Chemokine Research Group

Lorna Hayden from Neuroimmunology group at the University of Glasgow and our own Marieke Pingen summarised their latest publication in The Conversation
Read about how lipid-specific IgM can make brain cells go antiviral, including chemokines! Go CXCL10!!
https://theconversation.com/multiple-sclerosis-some-patients-may-already-hold-the-key-to-protecting-the-brain-against-viruses-148210

Multiple sclerosis: some patients may already hold the key to protecting the brain against viruses This antibody protects patients from viruses, even while on immunosuppressant drugs.

Latest paper from the CRG! ACKR2 and CCR1 coordinate macrophage dynamics and mammary gland development.

🆕 | New research by Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Chemokine Research Group scientists has shown that chemokine receptors coordinate macrophage movement to control the development of the mammary gland during puberty.

🖱️ Full story: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/newsevents/headline_730809_en.html

🖱️ Paper in Development: https://dev.biologists.org/content/147/12/dev187815

We’ve been having a fantastic time at the 2019 BSI Congress this week with plenty of exciting science being discussed. Here’s a few snapshot of the crg team presenting their data over the past few days!

It’s Halloween Bake Off time! Come down to the SGDB common room to try some cake and help raise money for Shelter! 🥧🧁🍰🎂

He made it! Who’d have thought?! 😂😂 Huge congrats to the latest CRG PhD, Dr Robin Bartolini! Smashed. It. 👏👏👏🎓🥳🍾

We had such a great time sharing our research at Explorathon last weekend! 😊👏👏
Massive thanks to everyone involved, especially the UofG engineering students who helped us develop and deliver the activity! 🙌🙌😊

Sheiner lab on Twitter “Sheinerlab is recruiting 3 for 2 projects: one on , other on . Spread the word! Also, and will be at come chat to us!”

So delighted and grateful to have been awarded a Wellcome Investigator Award! 🙌 Lots of hard work from all - especially, of course, the Prof! No pics from celebratory drinks last Friday, how sad 😜 but the Wellcome group had a lovely lunch today to celebrate in an appropriate, professional way... 😂 Super excited to continue our work on inflammatory chemokine receptor function - if you missed it, read our Immunity paper from our current Wellcome award here! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074761319300329

iii PhD student wins best oral presentation Caitlin Duncan was awarded first prize for best oral presentation at the recent MRC Postgraduate Day

New publication by our own Alan James Hayes, describing migration of dendritic cells in unprecedented detail. Well done Alan!

Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Key Migratory Events During the Initiation of Adaptive Immunity Initiation of adaptive immunity involves distinct migratory cell populations coming together in a highly dynamic and spatially organised process. However, we lack a detailed spatiotemporal map of these events due to our inability to track the fate of cells between anatomically distinct locations or....

This is not an April's fool! Student apartments on Gibson street are starting a new recycling scheme for crisp packets - if you want to find out more and how to get involved, get in touch at the e-mail address provided below :)

Last week was pretty awesome in Team CRG - our second paper of the week came out on Friday in JLB - and we even made the front cover of the issue! Congrats to Doug and everyone involved! 😁🙌

Read our paper on the role of Cxcr2 in adipocyte development here: https://jlb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/JLB.1A0618-216RR 🤓📖

Super excited to share our latest publication, out now in Immunity! “Chemokine Receptor Redundancy and Specificity Are Context Dependent": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074761319300329

Congratulations to our latest CRG PhD, Dr Chris Kelly, who passed his viva this week! Very well deserved! 🎉😁🥳🙌🎓🍾

Our latest CRG #phd passed his viva this week - Congratulations Dr Kelly! 👏👏👏🎉🎉🍾🥂🍻🍰🧁 as always, the CRG bakers put on a delicious spread - we were too slow to get a pic of all of it 😂😂 #gannets And of course had to include his proud pseudoparents who got him through! #CRGflat #BatSamAndRobin

Loving this pixel art representation of the University! Especially the characteristic blue sky 😉

Happy 568th birthday to University of Glasgow! Looking good for it hen! Here’s a wee quickie to help celebrate.

Early Christmas present for Team Wellcome and the CRG! 😁🎉

CRG on Twitter “Celebrating our paper being accepted at Immunity! Congrats to co-first authors Laura & , and to the Wellcome programme group in the CRG, past CRG members who were involved and of course our good friend and collaborator - a huge team effort! 😁🥳🍾🎉”

Congratulations to the latest CRG PhD, Dr Paul Burgoyne! Very well deserved, hope you've recovered from your celebrations! 😆🍾🎉

More CRG goodbyes, this time one of our senior postdocs Douglas Dyer. It's not all doom and gloom though as he is off to Manchester to start his own lab, combining his passion for chemokines and GAGs into what will be a oligomeric frenzy of research, which we are sure will be 'really interesting' (his fave phrase). We wish you all the best Doug!

Today is a sad day at the CRG as we say goodbye to one of our senior postdocs Douglas Dyer. It's not all doom and gloom though as he is off to Manchester to start his own lab, combining his passion for chemokines and GAGs into what will be a oligomeric frenzy of research, which we are sure will be 'really interesting' (his fave phrase). We wish you all the best Doug! . . . . . #farewell #movingon #newbeginning #newjob #chemokine #glasgowuni #crg #biology #leukocyte #migration #pimpa

Sending longstanding CRG member Jenny Lee off to a new adventure, but not without an Italian lunch and a bag of presents! All the best with your new job Jenny.

Some exciting opportunities to work with a long-time collaborator in London!

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Good work 3I's Eco-group! ♻️🌲

The carbon footprint of a scientist can be higher than that of the average person due to the use of plastics, chemicals and energy-dependent equipment.

In an effort to improve our green credentials, we've formed the 3I's Eco-group ♻️🌲

New website here 👉 https://bit.ly/2wg2z7j

It was torture! So please be generous in your sponsorship! 😂😂
-CH

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chughestriathlon2018

Well done to Dr Catherine Hughes of the Chemokine Research group, who successfully completed a triathlon yesterday - fantastic effort! 🚴‍♀️🏊‍♂️🏃‍♀️

She's raising money for The Trussell Trust - support them here 👉 https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chughestriathlon2018

Sad to say goodbye to our excellent summer students Jiwon and Preet from the University of Toronto. Best of luck in your final year!

Another productive CRG away day with Highland games and Maggy Monocyte (there was science as well)

Help Helen raise money for this great cause! 🙌🙌

Help Helen Arthur Moonwalk Scotland 2018 make a difference Last year I took part in my first moonwalk - and what a night!......the enthusiasm and determination from the walkers, volunteers, supporters, to all the members of the public that cheered us on our way was amazing......all with their own story as to why they were there......and all intent to help '...

Bus stop on our way to the chemotactic cytokine GRS/GRC in Maine 🇺🇸

Absolutely delighted to congratulate our great friend and collaborator Dr Megan MacLeod on her thoroughly well deserved Wellcome Investigator grant success! 🙌🎉🍾😃

ECRs, keep an eye out for postdoc opportunities to work in this excellent and flourishing lab (based in a pretty fab Institute, in a pretty fantastic city, if we do say so ourselves... 😏)...

Megan MacLeod on Twitter “Fantastic news last week, heard that my Investigator grant to look at cellular communication in the lung in influenza infection has been funded for 5 years. ”