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Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology lab at the Queensland Brain Institute, Australia. We use C. elegans to study neuronal regeneration and degeneration. https://qbi.uq.edu.au/hilliardgroup

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Our discovery of an epidermal membrane-associated periodic scaffold that protects axons from damage is out now in Science Advances and featured on the cover!

Congratulations to Sean, Igor and Dat for their wonderful and inspiring work! @coakleylab.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

09.01.2026 05:05 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The MPS visits the axon's neighbors! Interesting results from @hilliardlab.bsky.social & @coakleylab.bsky.social in C. elegans where the epidermis forms a submembrane axon-imprinted periodic spectrin skeleton that restrict the endocytosis of cell surface proteins:
doi.org/10.1126/scia...

08.01.2026 11:31 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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An epidermal membrane-associated periodic skeleton restricts endocytosis to stabilize neuron-epidermal attachment and preserve axons An epidermal membrane periodic scaffold protects axons from damage.

Latest paper is now out and features on the cover of Science Advances 👉 tinyurl.com/vea5862x

Very grateful Igor Bonacossa Pereira, Dat Le & Massimo Hilliard @hilliardlab.bsky.social for their creativity & passion.

Read more about it 👉
tinyurl.com/56awjda5
& 👉 tinyurl.com/2vp8p8uk

08.01.2026 02:02 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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🎙️New episode alert!

Prof. Massimo Hilliard and Dr. Ramón Martínez-Mármol discuss neuronal fusion🧠, how viral infections🦠 can disrupt neural circuits through fusion, and how C. elegans🪱, a tiny roundworm, might one day revolutionise nerve injury repair!

🎧 Listen now: qbi.uq.edu.au/podcast-fusi...

11.11.2025 09:23 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had a great time at the #EMBOcellBioComm in Crete! Huge thanks to @gtavosanis.bsky.social, @hilliardlab.bsky.social, Claudia Bagni, Nektarios Tavernarakis & @embo.org for organising such a memorable event. Congratulations to Miguel Berbeira Santana, winner of the @reviewcommons.org poster prize!

12.05.2025 07:52 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Do not miss out on this amazing meeting! The deadline for abstract submission and registration is March 1st.

Check out the program and apply now:
meetings.embo.org/event/25-cel...

#EMBOcellBioComm @embo.org

20.02.2025 02:44 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations, Alessandra, for spearheading this wonderful story, which is also featured as part of the Editors’ Highlights at @naturecomms.bsky.social!

24.01.2025 05:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Out now! We found a new molecule, OSP-1, that protects neurons from damage caused by oxidative stress. We show that OSP-1 reduces cell death by regulating autophagy, and can be an exciting target for future treatments of acute insults such as stroke.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.01.2025 05:39 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

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