Fiona J Whelan

@whelanfj.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer, Lister Prize Fellow, & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at U of Manchester. Bioinf, microbes, evol bio, running, cycling, & pub chats. she/her 🇨🇦. whelanlab.co.uk

Certificates to celebrate Francis’s poster award and Mel’s oral presentation awards!
Amber presenting her poster on Drosophila bacterial infections with Pseudomonas and Streptococcus species.
Image of me hiking with a large backpack in the forefront with the glory of the Peak District hills in the background.
Dominique presenting her title slide to a captive audience.
Photo of a framed photo showing LGBT+ coloured agar plates arranged in the orders of the lgbt+ flag. There is also a bonus mug on the left of the image; the mug has text in Irish on it indicating my love of cake.
Michelle Hardman presenting her talk on microbe microbe interactions.
Francis presenting his flask talk.
First slide of Francis Gyapong's (3rd year PhD student) talk on culturing the stickleback microbiome.
Picture of the tow path and river on a (decently) sunny Belfast morning
Peter looks for hover fly larvae in a tree hole of an oak tree.
Picture of a well deserved pint.
A tall can of Guinness 0 poured into a Guinness pint glass on a table in front of a window and red walls that were gifted from the previous owners that I still need to paint (colour suggestions welcome)
Sharok presenting a slide on culture enrichment of the gut microbiome.
Hooman, Mike, Sharok and I caffeinating ahead of our first brainstorm.
Mary introducing her title slide.
Logan and his title slide
Priya introducing the concept of sex as costly to an organism
James starting his talk
Andrew introducing Giardia infection cycle
Joesph introducing Saccharomyces in his talk
Harry speaking on trait variation
Ed introducing Aspergillus fumigatus
Qiuyu presenting her methods.
Rebecca presenting a slide introducing bdellovibrio
Sharon introducing herself and her research.
Screenshot of opening and closing dates for the microbiology society travel grants: 12 Dec and 2 Jan.
Image of the River Mersey with tide out and sun peaking out from behind the clouds.
Jamie Hall on stage speaking about the importance of publishing for the community.
Jamie Hall on stage opening the conference.
Image of an iPad showing text and a half finished pint of ale in a pub setting.
Matt with title slide reading “my journey to deciphering immunity in mucosal barrier tissues”
An image of Sharok presenting his work next to his slide on microbial engraftment of genes.
An image of the title slide from Georgina’s talk.
The remains of Brighton’s West pier in the middle of the ocean with a rocky beach in the forefront.
Screenshot from CBC's election coverage showing 2 ridings where the difference in votes between the leading and runner up parties is 28 and 46 votes, respectively.
Details of merman presentations today and tomorrow.
An image of University of Manchester scientists with details of their poster numbers and titles on display at the Microbiology annual conference.
A blurred out version of the hours that I worked in a typical week when I was recording my work hours. A stacked bar chart of each day of work with different coloured blocks indicating time spent on different types of tasks.
A blurred version of one of my timelines where I keep track of progress within the lab. The plot shows time on the x axis, events on the y, and blocks of different colours to represent whether the event is ongoing or completed.
A blurred version of my Notability app including a list of folders on the left, notes in the middle, and an example of a hand-drawn note on the right hand side.
A screenshot of some of the slack groups that I am part of. A huge shoutout to NewPISlack which has been instrumental to my career progression, especially as I started my lab in 2020 during covid lockdowns. What a community.
A blurred out image showing my to do list for last week on the left and a monthly timeline of a variety of different colour-coded projects on the right. 2 different pages from my moleskine yearly diary notebook that I carry around with me like a security blanket.
A screenshot of my Instapapers account home page, including some recent additions to my "to read" pile (mostly nature.com "pop science" articles).
A screenshot of the first 2 articles in the most recent Nature Table of Contents email I have received.
"You have to think about this race like eating an entire pizza. You know you can do it but you have to cut it into manageable slices, and eat it one slice at a time. And then next thing you know, there's only a slice left." -- Simon Donato
A blurred version of the manuscript that I am currently working on in Overleaf.
A screenshot of the Pubcrawler logo and motto. The motto - "It goes to the library - you go to the pub" - must be the best in the business.
A screenshot of the folders that I use to keep my inbox organized by task type via the Stack Method. For example, the first few folders in the list include "1 Reply", "2 Do (5+)", "3 Meet".
My lovely parents posing on a sunny beach in West Cork
Picture of some muddy - but still very pink - running shoes.
Poster and co smiling next to a “polling station open” sign.
Screenshot of Bill Bryson’s book Made in America explaining the use of the words fall and autumn in the UK at the time of the Mayflower voyage.
2 incubators with their doors open full of plates.