Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙

Immunology lab, B cells and antibodies, investigating immunology with ageing, vaccines, infectious disease and cancer. All views my own.

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Interdisciplinary research can be challenging, but exciting and rewarding to work with @ffrancafrat @Mauri_group @WilleggM @JosefNg1 and @DrAlexStew. Loving this paper, tell your sterile transcripts from your productive ones and the world of CSR opens up with fascinating insights

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

sciCSR developed by @FraternaliLab, @JosefNg1 and colleagues is a computational workflow that uses scRNA-seq data to predict class switch recombination events and B cell dynamics.
https://t.co/uUWIvey7JJ

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Or interpreted another way. People who can afford to drink champagne have better health. This we need to fix.

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Launch day! Looking forward to the Annual Symposium today. A future where everyone can age well on their terms? Learn more about the Vivensa Foundation by...
🔗 Reading: https://t.co/Nn8we4gcHS
🔗 Watching: https://t.co/owq15Fa1CB
#VivensaFoundation #FundingForAgeingWell

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Really interesting morning discussing our challenges in providing efficient and respectful care of older people.

[CEA: Centre of Excellence on Ageing @surreyageing]

Delighted to welcome a delegation of Korean civil servants with our @ILCUK partners to learn about our world-leading research on integrated care @UniofSurrey

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Keep an eye out for PhD studentship opportunities from University of Surrey 😃

[UK Research and Innovation @UKRI_News]

We are investing over £500m through our new doctoral landscape and focal awards.

The funding announced today will support doctoral students to develop their skills across the biological, engineering & physical, and natural & environmental sciences: https://t.co/SrrqJ6YopV

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Congratulations to all our wonderful staff that work so hard to make this possible.

[University of Surrey @UniOfSurrey]

The Daily Mail University Guide 2025 has ranked the University of Surrey 5th in the UK for Student Experience.

We also ranked 12th for Graduate Salaries and 18th overall.

#ProudtobeSurrey #Guildford

[University of Surrey @UniOfSurrey]

We are delighted to be ranked 19th in the @guardian University Guide 2025 and proud to feature in today's article, "Ones to watch: three rising stars of this year's university guide". The editorial includes an interview with our President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Max Lu. Read The Guardian's article here: https://t.co/JdVzcXwSNM

#ProudtobeSurrey #ForeverSurrey #Guildford

[British Society for Research on Ageing @BSRAgeing]

In the Immunosenescence & Ageing symposium @beecellnumbers shows immune cell repertoire changes in ageing, more amazing elevated talks, our exchange @americanaging best ECR talk, & @DrClaireSteves on microbiome, ageing, & younger vs older poo 💩

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

@Emma_S_Chambers @blizard_inst Congratulations Emma

[CEA: Centre of Excellence on Ageing @surreyageing]

There’ll be >1.5bn people over 65 by 2050. Transdisciplinary healthier ageing research is critical. We recently welcomed our first cohort of 56 academic fellows to rise to this challenge. @GiaFundacion@ILCUK @UniOfSurrey https://t.co/rVwgSTTNxQ

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Another year gone by with awesome colleagues gathered to celebrate their students’ achievements

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Congratulations to Dongjun, producing excellent bioinformatics tools to progress our understanding of antibodies.

[Fraternali Lab @FraternaliLab]

Dongjun's talk on ImmunoMatch a.k.a. antibody "tinder" to study heavy and light chain pairing at 3DSIG! #ISMB2024

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Powerful new tool, showing it isn’t all switching from M. https://t.co/ks0eYJG9rE

[Fraternali Lab @FraternaliLab]

Joseph on sciCSR to study and infer class switching dynamics in B cells using scRNA-seq data #ISMB2024

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Great to be back in face to face CARINA network. Immunity for life, looking for a healthy older age.

[CARINA Network @CARINAnetwork]

Now moving on to our ‘Public involvement with #ageing #research’ panel discussion 💬

We are hearing from Debs Smith about how CARINA Network members can prioritise #PPI in their research 🙌

[Beth Phillips @MogwaiBeth]

Looking for 2 PhD students to work on these exciting @DunhillMedical funded projects. Fully-funded in a fantastic, multi-disciplinary team. Please share with relevant networks and student cohorts. #ageing #prehab #physiology

https://t.co/QpG9vFVxkj

https://t.co/SyKo7HajsR

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Remarkable research for healthy ageing, and more! Are you a member of the academy yet?

[Vivensa Foundation @VivensaF]

Ever wondered what makes @DunhillMedical different from other #healthyageing funders?
From offering a spectrum of funding options, tackling both broad and specific issues, to combining research with action - read about how we’re helping to drive change: https://t.co/HA6z4CwBnm

[University of Surrey @UniOfSurrey]

The results of the National Student Survey 2024 are out! Our overall positivity score has remained high at 84.7%. We are really pleased to rank 11th in the UK when the headline score is compared to the institutions normally included in the Guardian University Guide League Table.

#ProudtobeSurrey #ForeverSurrey #NSS2024 #University #Clearing

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

Webinar 17th July for this funding call. Supporting independence for older adults.

[Vivensa Foundation @VivensaF]

Do you already have evidence that a particular intervention or service you’ve developed can support older adults’ independence? Then our open #FundingOpportunity could be for you 👇

Register for our webinar on 17th July to find out more: https://t.co/kdGl5BMOlC

[CARINA Network @CARINAnetwork]

📣 We're delighted to announce the winners of our #EarlyCareer Development #Grants!

Congratulations to @J_W_Lewis, @Alexasanmar & Charandeep Kaur @UniofOxford, we hope these grants help you achieve your #CareerGoals 🌟

Find out more about our work 👉https://t.co/loh1ixJoLb

[Deborah Dunn-Walters 💙 @beecellnumbers]

This is good news.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Sir Patrick Vallance KCB has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk.

[Rt Hon Chris Skidmore @CSkidmoreUK]

Extremely welcome news that the Migration Advisory Committee have found no evidence of abuse of the graduate route and have recommended it stay.

The International Higher Education Commission submitted evidence to the review, arguing for its retention:
https://t.co/ZFIJ9rriYU