Very happy that our team "Deck the Colls" won the annual Christmas table quiz (again!) Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine thanks to quizmaster extraordinaire Derek Brazil 🎄🍾

Applications for undergraduate summer studentships Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine are now open. We would love to host enthusiastic students from anywhere in the world in Belfast! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🧪💊🌎 Details: qub.ac.uk/research-centr…

Join the QUB Critical Care & Respiratory Research Group group next Tuesday, 1900-2000, in Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Graduate School as we discuss the science of critical illness from severe lung failure through to cardiac arrest! NI Science Festival Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine Danny McAuley Jon Silversides bronwen connolly shorturl.at/koV3X

We are at NI Science Festival School of Biological Sciences beta testing our virus game “sense and susceptibility” alongside the classic build a virus activity!

The loss of TBK1, or both TBK1 and the related kinase IKKε, results in uncontrolled cell death–driven inflammation. We show that TBK1/IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells.FabianFischer science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We just launched a research hub to tackling #MultipleSclerosis The NI MS Research Hub will bring together a collaborative team of experts to help accelerate leading research and improve the lives of people affected by the condition shorturl.at/46e5V Queen's University Belfast 🎓 MS Society NI

Caspase-1 self-terminates protease activity to enforce homeostasis and prevent inflammasome-driven diseases biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_immuno

Huge congratulations to the new Dr Mawhinney!! Thea Savage Thank you to her fantastic examiners Prof Suzanne Cloonan Suzanne Cloonan Lab and Prof Cliff Taggart Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine

Commercial eel fishing on Lough Neagh forced to close for 2025. If these were jobs lost in Agri-food giants or the mining/dredging firms on #LoughNeagh the government would be bending over backwards to help. irishnews.com/news/northern-…

💚💚💚 We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts. act.gp/3FvLdI9

Victory again for the Coll-Orr quizzers "Pyroptotic Brain Cells" securing third place at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine annual summer BBQ despite a much diminished team! 🥉

New review from our lab. Kudos to PhD student Seb Grant. 10 things you wish you knew about inflammatory caspases: a holistic review of their biochemistry, activation, and signalling - Journal of Biological Chemistry jbc.org/article/S0021-…

Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. act.gp/3YxOUXa

Had a brilliant couple of days with the lab in Galway at the Irish Immunology meeting - great science and great craic !!!

Brilliant couple of days attending the Irish Immunology meeting in Galway. Amazing science in a beautiful place! Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Delighted to share that our study with BioAge NLRP3 inhibitors is now online Journal of Experimental Medicine ! Together with Institute of Structural Biology Bonn Benedicte Py and Alex Weber, immunologist researcher in Tübingen we characterise BAL-0028 and BAL-0598. Excited to see the new NLRP3 biology they will reveal!

RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH: Discovery could lead to new drug treatments for #InflammatoryDiseases including #Alzheimers, #asthma, #arthritis and #obesity. Find out more: ow.ly/aYb050WQeJo #LoveQUBResearch Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine BioAge QUB MHLS Faculty

Great couple of days in Manchester for the excellent British Society for Immunology Innate Immunity and inflammation meeting #BSIInflammation25

So proud of the new Dr Emma McKay for smashing her PhD viva! Huge thank you to her examiners Benedikt Kessler Gunnar Schroeder for great discussions on NLRP3 inflammasomes and proteomics - first student co-supervised work Prof Ben Collins in the Collins Lab-Coll Lab-Collaboration!

Delighted to announce I passed my PhD viva yesterday! Many thanks to my examiners Benedikt Kessler and Gunnar Schroeder for the fantastic discussion and feedback. Thanks as well to my incredible supervisors Ben Collins and Dr Rebecca Coll and everyone in the labs!