Matt McElheron
@MattMcElheron
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Provost PhD Scholar at Trinity College Dublin & TILDA | Bourke Lab | Specializing in Immunology, Bioinformatics, and Home Cooking.
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Over the moon to be awarded this gold medal for my research at this year's Medical Gerontology Research Day 😭🏅
The day was a fantastic showcase of the diverse and cutting-edge work performed
@TCDGerontology
and
@TrinityMed1
🧑⚕️🏨
Celebrating Friday honoured AND inspired!🥳🎉
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interview panel waiting for you to stop so they can give it to the internal candidate
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Sabrina Carpenter: Too bad your ex don't do it for ya
The mother of Barry Keoghan's child, looking after his child at home and working as an orthodontist while he lives it up America partying in Hollywood:
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A 23 year old with 1995 tattooed on his belly can only mean one thing - most hardcore fake ID of all time
#LoveIsland
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Didn't realize Australia was having an election as well?
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Pennys on O'Connell Street moving the men's section to the basement and replacing it with the women's lingerie section right before Christmas
Irish men for the next 3 months:
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These €4 Dublin lattes keep getting smaller and smaller
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Your grandparents waving you off when you leave is always simultaneously one of the nicest and saddest feelings
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Amazing news! 😱😱😱
Cannot believe that my research has been selected as one of the new 15 Irish-French collaborations funded by
@IrishResearch
and
@FranceinIreland
/
@CampusFrance
💙💙
So excited to get started
@institutpasteur
with
@Etienne_Patin
@QuintanaMurci
🥳🎉🍾
Today
@IrishResearch
and
@FranceinIreland
/
@CampusFrance
congratulate 15 new Irish-French collaborations funded through
#Ulysses
. With huge thanks to our strategic funding partners -
@SEAI_ie
@EirGrid
@ademe
@rte_france
Read about the awardees here:
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Over the moon to be awarded a PG Cert in Statistics from
@tcddublin
&
@tcddublinscss
🔢🎉
Throughout my PhD, I regularly teach statistics,
#Rstats
, and bioinformatics to PhD students, clinicians, and grad students, so to receive this distinction is a real feather in my cap🎓🥳💗
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Two lads beside us in the airport just got told their flight to Liverpool is delayed till midnight, and they were flying over to watch Liverpool tonight at 19:30 😭😭😭
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Important turnout today for the
@PWO_Ireland
#PhD
protest!
🔨Paid below min. wage👎
❌ No sick leave,
❌ No maternity leave,
❌ No PRSI,
❌ No contract,
❌ Worse for non-EU🤦
There is no point in "scholarships" if only wealthy people can afford to take them!
#PGRsDeserveBetter
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❤️Will you be my Valentine's?❤️
Remember to show all of your experiments the same love and care that you deserve this Salivalentine's 🥰😅
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RELIEF! 🥳🥳
21,000 words, 70 pages, and countless painstaking lines of code...
and I have successfully submitted my 1.5 year PhD Continuation report 🥰🥳🥳
Feeling extra grateful for all the support from my Super-visors and Super-peers, because that was tough 💗😅
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Honoured for the invitation to speak at the 7th European Congress of Immunology!
#ECI2024
Spoke at the "Bioinformatics & Immunity" session 🧑💻🦠
Very grateful for the engagement, looking at frailty in our immune cells long before we feel it, using elastic net💁
@EFIS_Immunology
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Paris is great and all, but there's also a certain je ne sais quoi about Dublin 8
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🚨 Pull up to P-198 at
#BSI23
if you'd like to learn more about our
@hrbireland
and
@scienceirel
-funded research at
@tilda_tcd
,
@institutpasteur
!🎉🧑🔬
✨ Common Infections 🦠
✨ Ageing Health 🏥
✨ The Ageing Immune System 🎯
... and their effect on COVID-19 Symptomology! 😷🛡️
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Loved sharing findings from part of my PhD, regarding the ageing immune system, at
#IrishImmunology2022
!
⭐ Asymptomatic COVID-19 rates in older Irish adults
⭐ Their *entire history* of viral exposures
⭐ Can Machine Learning uncover a link between the two?
