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Liam Rooney

@liam-rooney.bsky.social
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Fellow in Bacteriology, University of Glasgow. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Microscopist, microbiologist, coffee drinker. He/Him. All views own. 🧫✨🔬

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It has been lovely being back in Glasgow this week, giving a keynote talk at the Glasgow Computational Biology conference & an invited seminar at @uofgsii.bsky.social in the Hogwarts building 🏰(thank you @liam-rooney.bsky.social) -both such vibrant research communities & highly enjoyable discussions
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University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity @uofgsii.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social's Dr @liam-rooney.bsky.social recently co-organised the UK’s largest and most comprehensive light microscopy training programme, SOMC 2025, bringing together experts and students from around the world for an advanced upskilling course. 👉 More: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
Participants and organisers from the 2025 Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course (SOMC) stood together on steps in a modern building.
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Katherine Paine @katherinepaine.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Great first week at #SOMC25, learning microscopy basics through lectures and practicals. We spent today collecting samples on the Isle of Cumbrae ready for week 2!
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
After 10 packed days of optical microscopy theory & practicals, #SOMC25 is over! 🌍 24 students from around the world 🧑‍🏫 19 internationally renowned lecturers 🧑‍🔧 16 supportive sponsors 🔬 14 hands-on advanced practical sessions 🏆 4 poster & image prizes 🪼 1 field trip to collect marine specimens
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Giuseppe Di Caprio @giudica.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Grateful for the chance to speak on computational microscopy and ML/AI in imaging. Thanks for having me! #SOMC25 #Microscopy #AI
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our final session at #SOMC25 was a practical workshop on 3D printed lenses - learning how to rapidly fabricate small lenses and spin coat large lenses for optical instrumentation.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our final lecture on Day 10 of #SOMC25 is on computational microscopy and ML/AI imaging/analysis approaches, delivered by @giudica.bsky.social (@strathbiomedeng.bsky.social).
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our penultimate lecture on the final day of #SOMC25 is on developments and applications of Mesoscale Imaging from @gailmcconnell.bsky.social (@sipbs.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social).
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Our morning lecture at Day 9 of #SOMC25 is a double act on Raman imaging delivered by @karenfaulds.bsky.social and Will Tipping from @unistrathclyde.bsky.social.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our second lecture on Day 8 of #SOMC25 was given by Joëlle Goulding (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) on the theory and practicalities of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our first lecture of Day 8 at #SOMC25 is on FLIM and FRET imaging, from uses in basic science through to clinical diagnostics, delivered by Simon Poland (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social).
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Day 7 Lecture 2 at #SOMC25 on Expansion Microscopy delivered by @shannanfoylan.bsky.social (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social), featuring some of her own @sulsa.bsky.social funded research on expansion microscopy for ‘footery’ samples.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
#SOMC25 Day 7 kicks off with @ralfmbauer.bsky.social (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social) giving a lecture on lightsheet microscopy.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our Day 6 #SOMC25 afternoon lecture on single-molecule localisation microscopy was delivered by Susan Cox (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social), followed by rotations around some advanced practicals.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
After our morning practical session at #SOMC25, we have our first lecture of the day delivered by @superresolusian.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) on STED and super-resolution microscopy methods.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Field trip day at #SOMC25 - we took a trip to the Isle of Cumbrae to collect specimens to image for the rest of the course. Tide pooling, beach combing, diatom netting, copepod fishing, crustacean hunting, and jelly junking. 🌊🪼🦀
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Our final activity of #SOMC25 Day 4 is an image analysis lecture and workshop led by @beatricebo.bsky.social from the Cancer Research Scotland Institute.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Our second lecture of Day 4 at #SOMC25 was delivered by me (@uofgsii.bsky.social) covering aspects of live cell and in vivo microscopy.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Saturday morning and Day 4 of #SOMC25 starts with @lemgruber.bsky.social (@uofgmvls.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social) telling us about the most widely used light microscopy methods; widefield epifluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Day 3 of #SOMC25 is rounding off with our evening lecture from Bob Edkins (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social) on Fluorescence and Fluorescent Proteins. 🌟🔬
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
#SOMC25 Day 3 practical session of phase and DIC methods kicks off with a demonstration from Brad Amos before the students will spend time aligning systems for phase contrast and DIC, then imaging various aquatic and marine specimens.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Next up at #SOMC25 is our second lecture of the day from @gailmcconnell.bsky.social (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social) on light source for optical microscopy. 💡🔬
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
#SOMC25 Day 3 kicks off with our morning lecture from Klaus Suhling (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) discussing detectors for optical imaging. 📷🔬
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Rounding off the day with Lecture 3 of #SOMC25 with Polarisation, Interference and Diffraction delivered by @muellenbroich.bsky.social, featuring sunglasses-adorned Brewster and a young(er) @ralfmbauer.bsky.social.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Day 1 #SOMC25 practical sessions demonstrating Abbe’s famous experiments followed by hands on alignment and Köhler illumination exercises using a variety of transillumination setups.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Day 2 Lecture 2 of #SOMC25 delivered by David McKee (@physicsstrath.bsky.social) on Ray and Wave Optics. 🌈🔬
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Day 2 of #SOMC25 kicks off with Lecture 1 from Brad Amos with an Overview of Optical Microscopy. Starting with the question: does the microscopist need to understand physics?
