PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Innate immunity, Inflammasomes and interaction proteomics. All views are my own
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined January 2017
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Delighted to announce I passed my PhD viva yesterday! Many thanks to my examiners @BenediktKessler and @gunnar_ns for the fantastic discussion and feedback. Thanks as well to my incredible supervisors Ben Collins and @Rebecca_Coll and everyone in the labs!
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So proud of the new Dr @Emck197 for smashing her PhD viva! Huge thank you to her examiners @BenediktKessler @gunnar_ns for great discussions on NLRP3 inflammasomes and proteomics - first student co-supervised work Prof Ben Collins in the Collins Lab-Coll Lab-Collaboration!
Great couple of days in Manchester for the excellent @britsocimm Innate Immunity and inflammation meeting #BSIInflammation25
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RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH: Discovery could lead to new drug treatments for #InflammatoryDiseases including #Alzheimers, #asthma, #arthritis and #obesity.
Find out more: ow.ly/aYb050WQeJo
#LoveQUBResearch @WWIEM_QUB @bioagelabs @MHLSQUB
ALT Image shows a square box -the top shows a researcher filling a pipette. The bottom contains a red rectangle with white text that reads: “This research breakthrough highlights the benefit of combining academic expertise with industry to make real-world impact. We hope this discovery will lead to the development of new, targeted anti-inflammatory drugs which will help treat these devastating diseases.” Dr Rebecca Coll, Senior Lecturer in Immunobiology. There is also a photo of Dr Rebecca Coll beside the text in the bottom left-hand corner.
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Delighted to share that our study with @bioagelabs NLRP3 inhibitors is now online @JExpMed ! Together with @Geyer_lab @benedicte_py and @Innate_immuno we characterise BAL-0028 and BAL-0598. Excited to see the new NLRP3 biology they will reveal!
#NLRP3 is a target for anti-inflammatory therapies & can be inhibited by the tool compound MCC950. Wilhelmsen, @Rebecca_Coll et al. characterize new small-molecule inhibitors, BAL-0028 & BAL-0598, that have a distinct mechanism of action & binding site. hubs.la/Q03GtbGx0
Brilliant couple of days attending the @Irishimmunology meeting in Galway. Amazing science in a beautiful place! @uniofgalway
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Had a brilliant couple of days with the lab in Galway at the @Irishimmunology meeting - great science and great craic !!!
Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. act.gp/3YxOUXa
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New review from our lab. Kudos to PhD student @SebGrant346534. 10 things you wish you knew about inflammatory caspases: a holistic review of their biochemistry, activation, and signalling - Journal of Biological Chemistry jbc.org/article/S0021-9258%2…
Victory again for the Coll-Orr quizzers "Pyroptotic Brain Cells" securing third place at the @WWIEM_QUB annual summer BBQ despite a much diminished team! 🥉
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Commercial eel fishing on Lough Neagh forced to close for 2025.
If these were jobs lost in Agri-food giants or the mining/dredging firms on #LoughNeagh the government would be bending over backwards to help.
irishnews.com/news/northern-…
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We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts. act.gp/3FvLdI9
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Huge congratulations to the new Dr Mawhinney!! @TheaMawhinney Thank you to her fantastic examiners Prof Suzanne Cloonan @suzcloo and Prof Cliff Taggart @WWIEM_QUB
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We just launched a research hub to tackling #MultipleSclerosis
The NI MS Research Hub will bring together a collaborative team of experts to help accelerate leading research and improve the lives of people affected by the condition
shorturl.at/46e5V
@QUBelfast @mssocietyNI
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Caspase-1 self-terminates protease activity to enforce homeostasis and prevent inflammasome-driven diseases biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_immuno
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The loss of TBK1, or both TBK1 and the related kinase IKKε, results in uncontrolled cell death–driven inflammation. We show that TBK1/IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells.@FabiAlexFischer science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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We are at NI Science Festival @QUBbioscience beta testing our virus game “sense and susceptibility” alongside the classic build a virus activity!
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Applications for undergraduate summer studentships @WWIEM_QUB are now open. We would love to host enthusiastic students from anywhere in the world in Belfast! 👨🔬👩🔬🧪💊🌎 Details: qub.ac.uk/research-centres/w…
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Very happy that our team "Deck the Colls" won the annual Christmas table quiz (again!) @WWIEM_QUB thanks to quizmaster extraordinaire Derek Brazil 🎄🍾
