Aaron Barron

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…

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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