We are recruiting! My lab IRB Barcelona is looking for a #postdoc and #PhDstudent to work on the biology and metabolism of dendritic cells and macrophages. Check out our website irbbarcelona.org/en/research/in… & email me or apply at recruitment.irbbarcelona.org/#jobs Looking forward meeting you!!!

So what would it actually take for #H5N1 avian influenza to become a human pathogen? I've written up what we know about the kinds of changes needed for News from Science

Story is here (and thread to come later):
science.org/content/articl…

Check out our latest paper science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Congratulations to Evangelos Giampazolias who led the work. Thanks to very many who helped. Great collaboration with Tine Jess and Romina Goldszmid labs. Tweetorial will follow soon.

Its crucial to understand the enormous value of animal experimentation for human health! More public outreach is needed to make this point clear! Without animal experimentation there will be no to little progress in research for deadly diseases!

Proud to share the results of our study on the effect of prostaglandin E2 on T cells, which was just published in Nature in which we discovered a new role for PGE2 in inhibiting interleukin-2 (IL-2) sensing and signalling in tumor-reactive T cells nature.com/articles/s4158…

In this article, we provide a brief perspective of the promise of allogeneic cell therapies against cancer. We consider rejection by the recipient as a central pitfall and discuss approaches to reduce this rejection by genetic engineering

nature.com/articles/s4157…

Check out our review Immunity together with Gordon Brown and Sho Yamasaki on
Myeloid C-type lectin receptors in innate immune recognition. Part of a whole collection of reviews on innate immunity. cell.com/immunity/fullt…

Fantastic review on the complexity of cancer and future perspectives for cancer research and therapy

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…