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Emma McKay @Emck197
Joined January 2017
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Emma McKay@Emck197
1 Oct 2025
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!
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Dr Rebecca Coll@Rebecca_Coll
1 Oct 2025
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!
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Emma McKay@Emck197
13 Sep 2025
Great couple of days in Manchester for the excellent @britsocimm Innate Immunity and inflammation meeting #BSIInflammation25
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Queen's University Belfast 🎓
@QUBelfast
3 Sep 2025
RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH: Discovery could lead to new drug treatments for #InflammatoryDiseases including #Alzheimers, #asthma, #arthritis and #obesity. Find out more: ow.ly/aYb050WQeJo #LoveQUBResearch @WWIEM_QUB @bioagelabs @MHLSQUB
Image shows a square box -the top shows a researcher filling a pipette. The bottom contains a red rectangle with white text that reads: “This research breakthrough highlights the benefit of combining academic expertise with industry to make real-world impact. We hope this discovery will lead to the development of new, targeted anti-inflammatory drugs which will help treat these devastating diseases.” Dr Rebecca Coll, Senior Lecturer in Immunobiology. There is also a photo of Dr Rebecca Coll beside the text in the bottom left-hand corner.

ALT Image shows a square box -the top shows a researcher filling a pipette. The bottom contains a red rectangle with white text that reads: “This research breakthrough highlights the benefit of combining academic expertise with industry to make real-world impact. We hope this discovery will lead to the development of new, targeted anti-inflammatory drugs which will help treat these devastating diseases.” Dr Rebecca Coll, Senior Lecturer in Immunobiology. There is also a photo of Dr Rebecca Coll beside the text in the bottom left-hand corner.

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Dr Rebecca Coll@Rebecca_Coll
2 Sep 2025
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!
Journal of Experimental Medicine@JExpMed
2 Sep 2025
#NLRP3 is a target for anti-inflammatory therapies & can be inhibited by the tool compound MCC950. Wilhelmsen, @Rebecca_Coll et al. characterize new small-molecule inhibitors, BAL-0028 & BAL-0598, that have a distinct mechanism of action & binding site. hubs.la/Q03GtbGx0
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Emma McKay@Emck197
25 Aug 2025
Brilliant couple of days attending the @Irishimmunology meeting in Galway. Amazing science in a beautiful place! @uniofgalway
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Dr Rebecca Coll@Rebecca_Coll
22 Aug 2025
Had a brilliant couple of days with the lab in Galway at the @Irishimmunology meeting - great science and great craic !!!
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Emma McKay@Emck197
6 Aug 2025
Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. act.gp/3YxOUXa

Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks

Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.

action.greenpeace.org.uk
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Dave Boucher@dave_boucher
3 Aug 2025
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 jbc.org/article/S0021-9258%2…

10 things you wish you knew about inflammatory caspases: A holistic review of their biochemistry,...

Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases conserved across all metazoa which play critical functions that range from cell death, inflammation, and cellular differentiation. Caspases cleave a subset...

jbc.org
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Emma McKay@Emck197
19 Jul 2025
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! 🥉
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James Orr@JamesAOrr
18 Jul 2025
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. irishnews.com/news/northern-…

Commercial eel fishing on Lough Neagh forced to close for 2025

Industry ‘casualty of significant environmental change within the lough’

irishnews.com
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Emma McKay@Emck197
19 Jul 2025
💚💚💚 We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts. act.gp/3FvLdI9

If you agree the UK government should stop deep sea mining before it starts, add your name.

Call on the UK to protect our oceans and stop deep sea mining before it starts.

action.greenpeace.org.uk
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Dr Rebecca Coll@Rebecca_Coll
25 Jun 2025
Huge congratulations to the new Dr Mawhinney!! @TheaMawhinney Thank you to her fantastic examiners Prof Suzanne Cloonan @suzcloo and Prof Cliff Taggart @WWIEM_QUB
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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 shorturl.at/46e5V @QUBelfast @mssocietyNI

Queen's University Celebrates the Launch of the Northern Ireland's...

Subscribe NOW to Queen’s University Belfast: http://bit.ly/1Y24vux...

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bioRxiv Immunology@biorxiv_immuno
1 May 2025
Caspase-1 self-terminates protease activity to enforce homeostasis and prevent inflammasome-driven diseases biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_immuno

Caspase-1 self-terminates protease activity to enforce homeostasis and prevent inflammasome-driven...

Signal shutdown mechanisms must exist to silence the potent inflammatory programs initiated by the caspase-1 (CASP1) protease, to allow inflammation to resolve and reinstate tissue homeostasis. It is...

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JelenaBezbradicaLab@JelenaLab
7 Mar 2025
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 science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

TBK1 and IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of both RIPK1 and NLRP3 death...

TBK1 and IKKe prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells.

science.org
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Connor G. G. Bamford, Ph.D@cggbamford
15 Feb 2025
We are at NI Science Festival @QUBbioscience beta testing our virus game “sense and susceptibility” alongside the classic build a virus activity!
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Dr Rebecca Coll@Rebecca_Coll
3 Feb 2025
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: qub.ac.uk/research-centres/w…

Wellcome-Wolfson Institute For Experimental Medicine

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Dr Rebecca Coll@Rebecca_Coll
15 Dec 2024
Very happy that our team "Deck the Colls" won the annual Christmas table quiz (again!) @WWIEM_QUB thanks to quizmaster extraordinaire Derek Brazil 🎄🍾
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Emma McKay@Emck197
16 Nov 2024
Now on Bluesky 🦋
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