Poster made in R!
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We should honour St. Brigid and SPREAD this bank holiday Monday to Tuesday
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Super honoured to present my work to Prof Dame Linda Partridge!🙏🧑🔬
As author of THE biogerontology handbook - The Hallmarks of Aging - the experience was so humbling☺️
I covered:
❌Cross-Reactive CoV Immunity🦠
🧬Epigenetic Frailty Clocks🕑
🧑💻Bioinformatics &
#LoveIsland
?😂
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✨ Happy birthday to him ✨ (me!)
Posting this like I'm not chained to thesis writing from now until September 🥲😅
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Your single Johnson & Johnson
antibody showing up with the Pfizer booster
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In Belfast to kick off
#BSI23
🎉👏
Can't wait for a great week, particularly the sessions on Ageing Immunology, Computational Modelling, and Cancer Immunology!🧬🧪
Keep an eye out for Poster-198 on seasonal infections, I hear it's a doozy!👀
Belfast GF recommendations welcome!
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Really fun to reframe my work through the lens of SEX 🧬⏳
Super poster sesh
@SexDiffImmuno
, asking if ageing immune systems mirror the "women get sicker, men die quicker" paradox 👫🦠
Crazy talk this morning by Marc Dionne
@imperialcollege
, showing the same in Drosophila?!🤯🪰
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⭐ Did you know? 🧪
Antigen tests are actually 17% more accurate if you store them in the shape of antibodies.
🧑🔬🦠
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All thanks to the amazing
@TCDTMI
and
@stjamesdublin
community, we reached:
92 x Tickets Sold🎟️🍻
50 x quiz questions⁉️🤓
1 x Winning Team🤴👸🤴👸
🚨And over €1,500 raised for
@BreakthroCancer
🧑🔬🚨
Last night was a blast 🥳 can't wait for more TTMI Social Committee events!🌟
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Had great fun giving a seminar to new PhD Researchers
@tcddublin
,
@stjamesdublin
&
@wearetuhf
for the Conference Toolkit Session! Highlights included:
⭐ Why Poster Sessions are a bag of fun🕺
⭐ Insights from ~40 researchers💭
⭐ Can we bring posters on
@Ryanair
flights?!✈️👨✈️
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Lucky to share multiple projects at
#yEFIS2022
, alongside
@IsabellaBatten
👨💻👩🔬
🏁 We represented Ageing Biology & the Ageing Immune System, sharing 𝘄𝗵𝘆 and 𝗵𝗼𝘄 we model:
🧬 Accelerated Epigenetic Ageing in Autoimmune Disease AAV 🫘
🦠 Lifetime Viral History & COVID-19 😷
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Even my meme is inaccurate now
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Will you turn the volume up there I'm absolutely freezing
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Female Olympians when someone tells them: "you have your father's eyes"
THE SOLUTION:
If any part of your biology is male, you don’t get to compete against women. End.
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Excited to be presenting at the "Mathematical and Systems Immunology"
#BSI21
poster sesh
@bsicongress
.
Find me at 6pm to talk modelling ageing immune systems 🤓
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Presenting only the highest standard of research at
@TCDTMI
's Journal Club forum 😉🐀🧫
Jokes aside, it was really interesting to discuss the (miss-)use of AI in biomedical research and pedagogy, and the pitfalls around publishing 📚🚫
Who knew JAK was so pleitropic??🤡
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Me and my second favourite Dolly 🤩
(The first mammal ever cloned, and the only of 277 eggs to survive - she's just so cool!)
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15 months and 6 sore arms - absolutely worth the wait for 2 safe & smiling grandparents 💓
Extremely proud & grateful to science & medicine for this special moment, all happening the same week colleagues
@stjamesdublin
celebrate zero patients with COVID-19!🎉
It's looking up!🥳
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Celebrating
#InternationalWomensDay
accessing
@ProfOrtuno
and
@scienceirel
's
Supercomputer "Tinney"
Named in her honour, Sheila Tinney was the first Irish woman to receive a PhD in Mathematical Sciences
Thankful for all the great women role models at home &
@TrinityMed1
👩🏻🎓👩🏻💻💙
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Had a blast during our annual
@TCDTMI
hike, organized every year by Prof. Derek Doherty! 🧑🔬🥾🐶
This time, we braved The Spinc in Glendalough ⛰️😅 and it was 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 🤩
Great to get away from the labs/RStudio, and spend some good quality time with one another!💚🌳
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I thought this was glycolysis
Boris Johnson intends to bring back imperial measurements.
