Endothelial leakage, protein engineering, synthetic chemistry. Postdoc in Warren Lee's lab at University of Toronto/Unity Health Toronto 🔬🏳️‍🌈 He/Him. Where there's a Will there's a wayhttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3msq4hn2tvc22Excited to share that a few weeks ago I started a new postdoc in Dr Warren Lee's lab @utoronto.ca @unityhealthto.bsky.social investigating endothelial leakage caused by transcytosis. I'm really looking forward to this new adventure!10 Aug 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3msq4hn2tvc22https://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3mre4ks6xqk2jRecently we were trying to change the colour of superfolder GFP and accidentally engineered a great probe for expansion microscopy! Read about it in our first micropublication - lnkd.in/eCxYcCJZ24 Jul 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre4ks6xqk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3m5sujqz4tc2uOur new paper is published in the Journal of Chemical Biology! 🏮 We share StayRose, a red version of StayGold 🏮 StayRose has an unnatural amino acid-based chromophore, and has the same immense photobleach-resistance as StayGold 💡 https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(25)02684-5/fulltext17 Nov 2025 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5sujqz4tc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3m222bymrqk2s⚗️ Take a read of our new preprint presenting a one-step method for conjugating strained alkyne groups onto fluorescent groups 🧪 Drop me a message if you're interested in trying it out! https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-h6sfb30 Sep 2025 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3m222bymrqk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3lvkp6i6dzk23I was privileged to be interviewed by Biology Open last week about our new paper, what inspired me to become a scientist, and how research is as creative as any artform 🔬 Take a read here: https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.06216104 Aug 2025 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvkp6i6dzk23https://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3lv63pawzak27🔬 Take a read of our paper out today, presenting improved tools for comparing human tropomyosin isoforms in live cells 🧬 My first publication as lead author 🥳 Please reach out if you'd like to give any of these tools a try 🔬 https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.06199230 Jul 2025 07:24 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv63pawzak27https://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3ljmmia4axs2bTake a read of our brand new preprint 🥼 We built a toolbox of new live cell imaging probes for comparing human isoforms of the surprisingly mysterious cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin 🔬 This started as a side project during my PhD and grew into something quite huge! 🧫 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640032v105 Mar 2025 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljmmia4axs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3ldqovdl5ps2wOur new preprint on StayRose is out now - we used an unnatural amino acid to produce the first red version of the super photostable fluorescent protein StayGold 🥰 My first as lead author! 🥳 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.13.628370v120 Dec 2024 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqovdl5ps2whttps://bsky.app/profile/wsctt.bsky.social/post/3lbrlruc5ac23Glad to connect with everyone! I'm a synthetic biologist and chemist imaging the actin cytoskeleton in Mohan Balasubramanian's group (University of Warwick) on an end-of-PhD transition fellowship. Here are my yeast from throughout my PhD (can you see which weeks I was particularly stressed 😂)25 Nov 2024 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:5ex25rcx5ltltfnti3x3brye/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrlruc5ac23