Brian Chan

I, alongside others from the Lydia Becker Institute will be running the AJ Bell Great Manchester Run 10K on 31 May 2026.

We are raising money for The Society For Mucopolysaccharide Diseases.

www.justgiving.com/page/run-bri...

Thank you to ThermoScientific for sponsorship

We are so proud of Georgia - winning a prize for her amazing talk on our favourite molecule Ym1 @britsocimm.bsky.social - Delay in posting because I needed to get the photo from Brian @thelabninja.bsky.social (the lab photographer!)

Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.

Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🎉🎉
@hetompkins.bsky.social @drtesutherland.bsky.social @mattoburgess.bsky.social @james-ep.bsky.social
@profjudiallen.bsky.social

New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases A groundbreaking £50M research centre at Manchester and Oxford will explore how environmental exposures, like pollution and microbes, rewire our immune system and drive chronic inflammatory diseases.

🚨 A new £50M MRC Centre at @manchester.ac.uk and @ox.ac.uk will explore how pollution, microbes & other environmental exposures rewire our immune system and cause chronic inflammatory diseases.
#Exposome #ImmunoSky

sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker...

Centre to study how exposome causes chronic inflammatory disease A new Medical Research Council (MRC) centre will investigate how the environment interacts with our immune system to trigger chronic inflammatory diseases.

Super excited to announce that MRC has funded a new Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology. Working together, Manchester and Oxford are going to tackle a major challenge of our times. For those who wonder what the Exposome is - see yesterday's posts! www.ukri.org/news/centre-...

We're based in the Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh. Photo shows the main staircase in the entrance to the Ashworth, stone steps from the 1920s, decorated with a series of bright, colurful banners depicting the science that's tackled in the building.

I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.

Really pleased with our new research team lab photo taken by
@thelabninja.bsky.social

Migratory dermal gamma delta T cells determine the balance between lung immunity and tissue damage during Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infection Many helminth parasites migrate through multiple host organs during infection but how immunity is regulated across these tissues is still poorly understood. To investigate the cellular and molecular a...

What a great way to start this account and end the week: our preprint describing how dermal γδ T cells mediate a skin-lung axis during parasite infection in mice is online! I'm excited to show the findings of my main postdoc project with @profjudiallen.bsky.social!🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wonderful festive Christmas lunch

Congratulations to Hannah!!! PhD viva done with no corrections. @drtesutherland.bsky.social very proud of her first PhD student. Allen lab is so privileged to have Hannah with us this past 2 years ago.

And thanks so much to Hannah’s examiners Tracy Hussel and @dakinlabgroup.bsky.social