Matt Whelan / Mathúin Ó Faoláin

Really enjoying #EESNucleus day one!

Great to be back in @embl.org

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

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.

Great to see this in the wild!

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...

I'll be there!

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!

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

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.

Hugely excited to work with this!

This was a lot of fun!

Great to be back in my Alma Mater.

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!

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.

Would love that join!

Really great talk by @melghazaly.bsky.social from @towerslab.bsky.social in #CSH #Retroviruses !

Yesterday, @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk! Thanks for all the engaging questions and all the great science chat afterwards! #cshretro

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

Can't wait for this!

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...

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

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-...

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...

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! 🤩

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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[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...

Measuring plasma membrane fluidity using confocal microscopy - Nature Protocols Membrane fluidity is a crucial feature in understanding cellular physiology. This protocol describes a robust pipeline for measuring plasma membrane fluidity using confocal imaging and new environment...

We wrote a protocol to quantify plasma membrane fluidity using a confocal microscope 🔬
Hopefully those interested in measuring membrane biophysical properties in live cells find it useful.
We also provide an ImageJ/Fiji tool to make the analysis as easy as possible.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Bring your samples into focus! A new version of the #Cellpose cell boundary mapping tool, developed at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social by @computingnature.bsky.social and @marius10p.bsky.social, now works on less-than-perfect microscopy images that are noisy, blurry, or undersampled.

Expansion microscopy identifies novel asymmetric pore proteins. The images show proExM of cell lines co-expressing epitope-tagged versions of NUP76 (top; magenta), NUP149 (middle; magenta), or NUP140 (bottom; magenta) in combination with NUP110 (green). Images were deconvolved (20 iterations for NUP149 and NUP76; 60 iterations for NUP140) and single planes of the nuclei are shown.

How is transport directionality achieved through the #trypanosome nuclear pore complex? The current model is symmetrical, but this study reveals that the trypanosome #NuclearPore has an asymmetrical architecture, with conserved hubs that direct mRNA transport 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Q36QV2

Amazing! It has always been a dream of mine to visit Petra. Have to get moving on it!

I work on nucleoporin dynamics. Please add if relevant!