Here’s a handy guide to show that it clearly is superior to the metric system.
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Despite a really scary, 10 minute breach birth that needed airway clearing, i am happy to say that this little girl is now 2 days old! 🥰🐶🐾
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Everybody, welcome to Twitter
@scienceftJordan
👋🧬
Jordan is a UCD Genetics,
@hrbireland
-funded Summer Scholar joining
@AislingOHallor1
and me this summer!
Jordan is flying, applying
#MachineLearning
to Epigenomic Data, finding predictive signatures of Frailty👨💻🧬🏥
So proud🥹
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Super fantastic to see The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (
@tilda_tcd
) have began rolling out their latest assessment of Grip Strength in the older adult population!!!
It's all 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 at
@stjamesdublin
! 🧗♂️
#PositiveAgeingWeek
#HealthyAgeing
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For my last lab meeting before flying to Italy i made gf focaccia 🇮🇹
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Had a blast running this week's "Germs & DNA" workshop with
@AccessTCD
🧑🔬
Budding scientists from 4th/6th class at St Anne's Primary Fettercairn,
@DrimnaghCastleP
blew us away with their enthusiasm and skills🤩
Came to college myself via an access route, they make a big diff!👏
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🎉 What an absolute blast representing
@TCDTMI
at this year's
@TheRunInTheDark
10K charity run!🏃💨
The event lights up the night and helps raise money for the cure of paralysis through CollaborativeCures💡🏥
I just about finished 😅🥵 but happy we collectively raised €228🎉🥳
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Chuffed to be invited to this week's
#LERUSummerSchool
"Exploring the role of the expert" + to be elected official Quizmaster👨🎓🤓💭
#BonusPointsForAll
Great talks so far from experts such as Provost
@LindaDoyle
,
@marcus_collier
; excited for more
@laoneill111
+
@Fredtwee
+ more!
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Sexy priest from fleabag just walked into the pub I'm in
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"How to reach out to members of different countries"
Great to see the leading young immunologists of Europe are in agreement 🤝 😅
@y_efis
#yEFIS2022
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Four boxes of Saliva samples aliquotted today (Aliquattro boxes?🤔), and landing in the -80° freezer👨🔬🧪🟪❄️
The response rate of TILDA participants (already > 2,500) really is incredible and so humbling.
🥶
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Happy Jamebo day! 🍧⛅
The 25th of July is the Feast of Saint James, so
@stjamesdublin
treated us all to a feast of free Teddy's ice cream 😁😁
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Super to see day 1 of
#yEFIS2022
being kicked off by
@JorgeHueteC
from the
@EdLavellee
lab 🐁💉
Great representation of
@Irishimmunology
and
@tcddublin
! 🧑🔬🇮🇪☘️
@scienceirel
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350 euro for a 3-day conference not to have food/refreshments is CRAZY
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Me at 5 minutes past midnight:
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Half 2 in the morning at the wedding last night and the hotel staff airdropped us this crisp sambo stimulus package 🚁😅🥪🍻
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✅
#RunTheLiberties
... Completed🏅✅
Super grateful for the €235 raised in donations for
@JamesFoundation
, all for the great cause of improving patient care
@stjamesdublin
❤️🩹🏥
Team
@TCDTMI
smashed it, and celebrated with a few well-earned packages of crisps!😉🍻
🎉
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Top man
@laoneill111
,
My little cousin Cian needed a heart transplant at 6 and unfortunately subsequently developed Lymphoma. Support like this means so much, especially coming up to Christmas! ❤️
Touch of class from
@Katie_McCabe11
and all the
@FAIWomen
's football team. A jersey signed by the whole squad for my son who is battling lymphoma.💚💚💚⚽️ best of luck qualifying for the WC🌍🏆☘!!
