

And a happy coincidence that all three awardees are women scientists in the labs of three women PIs 🙌

#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience 👩‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧪

@themarkfdn.bsky.social
@helloeacr.bsky.social
@juliemmazet.bsky.social

The EACR stands against threats to cancer research. Protecting scientific research is vital for progress and and the development of new treatments. Read our full statement in support of our friends and colleagues in the US: eacr.org/statement-on...

Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.

Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make.
Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/in...

Thank you very much Johanna. I am very happy with my achievements during the PhD, and excited about this scientific journey as a postdoc, in this amazing lab 🤩

Excited to see the new issue of @cp-immunity.bsky.social, with our cover 😍 RosaChiaraPaolicelli & Anne-ClaireCompagnion

For cancer biologist Johanna Joyce, teaching is essential to being a well-rounded scientist Advice on finding a supportive academic environment, building inclusivity in science, tackling scientific problems with an open mind, and more from Dr. Joyce.

#50ScientistsThatInspire 🧪

A collection created by @cellpress.bsky.social for #Cell50 🎉

Including inspiring #scientists and committed #advocates in their communities 🙌

In this 🧵 I'll share some of the interviews - including this Q&A we did 👇

Its an honor to be part of this incredible list 🙏 🙏

Microglial lipid phosphatase SHIP1 limits complement-mediated synaptic pruning in the healthy developing hippocampus The gene inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase D (INPP5D), which encodes the lipid phosphatase SH2-containing inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase 1 (S…

Thrilled to share this article, which was the main work of my Ph.D. thesis, about the role of #SHIP1 as a modulator of #microglia function in early #brain #development. Special thanks to @rosa_paolicelli, @AnneCompagnion, and all the co-authors!

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To a fantastic new year with a wonderful team 🥂

Happy holidays!! 🎄

I’m thrilled to announce that I will lead the Translational Cancer Immunogenomics lab at the @LIH_Luxembourg ! 🥳🥳🥳

We’re looking for an experienced technician, if you’re interested in #braincancer, #immunology and/or #genomics, please apply below! 🧬

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Hi friends 👋
We are a lab of curious researchers - dedicated to understanding and ultimately helping treat cancer

Our lab is led by Johanna Joyce, and we are students, postdocs & technicians from all over the world
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We love doing science 🧪🔬 and living in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland!