Life in and outside the lab
Chloe & Katrine jointly received the second golden pepitte for their team work - thanks guys!
Lab Christmas dinner 2025 - it has been a fantastic year!
Jessica and Chloe attended the 2025 BSS meeting in Brighton
Lab night out to say thank you to Javi Perez (CNIO) for helping us set up some key experiments in the lab
Juan hosts collaborator Luis de Lecea (Stanford) in Manchester
Lab lunch to welcome visitor Tiago Reiss from Portugal
Chloe and Olivia presented their work at the 2025 BSI conference in Liverpool
Olivia climbed Mount Kilimanjaro during her silo switch project in Uganda/Tanzania
Chloe Barnes defended her PhD thesis - congratulations Dr. Barnes!
Amelia mastered the art of RNA extractions - well done Amelia!
Juan and Matthew connected with Latin American immunologists (ALACI) during the IUIS conference in Vienna in 2025
Summer lab retreat and Bowling!
Matthew is selected as part of the IUIS Rising start 2025 cohort. He delivered a wonderful talk about his work on adipose tissue responses to infection during the the IUIS conference in Vienna in 2025
Alice visited us to introduce baby Maia to the lab! This is the first baby in the lab and we were all excited! She even hold the golden pipette - A scientist in the making!
The Quintana lab took part in the 2025 Lydia Becker Bar rally
Juan receives the 2024 BSP president medal in recognition of outstanding contributions by an early career researcher
Anmoyul got married and also presented the first poster of this PhD - well done Anmoyul and congratulations!
Lab send-off to Alice as she embarks on her maternity leave - we will miss you, Alice!
Alice receives the first golden pipette in the lab for helping Juan and Matthew set the foundations of the lab in Manchester -
thanks a million, Alice!
Chloe and Alice introduce flow cytometry to those in the lab coming from a different scientific discipline. Teamwork in action!
Juan hosts Damian Perez (University of York) as part of the Manchester Immunology seminar series
First Christmas lab dinner with the Worboys and Lopez-Castejon labs
Matthew and Juan, together with Alex Cocker (Imperial) launched the first in-person STEM Village seminar series in Manchester
First group picture after the Wellcome CDA award!
Alice Contain joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher as part of an AMS Springboard award to Juan
Juan received Leah Coe, the first rotation student of the lab in Manchester
Matthew delivered a seminar the 10th International gd T cell conference in Lisbon, Portugal
Juan visits collaborator Rune Anger (University of Oslo) as part of a Royal Society Research grant
Juan officially joins the University of Manchester in November 2023 - lots to get done but excited about what lays ahead!
(PD: Empty office (left) and TC space (right) were rapidly turned into fu
Juan visits mentor Prof. Alvaro Acosta (LSTM) to learn how to dissect Tsetse flies!
Juan trains Nono Kuispond (DRC), John Ogunsola (Nigeria) and Agatha Lestari (Malaysia) on spatial transcriptomics
John Ogunsola (Nigeria) passes his Viva at the University of Glasgow - Well done John!
Juan and Matthew meet alumni Agatha and Praveena for a Christmas lunch in Edinburgh
Juan adelivers a talk at the BSI Manchester Immunology Group seminar series
Juan and Matthew celebrate Christmas with lab members Agatha, Nono, and Bachar Cheaib in Glasgow
Juan and Matthew meet with friend and mentor Prof. Alvaro Acosta in Liverpool
