Emma McKay

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

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[Emma McKay @Emck197]

@DombrowskiLab @Rebecca_Coll @BenediktKessler @gunnar_ns Thank you @DombrowskiLab ! I'll never forget where it all started 😊

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

@TaraBertholon @BenediktKessler @gunnar_ns @Rebecca_Coll Thanks Tara! Will be you soon!

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

Delighted to announce I passed my PhD viva yesterday! Many thanks to my examiners @BenediktKessler and @gunnar_ns for the fantastic discussion and feedback. Thanks as well to my incredible supervisors Ben Collins and @Rebecca_Coll and everyone in the labs!

[Dr Rebecca Coll @Rebecca_Coll]

So proud of the new Dr @Emck197 for smashing her PhD viva! Huge thank you to her examiners @BenediktKessler @gunnar_ns for great discussions on NLRP3 inflammasomes and proteomics - first student co-supervised work Prof Ben Collins in the Collins Lab-Coll Lab-Collaboration!

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

Great couple of days in Manchester for the excellent @britsocimm Innate Immunity and inflammation meeting #BSIInflammation25

[Queen's University Belfast 🎓 @QUBelfast]

RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH: Discovery could lead to new drug treatments for #InflammatoryDiseases including #Alzheimers, #asthma, #arthritis and #obesity.

Find out more: https://t.co/OzngM61qCK

#LoveQUBResearch @WWIEM_QUB @bioagelabs @MHLSQUB

[Dr Rebecca Coll @Rebecca_Coll]

Delighted to share that our study with @bioagelabs NLRP3 inhibitors is now online @JExpMed ! Together with @Geyer_lab @benedicte_py and @Innate_immuno we characterise BAL-0028 and BAL-0598. Excited to see the new NLRP3 biology they will reveal!

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

Brilliant couple of days attending the @Irishimmunology meeting in Galway. Amazing science in a beautiful place! @uniofgalway

[Dr Rebecca Coll @Rebecca_Coll]

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

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. https://t.co/HLqiYRPiMR

[Dave Boucher @dave_boucher]

New review from our lab. Kudos to PhD student @SebGrant346534. 10 things you wish you knew about inflammatory caspases: a holistic review of their biochemistry, activation, and signalling - Journal of Biological Chemistry https://t.co/9zrVa1sU0T

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

Victory again for the Coll-Orr quizzers "Pyroptotic Brain Cells" securing third place at the @WWIEM_QUB annual summer BBQ despite a much diminished team! 🥉

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

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.
https://t.co/v0yYFm4JWU

[Emma McKay @Emck197]

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We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts. https://t.co/LX1wgMQ9RT

[Dr Rebecca Coll @Rebecca_Coll]

Huge congratulations to the new Dr Mawhinney!! @TheaMawhinney Thank you to her fantastic examiners Prof Suzanne Cloonan @suzcloo and Prof Cliff Taggart @WWIEM_QUB

[Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine @WWIEM_QUB]

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
https://t.co/1C8fZrkd23
@QUBelfast @mssocietyNI

[bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv_immuno]

Caspase-1 self-terminates protease activity to enforce homeostasis and prevent inflammasome-driven diseases https://t.co/RyIUnYHUuY #biorxiv_immuno

[JelenaBezbradicaLab @JelenaLab]

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.@FabiAlexFischer https://t.co/t0wbhGxfty

[Connor G. G. Bamford, Ph.D @cggbamford]

We are at NI Science Festival @QUBbioscience beta testing our virus game “sense and susceptibility” alongside the classic build a virus activity!

[Dr Rebecca Coll @Rebecca_Coll]

Applications for undergraduate summer studentships @WWIEM_QUB are now open. We would love to host enthusiastic students from anywhere in the world in Belfast! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🧪💊🌎 Details: https://t.co/6tQcwfkFQL