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Neil Dufton

@neildufton.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer Inflammatory Sciences, QMUL. Sci-art and microscope addict. Likes a bit of vascular patterning, inflammation and fibrosis

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fantastic to not only see the final version of the paper published but also have it featured on the cover of the October issue of @insight.jci.org 🎉🎉🎉 #endothelialcells #liver #fibrosis
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exciting news! My group’s new in press preview is in @insight.jci.org insight.jci.org/articles/vie.... Detailed analysis of endothelial plasticity and characteristation of fibrosis-associated EC (FAEC) phenotypes in healthy tissue, models of liver fibrosis and MSALD patients. #EndMT #fibrosis
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Atmospheric moon this evening!
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Confusing lens flare photo #solareclipse
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Snap
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Taking some time off and enjoying a bit of photography in the back garden
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Missus and I arguing about how to pronoun Jubel. I say it rhymes with bubble but better half says You Bell but then again she might just be slagging me off again. Whatever it’s called it’s tasty
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I have ACTED NOW for my detective daughter (well possibly also myself)
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We set up a trail camera by our pond and the bottom of the garden and it’s a veritable thoroughfare down there
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Amazing stuff! Counting down the days until the 3rd April
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If you are interested in knowing more about the derivation of fibrosis-associated endothelial cells in liver fibrosis then check out our new preprint #fluorescencefriday #endothelialcells #FAEC
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Maybe I can entice you to take a look at the fancy full spectrum flow cytometry figures? There is more where that came from! #endothelialcells #vascularbiology #liver #fibrosis
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Hot off the preprint press. The ‘big’ paper have gone live. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here we go again
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
So pleasing that the first proper sunny day of the year results in a perfect solar power raindrop energy graph. #graphgeek
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Whoop whoop! Massive congratulations to Dr Christina Gkantsinikoudi who sailed through her PhD viva today. Very proud PI moment and what an unbelievably brilliant first PhD of the Dufton Group
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The ‘starter’ preprints has just gone live. Hoping the main course will follow very shortly in the new year. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Addressing complex autofluorescence signatures in solid tissue samples to enhance full spectrum flow cytometry of non-immune cells.
Motivation Single-cell RNA sequencing has transformed our understanding of cellular heterogeneity, but transcriptomic data alone cannot capture information regarding protein expression, post-transcrip...
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Man of action today!
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Fancy a PhD in my lab working in partnership with the National Physical Labs looking at new ways to investigate beam radiation in liver-on-a-chip platforms or know someone who would? Check the details here www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/projects...
cpm.qmul.ac.uk
PhD Projects 2026: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models
The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Radiohead at the O2 was absolutely stunning (well apart from ‘you and whose army’ which went all out of sync)
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Spooky full spectrum flow cytometry plot. #happyhalloween #fluorescencefriday 💀
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Top insights from the Nadkarni group #preeclampsia #immunology
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Getting Skynet vibes for when AI instigates the next pandemic! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA
Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I see a little (green) mouse peeping its head out of its nest. #fluoresencefriday #EndMT
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 27/06/2025
The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o... There's space for five names in the submission boxes. Let's go with: Exxon Mobil BP Shell Equinor Chevron At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve. Pls retweet!
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Name our Storms
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Enjoyed a fantastic WHRI Review Day yesterday and the Dufton Group came away with not one, but two, Poster Prizes! Congrats to Dr Josh Dignam and Ms Christina Gkantsinikoudi 🏆 @qmulwhri.bsky.social
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So close to the perfect normal distribution graph only sad that it’s data from my solar panels and not my research #geekingitupinthesun
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Intracellular and nuclear CXCR4 signaling promotes terminal erythroblast differentiation and enucleation
CXCL12-stimulated intracellular and nuclear CXCR4 signaling mediates erythroblast enucleation to generate red blood cells.
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Fantastic to see a paper I played a small part of get highlighted on the Science website. Congrats to the amazing Dr Julia Gutjarh and the whole of Prof Antal Rot’s team at @qmulwhri.bsky.social @science.org
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My PhD student isolated some liver endothelial cells and got this brilliant image showing the gradual transition of health EC to full EndMT in a very satisfying circle. #fluorescencefriday #fibrosis
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Good Morning sunshine......Will you be my friEnd(MT)? Sorry sometimes my obsession with pareidolia gets the better of me #vascularbiology #endothelialcells #EndMT #facesinthings 😍
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Accidental Axolotl #fluorescencefriday #cardiac #endothelial cells
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Been having a play with some whole mount adipose tissues stained for various vascular markers by my brilliant BHF Master’s student Rose Wilcox @qmulwhri.bsky.social
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Been trying to line up some 3D projections of sequentially imaged liver vasculature for a 6 colour image….So close!
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Damn it can you not post Gifs on here?!
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Been wrestling with how to make an image of Full Spectrum Flow Cytometry and in the end decided to just making something that melts eyeballs - enjoy!
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Another year done and dusted and the group enjoyed a bit of Christmas cheer include find your favourite organ in the mystery bag tequilla challenge and junior science brainbox. Here’s to more vascular biology and ridiculous pub games in 2025
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Going through some photos on my phone and found this stunning widefield placenta must be one of @suchita.bsky.social !
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In the Dufton Group we like nothing more than transforming heart sections into birds. I disguised heart sections as a flamingo, parrot and pigeon while my PhD student produced a Peacock from the different the cardiac vessels. #fluorescencefriday
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Want to rename November to Experivember for the Dufton group. The Phd student has labelled 576 tubes and counting. Won’t be short of imaging to do in 2025!
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Squint at a western diet fed liver and it almost looks like a satellite image of islands in the sea #fluorescencefriday
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Suchita Nadkarni @suchita.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Not sure who’s out there but applications are open for a short-term (potential to extend) junior PDRA position in my lab! Work will be on preclinical models of #maternal #inflammation during #pregnancy and impact on the #cardiovascular system. 👇🏽 qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…
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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello, here I am with my usual brand of faces in immunofluorescence images
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