Darren Thomson

Darren Thomson

@darrenthomson.bsky.social

Imaging Scientist @mrccmm MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at UoExeter. Applying and resourcing MYCOscopy to understand human fungal pathogens - always keen to chat

836 Followers 496 Following 108 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 weeks ago

If you build it… they will not come..
Great idea for an article! Kudos!

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Benefits of having collaborators visit, whooo!

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1 month ago

These pods look so great, need to watch!

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graphical abstract. Left is a fungal cell surrounded by bacteria, and the Hog1 cascade is turned on. Right is a fungal cell covered in mannan fibrils that prevent IgA and caspofungin and increase CLR recognition by macrophages

Candida albicans is usually hanging out with bacterial neighbors, so what happens to the fungus during co-culture?
The bacteria secrete metabolites that induce massive cell wall remodeling that change immune recognition and drug resistance. Read more in our new paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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3 months ago
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Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

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3 months ago

I stopped doing reviews for Scientific Reports a long time ago as the standard of manuscript I was being sent was what I will politely describe as not great.

But this...

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We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

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4 months ago
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FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/

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5 months ago

I spent 3 months angrily bashing that table, without knowing what was inside!

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5 months ago

Did you visit Carl Zeiss’s grave?

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6 months ago
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Wirshing, Lew et al. @mit.edu address how mothers partition growth equally among their buds in the multi-budding yeast Aureobasidium pullulans. Equal partitioning stems directly from effective equalization of #polarity sites. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Development

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Me and the #MycBio25 cohort had a great time today. Got to see an OpenScope in the wild @uctidm-mu.bsky.social and play for a whole day on an @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 - been 3 years since I’ve used a point scanner confocal on fungi

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7 months ago

This is so cool!

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7 months ago

What’s everyone’s open source code-free 3D visualisation tool for fluorescence microscopy? #Fiji

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8 months ago

Cool beans! Thrilling to see your lab grow Mike!

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8 months ago

Me and @caronjacobs.bsky.social are gearing up to deliver this workshop in a few weeks. Excited to discuss the almighty combo of pathogenic fungal cells and the fluorescence microscope!

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Running IA workshop using web-based Fiji deployment (ImJoy) Hello, I am looking to give image analysis workshops in LMIC locations where deployment of Fiji software is quick and easy. I was thinking of making use of the browser-based IMJOY Fiji platform. Has...

See my post on web-based deployment of Fiji for image analysis workshops forum.image.sc/t/running-ia...

Advice / input appreciated.

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8 months ago

Best microscopy based workshop/conference swag?

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8 months ago

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)

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9 months ago

#COYR #ScottishCup25

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I was 3 when we last won the Scottish Cup, the same as my boy! Hope he doesn’t have to wait another 35 yrs!

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9 months ago
Napoli's Scottish midfielder #8 Scott McTominay (R) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the Italian Serie A football match between Napoli and Empoli FC at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples on April 14, 2025. Napoli's Uruguayan defender #17 Mathias Olivera fights for the ball with Empoli's Italian forward #99 Sebastiano Esposito.

Napoli are crowned Serie A champions.

Goals from Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku made sure of it on a dramatic final day

They finish just one point ahead of Inter to win the fourth league title in their history.

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9 months ago
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Great to have Lucian Duvenage from @mrccmm.bsky.social CapeTown ✈️ to do MYCOscopy w/ @balloulab.bsky.social in Emergomyces Africanus - an emerging fungal pathogen yeast that needs more Mycology bioimaging tools. Here are some Macropahges brimming with them (green yeast)

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10 months ago

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

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9 months ago

Anyone got experience of using Trello w/ TEAMS? Seems like a very nice integration for project tasks / progress contained within MS Office

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9 months ago

Trying again.. any thoughts on below? #fluorescence

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11 months ago

Awsome Awsome idea!
We’ve got some fungal hyphae that have us stumped
Could play into a generic filamentous episode (neuron peeps likely have solutions)

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11 months ago
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Cool/weird that ITV picked this up, usually home to some trashy stuff.

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11 months ago
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Ask Erin, Dear Beth On Ask Erin/Dear Beth, bioimage analysis experts Beth Cimini and Erin Weisbart, of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, answer your image analysis questions! Whether it’s ab...

Delighted to announce that @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I have teamed up to create a new bioimage analysis video podcast called Ask Erin/Dear Beth - you can check it out at the link below! It will highlight common challenges in #bioimageanalysis, as well as our favorite solutions to them. (1/x)

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