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The Strathclyde Optical Micoscopy Course #SOMC25 kicked off today - 10 days of practical light microscopy training with 24 students from around the world! From fundamental & advanced lectures, to hands-on workshops with high end systems, & a field trip to the Isle of Cumbrae, it will be great! 🔬
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University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity @uofgsii.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social Bacteriology Research Fellow Dr Liam Rooney (@liam-rooney.bsky.social) was recently recognised with the @microbiologysociety.org Infection Sciences Award, as well as election to the council of the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social. 🔗 Read more: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
Dr Liam Rooney stood outdoors, down the hill from the Sir Gilbert Scott Building.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I’ve been awarded the Infection Science Award by @microbiologysociety.org in recognition of recent work using cross-scale imaging methods to study complex infection models. Thanks to the Microbiology Society, mentors, funders and collaborators for all their support! 🙏🏻🧫🔬🧪
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This is hardly surprising, the message that scientists should “stay in their lane” is just nonsense. Shifting research focus takes courage and sometimes necessary as times change. One make take a hit in citation metrics, but the broader impact as well as career longevity can be profound. 🧪
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BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🔬𝐔𝐊 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨-𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 £𝟏.𝟖𝐌 from @ukri.org This will: -Democratise access to cutting-edge biological and biomedical imaging -Support 200+ researchers yearly -Boost open science Thanks to BBSRC and MRC for this major upgrade! 🚀 Congrats to the entire UK Node team 👏 Link in replies⬇️
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Last week, the Latin American Hub for Bioimaging Through Open Hardware kindly invited me to speak about our 3D printing work to researchers across Latin America. Great to see so much engagement & positivity about the work. Really great to hear about other research in the #OpenMicroscopy space. 🔬
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Lewis MacKenzie @lemackz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Awesome that you can turn an Ender 3 3D printer into a microscope! This sort of thing would have been a big help during my PhD where I built a small surgical scope. Great work @niamh-deburca.bsky.social et al! Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... HT: @liam-rooney.bsky.social
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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Improved contrast transmission stereomicroscopy using a low-cost 3D printed optical element! 🔬🧫🐟🧅 More details in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨New pre-print out now!🚨 We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy. (1/5)
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Had a fantastic week at #Biofilms11 in sunny Cardiff! Great to catch up and meet so many folks and see all the amazing biofilm research on show. Plus a life size 3D printed mammoth! Thanks for a great conference @ukbiofilms.bsky.social!
Me, standing on stage in front of a projection of a title slide from my talk titled ‘from architecture to complex infections: how multi-modal cross-scale imaging changes how we view biofilms’A picture of the National Museum of Cardiff in the evening sun, with tree branch overhanging the top of the image.A picture of 4 people standing in front of a mammoth skeleton with colourful lighting in the background
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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I forgot to post about this recent paper - exciting work led by @michriscopy.bsky.social showing clearest evidence yet for transertion strongly tethering the bacterial nucleoid to the membrane during fast growth. It was a pleasure to contribute a little 🔬🦠🧫 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The nucleoid of rapidly growing Escherichia coli localizes close to the inner membrane and is organized by transcription, translation, and cell geometry - Nature Communications
The mechanisms underlying bacterial chromosome configuration are not fully understood. Here, Spahn et al. show that the Escherichia coli nucleoid adopts a condensed, membrane-proximal configuration du...
