Scientist - Single Molecules, Biophysics, Droplets, Membranes, Microfluidics & SynBio - Cardiff University Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer
Cardiff
Joined April 2016
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Thank you for the invitation to speak today and a really enjoyable seminar. I don't venture on twitter too often these days, but wanted to pop in to say thanks and thank you for the live coverage on here too. An impressive additional way to disseminate!
Upscale in ImageJ so 1 pixel becomes a square of 9 or 16 identical pixels. Then when exporting in any format that compresses you invoke, in effect, sub-pixel (in respect to the acquired image) interpolation, preserving single pixel detail. Really good for single molecule imaging.
@sophie_gadd Hi Sophie. Any chance I could DM/email you about some LEGO based science we've been working on? We think we've done some interesting stuff with LEGO which will soon be published and so would be keen to share with you/find out your thoughts. Thanks :)
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3/ The cross-School @cardiffuni Screening Service based in @CUBiosciences , led by Dr Tomasz Jurkowski and Prof Pete Kille - winner of the “Exceptional Enhancement of Staff Wellbeing” award
Congrats to Tomasz!! Well deserved.
1/ Dr Tomasz Jurkowski - winner of the "Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the University" - for his "extraordinary action" in his central role establishing the university's #COVID19 testing service. This is the only award chosen by the Vice-C!
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The first comprehensive assessment of the cardiovascular complications of #LongCovid at 1 year, just published @NatureMedicine nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
by @zalaly and colleagues @WUSTLmed
Yep. It's the 'every possible step' bit of the quote, I suppose - no doubt there was ambition for unprecedented scale, but declining/ignoring help Feb-May doesn't seem to quite sit with everything possible. A crazy time. Well done on MK btw.
You did great. I know other Universities found it incredibly difficult to help though, despite having operational testing pipelines and capacity and will to expand.
...the government "took every possible step to build the largest diagnostic industry in UK history rapidly and from scratch". 🧐
Little fluorescent tennis balls!! Lovely stuff. Always so cool to me that a two molecule think film can be so robust.
@JinLi_AOR did an great job driving this work. I’m sure he’d be keen to give a talk/seminar if anyone's keen to hear more. Give him a follow too!
You can see the Ca2+ plumes move within the droplet. We were pleased/surprised to have the sensitivity to see this given the long working distance, but these convective flows correlate with simulations of the acoustic streaming. More on that in pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
By applying acoustic field and magnetic field to a magnetised artificial cell, membrane tension can be induced to activate MscL, enabling Ca2+ flux & thus fluorescence. No protein = no flux, protein but no magnet = no flux. So mag = protein on/off switch!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…