Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin
Wellcome Trust Early Career Investigator allied with Jolly and Henriques labs based in QMUL #Cellular #Microbiologist doing #LIVE/#SR #Microscopy of #HIV, #NuclearPores #Tcells and all things #Trafficking and #Host #Cell ?manipulation by #Pathogens!
- Really excited to be awarded a British council UK-Germany Springboard grant! Exciting times ahead as a UK cohort featuring the labs of myself and Ines Castro and @jollylab.bsky.social will launch trips and research meetings to build a collaboration with @marinalusic.bsky.social in CIID Heidelberg.
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinI was invited by @focalplane.bsky.social to write a short description about it: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/a...
- Really enjoying #EESNucleus day one! Great to be back in @embl.org
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinStarting today: @events.embl.org #EESNucleus Make sure to say Hi to our editor @hvodermaier.bsky.social and discuss your latest work with him!
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin📢 Join us next week for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social.
- Great to see this in the wild!
- Excited to share the preprint for our work on cyclosporine-based lentiviral transduction enhancer, BG147, which degrades innate immune barrier IFITM3, increasing gene delivery in gene therapy. Huge thanks to everyone involved! @towerslab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinCall for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...
- I'll be there!
- 1 month to abstract deadline for the first cell biology of the nucleus meeting at @embl.org in many years - organised by the stellar @luskinglab.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Tom Quail & Simone Koehler Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️ #EESNucleus
- Really excited to be back in my home away from home, Berlin, for my first conference in Germany: "Life at the Edge: The nuclear envelope in nucleocytoplasmic transport and genome organisation" Really looking forward to it!
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinCome work at Nature Methods! A dream job. I know from experience 😄
- Nature Methods is hiring! We are seeking a new editor with expertise in microscopy, imaging technology, and/or cell biology. The position is available in NYC/Jersey City or Shanghai/Beijing on a hybrid working model. Apply by August 3! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
- Hyped to be moving to the Blizard Institute @qmul.bsky.social in the Autumn. As part of an exciting new development in infection research within the Blizard, I’ll be a Group Leader, Academic Lead of the Blizard Advanced Light Microscopy (BALM) Facility and soon take up a Senior Lectureship.
- We are delighted to be joining the Blizard Institute in Autumn. The Blizard Institute is an amazing place for discovery science and we're looking forward to more transformative research and collaborations. www.qmul.ac.uk/blizard/abou...
- Hugely excited to work with this!
- It's here! ✨ The #ExSRRF protocol paper is out 😍. Full details for merging Expansion Microscopy with our eSRRF analysis. From cells to tissue. A partnership with @puellesv.bsky.social's lab. Lead by Dominik Kylies and @hannah-superres.bsky.social + colleagues. #ExM #eSRRF ➡️ Open link: rdcu.be/euvEw
- This was a lot of fun! Great to be back in my Alma Mater.
- 🧪Great talk by @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social in the @ucddublin.bsky.social Conway CLASS lecture. Amazing images of HIV / Nuclear interactions
- Great to see this out! And very fitting the last publication from my PhD is in a @microbiologysociety.org journal. Who played a significant role in supporting my EARLY early career!
- New paper from @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social from his PhD looking at Campylobacter invasion of intestinal spheroids and published in Microbiology. Remember supporting our society's journals ensures they can continue to support us!! @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinI cannot believe I didn't post about dark sectioning! I can only blame my crazy travel schedule. Check out this amazing tool for background removal in fluorescence microscopy. An important new concept, not 'just another' denoising algorithm.
- Our groundbreaking Dark Sectioning technique is now published in Nature Methods! 🎉 It supercharges existing imaging systems: 🔬 Widefield → Confocal 🔬 Single-photon → Multiphoton 🔬 2D-SIM → 3D-SIM Now integrated in Airy PolarSIM and #FlexSIM! doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Microscopy #Fluorescence
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinYesterday, @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk! Thanks for all the engaging questions and all the great science chat afterwards! #cshretro
- It was a huge honour to speak today in the beautiful locale of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY. At an epic post entry events session on the 50th anniversary of #CSH #Retroviruses
- Can't wait for this!
