Emma Armstrong

An incredible experience at the 14th Annual Meeting on Marek's Disease and Avian Herpesviruses! So happy to announce I won the Ton Schat Boehringer Ingelheim Award for my presentation on the immunology behind the HVT in ovo vaccines 🐣

Day 1 of the 14th Annual Symposium on Marek's Disease and Avian Herpesviruses complete! Thoroughly enjoyed todays amazing talks and very excited to present tomorrow on my PhD work at the Immunology session! 🐥🇺🇲

Have you ever wondered why there are so many subtypes of immune cells? In our work published today at @Nature, we offer one possible reason – the capacity to evolve. 1/n nature.com/articles/s4158…

Pleased to have won runner up for my talk on my PhD work at the Avian Research Symposium 🥳

Another great RDSVS Research Student Day at the Roslin Institute. It is always great to hear about what the fellow postgraduate students have been working on and see everyones progression over the years 😊

@LVervelde @roslininstitute I hope the move goes ok and good luck with this new chapter! :)

Today was the last day in the office @roslininstitute big thank you to the kind colleagues who made me feel happy and safe during the good but especially during the darker times #MentalHealthMatters

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The cake is a lie nature.com/articles/d4158…

Circadian rhythms play a role in human vaccination responses, where patients vaccinated in the morning experience a better response to vaccines compared with patients vaccinated in the afternoon/evening, according to a 2022 @SciImmunology Focus.⁠ 📄: scim.ag/5dS

Nature research paper: A human embryonic limb cell atlas resolved in space and time go.nature.com/3GtkjAL

Thinking of donating to your local food bank this Christmas? 🎄 The festive season is the busiest time of year for food banks. To help them as much as possible, please get your donations in as early as possible. Locate your local food bank 👉 bit.ly/2Z5xFg4

Bluetongue has been confirmed in an eighth individual animal on a fourth premises within the extended Temporary Control Zone (TCZ) in north east Kent. Livestock keepers must remain vigilant & follow the animal movement restrictions. See: gov.uk/bluetongue for further info.

Gene-edited chickens made at the NARF have provided insight into how gene editing could create flu-resistant chickens. Full paper here👉 edin.ac/46pALgE @imperialcollege @roslininstitute #BirdFlu #AvianFlu #chicken

If you do one thing this #WorldMentalHealthDay, help someone know they're not alone. Here’s how 🧵

Science is hard. Good research makes you feel stupid. You're inadequate for the task at hand. How else would it be? You're pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Get used to it. This process is immensely rewarding.

Another Research student day done at the Roslin Institute and very proud to have gotten runner up for the second year PhD poster presentations! 🥳

Very happy to share that a project I worked on as part of my Honours has been published in Ageing Research Reviews. Titled "Does oxidative stress shorten telomeres in vivo? A meta-analysis" 🧬 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…