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Emma McKay

@emmamckay.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Innate immunity, Inflammasomes and interaction proteomics.

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Emma McKay @emmamckay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/th... @uplift.ie
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The Irish Academy of Fine Arts, at the GPO
Why the GPO?  The GPO offers a rare and remarkable opportunity. Many of the great academies of Europe, such as the Royal Academy in London, the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, the Ecole de beaux...
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Emma McKay @emmamckay.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Delighted to announce I passed my PhD viva yesterday! Many thanks to my examiners @kesslerbenedikt001.bsky.social and @gunnarns.bsky.social for the fantastic discussion and feedback. Thanks as well to my incredible supervisors Ben Collins and @colllab.bsky.social, and everyone in the labs!
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Dr Rebecca Coll @colllab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So proud of the new Dr @emmamckay.bsky.social for smashing her PhD viva! Huge thank you to her examiners @kesslerbenedikt001.bsky.social @gunnarns.bsky.social for great discussions on NLRP3 inflammasomes and proteomics - first student co-supervised with Prof Ben Collins 😊
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Emma McKay @emmamckay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Great couple of days in Manchester for the excellent @britsocimm.bsky.social Innate Immunity and inflammation meeting #BSIInflammation25
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Emma McKay @emmamckay.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Brilliant couple of days attending the Irish Society for Immunology annual meeting in Galway. Great science in a beautiful place!
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Dr Rebecca Coll @colllab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Had a brilliant couple of days in Galway with the lab at the Irish Society for Immunology meeting - great science and great craic!!!
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Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
NLRP3 inflammasomes can assemble on most organelles. A beautiful study by Hafner et al demonstrate the flexibility of organelles that can support inflammasome activation. Kudos to the authors on an intriguing study. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ivahb.bsky.social @elvirab.bsky.social
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Clustering of NLRP3 induced by membrane or protein scaffolds promotes inflammasome assembly - Nature Communications
NLRP3 inflammasome activation is critical for the induction of protective immunity, but molecular insights are still lacking. Here, the authors express NLRP3 variants targeted to different cellular lo...
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EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · 27/03/2025
If you’re looking to gain hands-on training in the basics of mass spectrometry and proteomics bioinformatics, then this course is for you! Make sure you’ve submitted your application by 6 April: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Some financial assistance is available - see the course website. 🧪🧶🧬🖥️
Course at EMBL-EBI
Proteomics bioinformatics
14 - 18 July 2025
Hinxton, United Kingdom
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Dr Rebecca Coll @colllab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We are recruiting a student for a really exciting PhD project on understanding how high plasma suPAR predicts poor outcome in patients with ARDS @wwiem-qub.bsky.social #ARDS #criticialcare - any questions please get in touch! (open to UK and RoI) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Understanding how high plasma soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) predicts poor outcome in patients with ARDS. at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding how high plasma soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) predicts poor outcome in patients with ARDS. at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
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JelenaBezbradicaLab @jelenalab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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TBK1 and IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of both RIPK1 and NLRP3 death pathways
TBK1 and IKKe prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells.
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If pubmed is inaccessible at the moment, try @europepmc.org
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Kaiwen Chen @kaiwenchen-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thrilled to start 2025 with our latest findings! Yersinia invades macrophage cytosol to activate caspase-11 when caspase-8 or YopJ are inactive. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Plasticity of cell death pathways ensures GSDMD activation during Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection
Injection of YopJ by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis triggers RIPK1-dependent caspase-8 and GSDMD activation in murine macrophages; however, how macrophages defend against Yersinia when caspase-8 or YopJ ...
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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Discovery of a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Human NLRP3 with a Novel Binding Modality and Mechanism of Action www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Inflammasome Lab @inflammasomelab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Have you ever wondered whether pyroptotic corpses have functions beyond the grave? We made the surprising discovery that pyroptotic corpses are flagged by #filopodia to alert #DendriticCells they need autopsy. A short Bluetorial (1/13)👇with movies! Link: rdcu.be/d2mjm
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Pyroptotic cell corpses are crowned with F-actin-rich filopodia that engage CLEC9A signaling in incoming dendritic cells
Nature Immunology - Pyroptotic cell death results in inflammation. Here the authors find that F-actin-rich structures formed during macrophage pyroptosis persist after cell death to activate...
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Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS+) @femalesinms.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hi #TeamMassSpec! #FeMS+ has joined BlueSky! Please share and get the word out so we can build up a base here.
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Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@inflammasomelab.bsky.social was the lucky 100th added to this starter pack! Definitely one to follow for all the incredible #inflammasome #inflammation work they do! go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
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Sarah E Hancock @sarahehancock.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The unofficial FeMS starter pack (until they join us on Bluesky :) anyway. If you're a woman working with a mass spectrometer please ask to be added! All women are welcome! go.bsky.app/PUwu7fr
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Jérémy Cours 🌳 @jeremycours.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
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SciDraw | Scientific Drawings
SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Alejandro Brenes @ajbrenes.com · 20/11/2024
My proteomics resources on Bluesky: Proteomics Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HH7kqEh PSP converted into a List so more researchers can be added: (bsky.app/profile/did:...) Early Career Researchers in Proteomics Pack: go.bsky.app/Dp8PHX1 Single Cell Proteomics Pack: go.bsky.app/KYdPDb8
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Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The wave is rising 🌊🦋 In just a few days, we have surpassed the halfway mark of people in this #innateimmunity and #inflammation starter pack! Contact me to be added or tag someone you think should be on here. #immunosky #academicchatter go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB
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Proteases and Innate immunity lab @ York @protinnimmunity.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
go.bsky.app/221DCXf
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Scaffolding of NLRP3 on osmotically swollen vesicles but not intermediate filaments promotes inflammasome assembly www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Scaffolding of NLRP3 on osmotically swollen vesicles but not intermediate filaments promotes inflammasome assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.18.624139v1
Inflammasomes are nucleated by receptors that become activated upon cellular stresses including ioni
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