Aaron Barron

PFAS levels in mothers’ blood associated with children’s brain structure and function Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have discovered that the levels of PFAS in mothers’ blood during pregnancy is associa

Here is the @utu.fi press release for our new article, now availabel online ahead of print in The Lancet Planetary Health @thelancetplanet.bsky.social

#PFAS #environment #neuroscience

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Thank you to all co-authors for your work on this project, to all collaborators, and to all the participants in FinnBrain!

The reserach was funded by INITIALISE EU: initialise-project.eu

The first article from my post-doc with FinnBrain is available online in The Lancet Planetary Health (open access)! 📖 Maternal PFAS are associated with multimodal brain structural, and functional, outcomes in children 🧠 🧪 #PFAS #Neuroscience #MRI #MassSpec

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Thank you to the @anatsoc.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic meeting in Oxford University on human cortical development, and the chance to present my research on the immune proteome and cortical thickness in children! 🧠 Thank you to Field of View @turkubioimaging.bsky.social for supporting my trip!

The first of two summer conferences, the #Metabolomics 2025 Congress in Prague! Thank you @inflames-flagship.bsky.social, Nordic Metabolomics Society, and @metsoc.bsky.social for supporting me so I could travel to beautiful Prague and present my research on immune proteomics and anxiety in children

A crazy busy and amazing week at the #NMetC24 @SocietyNordic and BioCity Symposium presenting our new research from @FinnBrainStudy balanced with some neuroimaging teaching and socializing 🧠 🛳️

Presenting research from the end of my PhD with @FinnBrainStudy @FBNeuroImageLab about maternal immune activation and white matter development, at FENS 2024 in Vienna #FENS2024 #FENSForum2024

For this lovely fluorescent Friday, here is an image of currently-growing axons emerging from human neurons (green is GAP43 staining; with some growth cones at their tips)!

#microscopy #neuroscience #neuron #everyweekisscienceweek #phdlife

Thank you to @lyons_tea for unknowingly sponsoring my thesis writing lately…

Beautiful Mind Join us at The Old Oak on Monday, 22nd May at 6pm! In thi...

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I'm talking at this year's @pintofscienceIE festival on Monday 22 May!
My talk is all about brain development and is titled "Stress, Sex and Heavy Metal: How to Build a Brain". Come join us at Old Oak, Cork City, 22/5/23 at 6pm - free tickets...

A time-lapse of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: using an electric current to separate proteins by their size. The real separation begins at 13s.

#Biology #PhD #science #cellbiology

A poor neuron being eaten by bacteria. Notice the Brownian dance of some of the boys in the centre and left. This was not meant to happen…

#PhD #bacteria #neuron #microscopy

While neural progenitor cells naturally "want" to turn into neurons, you can prevent this temporarily by growing them into large clusters called neurospheres.

And they look like this.

#neuroscience #ScienceTwitter #Science #Microscopy #phdlife

I posted a picture of a single neuron a month ago. Here's about a hundred of them, densely interconnected. Have a fluorescent Friday!!

#neuroscience #neuron #Science #sciencetwitter #microscopy

Frontiers | Maternal pre-eclampsia serum increases neurit... Introduction: Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a common and serious ...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.1043481#.Y8E-MeQDJ6s.twitter

I'm delighted to finally share the first piece of original research from my thesis on pre-eclampsia and neuronal development, now published in Frontiers in Physiology! Thank you to my supervisors and everyone involved...

Have a fluorescent Friday, and enjoy this picture of a lonely human neuron surrounded by neural progenitor cells!

#neuroscience #neuron #Microscopy #Science

https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/boolean/issue/view/boolean-2022

You can read my article, "Pre-Eclampsia and the Developing Brain", now published in the relaunch of UCC's journal, The Boolean!

This is an open-access non-specialist report of the diverse postgraduate research happening in UCC. @Boolean_UCC @UCCGSO...

Thank you to @UCCMedHealth for organising last week’s fantastic conference From Molecules to People, where I was very lucky and grateful to be awarded a prize for best oral presentation #fM2P 🧠

Only 1 week to @UCCMedHealth’s conference From Molecules to People, where I’ll be presenting some of my work on #preeclampsia and #neurodevelopment! Register (for free) here:

https://conference.ucc.ie/future-medicines-research-conference-from-molecules-to-people-web/

Thank you to everyone at #DOHaD2022 for all the great conversations and questions during the poster session today - I’m extremely grateful for all the positive interactions I had about my poster on #preeclampsia and #neurodevelopment

After two great days of trainee workshops, tonight featured the opening ceremony to @DOHaD2022 - featuring the magnificent Eagle Song Dancers and musicians from Sarah McLachlan School of Music #PhD #DOHaD2022 #Vancouver #IndigenousPeoples

In Vancouver a few days before @DOHaD2022 and my first stop was the hike up Grouse Mountain

Appropriate for my first tattoo 🧠✒️ #neuron #neuroscience #scienceart

Here is my blog post about the wonderful month I spent learning from @FinnBrainStudy in Turku! https://sites.utu.fi/finnbrain/a-1-month-adventure-in-turku/

It’s a pretend-you’re-tryptophan-hydroxylase sort of evening
#serotonin #5HT #molecule

Presenting some of my PhD work in Finland after an incredible month at @FinnBrainStudy in #Turku, #Finland

Tremendously excited to travel to @UniTurku for the next month and learn from and work with the spectacular @FinnBrainStudy! 🧠#finnbrain #PhD #phdlife