Lydia Becker Institute blog

As part of the Get Connected partnership between the University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr Mark Travis and Anna Fildes from Manchester and Steffen Jung from the Weizmann hosted the Manchester-Weizmann Institute Symposium from the 26th-28th of November...

The first one-day workshop of the Pathogens, Parasites and Commensals branch entitled “Biota, Bugs and the Becker” was held on 25th November at the University of Manchester.   The workshop was well attended drawing on research staff and students with an interest in...

For our first British Society of Immunology (BSI) and Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation-sponsored Inflammatory Remarks seminar of the academic year, we welcomed Henrique Veiga-Fernandes from the Champalimaud Institute in Lisbon. Henrique is a...

Professor Mark Travis, Immune Tolerance Lead and various members of the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation met with the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre from St Mary’s Hospital on Monday 10th June at Chancellor’s Hotel Manchester to...

Richard Grencis discusses work from his recent publication in Nature Communications on the structure and function of the dominant protein secreted from the whipworm Trichuris muris highlighting its interaction with extracellular matrix and the cytokine interleukin 13...

Pint of Science (pintofscience.co.uk) is a yearly, worldwide public engagement event in which researchers discuss the science that makes them tick over a drink in pubs across the country. This year Matt Hepworth spoke at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester about the...

Professor Dan Davis, Drs John Grainger, Matt Hepworth and Adam Hurlstone from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation presented at the Immuno-oncology Network meeting on the 21st of May.The Manchester Cancer Research Centre hosts the Immuno-oncology...

'Inflammation is always a delicate balancing act - too much can damage us, too little leaves us open to infections, but the ability of lung macrophages to take up or use glucose is another area that might be exploitable for future development of therapies to fine tune...

With recent discussion in the press on the links between inflammation and Alzheimer’s Dr Joanne Konkel from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation discusses the links between Gum Inflammation and Alzheimers. Periodontitis is the most common chronic...