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Emma Slack
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Professor for Mucosal Immunology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK. We work on novel oral vaccines, AMR, and microbiome function. Making science fairer, kinder and more equitable 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Views are my own.
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Impressive work from Thad Stappenbeck, Tom Clavel and co showing that a murine gut bacterium degrades IgA with very high efficiency, generating a function mucosal immunodeficiency in the mice it colonizes 👏🧬🦠🧫 www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Science Magazine - A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency
Science Magazine - A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency

INTRODUCTION: Secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) is a crucial component of mucosal barriers.

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Als Einordnung zum Hochwasser. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Come and join me, @tcell.bsky.social, Anton van der Merwe, Chris Tang, Kevin Foster, Mathew Stracy et al at the wonderful Dunn School in Oxford! I can confirm that it is a fantastic place to work, and a brilliant environment to do world-changing science 🧪 🧬🧫 Application deadline 25th October

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I’ve come to the conclusion that the river crossing riddle was almost certainly invented by a parent of multiple young children…

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Yes! The train, plus passengers, got commandeered to rescue a broken-down TGV involving moving the other passengers across tracks somewhere between Dunkirk and Lille…

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The 8pm Eurostar from London to Paris last night arrived in Paris at 5:30am this morning 🤯. Who says the UK can’t have night-trains to the mainland 🤪? Comfort-level was a bit limited…

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One of the reasons I've been quiet on Bluesky for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12

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Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

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Emma Slack
@mucosalimmunology.bsky.social
Professor for Mucosal Immunology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK. We work on novel oral vaccines, AMR, and microbiome function. Making science fairer, kinder and more equitable 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Views are my own.
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