Kaylee Worlock
@WorlockKaylee
Post-doctoral researcher @UCLRespiratory | Airway epithelium 🫁 + immune development | Mucosal immunology, single cell atlasing and COVID-19 research | She/her
Check out all of our movies @SciImmunology to see how we looked at immune cell tissue-residency in developing human lungs.
New work provides a resource that documents insights from rarely obtained developing human lung samples, highlighting the many B cell groups housed in fetal lungs. @drmarkonikolic @teichlab Learn more: scim.ag/5gD
Huge congratulations to our RTI 2025 Rising Stars! Here are our two deserving winners - @WorlockKaylee and @H_gavillet. Very well done to you both. #RTI2025 #RespiratoryResearch #MedicalConference
🥼Today we’re celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We’re proud to support #WomenInScience as well as promoting the need for equal access to education, training and career development. Here @WorlockKaylee shares what a day in the life looks like at @UCL
Meet Kaylee, a PhD student at @ucl who won one of our travel awards last year to attend the @EuroRespSoc Congress. We are committed to funding #WomenInScience to further our understanding of lung research. Find out what she gets up to in her working day🧪#WomenInSTEM
Why did some people get Covid while others didn't? @uclmedsci's Dr Marko Nikolic and @WorlockKaylee analyse their recent research which revealed the genetic markers that protected some people from Covid-19 infection. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4eJ3QrU
High levels of a key gene in volunteers who managed to fight off infection quickly suggests it has a protective effect against SARS-CoV-2, finds a new study involving @drmarkonikolic & @WorlockKaylee @DoM_UCL @uclmedsci with @sangerinstitute ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jun/…
We were incredibly lucky to be involved in a tiny way 🔬to this super interesting study of the acute immune response to human challenge with SARS-CoV-2. A completely unique opportunity to study the immediate immune response at the site of exposure and systemically in the blood
Extremely excited to see our paper out in @Nature! How does the body respond to SARS-CoV-2, and what happens if you don't get infected after exposure? We unravel the exact timeline of the cellular responses to inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 in humans. (1/4) nature.com/articles/s4158…
Wonderful to see our paper out in @Nature today! What happens if we experimentally challenge young healthy seronegative adult volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 and apply single cell multi-omics? Not everyone subsequently gets COVID-19! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Extremely talented co-first authors @RLindeboom from @teichlab and @WorlockKaylee from my lab @ucl. We describe novel immune responses locally in the nasopharynx and systemically in blood in 3 distinct infection groups: sustained, transient and abortive. Check out our summary:
📰 Read ‘Human SARS-CoV-2 challenge uncovers local and systemic response dynamics’ with @sangerinstitute @Teichlab @ucl @drmarkonikolic @WorlockKaylee @NKI_nl @humancellatlas in @Nature ⤵️ nature.com/articles/s4158…
Extremely excited to see our paper out in @Nature! How does the body respond to SARS-CoV-2, and what happens if you don't get infected after exposure? We unravel the exact timeline of the cellular responses to inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 in humans. (1/4) nature.com/articles/s4158…
How does age affect the nasal epithelial response to #SARSCoV2 infection? @UCLchildhealth scientists including Dr. @ana_cujba, Kaylee Worlock, and Maximillian Woodall investigated and found a number of key differences: go.nature.com/3xOPHs0
🚨 In case you missed it, we are excited to share that our work on how nasal cells from children and elderly people respond to SARS-CoV-2 has been published in @NatureMicrobiol . A short 🧵tweetorial on some highlights of our study ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4156…
Differences in how the nasal cells of young and elderly people respond to the SARS-CoV-2 virus could explain why children typically experience milder #COVID19 symptoms, finds a new study led by @Dr_ClaireSmith & @drmarkonikolic @UCLchildhealth @DoM_UCL ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/apr/…
Delighted to share our latest paper out in @NatureMicrobiol on age-specific nasal epithelial responses to SARS-CoV-2. nature.com/articles/s4156… Amazing team science @Dr_ClaireSmith @teichlab @ucl @sangerinstitute @uclrespiratory
Absolutely delighted to share our paper published today in @SciImmunology in collaboration with @teichlab. Huge congratulations to amazing co-first authors @DrJoBarnes, @masahiroy15, @PengHeCam! Team science! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Congrats @drmarkonikolic from @uclrespiratory @lungsforliving on his @BTSrespiratory / @BALRcommunity Lecture Award!
At BALR we are proud to support outstanding mid-career researchers like @drmarkonikolic and their excellent work. BALR Chair @drbunsenhoney said: ‘These awards are important markers of esteem for these historically underserved mid-career researchers.’
Very pleased and proud to see our work out in @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158… Also great to be at #HCA2023GM Toronto with @kazukane as it goes live! @humancellatlas The preprint tweetorial lays out the key findings in detail, but here are the headlines... 1/n
Very pleased to announce my first, first co-author paper from my time in @Teichlab, now on BioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🫀 We integrated spatial + suspension (snRNA/ATACseq) data to generate the richest atlas of the adult human heart to date. Some highlights... 1/n