British summer means making the most of the sunny weather whilst we can! This week we had a quick break away from the lab for a successful punting trip (with only a few near misses of almost falling in…) along the River Cherwell!☀️🚣‍♂️👒 @kiroxford.bsky.social

Last week several lab members were in Montreal for #ICMI2026! We had a fantastic time listening to the amazing talks about the lastest work in the mucosal immunology field & were thrilled to share our work via some great posters and talks!🇨🇦👩‍🔬 @societymucosalimm.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a great time at the Kennedy retreat last week! There were lots of great talks from each of the KIR labs, a treasure hunt, and even a choir performance! Thanks to all the organisers for a great 2 days☀️ @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

Throwing it back to Day 2 of KIPS, with more excellent postdoc talks and a great keynote from Kevin Foster! It was also announced that Ffion won the award for the best long talk!🥳 Thanks to the fantastic postdoc committee for organising two great days of science!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a fabulous time at day 1 of the first ever KIPS (Kennedy Institute Postdoc Symposium) yesterday! There were lots of great talks from postdocs across the KIR, and plenty of Powrie Lab representation! Huge thanks to the wonderful Carola Vinuesa for her keynote talk too!🥳 @kiroxford.bsky.social

A slightly late post to share that a great time was had at the Keystone Beyond Antibiotics conference last month! We’re super proud of our fantastic postdoc, Ffion, for winning a Keystone future of science fund to attend & present her work!🧫👩‍🔬 @keystonesymposia.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

Great to see Nick in action at the #EASLCongress this year, presenting his work on the gut-liver axis in PSC! Nick’s abstract was also featured in the best at EASL showcase, titled “Microbially deconjugated bile acid-mediated ileal barrier function deficit”👏👨‍🔬🎉 @kiroxford.bsky.social

Excellent day at Westgate today for the Oxford BRC public engagement day! It was great to have the giant gut wall out on a sunny Thursday, and lots of bacteria Pom Poms were made!🦠☀️ @ndorms.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Powrie Lab!🥳🎈 Congratulations to Fiona and everyone who has been a part of the lab through the years for the ongoing success! We’re sure that all lab members past and present are thrilled to see the lab still going strong today!🎉3️⃣0️⃣🎉 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a great time at the Oxford Microbiome Network (OMiN) meeting last week! Meetings are quarterly and bring together researchers across Oxford departments🧫👩‍🔬 For more info about the network, contact @oxmicrobiome.bsky.social or sign up using the link below: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of being part of the first Kennedy Institute Choir! With a great song choice by Fiona (Running Up That Hill), we had a lot of fun - huge thanks to our wonderful conductor Lizzie!🎶👩‍🎤🎤 Watch here: youtu.be/IOXLjGvkChU?... @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

We had a great time at the annual Kennedy Network Conference in Birmingham last week! We really enjoyed the chance to listen to some excellent keynote talks, present some of our own work, and hear what the wider network is up to! Looking forward to next year already🌸🌼 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We’re really pleased to share that our excellent DPhil student, Amit, successfully defended his PhD thesis last week! We had a great time celebrating with you and look forward to seeing what your next chapter holds!🎉🧑‍💻🥂 @kiroxford.bsky.social @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @nickilott.bsky.social

Congratulations to the wonderful Natasha for successfully defending her DPhil thesis! We’re excited to see what comes next for Natasha and her MAIT cell story whilst she continues her project as a postdoctoral researcher🥳👩‍🔬 @kiroxford.bsky.social

Last night was our Lab Christmas party! Special thanks to Claire and Nick for organising some excellent party games for us (guessing the flavour of Skittles whilst blindfolded is much harder than you’d think!) and to Branca for hosting us🎅🎄🌟 @kiroxford.bsky.social @nickilott.bsky.social

Congratulations to our fantastic DPhil student, Henry, for defending his PhD thesis today!! It’s been a pleasure to have Henry in the lab & we miss him already! Go check out the review (linked below) if you’d like to see some of his work🥳🧑‍🔬 @kiroxford.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40252635/

Day 4 and the final day of the BSI saw a fantastic talk from @labliston.bsky.social about Tregs in the brain and an excellent session devoted to “Barriers, bugs, and breakdowns” - right up our street! Thank you to all organisers and presenters @britsocimm.bsky.social for a great week in Liverpool🫶

Day 3 of the BSI was a busy one, with Yuqing & Dehui presenting posters, and Ffion giving an excellent talk all about AMR Klebsiella dynamics in the gut! It was also great to see Dave Withers give a fantastic plenary talk!🧫🧬 @dehuic.bsky.social @yuqinglong.bsky.social @witherslab.bsky.social

Day 2 of the BSI saw Gemma & Rachel from the lab presenting posters, as well as the lovely Anna Ahlback from the Maloy lab delivering a great talk on Hh infection and its impact on DSS colitis (go check out their new preprint!)👩‍🔬 @gemmala.bsky.social @rachelanscombe.bsky.social @aahlback.bsky.social

Day 1 of the BSI 2025 on Monday saw the wonderful Judi Allen deliver a fabulous keynote talk! We were also very excited to see Judi share the news of our new MRC Exposome Immunology Manchester/Oxford collaboration👩‍🔬 @profjudiallen.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social

Delighted to share that Fiona was awarded the FSI EFIS-IL Lecture Award last week as a keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Meeting of the French Society for Immunology! We’d like to warmly thank the SFI for the award, it was a pleasure to attend!🇫🇷👩‍🔬 @sfi-immunologie.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

Some pics from our annual lab autumn walk! We went to the lovely Blenheim palace to get some steps in & enjoy the autumn leaves🍁🚶‍♀️🌳

Throwing it back a few weeks to the final meeting of the CRUK grand challenges optimisticc study! We had a great time in Boston discussing progress in the colorectal cancer & microbiome field - it’s been a real pleasure being part of this group!🧫🫶 @elayton13.bsky.social

We’re delighted to hear that our favourite cell type (Regulatory T cells!) have been recognised in the Nobel Prize this year! Huge congratulations to Mary, Fred, and Shimon for their pivotal work in the field & here’s to many exciting Treg advances to come!🥳👏🎉

September meant it was the Powrie labs turn to organise an institute social! We hosted “The Great Kennedy Bake Off” and had lots of tasty entries, as well as a cake decorating competition! Congratulations to our winners - Lynn for best bake and Osheen for best decorating!🍰🍪🧁 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a fab time at our student symposium (KISS2025) this week! We really enjoyed everyone’s talks and poster presentations, with some super exciting keynote speakers! Amit, Natasha, and Rachel gave great overview talks and poster presentations on their DPhil projects👩‍🔬🧠 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a great time at Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference this week! It was especially exciting to be there for a session devoted entirely to Regulatory T cells🧫💉 @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼 @britsocimm.bsky.social @greenmanfest.bsky.social

It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️ @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰 @microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social