University of Birmingham, UK. Dr John M. Lindner has joined the University of Birmingham from the University from BioMed X Institute, Germany/USA. The appointment was made under the UK government’s £54 million global talent fund, and the University’s 125th anniversary fellows and chairs initiative. John’s research focusses on engineering biological systems and studying how the immune system adapts – running large-scale tests to understand how T‑cell and B‑cell receptors work. He said: “The University of Birmingham provides a world-class combination of ambitious students, researchers, clinical specialists, and therapeutic translation that is a natural fit to my previous experience. I look forward to leveraging these as my lab continues to investigate the role of lymphocyte antigen specificity, and how these immune cells adapt throughout our lives to keep us free of cancer and infection or, unfortunately, drive autoimmune disease.”