Lydia Becker Institute blog

The Coronavirus Immune Response and Clinical Outcome (CIRCO) consortium, based at The University of Manchester, has published their first paper detailing unappreciated immune characteristics induced following COVID-19 infection. Published today in Science Immunology...

Immunologists in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at the University of Manchester are a significant partner in the recently announced UK-Coronavirus Immune Consortium. Professor Hussell, who is leading one of the five main themes said “The...

The Coronavirus Immune Reponse and Clinical Outcome (CIRCO) consortium draws together immunological expertise in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation with key clinicians at Wythenshawe, Salford Royal and North Manchester hospitals and the...

The upper human airways are lined with a mucociliary epithelium, where mucus traps particles and pathogens (e.g. bacteria) and cilia beat to generate flow to move the mucus (and trapped material) away from the lungs. Improving our understanding of this process will...

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...