Aaron Barron
@aaronbarron.bsky.social
Irish neuroscientist in Finland. Studying the influence of the immune system on human brain development at FinnBrain/INITIALISE EU through multiomics, neuroimaging, statistics, and neuronal cell biology 🧠🧬
Here is the @utu.fi press release for our new article, now availabel online ahead of print in The Lancet Planetary Health @thelancetplanet.bsky.social
#PFAS #environment #neuroscience
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#PFAS #environment #neuroscience
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PFAS levels in mothers’ blood associated with children’s brain structure and function
Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have discovered that the levels of PFAS in mothers’ blood during pregnancy is associa
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October 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Here is the @utu.fi press release for our new article, now availabel online ahead of print in The Lancet Planetary Health @thelancetplanet.bsky.social
#PFAS #environment #neuroscience
www.utu.fi/en/news/pres...
#PFAS #environment #neuroscience
www.utu.fi/en/news/pres...
The first article from my post-doc with FinnBrain is available online in The Lancet Planetary Health (open access)! 📖 Maternal PFAS are associated with multimodal brain structural, and functional, outcomes in children 🧠 🧪 #PFAS #Neuroscience #MRI #MassSpec
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INITIALISE RESEARCH PROJECT
INITIALISE was represented at the conference of Scandianavian Society of the Study of Diabetes(SSSD) Annual Meeting held on May 22-24, 2024 in Oulu, Finland. At the conference, new data on type 1 diab...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The first article from my post-doc with FinnBrain is available online in The Lancet Planetary Health (open access)! 📖 Maternal PFAS are associated with multimodal brain structural, and functional, outcomes in children 🧠 🧪 #PFAS #Neuroscience #MRI #MassSpec
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Thank you to the @anatsoc.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic meeting in Oxford University on human cortical development, and the chance to present my research on the immune proteome and cortical thickness in children! 🧠 Thank you to Field of View @turkubioimaging.bsky.social for supporting my trip!
July 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thank you to the @anatsoc.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic meeting in Oxford University on human cortical development, and the chance to present my research on the immune proteome and cortical thickness in children! 🧠 Thank you to Field of View @turkubioimaging.bsky.social for supporting my trip!
The first of two summer conferences, the #Metabolomics 2025 Congress in Prague! Thank you @inflames-flagship.bsky.social, Nordic Metabolomics Society, and @metsoc.bsky.social for supporting me so I could travel to beautiful Prague and present my research on immune proteomics and anxiety in children
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The first of two summer conferences, the #Metabolomics 2025 Congress in Prague! Thank you @inflames-flagship.bsky.social, Nordic Metabolomics Society, and @metsoc.bsky.social for supporting me so I could travel to beautiful Prague and present my research on immune proteomics and anxiety in children
A crazy busy and amazing week at the #NMetC24 @SocietyNordic and BioCity Symposium presenting our new research from @FinnBrainStudy balanced with some neuroimaging teaching and socializing 🧠 🛳️
March 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A crazy busy and amazing week at the #NMetC24 @SocietyNordic and BioCity Symposium presenting our new research from @FinnBrainStudy balanced with some neuroimaging teaching and socializing 🧠 🛳️
Presenting research from the end of my PhD with @FinnBrainStudy @FBNeuroImageLab about maternal immune activation and white matter development, at FENS 2024 in Vienna #FENS2024 #FENSForum2024
March 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Presenting research from the end of my PhD with @FinnBrainStudy @FBNeuroImageLab about maternal immune activation and white matter development, at FENS 2024 in Vienna #FENS2024 #FENSForum2024
For this lovely fluorescent Friday, here is an image of currently-growing axons emerging from human neurons (green is GAP43 staining; with some growth cones at their tips)!
#microscopy #neuroscience #neuron #everyweekisscienceweek #phdlife
#microscopy #neuroscience #neuron #everyweekisscienceweek #phdlife
March 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For this lovely fluorescent Friday, here is an image of currently-growing axons emerging from human neurons (green is GAP43 staining; with some growth cones at their tips)!
#microscopy #neuroscience #neuron #everyweekisscienceweek #phdlife
#microscopy #neuroscience #neuron #everyweekisscienceweek #phdlife
Thank you to @lyons_tea for unknowingly sponsoring my thesis writing lately…
March 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thank you to @lyons_tea for unknowingly sponsoring my thesis writing lately…
I'm talking at this year's @pintofscienceIE festival on Monday 22 May!
My talk is all about brain development and is titled "Stress, Sex and Heavy Metal: How to Build a Brain". Come join us at Old Oak, Cork City, 22/5/23 at 6pm - free tickets...
My talk is all about brain development and is titled "Stress, Sex and Heavy Metal: How to Build a Brain". Come join us at Old Oak, Cork City, 22/5/23 at 6pm - free tickets...
March 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'm talking at this year's @pintofscienceIE festival on Monday 22 May!
My talk is all about brain development and is titled "Stress, Sex and Heavy Metal: How to Build a Brain". Come join us at Old Oak, Cork City, 22/5/23 at 6pm - free tickets...
My talk is all about brain development and is titled "Stress, Sex and Heavy Metal: How to Build a Brain". Come join us at Old Oak, Cork City, 22/5/23 at 6pm - free tickets...
A time-lapse of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: using an electric current to separate proteins by their size. The real separation begins at 13s.
#Biology #PhD #science #cellbiology
#Biology #PhD #science #cellbiology
March 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A time-lapse of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: using an electric current to separate proteins by their size. The real separation begins at 13s.