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Kevin Whitley @kevindwhitley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Postdoc position available! This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠 Please re-post 🙏 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...
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Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy at Newcastle University
Apply for the Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View det...
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apreston243.bsky.social @apreston243.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New paper alert! Demonstration of oxygen gradients in biofilm nutrient channels, using a neat approach. @MicrobioSoc @liam-rooney.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Oxygen microenvironments in Escherichia coli biofilm nutrient transport channels: insights from complementary sensing approaches
Chemical gradients and the emergence of distinct microenvironments in biofilms are vital to the stratification, maturation and overall function of microbial communities. These gradients have been well...
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We used complementary sensing approaches to study oxygen microenvironments in E. coli biofilm transport channels, which provided a spatial overview of how transport channels maintain chemical gradients in complex communities. doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001543
Orthogonal visualization presents an explanation for chemical gradients in biofilm transport channels. (a) A thin section of a fixed gfp-expressing E. coli JM105 biofilm is presented with arrows at the apical surface indicating regions where transport channels can be viewed sagittally. Thin layers of cells cap the apical surface of the biofilm and enclose the top of transport channels. The inferior portion of the channels remains open to the underlying substrate. A representative view of the section position through the centre of the colony is presented (top left). (b) A schematic proposing nutrient and oxygen gradients through the depth of biofilm transport channels. A thin layer of apical cells seals the top of channels and maintains a strict oxygen gradient, while nutrients and free oxygen can diffuse from the basolateral surface through open channel conduits into the biomass.
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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This session has been one of the best attended and most scientifically diverse at previous mmc events - promote your most exciting, hot-out-of-the-lab results by submitting an abstract today! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It was a pleasure to deliver a seminar today at @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social; back where it all began as an undergrad 13 years ago! Thanks to the team (@gcureach.bsky.social @shipgcu.bsky.social) for the invitation and hospitality!
A picture of the Annie Lennox Building, Glasgow Caledonian University, on a sunny day.
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It’s been just over 2 weeks since I started my fellowship at @uofgsii.bsky.social - here’s to all the exciting science on the horizon! 🧪🧫🔬
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Rebecca McHugh @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Abstract submission is open for the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Summer Conference in Newcastle (23rd and 24th June). This is always a fantastic event, with a mix of talks, posters and professional development sessions. Abstract deadline 4th May. microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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Early Career Summer Conference 2025
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Nathan Fraikin @nfrk92.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Our set of new prokaryote-optimized fluorescent proteins is now published ! #microbiology #microsky #microscopy 🧫🦠🔬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A palette of bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins for bacterial time-lapse imaging
Bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins enable long-term time-lapse imaging in E. coli.
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Rebecca McHugh @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Absolutely delighted to share that I've been awarded the BBSRC Fellowship to continue my working on antivirulence drugs at the University of Glasgow. A massive thank you to all of my mentors and collaborators. I can't wait to see what the future holds for the project 🔬
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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy! Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further. If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product Please RT🔬🦠
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Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy
42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....
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Arianne Babina @ariannebabina.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our newly advertised Research Technician @uofgsii.bsky.social post is supported by this #Springboard25 award! If you're passionate about bacterial evolution & gene regulation, apply by 30th April. A fantastic opportunity for soon-to-be/recent graduates to dive into research! tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔬
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Research Technician
The School of Infection and Immunity is seeking an experienced Research Technician to support research activities in molecular microbiology and bacterial genetics under the supervision of Dr Ariann...
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Arianne Babina @ariannebabina.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Excited to share that I’ve been awarded an @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 award to support our work on how new genes drive bacterial adaptation to changing environments @uofgsii.bsky.social! Grateful for this investment in my new research program—can’t wait to do some cool & impactful science!
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