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During this time, he also undertook a sabbatical year at the CNRS-Orleans, and latterly, held a Readership at the University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Horsnell\u2019s group focuses on two big questions. Firstly, how does immunity against one infection influence control of a different infection? For example, his team is studying how gastrointestinal infections affect the control of sexually transmitted infections, revealing for the first time, that eosinophils regulate viral pathology in the female reproductive tract. This has been successfully translated in field studies in West Africa. He is also undertaking studies addressing how helminth infection induced eosinophils alter host control of the fungal pathogen <em>Pneumocystis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, he is interested in the mechanisms that permit mothers to transfer immunity to their children. Ongoing studies are addressing how maternal immunity alters short- and long-term control of infections (including helminths, <em>Candida<\/em>, <em>Salmonella<\/em> and <em>Pneumocococus<\/em>) in offspring via mechanisms including microchimeric regulation of immunity and epithelial development in offspring. His group are translating their pre-clinical discoveries in human studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Professor William (Bill) Horsnell will be joining the University\u2019s Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM), from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Professor William Horsnell joins MRC Centre for Medical Mycology - Latest news from the MRC CMM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medicalmycology\/2023\/10\/17\/professor-william-horsnell-joins-mrc-centre-for-medical-mycology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor William Horsnell joins MRC Centre for Medical Mycology - 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