Oliver Castell

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. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

@Huang_Nanopore Very cool, Shuo! Well done.

New Huang lab publication. We report the first nanopore that directly discriminates between structurally similar Nucleotide Sugars.🤠 | Nano Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

@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!

The "Leaders of the Future" webinar with Oliver Castell (@Castell_Lab) is now over Thanks to all for your participation and to Oliver for his priceless talk Do not miss our future events here: sebiology.org/events.html

Follow the live transcript of the FREE "Leaders of the Future" webinar series with Oliver Castell (@Castell_Lab) on this thread!

@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.

@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 :)

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

When coming to Oxford in 2012, it was not all work. I had the pleasure to meet my former colleagues and friends, Ollie and Argyris! Thanks guys, hope to see you soon! @Castell_Lab @A_Politis1

Excited that to see the work published! Congratulations Stephan & Marcel & team! @MarcelHoerning A long time has passed... in 2012, I did the first experiments with Tom40 in Oxford in my ex-boss’s lab Mark Wallace @markianwallace rdcu.be/cNJEt

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

Congrats to Tomasz!! Well deserved.

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

2. One team made use of the STAR activator module in their circuit design. This is a neat synbio regulatory part invented by @ChappellLab who was once upon a time a student himself on the very first year we ran this module with mini-iGem projects.

It’s the last day of our final year undergrad synthetic biology module and time for the students to present their mini-iGem projects in our first in-person poster session for 2 years. 👏🧬🎉 —> here are the 6 projects —>

@Craggs_Lab Yikes!!

Just incase you haven’t seen this already - another write up about our exciting flight this morning… can’t wait to get in the air again now! unilad.co.uk/news/passenger…

@DrMikeBooth @UCLChemistry Good luck with the move!!

I guess this means we have to start packing for our move to @UCLChemistry 🤩

The first comprehensive assessment of the cardiovascular complications of #LongCovid at 1 year, just published @NatureMedicine nature.com/articles/s4159… by @zalaly and colleagues @WUSTLmed

@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.

@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.

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

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

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Some absolutely stunning cell bio images today, but these droplet interface bilayers are beautiful to me. First time patterning them at @UNSWBABS and first time achieving selective injection. Watch this space! ;)

@AdamJKucharski Ah, simpler times.

Reminiscing about that time in 2012 when newspapers were full of stories about how government had accidentally taxed pasties and all the politicians had to rush around pretending that they loved pasties and ate them regularly.

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

@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!

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. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…