Oliver Castell

Scientist - Single Molecules, Biophysics, Droplets, Membranes, Microfluidics & SynBio - Cardiff University Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

Haven't been on here much, mainly due to recovering from longcovid and it being exhausting. Despite all that, v.pleased with our latest collaborative work (aptly) on rapid SARS-CoV-2 variant detection with ability to discriminate single nucleotide changes. https://t.co/iYCjlVgWDG

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@Huang_Nanopore Very cool, Shuo! Well done.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@SEBiology Thank you for the invitation to speak today and a really enjoyable seminar. I don't venture on twitter too often these days, but wanted to pop in to say thanks and thank you for the live coverage on here too. An impressive additional way to disseminate!

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@jenscs83 Upscale in ImageJ so 1 pixel becomes a square of 9 or 16 identical pixels. Then when exporting in any format that compresses you invoke, in effect, sub-pixel (in respect to the acquired image) interpolation, preserving single pixel detail. Really good for single molecule imaging.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@sophie_gadd Hi Sophie. Any chance I could DM/email you about some LEGO based science we've been working on? We think we've done some interesting stuff with LEGO which will soon be published and so would be keen to share with you/find out your thoughts. Thanks :)

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@LeptihnLab @A_Politis1 I love this! Really fond memories.

[Cardiff University School of Biosciences @CUBiosciences]

3/ The cross-School @cardiffuni Screening Service based in @CUBiosciences , led by Dr Tomasz Jurkowski and Prof Pete Kille - winner of the “Exceptional Enhancement of Staff Wellbeing” award

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

Congrats to Tomasz!! Well deserved.

[Cardiff University School of Biosciences @CUBiosciences]

1/ Dr Tomasz Jurkowski - winner of the "Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the University" - for his "extraordinary action" in his central role establishing the university's #COVID19 testing service. This is the only award chosen by the Vice-C!

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@ProfTomEllis @ChappellLab This looks like an incredible module for students. Lovely stuff.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@Craggs_Lab Yikes!!

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@DrMikeBooth @UCLChemistry Good luck with the move!!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The first comprehensive assessment of the cardiovascular complications of #LongCovid at 1 year, just published @NatureMedicine https://t.co/bCXl6MVPGy
by @zalaly and colleagues @WUSTLmed

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@alanmcn1 Yep. It's the 'every possible step' bit of the quote, I suppose - no doubt there was ambition for unprecedented scale, but declining/ignoring help Feb-May doesn't seem to quite sit with everything possible. A crazy time. Well done on MK btw.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@alanmcn1 You did great. I know other Universities found it incredibly difficult to help though, despite having operational testing pipelines and capacity and will to expand.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@alanmcn1 ...the government "took every possible step to build the largest diagnostic industry in UK history rapidly and from scratch". 🧐

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@AlexanderFMason @UNSWBABS Little fluorescent tennis balls!! Lovely stuff. Always so cool to me that a two molecule think film can be so robust.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@AdamJKucharski Ah, simpler times.

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

Excellent stuff from @WDJamieson on the protein assays and microscopy too!

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

People seemed to quite like levitating droplets, so a couple more vids from @JinLi_AOR

First, Jin shows you can spin and reshape droplets, using this to break/reform lipid bilayers (DIBs) between internal cores, and to reconfigure the droplet network.

https://t.co/TwYzHUMXid

[Oliver Castell @Castell_Lab]

@JinLi_AOR did an great job driving this work. I’m sure he’d be keen to give a talk/seminar if anyone's keen to hear more. Give him a follow too!