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Wouter T'Jonck
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🇧🇪->🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿->🇧🇪 Postdoc in the @charlottelscott.bsky.social lab studying macrophage biology in fibrosis. Based at the Inflammation Research Centre, VIB-UGent, Belgium
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We have a second paper to share this week, this time investigating the gut-brain axis in stroke.

Here we show that stroke is associated with persistent gut structural and microbiome changes, however these changes are distinct in acute and chronic recovery.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Dynamic changes to the intestinal environment occur throughout recovery from experimental ischaemic stroke - Rachel M L Martin, Isobel C Mouat, Robert J Whelan, Lizi M Hegarty, Lizzie F R Blunt, Chris...
Stroke survivors can experience a plethora of complications throughout their recovery that impair quality of life and impact neurological outcomes. Intestinal d...
journals.sagepub.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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Colonic macrophage heterogeneity revealed by CD11c and CD163 www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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This collab started when I met Fredi at the 2023 #EMDS meeting. Since then it’s been wonderful working with her, @selmatuzlak.bsky.social & Burkhard to explore these GM-CSF dependent #macrophages in #glands. Delighted to see this published in @natimmunol.nature.com 🥳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adenophages are an atypical macrophage population in exocrine glands sustained by ILC2-derived GM-CSF - Nature Immunology
Here the authors identify adenophages, a previously unknown macrophage population present in exocrine glands in mice and humans. These cells are dependent on ILC2-derived GM-CSF and support glandular ...
www.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair in this work from @lizihegarty.bsky.social, @bainlab.bsky.social, and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677333v1
September 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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📢 Open Positions 📢
We're hiring motivated PhDs & Postdocs to join a cutting-edge research program @VIBLifeSciences @ugent
🔬in vivo CRISPR screens
💻Multi-omics, Modelling & Deep Learning
🧬Macrophages, Liver homeostasis, Regeneration & Metastasis
💶ERC AdG, FWO & Cancer Grant
August 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The New Scientist @newscientistnl.bsky.social has selected me for their Talent in Science competition: Vote for me here!
www.newscientist.nl/polls/new-sc...

If you need a little convincing, I made a little video explaining why researching mucus is so important
youtu.be/dYnXBnq4ttc
Learning about Charcot-Leyden crystals in mucus with Miles and Slime
YouTube video by Helena Aegerter
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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IRR researchers and colleagues discover that the common childhood virus, RSV, leaves lasting ‘immune memory’ in lungs.

Proteins that help fight infection (MHCs) stay elevated, boosting protection for subsequent infections but also increases the risk of allergies.

edin.ac/45r7lAN
edin.ac/4fJ9cEj
August 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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You asked, we listened!

We have had multiple requests for late breaking abstracts for #EMDS2025. So, we have managed to squeeze in 15 more opportunities for poster presentation.

Submit your abstract at www.emds2025.com - first come, first served.

Deadline: 22.08.25 (or when 15 slots allocated!)
August 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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🔬Imaging
👩🏻‍🔬micro-dissections
🧙🏻single cell
🦴fate mapping

All you KNEEd to know about synovial macrophages. Fantastic collaborators and work with @drbmalengier.bsky.social showing the establishment of protective macrophages in the joint 🐁

How does it look like? When? How? Answers below 👇
The synovial lining macrophage layer develops in the first weeks of life in a CSF1- and TGFβ- dependent but monocyte-independent process. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.655269v1
May 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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📢 We are hiring…. Looking for a lab technician to join the team to support our efforts investigating myeloid cell functional heterogeneity in health and disease! Interested? Please apply here: jobso.id/mvfh
Lab Technician - VIB
We are looking for a highly motivated and talented lab technician to join our team at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research which is focused on understanding the functional heterogeneity of m...
jobso.id
April 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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📆 Reminder: EMDS Save the Date

Quick reminder that the European #Macrophage & #DC Society meeting is taking place in Edinburgh from 16th - 18th September. Great line up of speakers in place.

Spaces will be limited, so put in your diary now. Website will go live in the coming weeks!
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ALT: a blue and white flag with an x on it
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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With my first Bluesky post, I am very happy to share our latest study led by PhD student Federico De Ponti and postdoc Ania Bujko www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Spatially restricted and ontogenically distinct hepatic macrophages are required for tissue repair
scRNA-seq has uncovered ontogenically distinct hepatic macrophage populations, but their functions remain unclear. Here, De Ponti et al. identify recruited LAMs and resident LAM-like KCs in multiple l...
www.cell.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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REMINDER - EMDS25

The European Macrophage & Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS) meeting will take place in Edinburgh from 16-18th Sept.

Website & registration details coming soon.

@britsocimm.bsky.social @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social
‼️ SAVE THE DATE

The next EMDS Meeting will take place from 16-18th Sept. 2025 in majestic Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. If you love macs, monos &/or DCs, or just want to learn more about them, THIS is the meeting for you.

Space limited - so watch out for details.
@britsocimm.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Great talk by @gastrogrj.bsky.social at #EMDS24 describing our work on itaconate as a molecular handbrake restraining monocyte function in intestinal inflammation. @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 7:54 AM