British Association for Lung Research
@balrcommunity.bsky.social
The British Association for Lung Research provides a focus for exchange of ideas between respiratory researchers. Registered Charity: SC010151
We ❤️ #RespiratoryResearch!
Find us at #BTSWinter2025 in the exhibition area @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Come for the sweets, stay for the support & to learn how YOU can get involved in @balrcommunity.bsky.social ! 🍬🔬🫁
Find us at #BTSWinter2025 in the exhibition area @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Come for the sweets, stay for the support & to learn how YOU can get involved in @balrcommunity.bsky.social ! 🍬🔬🫁
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We ❤️ #RespiratoryResearch!
Find us at #BTSWinter2025 in the exhibition area @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Come for the sweets, stay for the support & to learn how YOU can get involved in @balrcommunity.bsky.social ! 🍬🔬🫁
Find us at #BTSWinter2025 in the exhibition area @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Come for the sweets, stay for the support & to learn how YOU can get involved in @balrcommunity.bsky.social ! 🍬🔬🫁
BTS/BALR symposium wrapped with three outstanding talks highlighting the power of human-relevant #lungmodels to understand disease and develop treatments. Thanks to the excellent speakers and chairs @karlstaples.bsky.social &Emily Cash! #TranslationalScience #BTSWinter2025
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
BTS/BALR symposium wrapped with three outstanding talks highlighting the power of human-relevant #lungmodels to understand disease and develop treatments. Thanks to the excellent speakers and chairs @karlstaples.bsky.social &Emily Cash! #TranslationalScience #BTSWinter2025
The final talk in our exciting BTS/BALR symposium is from Dr Claire Smith @ucl.ac.uk on using air-liquid interface culture to investigate viral infections! 🫁 #BTSWinter2025 #translationalscience
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The final talk in our exciting BTS/BALR symposium is from Dr Claire Smith @ucl.ac.uk on using air-liquid interface culture to investigate viral infections! 🫁 #BTSWinter2025 #translationalscience
BTS/BALR symposium part 2: Our second speaker Dr Katy Roach from @uniofleicester.bsky.social (and BALR secretary!) presenting on the use of human lung tissue to explore therapies for fibrosis #BTSWinter2025
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
BTS/BALR symposium part 2: Our second speaker Dr Katy Roach from @uniofleicester.bsky.social (and BALR secretary!) presenting on the use of human lung tissue to explore therapies for fibrosis #BTSWinter2025
Back for part 2 of The BTS/BALR symposium! Prof. Tillie-Louise Hackett from University of British Columbia presenting on spatial imaging in human lung tissue #BTSWinter2025 @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Back for part 2 of The BTS/BALR symposium! Prof. Tillie-Louise Hackett from University of British Columbia presenting on spatial imaging in human lung tissue #BTSWinter2025 @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Thanks to the fantastic speakers in our BTS/BALR session on novel lung models (Part 1) 🫁🔬and our fabulous chairs @alisonejohn.bsky.social @julieworrell.bsky.social
Like great movies, great topics get a sequel! Don’t miss Part 2 at 11am, back in Westminster (4th floor) #BTSWinter2025
Like great movies, great topics get a sequel! Don’t miss Part 2 at 11am, back in Westminster (4th floor) #BTSWinter2025
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Thanks to the fantastic speakers in our BTS/BALR session on novel lung models (Part 1) 🫁🔬and our fabulous chairs @alisonejohn.bsky.social @julieworrell.bsky.social
Like great movies, great topics get a sequel! Don’t miss Part 2 at 11am, back in Westminster (4th floor) #BTSWinter2025
Like great movies, great topics get a sequel! Don’t miss Part 2 at 11am, back in Westminster (4th floor) #BTSWinter2025
Closing out part 1 of the BTS/BALR session on cutting-edge models is Professor @jane-bourke-phd.bsky.social, from @monashuniversity.bsky.social, on precision cut lung slices 🫁 #BTSWinter2025
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Closing out part 1 of the BTS/BALR session on cutting-edge models is Professor @jane-bourke-phd.bsky.social, from @monashuniversity.bsky.social, on precision cut lung slices 🫁 #BTSWinter2025
Next up in the BTS/BALR session on lung models, Dr Robert Hynds @ucl.ac.uk on adult stem cell cultures to research genetic airway diseases #BTSWinter2025
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Next up in the BTS/BALR session on lung models, Dr Robert Hynds @ucl.ac.uk on adult stem cell cultures to research genetic airway diseases #BTSWinter2025
Kicking off the BTS/BALR session is Dr Jennifer Dickens from @universitypress.cambridge.org talking about 3D alveolar epithelial cultures using fetal organoid models 🫁 #BTSwinter2025
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Kicking off the BTS/BALR session is Dr Jennifer Dickens from @universitypress.cambridge.org talking about 3D alveolar epithelial cultures using fetal organoid models 🫁 #BTSwinter2025
Attending #BTSwinter2025 today and wondering what your first session should be?
