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Swiss Young Immunologists Society
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Community for young #immunologists with a link to Switzerland🇨🇭 #ecr #networking 🔬 Sign up here: https://syis-ecr.org/become-a-member/
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🔬 We’re hiring again!

Looking for 1 #PhD student to join the #MSCA-DN TRANSCEND network 🧬

Project on unconventional #Tcells in #MultipleSclerosis with research exchanges in
🇩🇰 Klaus Eyer’s lab, Aarhus
🇳🇴 Victor Greiff’s lab, Oslo

⏳ Deadline: Feb 28

👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/403235
Open Call for 1 PhD Position at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in the frame of the MSCA Doctoral Network
Multiple sclerosis (MS), is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS), characterized by demyelination and neuronal loss, along with immune cell brain infiltration and inflammation.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:07 PM
We’re excited to announce the first SYIS seminar of 2026! 🎉
Join us on 19 February in Bern or via Zoom for talks on clinical immune diagnostics 🔬by Dr. Joseena Iype and on diagnostic and therapeutic options for allergic patients 🦠 by Prof. Alexander Eggel.
We look forward to seeing you there!
January 24, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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📣 We’re searching for the top immunology publication of 2025!
🧬 Nominate your favourite work for the 2025 SYIS Publication Award below.
⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025

Submit your nomination here 👉🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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🧬 Biopôle Discovery Day 2026 | 31 March, Lausanne
Meet life sciences companies, hear career journeys, and network with industry experts.

📅 Register from 29 Jan 2026
📍 Aquatis Lausanne
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🧬 Biopôle Discovery Day 2026 | 31 March, Lausanne
Meet life sciences companies, hear career journeys, and network with industry experts.

📅 Register from 29 Jan 2026
📍 Aquatis Lausanne
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
📣 We’re searching for the top immunology publication of 2025!
🧬 Nominate your favourite work for the 2025 SYIS Publication Award below.
⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025

Submit your nomination here 👉🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
🚨Register by tonight to secure the Early Bird registration rate for WIRM 2026!
Register and sumit your abstract here: www.wirm.ch/registration...
Registration & Abstracts - WIRM
Register for WIRM or submit your abstract – easy participation and scientific contribution made simple.
www.wirm.ch
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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If you’re passionate about shaping the future of the ECR community, join the yEFIS Task Force and get involved!
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join the yEFIS task force 2025-2026
Are you interested in joining the yEFIS adventure? You want to join existing working groups or have a new idea you'd like to implement? or even create a young immunology society in your own country? ...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🧵 New members wanted — Join the SYIS Board! 🇨🇭
Are you a young scientist passionate about immunology and community building?
We’re looking for new board members to start in March 2026. Three exciting roles are open 👇
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Ever wondered how your immune system would change if you grew up herding livestock on the Mongolian steppe instead of commuting in Zurich?
Turns out — your surroundings shape your immunity as much as your genes.
🌍 Read the full story: syis-ecr.org/2025/10/24/h...
How Lifestyle and Microbes Shape Immunity: Lessons from Mongolia
Traditional gers in rural Mongolia. Photo taken by author. By Deeksha Raju INTRODUCTION Your immune system isn’t just built from DNA – it’s shaped by where you live, what you eat, and e…
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November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Exciting possibility for ECRs to join the collaborative efforts of @yefis-immunology.bsky.social and @eurjimmunol.bsky.social

👇🏼

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📢 Calling all early-career immunologists!

Are you passionate about #science-communication, #outreach and #editorial-strategy? The yEFIS-EJI working group is looking for you! 🫵

We’re recruiting motivated ECRs to contribute to editorial processes and creating content on yEFIS ECR activities ✍️
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Mark your calendars 🗓️ June 29th - July 1st 2026

The 3rd #yEFIS Symposium is on the horizon!

Stay tuned, exciting details coming your way 🔥
October 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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📣 yEFIS Career Fridays start next week!

Your PhD opens more doors than you think — join our 5-week series and hear from immunology & life science PhDs who built amazing careers outside academia.

✨ Learn what they do, what got them there & ask your questions live!
October 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📅🍁 Join yEFIS Five Career Fridays
this fall!

Thinking about a career beyond academia? 🤔 For immunology PhDs, the options are endless – but the market is tough 🤯.

Join us this October & November as we talk to professionals who turned their PhDs into 5 very different career paths 👩‍🔬➡️💼
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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📢Master thesis project opportunity

‼️We are looking for a motivated Master student to join the lab working on semi-automated analysis pipelines for organoid microscopy images.

Please spread the word and check out our website for more information: www.annikahausmannlab.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🧬 From bone marrow-on-a-chip to thymus-in-a-dish, immune organoids are changing how we study immunity - one dish at a time.
Check out Johanna’s blog post here 👉 syis-ecr.org/2025/09/02/i...
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Immune system in a dish – One dish at a time
By Johanna Lueckel. What if we could grow a lymph node it in the lab, and watch T and B cells go about their business? No mice, no scalpel, no drama? That’s exactly the promise of so called immune …
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September 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We had a fantastic day in Lausanne! 🎉 The 4th SYIS Annual Symposium was full of amazing science, useful workshops, and inspiring talks. Big thanks to our sponsors BD, @standardbiotools.bsky.social, @immudex.bsky.social , BioLegend, Roche, and to UNIL for hosting! 🙌
Next stop: 26.08.26 in Bellinzona🚀
September 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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👉Choosing Your Panel Wisely

Both grantees applied in very specific #ERC panels — not always the obvious ones.
Though their projects involved immunology, one framed it as tissue physiology, another as stem cell biology. 🧫🧬

Why? Because it fit better and gave their ideas the right audience.💬
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Join us for next week’s seminar where we’ll hear about 🧬 T cells and 🦠 E. coli!
@yefis-immunology.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🎉 SYIS is excited to be at the SSAl Congress!

Join us for our Short Communication Session tomorrow at 13:30 in Room Turin AB.
📍 Swing by Booth #22 to say hi, learn more, and connect with us!
See you there! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬✨
August 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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👶✈️ Balancing caregiving and academic travel?

Join Dr. Laura Pallett for "The Dual Demands of Academic Travel and Caregiving"

🗓️ Sept 25 | 🕒15:00 CEST
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yefis2025-ia2

Hosted by the Improving Academia group of yEFIS
August 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚀 Don’t miss PharmaCamp 2025 in 📍Allschwil.
📅 September 10–12, 2025

🌐 More info: www.pharmacamp.ch
August 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Counting down to our SYIS symposium on the 27th! 🎉

We are excited to announce two outstanding keynote speakers:
🔹Nagham Alouche from @unil.bsky.social – Fibroblast–dendritic cell crosstalk & T cell niches
🔹 Milena Sokolowska (UZH/SIAF) – Immunometabolic control of viral & allergic inflammation
August 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
August 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
☕ Coffee spills, diva-like cells, broken cytometers and late-night serum aliquoting… A day in the life of an Immunology PhD student is anything but boring!
Read more here 👉 syis-ecr.org/2025/08/05/a...
A Day in the Life of an Immunology PhD Student: Living on Caffeine and Cytokines
By Deeksha Raju, PhD. Ever wondered what a day in the life of an Immunology PhD student looks like? Here is a brief idea! 07:30 – The Naïve Optimism Stage You wake up thinking, “Today’s the d…
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August 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM