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              T cells | Receptor signaling | Immunotherapy | RIPR | Lab at University of Oxford, CAMS-COI, NDM
              
              Oxford, England
            
            
              
              Joined September 2016
            
            
           Huge Congratulations to Dr Christina Heroven (@acheroven) on being awarded a 5-year Early Career Fellowship from @wellcometrust🎉! Christina is part of @theRafLab here at COI & we're excited that she'll be sticking around for longer. Find out more here:  https://t.co/qAoSLspT0S 
          
          
                
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             Happy to share the newest paper from our lab. Led by technician extraordinaire Aidan Tousley (soon to be an MD/PHD student!), this manuscript details our attempts to reimagine the structure of CARs to improve their specificity and efficacy. 
          
                
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             We were pleased to welcome the delegation led by Prof. Tao Dong, director of @CAMS_COI_Ox, and Mr. Darren Nash, associated head of @NDMOxford from @UniofOxford to visit BGI Group, exchanging views with our Co-founder and Chairman Wang Jian, for a brighter future of cooperation. 
          
                
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             Pleased to share the most recent work from our group published today @NatImmunol
             https://t.co/lgEGLUYbzW 
          
          
                
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             It's almost become #fancy to do #scTCRseq and make conclusions on #specificity ...we are no where close to it...read this carefully. #Amazing #TCRs
          
          
            
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              Nature Reviews Immunology - Koohy and co-workers discuss how we must turn to machine-learning approaches to define the antigen specificity of the many millions of possible T cell receptors. They...
            
                
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             Out now: structure of the TCR complex/pMHC. Beautiful work Mai and Lukas, many congratulations! @DavisLab_Oxford
             https://t.co/jq3Too1g8k 
          
          
                
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             📢 Applications are open for an Oxford-BMS Research Fellow. Join a rapidly expanding institute & @theRafLab, leading development of proteins to control checkpoint signalling in T cells #AcademicJobs #AcademicTwitter #ResearchFellow #OxfordJobs #JobAlert
             https://t.co/4d0Jwxtljk 
          
          
            
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              The Nuffield Department of Medicine has many exciting opportunities for researchers and support staff at various stages of their careers.
            
                
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             📢 Join us as a Research Assistant to establish a Protein Production Platform with @theRafLab. Background in biochemistry, protein science or related fields required. Initially 2 yrs fixed. Salary GRADE 6: £29,614 - £35,326. Apply before 5th August.  https://t.co/aGeokyJK2k 
          
          
            
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              The Nuffield Department of Medicine has many exciting opportunities for researchers and support staff at various stages of their careers.
            
                
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             🚨 Monday Morning COI #JobAlert: We have several open job adverts to come and work with us at the CAMS-Oxford Institute. Apply via  https://t.co/LXzX9ZHl8r. 
            #OxfordJobs #OxfordAcademics #AcademicChatter #AcademicJobs #Academia #ResearchAssistant #Bioinformatician #ResearchFellow
          
          
                
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             We are recruiting! Two open positions and one week to apply. More details here: 3-year Postdoc:  https://t.co/fTdokce9sO  2-year Research Assistant:  https://t.co/FpCEdnaywm  Please RT and do get in touch if you'd like to chat about the lab and what we do. 
          
                
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             We are looking for a highly motivated #Postdoc with a background in #Tcells #Immunology #Signaling or #Biochemistry to take on a prestigious 3-year Oxford-BMS Fellowship and find out all about checkpoint inhibition in T cells:  https://t.co/6lmz9UDD3Z  Please RT! 
          
                
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             Professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman from @ChemCambridge have been awarded the @MillenniumPrize for their development of next-generation #DNA sequencing:  https://t.co/ohIxoKpPEl 
            @illumina #MTP2020 #MillenniumPrize #InnovationsForABetterLife
          
          
                
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             2021 Max Perutz Lecture to be given by David Baker 
          
            
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              David Baker will deliver the 2021 Max Perutz Lecture: ‘The coming of age of de novo protein design.’
            
                
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             We are excited to announce an open position for a Postdoctoral Scientist! Check the link below for more details. If you're interested in T cells, immunotherapy and, protein engineering, please get in touch!  https://t.co/ySz5NQ9PxZ 
          
          
                
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             Our paper is out today in Science Signaling, we looked at how IL-10's binding affinity affects its biological activities! 
          
                
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             Very excited to share our work on IL-10 out today in @ScienceMagazine! We solved the cryo-EM structure of the IL-10 receptor complex and used it to design myeloid-selective IL-10 variants that uncouple its pro- and anti-inflammatory effects 
          
                
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             Stanford's Innovative Medicine Accelerator is hiring a Director of Protein Engineering to help the campus discover and create new protein therapeutics! Hope you will apply for this exciting opportunity! 
          
            
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              Stanford University is seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Director of Protein Engineering for the Stanford ChEM-H Knowledge...
            
                
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             Yuval Noah Harari: The Covid year -  https://t.co/RLyWQ5GJDM  via @FT
          
          
                
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