- After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinOur latest preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. Our list this week is focusses on research using 🔬microscopy tools to answer questions in biology. As always, please let us know if there are other preprints that you’d like to see included. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/16/m...
- Join us at Virtual Virology for an afternoon of excellent science!
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin🖱️ Picking out individual cells in distorted microscopy images is now as easy as clicking a button, thanks to Cellpose3: www.janelia.org/news/newest-...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinA computational framework links transcriptomic analyses with mechanical signatures to study the interplay between cell mechanical forces and gene expression. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinWe are #hiring! We have two open postdoc/research scientist positions to join our #ERC funded project MITOFOLD to resolve the organization of mitotic chromosomes! 1) experimental biologist shorturl.at/LjGEM 2) data scientist shorturl.at/nDdhQ Please share! 🙌 We look forward to your application! 🤩
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinDo you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin[Phys.Org]A completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors - Phys.org Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have invented an entirely new field of microscopy called nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinWe wrote a protocol to quantify plasma membrane fluidity using a confocal microscope 🔬 Hopefully those interested in measuring membrane biophysical properties in live cells find it useful. We also provide an ImageJ/Fiji tool to make the analysis as easy as possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinBring your samples into focus! A new version of the #Cellpose cell boundary mapping tool, developed at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social by @computingnature.bsky.social and @marius10p.bsky.social, now works on less-than-perfect microscopy images that are noisy, blurry, or undersampled.
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinHow is transport directionality achieved through the #trypanosome nuclear pore complex? The current model is symmetrical, but this study reveals that the trypanosome #NuclearPore has an asymmetrical architecture, with conserved hubs that direct mRNA transport 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Q36QV2
- Time flies... 7 years ago this week. I was a green PhD student off to do a stint in the Suzuki lab at the CZC @hokkaido-univ.bsky.social. Living in Sapporo was like a dream. The excitement for research I witnessed and found in this place was my inspiration to pursue a life in academia!
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin#1 Happy to share our last work published in @NatureCellBio about a new cell cycle checkpoint that senses nuclear shape & mechanics to guarantee genome integrity www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Great work from @sol-herve.bsky.social & Andrea Scelfo in close collaboration with @katemiro.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin"Given the exodus of the academic community from X to Bluesky, we would advocate that publishers and database managers incorporate direct-share links to Bluesky, and so assist the academic community in its shift to a platform more suited to scientific discussion." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinI finally got around to making a video about my utilities to render 3D projections in Jupyter notebooks. The code is useful but a bit rough so I also suggest taking a look at @guiwitz.bsky.social microfilm and @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social stackview as more polished options. youtu.be/9yOA8R03trE
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin📢Now up on FocalPlane: Probes 101 – How to choose a fluorescent probe for your imaging experiment. Lina El Hajji talks us through the optimal photophysical properties & weighs up the pros & cons of FPs versus small molecule dyes & the options in between! focalplane.biologists.com/2024/12/14/p...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinThere are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláinjobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... At the University of Surrey, we are looking for a new colleague. Join us as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Immunity and Infection Biology at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Do get in touch for any queries or forward to your networks 🙂 #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinWe're looking for an Assitant Professor in Microbiology to join us @tcdgenmicro! Come and join our growing team. www.tcd.ie/microbiology... www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ Job ID: 037876. Closes 31st January
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinUseful orders of magnitude
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinDune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinHappy #MicroscopyMonday! The recordings of the #Virtual #I2K2024 workshops are available now tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20... Thanks to all who presented! Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too: www.youtube.com/@I2KConference
- Reposted by Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó FaoláinOne of my favourite things to do at FocalPlane is hosting webinars (well, not so much the speaking on screen…). I’ve met some fantastic scientists & getting email saying they'll speak is so exciting! You can check out the recordings of our webinars here: focalplane.biologists.com/focalplane-f...
