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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · 23h

Science Seminar with Prof. E. John Wherry on Oct 16th, 2pm London/9am EST: Exhaustion and Residency of CD8 T cells. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un... @pennmehp.bsky.social

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · 8d

Science Seminar on Oct 9th, 2pm with Prof. Dr. Dan Larson (National Cancer Institute): The Spliceosome in Health and Disease. Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · 18d

Science Seminar on Oct 2nd, 1pm with Prof. Michael Heneka (University of Luxembourg): Innate Immunity entitled Innate Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un... @uni.lu

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · 22d

Science Seminar on Sept 25th, 4pm with Prof. Anna Molofsky (University of California, San Franciso) entitled Cytokine regulation of brain development. Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · 29d

Science Seminar on Sept 18th, 4pm with Prof. Maxim Artyomov (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) entitled Understanding Immune Aging. Please register at eventbrite.com/e/cardiff-un...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Sep 9

Science Seminar with Dr. Tiffany Reese (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) on Sept 11th 2pm entitled Viral Exploitations of the Host – From Cell Death to Parasite Co-infection. Please register at www.eventbrite.com/e/cardiff-un...

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Aug 5

Some numbers.

📆 28 days
🧑🏼‍🔬 54 volunteers
🎓 3 universities
🛝 8 activities
💰 6 treasures
🧟 11 horror show booths
🖼️ 52 picture frames
🦟 100 live mosquitoes
👪 4,955 visitors
🏫 11 school visits
🎯 900 sticker challenges
🔍 753 treasure hunts
🧫 1,254 body swabs
📝 258 feedback forms
📸 >500 photos
🤷🏼 0 regrets

Photo album: Superbugs Pop-up 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

Photos from the Pop-Up Science Shop in the St David’s Dewi Sant shopping centre in Cardiff from 7th July to 3rd August 2025 A selection of photos taken during pre-booked school visits and on open day...

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Aug 3

We would have not been able to deliver such an ambitious pop-up shop over the past 4 weeks without an army of 54 enthusiastic and tireless volunteers from across Cardiff Uni, Cardiff Met and Swansea Uni, and beyond!

THANK YOU !!

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Jul 31

Come and find us in the St David's Centre in Cardiff!

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Jul 22

Superbugs pop up science shop in Cardiff attracts thousands of visitors

@eberlmat.bsky.social @drjontyrrell-micro.bsky.social

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Superbugs pop up science shop in Cardiff attracts thousands of visitors

Researchers from Cardiff University and Swansea University have created a pop-up science shop in Cardiff's St David's Shopping Centre

www.cardiff.ac.uk

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Jul 15

Science Seminar with Dr. Shruti Naik on July 17th 2pm entitled Mechanisms of tissue adaptation and maladaptation. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Jul 9

Science Seminar on July 11th 1pm with Prof. Jan Korbel entitled Structural Variant Landscapes and Chromosomal Instability: Insights from Population Genomics and Single-Cell Omics. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Jul 4

Update.

#IBMSAwards25 #IBMSWinner @ibmscience.bsky.social
@drjontyrrell-micro.bsky.social @eberllab.bsky.social

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Jul 1

Science Seminar on Jul 3rd 1pm with Dr. Dalan Bailey (The Pirbright Institute) entitled How to predict the next pandemic viral pathogen. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Jun 23

Science Seminar with Prof. Andrew Sewell on June 26th at 1pm entitled How T-cells cure cancer. Please register at
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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Jun 17

Science Seminar on June 19th 2pm with Prof. Isaac Kohane entitled How AI is Changing the Face of #Clinical #Care. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Jun 12

Science Seminar on June 12th 2pm Prof. Anna Greka (Harvard University) entitled Cargo receptor-mediated protein trafficking in health and disease. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · Jun 5

Enabling vaccine uptake: strategies for the public health sector.

Now available online in the British Journal of Hospital Medicine.

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Enabling Vaccine Uptake: Strategies for the Public Health Sector | British Journal of Hospital Medicine

Safe and effective vaccines have been instrumental in controlling and mitigating some of the most contagious and devastating diseases throughout history, ranging from smallpox, polio and diphtheria to...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · May 24

Science Seminar with Dr. Danielle Belgrave, Vice President of AI/ML at GSK on May 29th at 5.15pm London entitled AIML at GSK: Research and applications. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · May 16

That time when we took over a former 'Clarks' shoe shop in one of the UK's busiest shopping centres and converted it into an interactive microbiology lab.

In six weeks we are going to open our doors again - bigger, better and more colourful.

Find out more at www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025!

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Superbugs- CardiffTV Coverage #1

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · May 16

If you are a science teacher in a primary or secondary school in South Wales please book a visit with your class, we would love to host your pupils and let them explore the microbial world in, on and around us!

Check out more details at www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025!

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · May 7

"Superbugs – A Pop-Up Science Shop"

30 June – 3 August 2025
St David’s Dewi Sant Shopping Centre
Cardiff

👉 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

@cumedicengage.bsky.social @cardiffcouncil.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @britsocimm.bsky.social

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · May 3

Science Seminar on May 8th at 1p London with Prof. Caroline Trotter Defeating meningitis by 2030: research to inform policy and action. Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Apr 29

Science teachers!

If you want to prebook a place for your class to visit our upcoming large-scale pop-up shop event in the St David's Centre in Cardiff in July 2025 please get in touch!

The microbial world in, on and around us - Information, demonstrations, live stage, art, games, fun.

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Exciting times! 📢 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

At the end of June 2025 we will be opening a large “Pop-up Science Shop” in Cardiff Learn about infection, hygiene and untreatable ‘superbugs’ that are resistant to our medicines. We will take ov...

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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · Apr 24

Science Seminar with Prof. David M Levine (Harvard Medical School) on May 1st at 2pm on 'Home Hospital: Model, Innovation, and Scale'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un....

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