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Dr Eva Frickel @FrickelLab

Inflammation & Infection 🧫🧬🔬@MIMOL_UNIGE, Mom of 3 building a meaningful (scientific) future after losing 2 boys in 22/23

Joined June 2013
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Dr Eva Frickel@FrickelLab
30 Nov 2022
Our beautiful son Leo aged 4 died on 18th Sep in a freak accident. (1/5)
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Hot off the biorxiv press! 🔥 @SamuelLaraR finds GBP5 enhances macrophage glycolysis via glucose uptake, GTPase activity dependent and as being cis-Golgi localised. Bonus finding, GBP5 is important for full M1 macrophage functionality. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

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Intriguing functions for GBP5, ascribing it a broad immunoregulatory role during inflammation. 💥 Thanks to all collaborators and our funding sources! 🙏
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Welcome to the lab @umeshchopra17 ! Looking forward to exciting science! 🤩
Dr. Umesh Chopra@umeshchopra17
Jan 26
Excited to start my postdoc research in Dr. Eva Frickel’s lab @FrickelLab, @MIMOL_UNIGE ! jumping into the world of innate immunity. Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and doing some cool science! 🔬✨
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Today at 3pm if you’re in Central Europe! Don’t miss the InflammaZoom! 🔥
JelenaBezbradicaLab@JelenaLab
20 Oct 2025
Reminder: new #InflammaZoom free Webinar is today at 2 pm BST with James Murphy @pseudokinase from WEHI and Jonathan Maelfait from VIB Ghent. Register via Abcam link below. See you soon!
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Check out this new paper by @avi_cmbi lab - GBP1 can detect extracellular bacteria from the inside of cells! 😎 LPS solubilisation, Toxoplasma vacuole disruption and now immunity through actin binding - what a superpower protein! 😬 Happy to have supported this project!
Avinash Shenoy@avi_cmbi
28 Sep 2025
📢A new effector-triggered immunity role for GBP1! No place for pathogens to hide now that GBP1 can detect extracellular pathogens that hijack the actin cytoskeleton. Surprise*suprise* GBP1 does this independently of LPS! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! Please RT (1/5)
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If you’re less than 1 year post-PhD in Immunology/Cell Biology/Molecular Biology, contact me e.frickel@bham.ac.uk to discuss. (4/5)
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Thanks to @SoldatiLabToxo and @wellcometrust for enabling this move! (5/5)
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V for voyage. As Christmas comes and the New Year, I remember that we’re all on a voyage. My eyes are wide open now to every day of the voyage. Every day counts - we learn, we work, we live, we connect to others, but most importantly we don’t postpone. #lifeafterloss
Dr Emily Cooper@criminographer
22 Dec 2024
V is for voyage. After Alexander died, I promised him that I'd stop making excuses about things I wanted to do. So I booked a trip to Australia for him. Isabelle was the dream travel companion.She loved it.I'm so glad I didn't know what was to come & just savoured every second.💕
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Tune in to #inflammazoom! If you’re in the UK and just reading morning Twitter in bed, you still got time to fry some eggs! If you’re in Melbourne, maybe grab a beer, it’s hot!
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@abcam
9 Dec 2024
Join us on December 16 for the final Inflammazoom webinar of 2024, featuring talks on from Kate Shroder @inflammasomelab @UQ_News and @SiMingMan1 @ourANU 🔬🎤 Register here to access the live session as well as on-demand talks from past sessions: events.abcam.com/AnYVL?rt=Ql… #innateimmunity #immunology #inflammasome #immuneresponse @ClareBryant13
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Future postdocs in Infection Biology - check this out! Lots of cool research questions, a vibrant research environment and a fun PI!👇
Vincenzo Torraca@VinTorraca
5 Sep 2024
Thrilled to announce that we have a postdoctoral position available to join the lab and investigate persistent Shigella infection! Do reach out if interested! Deadline: October 3rd Link: shorturl.at/Ndx6X Please retweet! @kingsmedicine @KCLImmunoMicro
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After we lost Leo, @criminographer was our first lifeline. Her son Alexander and Leo were close in age when they died. We mourn the loss of her daughter Isabelle by the same genetic condition as Alexander. Consider helping her family to gain some breathing room. 🙏
Dr Emily Cooper@criminographer
20 Sep 2024
Thanks so much for all the condolences for the loss of Isabelle.We're so grateful for offers of help but as we can't think straight at the moment,a colleague has kindly done a fundraiser page until we can function enough to know what we need.Thank you x justgiving.com/crowdfunding/…
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Awesome work @DanielHFisch and @jkagan1 and team! This elegantly demonstrates the power of studying the endogenous proteins in real time in their native environment! 😎👏 Loving the innate immune cell biology, the best! 😍
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Pathogen battling p62! #autophagy 😎 Happy to have made a small contribution and congratulations to all authors!👇
Melanie Krause@m_krause0206
6 May 2024
The main story of my PhD research project is finally out in @JCellBiol today! rupress.org/jcb/article/223/… We were looking at how Vaccinia virus circumvents host immunity by disabling the autophagy machinery through depletion of sequestome-like receptors (SLRs). For a 🧵see below:
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Phil Elks@elkslab_sheff
2 Apr 2024
Delighted to announce that The UK Cellular Microbiology Network 2024 meeting will be held in Sheffield on the 8th-9th July 2024! Join us for two fantastic keynotes @ClareBryant13 @Basler_Lab and opportunities for ECR talks. Registration/abstracts open now: ukcellmicro.org
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Important read for all of us studying cell-autonomous defences to pathogens. The guns (here lysosomes) each cell type has will be different AND (!) be loaded differently (aka differ in function and response) within a cell type. Yep, diversity in biology at its best! 😬😅😎
Max Gutierrez@maxgabgut
23 Mar 2024
🔥#Lysosome aficionados: excited to see this perspective we wrote with @claudiobussi 🤩 @TheCrick in @PLOSBiology out! 🧵👇journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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Congratulations to @ewald_lab and team for putting a new post-translational modification - nitration driven by iNOS - at the heart of the vacuole-targeted killing mechanism of #Toxoplasma. Huge news!! >25 years after the discovery that iNOS is somehow important! 👍😎😍
Sarah E Ewald, PhD@ewald_lab
27 Mar 2024
Excited to share our new story explaining how macrophages use nitric oxide derivatives to shut down Toxoplasma evasion of cell-autonomous immunity. Congrats to @zhaoxyu6 and the team! link.springer.com/10.1038/s4…
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Broz Lab@broz_lab
22 Mar 2024
We're looking for a #postdoc to join our team at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) working on #inflammasomes, #celldeath and infectious diseases. Apply here and join us! tinyurl.com/3dyk6vhs

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