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Brian Chan
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@stjamescheadle.bsky.social twins but worlds apart. Year 10 students Olivia and Zara Chan, in Peru and Manchester respectively.
July 17, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Zara Chan, year 10 work experience at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
July 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
🏃Congratulations to everyone from #TeamBecker taking part in the Great Manchester Run today!

If you haven't already please donate and help us smash our target to raise funds for those affected by MPS, Fabry and related lysosomal storage diseases

www.justgiving.com/page/uom-run...
Manchester Run for The MPS Society
Help James Parkinson raise money to support The Society For Mucopolysaccharide Diseases (The MPS Society)
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May 31, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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👏Big round of applause for James Parkinson, Brian Chan, Sara Kirkham and Joshua Cox from the Becker for completing the Great Manchester Run 10k today and raising money for the MPS Society!

Please donate what you can to this great cause 👇
www.justgiving.com/page/uom-run...
May 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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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
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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profjudiallen.bsky.social
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!)
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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/... 🎉🎉
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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.
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
🚨 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...
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.
sites.manchester.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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profjudiallen.bsky.social
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-...
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.
www.ukri.org
July 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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.
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.
March 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Really pleased with our new research team lab photo taken by
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February 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
January 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Wonderful festive Christmas lunch
December 16, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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profjudiallen.bsky.social
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.
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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And thanks so much to Hannah’s examiners Tracy Hussel and @dakinlabgroup.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 5:38 PM