@FAIreland
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𝗦𝗽𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵! 😳 💦
My talk was all about the saliva in our mouths, and how analysing it has uncovered some hidden allies in the "Cold" war on COVID-19!🪖🦠😅
Buzzing to win this year's Faculty of Health Research Blitz 🙏 🎉
@TrinityMed1
@tilda_tcd
@hrbireland
Congratulations to the Faculty of Health Sciences research blitz winners - including TTMI’s own
@MattMcElheron
@conor_reddy
&
@Lorrainesmith_1
, plus
@fionahedigan
&
@MetzgerMarjori
@TCDPharmacy
@TCINeuroscience
@TrinityMed1
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They made the city from Assassin's Creed II into a real place
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Passionate, Inspiring, and Mega Entertaining talk from Research Star Dr. Katalin Karikó! ⭐👩🔬
Dr. Karikó was accepting
@GeneticsTCD
's Dawson Award, and full of funny and heartfelt insights into the (clinical) trials & tribulations of her career developing RNA therapies 🧬💉🦠
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Lab BeReal on the way??? 🧑🔬🧬🧪
Long day of processing pre-booster vaccine samples (and looking good in the process😌)
This work is helping characterize immune responses in Irish Nursing Homes, and identify factors associated with robust responses/positive outcomes👨🔬
LabReal🔬
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Walking home from
@stjamesdublin
not a care in the world, and it breaks me heart knowing that half of the staff in there can't be afforded the same privilege because of where they're from!!
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gotten into the habit of decorating lasagna like it's focaccia, in case anyone cares
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Mega insightful to experience simulated biological ageing ⏳😎
If you get the chance, you should definitely try a frailty sim 🏋️👕👖 ()
- it will give you an appreciation of how our body CAN change, and why our society NEEDS TO change ♥️🧓
Gearing up for our Semester 2 teaching on Ageing
@tcd
-
@MattMcElheron
and Daniel modelling the frailty simulation suits that we use to get students thinking of some of the underlying biology of ageing and clinical & societal impact
@TCDGerontology
@TrinityMed1
@tilda_tcd
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When you win every round of music bingo 🍻😅⭐
... and are now the unofficial villain of the pub (and drunk) 👹🥃🥃🥃
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Just used a salad spinner to manually centrifuge some RNA samples
Genomics is the future 👍
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The opening slide of my lab meeting presentation contained a second, nested meeting
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Really super company from fellow Computational Biologists and a fantastic start to
#ICBG2022
here in Galway! 🧬🧑💻
Opening talks included:
🧬 Modern & unbiased reference genomes 🔎
🐮 The superiority of cattle for comparative genomics & immunology 🦠
🐐 Some goats we found 🐐
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NIRspectroscopy measures blood oxygen in your brain during basic tasks, like standing up🧠
#MachineLearning
finds patterns unique in people at risk of health outcomes, like experiencing a fall👨💻
Fun research tool chat (+modeling) w/
@TCDGerontology
+
@stjamesdublin
med-engineers🧑⚕️
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Postman Matt done for the day!
Really excited to see this project getting underway! Investigating the who and why of COVID-19 prevalence in older people in Ireland using saliva-based antibody tests 👨🏻🔬🦠🤤
(Picture taken strategically for GDPR purposes😂)
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Bringing my football boots to my match in UCD in a tote bag, so everyone knows I go to Trinity 👍👍
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Presenting "TILDArt"🎨
No blue skies during lunch? just draw some ⛅️
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Signed off all my emails today with things like "Best Witches" because I'm so seasonal and love silly fun 🎃🧙
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Scientists of Twitter! The world needs more reminders that we're living, breathing human beings.
Quote tweet this with a picture of you doing not-science.
I had a great time away with the fam over the last week in Donegal! 🤩
Scientists of Twitter! The world needs more reminders that we're living, breathing human beings.
Quote tweet this with a picture of you doing not-science.
Science is my day job 😉...but "Music Is My Sanctuary" as Gary Bartz sings
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