Taking some time off and enjoying a bit of photography in the back garden

Missus and I arguing about how to pronoun Jubel. I say it rhymes with bubble but better half says You Bell but then again she might just be slagging me off again. Whatever it’s called it’s tasty

We set up a trail camera by our pond and the bottom of the garden and it’s a veritable thoroughfare down there

Maybe I can entice you to take a look at the fancy full spectrum flow cytometry figures? There is more where that came from! #endothelialcells #vascularbiology #liver #fibrosis

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mapping vascular plasticity in liver fibrogenesis identifies novel fibrosis-associated endothelial cells in early-stage liver disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.710459v1

Hot off the preprint press. The ‘big’ paper have gone live. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here we go again

So pleasing that the first proper sunny day of the year results in a perfect solar power raindrop energy graph. #graphgeek

Whoop whoop! Massive congratulations to Dr Christina Gkantsinikoudi who sailed through her PhD viva today. Very proud PI moment and what an unbelievably brilliant first PhD of the Dufton Group

The ‘starter’ preprints has just gone live. Hoping the main course will follow very shortly in the new year. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Addressing complex autofluorescence signatures in solid tissue samples to enhance full spectrum flow cytometry of non-immune cells.

Motivation Single-cell RNA sequencing has transformed our understanding of cellular heterogeneity, but transcriptomic data alone cannot capture information regarding protein expression, post-transcrip...

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Man of action today!

Fancy a PhD in my lab working in partnership with the National Physical Labs looking at new ways to investigate beam radiation in liver-on-a-chip platforms or know someone who would? Check the details here www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/projects...

PhD Projects 2026: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models

The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...

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Radiohead at the O2 was absolutely stunning (well apart from ‘you and whose army’ which went all out of sync)

Spooky full spectrum flow cytometry plot. #happyhalloween #fluorescencefriday 💀

Top insights from the Nadkarni group #preeclampsia #immunology

Suchita Nadkarni@suchita.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to have latest review published in ATVB @ahajournals.bsky.social on how immune cells shape vascular and cardiac responses in #preeclampsia @qmulwhri.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Getting Skynet vibes for when AI instigates the next pandemic! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

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I see a little (green) mouse peeping its head out of its nest. #fluoresencefriday #EndMT

The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o... There's space for five names in the submission boxes. Let's go with: Exxon Mobil BP Shell Equinor Chevron At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve. Pls retweet!

Name our Storms

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Francesca@fgnunn.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's your chance to name storms after oil companies- there's a SM effort to include BP, Exxon, Shell, BigOil and Equinor. #britishecologists @mrhenrymorris.substack.com @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Enjoyed a fantastic WHRI Review Day yesterday and the Dufton Group came away with not one, but two, Poster Prizes! Congrats to Dr Josh Dignam and Ms Christina Gkantsinikoudi 🏆 @qmulwhri.bsky.social

So close to the perfect normal distribution graph only sad that it’s data from my solar panels and not my research #geekingitupinthesun

Fantastic to see a paper I played a small part of get highlighted on the Science website. Congrats to the amazing Dr Julia Gutjarh and the whole of Prof Antal Rot’s team at @qmulwhri.bsky.social @science.org

My PhD student isolated some liver endothelial cells and got this brilliant image showing the gradual transition of health EC to full EndMT in a very satisfying circle. #fluorescencefriday #fibrosis

Good Morning sunshine......Will you be my friEnd(MT)? Sorry sometimes my obsession with pareidolia gets the better of me #vascularbiology #endothelialcells #EndMT #facesinthings 😍

Accidental Axolotl #fluorescencefriday #cardiac #endothelial cells

Been having a play with some whole mount adipose tissues stained for various vascular markers by my brilliant BHF Master’s student Rose Wilcox @qmulwhri.bsky.social

Been trying to line up some 3D projections of sequentially imaged liver vasculature for a 6 colour image….So close!

Been wrestling with how to make an image of Full Spectrum Flow Cytometry and in the end decided to just making something that melts eyeballs - enjoy!

Another year done and dusted and the group enjoyed a bit of Christmas cheer include find your favourite organ in the mystery bag tequilla challenge and junior science brainbox. Here’s to more vascular biology and ridiculous pub games in 2025

Going through some photos on my phone and found this stunning widefield placenta must be one of @suchita.bsky.social !

In the Dufton Group we like nothing more than transforming heart sections into birds. I disguised heart sections as a flamingo, parrot and pigeon while my PhD student produced a Peacock from the different the cardiac vessels. #fluorescencefriday

Want to rename November to Experivember for the Dufton group. The Phd student has labelled 576 tubes and counting. Won’t be short of imaging to do in 2025!