Author: Klaus Okkenhaug

Anita Chandra discusses antibody testing for Covid-19 on the Naked Scientist podcast,

Wood, AJ, Vassallo, AM, Ruchaud-Sparagano, MH, Scott, J, Zinnato, C, Gonzalez-Tejedo, C, Kishore, K, D’Santos, CS, Simpson, AJ, Menon, DK, Summers, C, Chilvers, ER, Okkenhaug, K, Conway Morris, A. (2020). C5a impairs phagosomal maturation in the neutrophil through phosphoproteomic remodelling. JCI Insight. :. PMID:32634128. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.137029.

Congratulations to Christina Courreges who passed her PhD viva with minor corrections. Her examiners were Roger Williams and Paul Coffer and the examination was done by Zoom. Christina continues in the lab as a BBSRC-funded Postdoc. Her aim is to understand the role of the PI3K VPS34 in T cells.

Loss of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Activity in Regulatory T Cells Leads to Neuronal Inflammation Anne-Katrien Stark, Elizabeth C. M. Davenport, Daniel T. Patton, Cheryl L. Scudamore, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, Marc Veldhoen, Oliver A. Garden and Klaus OkkenhaugJ Immunol May 15, 2020, ji2000043; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2000043

See photos from the event here: https://www.alexanderdavenport.com/cambridge-immunology-forum

The whole Okkenhaug lab will join the coming PI3K meeting in Buxton in mid July. Come say hi!

The PI3K/PTEN pathway: from basic science to clinical translation.
Location: The Palace Hotel, Buxton, UK

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/okkenvikings

Muhammad Iqbal will join our lab, supervised by Andy Conway-Morris and Klaus Okkenhaug, from October 2018. He is one of 90 applicants from around the world to be selected for this prestigious award.

Introducing the Gates Cambridge Class of 2019

Muhammad’s profile

Muhammad’s blog (worth a read!)

We are looking forward to welcoming him to the lab!

Talk presented at the NIHhttps://videocast.nih.gov/watch=19142

This is a video we contributed to when still at the Babraham Institute