Don’t miss the BTS/BALR symposium part 1 at 8:30am, with an excellent line up of speakers discussing cutting edge lung models 🫁
Don’t miss the BTS/BALR symposium part 1 at 8:30am, with an excellent line up of speakers discussing cutting edge lung models 🫁
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Attending #BTSwinter2025 today and wondering what your first session should be?
Don’t miss the BTS/BALR symposium part 1 at 8:30am, with an excellent line up of speakers discussing cutting edge lung models 🫁
Don’t miss the BTS/BALR symposium part 1 at 8:30am, with an excellent line up of speakers discussing cutting edge lung models 🫁
🎉 The #BALR2025 early career competition went to Juma El Awaisi from University of Birmingham
🎉 The postgraduate competition went to Bethany Sawyer from @brisunipress.bsky.social
🎉 mid-career competition went to Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Congratulations! 2/2
🎉 The postgraduate competition went to Bethany Sawyer from @brisunipress.bsky.social
🎉 mid-career competition went to Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Congratulations! 2/2
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🎉 The #BALR2025 early career competition went to Juma El Awaisi from University of Birmingham
🎉 The postgraduate competition went to Bethany Sawyer from @brisunipress.bsky.social
🎉 mid-career competition went to Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Congratulations! 2/2
🎉 The postgraduate competition went to Bethany Sawyer from @brisunipress.bsky.social
🎉 mid-career competition went to Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Congratulations! 2/2
#BALR2025 is over, and here are the winners of the competitions:
Poster competition
🎉 Mads Rossanese from @ucl.ac.uk
🎉 Katherine Ronchetti from The Children’s hospital for Wales
🎉 Sasha-Gaye Richards from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Congratulations all! 1/2
Poster competition
🎉 Mads Rossanese from @ucl.ac.uk
🎉 Katherine Ronchetti from The Children’s hospital for Wales
🎉 Sasha-Gaye Richards from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Congratulations all! 1/2
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#BALR2025 is over, and here are the winners of the competitions:
Poster competition
🎉 Mads Rossanese from @ucl.ac.uk
🎉 Katherine Ronchetti from The Children’s hospital for Wales
🎉 Sasha-Gaye Richards from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Congratulations all! 1/2
Poster competition
🎉 Mads Rossanese from @ucl.ac.uk
🎉 Katherine Ronchetti from The Children’s hospital for Wales
🎉 Sasha-Gaye Richards from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Congratulations all! 1/2
And to close off the last session at #BALR2025 Ellen Jenkins from Uni of Birmingham is presenting on The impact of HIF-1 pathway activation on alveolar macrophage immunometabolism: implications for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
And to close off the last session at #BALR2025 Ellen Jenkins from Uni of Birmingham is presenting on The impact of HIF-1 pathway activation on alveolar macrophage immunometabolism: implications for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
And now presenting ‘Leupaxin Orchestrates Proliferation and
Myofibroblast Transition in
Human Lung Fibroblasts’ is Petar Popov from @cardiffuni, at #BALR2025
Myofibroblast Transition in
Human Lung Fibroblasts’ is Petar Popov from @cardiffuni, at #BALR2025
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
And now presenting ‘Leupaxin Orchestrates Proliferation and
Myofibroblast Transition in
Human Lung Fibroblasts’ is Petar Popov from @cardiffuni, at #BALR2025
Myofibroblast Transition in
Human Lung Fibroblasts’ is Petar Popov from @cardiffuni, at #BALR2025
And after PCLSs, we’re now onto epithelial-mesenchymal-endothelial organoids with Dr Anna Krasnodembskaya from
Queen’s University Belfast, now at #BALR2025.