#Biology #PhD #science #cellbiology
#Biology #PhD #science #cellbiology
A poor neuron being eaten by bacteria. Notice the Brownian dance of some of the boys in the centre and left. This was not meant to happen…
#PhD #bacteria #neuron #microscopy
#PhD #bacteria #neuron #microscopy
March 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A poor neuron being eaten by bacteria. Notice the Brownian dance of some of the boys in the centre and left. This was not meant to happen…
#PhD #bacteria #neuron #microscopy
#PhD #bacteria #neuron #microscopy
While neural progenitor cells naturally "want" to turn into neurons, you can prevent this temporarily by growing them into large clusters called neurospheres.
And they look like this.
#neuroscience #Science"/hashtag/ScienceTwitter" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ScienceTwitter #Science #Microscopy #phdlife
And they look like this.
#neuroscience #Science"/hashtag/ScienceTwitter" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ScienceTwitter #Science #Microscopy #phdlife
March 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
While neural progenitor cells naturally "want" to turn into neurons, you can prevent this temporarily by growing them into large clusters called neurospheres.
And they look like this.
#neuroscience #Science"/hashtag/ScienceTwitter" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ScienceTwitter #Science #Microscopy #phdlife
And they look like this.
#neuroscience #Science"/hashtag/ScienceTwitter" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ScienceTwitter #Science #Microscopy #phdlife
I posted a picture of a single neuron a month ago. Here's about a hundred of them, densely interconnected. Have a fluorescent Friday!!
#neuroscience #neuron #Science #sciencetwitter #microscopy
#neuroscience #neuron #Science #sciencetwitter #microscopy
March 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I posted a picture of a single neuron a month ago. Here's about a hundred of them, densely interconnected. Have a fluorescent Friday!!
#neuroscience #neuron #Science #sciencetwitter #microscopy
#neuroscience #neuron #Science #sciencetwitter #microscopy
I'm delighted to finally share the first piece of original research from my thesis on pre-eclampsia and neuronal development, now published in Frontiers in Physiology! Thank you to my supervisors and everyone involved...
March 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm delighted to finally share the first piece of original research from my thesis on pre-eclampsia and neuronal development, now published in Frontiers in Physiology! Thank you to my supervisors and everyone involved...
Have a fluorescent Friday, and enjoy this picture of a lonely human neuron surrounded by neural progenitor cells!
#neuroscience #neuron #Microscopy #Science
#neuroscience #neuron #Microscopy #Science
March 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Have a fluorescent Friday, and enjoy this picture of a lonely human neuron surrounded by neural progenitor cells!
#neuroscience #neuron #Microscopy #Science
#neuroscience #neuron #Microscopy #Science
You can read my article, "Pre-Eclampsia and the Developing Brain", now published in the relaunch of UCC's journal, The Boolean!
This is an open-access non-specialist report of the diverse postgraduate research happening in UCC. @Boolean_UCC @UCCGSO...
This is an open-access non-specialist report of the diverse postgraduate research happening in UCC. @Boolean_UCC @UCCGSO...
March 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can read my article, "Pre-Eclampsia and the Developing Brain", now published in the relaunch of UCC's journal, The Boolean!
This is an open-access non-specialist report of the diverse postgraduate research happening in UCC. @Boolean_UCC @UCCGSO...
This is an open-access non-specialist report of the diverse postgraduate research happening in UCC. @Boolean_UCC @UCCGSO...
Thank you to @UCCMedHealth for organising last week’s fantastic conference From Molecules to People, where I was very lucky and grateful to be awarded a prize for best oral presentation #fM2P 🧠
March 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Thank you to @UCCMedHealth for organising last week’s fantastic conference From Molecules to People, where I was very lucky and grateful to be awarded a prize for best oral presentation #fM2P 🧠
Only 1 week to @UCCMedHealth’s conference From Molecules to People, where I’ll be presenting some of my work on #preeclampsia and #neurodevelopment! Register (for free) here:
https://conference.ucc.ie/future-medicines-research-conference-from-molecules-to-people-web/
https://conference.ucc.ie/future-medicines-research-conference-from-molecules-to-people-web/
About the Conference & Registration - Future Medicines Re...
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March 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Only 1 week to @UCCMedHealth’s conference From Molecules to People, where I’ll be presenting some of my work on #preeclampsia and #neurodevelopment! Register (for free) here:
https://conference.ucc.ie/future-medicines-research-conference-from-molecules-to-people-web/
https://conference.ucc.ie/future-medicines-research-conference-from-molecules-to-people-web/
Thank you to everyone at #DOHaD2022 for all the great conversations and questions during the poster session today - I’m extremely grateful for all the positive interactions I had about my poster on #preeclampsia and #neurodevelopment
March 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Thank you to everyone at #DOHaD2022 for all the great conversations and questions during the poster session today - I’m extremely grateful for all the positive interactions I had about my poster on #preeclampsia and #neurodevelopment
After two great days of trainee workshops, tonight featured the opening ceremony to @DOHaD2022 - featuring the magnificent Eagle Song Dancers and musicians from Sarah McLachlan School of Music #PhD #DOHaD2022 #Vancouver #IndigenousPeoples
March 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
After two great days of trainee workshops, tonight featured the opening ceremony to @DOHaD2022 - featuring the magnificent Eagle Song Dancers and musicians from Sarah McLachlan School of Music #PhD #DOHaD2022 #Vancouver #IndigenousPeoples
In Vancouver a few days before @DOHaD2022 and my first stop was the hike up Grouse Mountain
March 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In Vancouver a few days before @DOHaD2022 and my first stop was the hike up Grouse Mountain
March 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Here is my blog post about the wonderful month I spent learning from @FinnBrainStudy in Turku! https://sites.utu.fi/finnbrain/a-1-month-adventure-in-turku/
March 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Here is my blog post about the wonderful month I spent learning from @FinnBrainStudy in Turku! https://sites.utu.fi/finnbrain/a-1-month-adventure-in-turku/
March 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
