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Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin

@mattvxwhelan

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!

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Thanks Blair!

20.12.2025 21:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think there will another call in 2026. It's a really nice launcher to foster Horizon Europe type applications!

20.12.2025 09:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

20.12.2025 09:13 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

I was invited by @focalplane.bsky.social to write a short description about it:

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/a...

15.12.2025 08:40 👍 61 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0

One battle after another, Sinners and Weapons were all really good. Frankenstein was fun too. Agree that TV was far better in 2025.

10.12.2025 19:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Really enjoying #EESNucleus day one!

Great to be back in @embl.org

18.11.2025 14:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starting today: @events.embl.org #EESNucleus
Make sure to say Hi to our editor @hvodermaier.bsky.social and discuss your latest work with him!

18.11.2025 11:41 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - FocalPlane FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - News

📢 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.

18.09.2025 14:01 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Great to see this in the wild!

08.09.2025 16:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call for papers for JCS Special Issue
Text: Special Issue
Cell Biology of the Nucleus
Guest Editor: Abby Buchwalter
Deadline: 3 November 2025
Image of a cell with a heart-shaped nucleus (Image credit: Hoang Anh Le)
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Call for papers for JCS Special Issue Text: Special Issue Cell Biology of the Nucleus Guest Editor: Abby Buchwalter Deadline: 3 November 2025 Image of a cell with a heart-shaped nucleus (Image credit: Hoang Anh Le) Journal of Cell Science logo Call for papers

Call 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...

16.07.2025 12:53 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 5

I'll be there!

23.07.2025 23:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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!

23.07.2025 15:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come work at Nature Methods! A dream job. I know from experience 😄

10.07.2025 12:35 👍 37 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1

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.

10.07.2025 15:02 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hugely excited to work with this!

03.07.2025 17:38 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This was a lot of fun!

Great to be back in my Alma Mater.

11.06.2025 08:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

06.06.2025 20:56 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I 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.

29.05.2025 01:57 👍 42 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Would love that join!

30.05.2025 11:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Really great talk by @melghazaly.bsky.social from @towerslab.bsky.social in #CSH #Retroviruses !

23.05.2025 16:16 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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Yesterday, @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk! Thanks for all the engaging questions and all the great science chat afterwards! #cshretro

21.05.2025 06:45 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

20.05.2025 23:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can't wait for this!

20.05.2025 10:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Microscopy preprints - applications in biology - FocalPlane Microscopy preprints - applications in biology - News

Our 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...

16.05.2025 15:37 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Join us at Virtual Virology for an afternoon of excellent science!

12.05.2025 12:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Newest version of Cellpose can spot cell boundaries even in cloudy conditions Picking out individual cells in distorted microscopy images is now as easy as clicking a button. A new version of Cellpose – the popular tool that maps the boundaries of diverse cells in microscopy

🖱️ Picking out individual cells in distorted microscopy images is now as easy as clicking a button, thanks to Cellpose3: www.janelia.org/news/newest-...

09.05.2025 13:22 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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A computational framework links transcriptomic analyses with mechanical signatures to study the interplay between cell mechanical forces and gene expression.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

17.03.2025 16:51 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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We 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! 🤩

19.03.2025 11:50 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 4
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Do 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

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27.02.2025 20:13 👍 188 🔁 74 💬 4 📌 10
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[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...

27.02.2025 20:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0