Queen’s University Belfast, now at #BALR2025.
September 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
And after PCLSs, we’re now onto epithelial-mesenchymal-endothelial organoids with Dr Anna Krasnodembskaya from
Queen’s University Belfast, now at #BALR2025.
Queen’s University Belfast, now at #BALR2025.
Now for modelling lung development, repair and disease at #BALR2025, Dr Charlotte Dean from @imperialnhli.bsky.social who is going to present on her PCLS models to study lung injury and repair.
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Now for modelling lung development, repair and disease at #BALR2025, Dr Charlotte Dean from @imperialnhli.bsky.social who is going to present on her PCLS models to study lung injury and repair.
Last but not least for the mid-career competition at #BALR2025 Dr Bettina Schock from Queen’s University Belfast, presenting on ‘Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived fibroblasts reveal differences between Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and SSc-IL.
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Last but not least for the mid-career competition at #BALR2025 Dr Bettina Schock from Queen’s University Belfast, presenting on ‘Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived fibroblasts reveal differences between Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and SSc-IL.
The next contestant at #BALR2025 is Dr Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social presenting on ‘Calcium-sensing receptor
integrates polyamine metabolism with
inflammatory and fibrotic responses in bleomycin-induced lung injury.
integrates polyamine metabolism with
inflammatory and fibrotic responses in bleomycin-induced lung injury.
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The next contestant at #BALR2025 is Dr Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social presenting on ‘Calcium-sensing receptor
integrates polyamine metabolism with
inflammatory and fibrotic responses in bleomycin-induced lung injury.
integrates polyamine metabolism with
inflammatory and fibrotic responses in bleomycin-induced lung injury.
The mid-career competition has kicked off on day 3 of #BALR2025 with @drmanuplate.bsky.social talking on the involvement of mTORC1 in defining the transcriptional identity of the CTHRC1+ fibroblasts.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The mid-career competition has kicked off on day 3 of #BALR2025 with @drmanuplate.bsky.social talking on the involvement of mTORC1 in defining the transcriptional identity of the CTHRC1+ fibroblasts.
Day 2 Keynote talk at #BALR2025 is by Alex Zhavoronkov , from In Silico Medicine speaking online directly from HK (where it’s 1am! 😴) on AI-assisted drug discovery.
September 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Day 2 Keynote talk at #BALR2025 is by Alex Zhavoronkov , from In Silico Medicine speaking online directly from HK (where it’s 1am! 😴) on AI-assisted drug discovery.
Wrapping up this ‘Interactions at play’ section is @julieworrell.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and @ucddublin.bsky.social on how the interaction between immunomodulatory fibroblasts and T-cells in regulate lung damage
responses in viral and fibrotic lung injury.
responses in viral and fibrotic lung injury.
September 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wrapping up this ‘Interactions at play’ section is @julieworrell.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and @ucddublin.bsky.social on how the interaction between immunomodulatory fibroblasts and T-cells in regulate lung damage
responses in viral and fibrotic lung injury.
responses in viral and fibrotic lung injury.
Telling us about ‘Metabolic reprogramming in fibrotic lung diseases’
is Dr Brinnie Selvarajah from @ucl.ac.uk Reapiratory at #BALR2025.
is Dr Brinnie Selvarajah from @ucl.ac.uk Reapiratory at #BALR2025.
September 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Telling us about ‘Metabolic reprogramming in fibrotic lung diseases’
is Dr Brinnie Selvarajah from @ucl.ac.uk Reapiratory at #BALR2025.
is Dr Brinnie Selvarajah from @ucl.ac.uk Reapiratory at #BALR2025.
‘Intranasal vaccines against respiratory viruses’ by Dr Carly Bliss from @cardiffunilib.bsky.social at #BALR2025.
September 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
‘Intranasal vaccines against respiratory viruses’ by Dr Carly Bliss from @cardiffunilib.bsky.social at #BALR2025.