Alexandra Spencer
drajspencer.bsky.social
Alexandra Spencer
@drajspencer.bsky.social
Immunologist working on vaccines with a fascination for T cells, B cells, viruses and malaria. Views are my own. She/her 😷 💙💉🦠🦟
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Now is the moment!! If you'd like to come and do a PhD with me in sunny Dundee then I have not 1 but 2 funded PhD positions in my lab looking at #ApoE.

Please reach out with any questions!

Come do science with us, it'll be fun!

www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportu...

www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportu...
Investigating the impact of ApoE source and isoform on Neuroinflammation | University of Dundee, UK
A PhD project at the University of Dundee
www.dundee.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A very rare position for an immunology professorship at Cambridge. Something to think about!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/
Associate Professor/Professor of Infection and/or Immunity - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor/Professor of Infection and/or Immunity in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
December 13, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
November 24, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Australian based researchers, has anyone found a company that will recycle pipette tip boxes?
December 5, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Excited for a week of immunology #ASI2024
November 25, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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Very proud of this one. Sarah Hamoudi, PhD student in the lab, developed autologous cocultures between mucosal T cells and epithelial organoids from control or from patients with Crohn's disease.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
T cell mediated impairment of epithelial integrity in Crohn's disease
T lymphocytes play a major role in intestinal homeostasis, with a particular impact on the balance between self-renewal and differentiation of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs). In Crohn's disease (C...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2024 at 4:50 PM