Denise Walker

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!

If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.

Please RT 🙏

Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…

Imagine if you had your very own lab to play in at home!
Super-cool Lego design from an LMB colleague. Vote to help make it a reality!

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In #GENETICS, @jsrinivasanwpi.bsky.social and the team present a rescue-by-feeding approach, showing that feeding engineered E. coli containing neuropeptides to #Celegans mutants can successfully rescue behavior defects in worms. buff.ly/Qdw9Nsq

Working model of the hypoxia-mediated longevity pathway.

Mild stresses on the body, like fasting or cold exposure, can delay ageing. But how?

A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan.
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Kittens exploring the garden for the first time (while we all stood around anxiously trying to pretend we weren’t watching their every move)

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Startups Are Racing to Make Water Out of Thin Air Materials that are bigger on the inside than the outside provide a futuristic solution to supply water to an increasingly arid planet.

One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!

🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.

📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

Fellowship Programme - Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship programme Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, offering two transformative fellowship streams …

📢 Deadline for Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship extended till 13th Oct 2025!

12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡

Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...

One of my @somervillecollege.bsky.social science heros. Loved my Structural Biology tutorials with her.

BBC Inside Science - The science behind autism - BBC Sounds What do we know about the causes of autism?

What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies.

🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Drosophila Genetic Database The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

Over the last 8 years, Oliver Burton has tested >1000 different fix/perm combos, and here the final verdict is: "Burton's Best Buffer": 2% formalin, 0.05% Fairy dish soap, 0.5% Tween-20, 0.1% Triton X-100.

Yep, replace all of those expensive detergents with @pg.com dishwashing liquid

#caturday and neither surgery nor our silly suits slow us down, apparently

Somerville's final Open Day of 2025 is this Friday! If you're thinking of applying to Oxford, please come and visit us between 8.45am and 5pm. It's a great opportunity to meet some of these friendly faces, learn about the college, and talk to our fantastic tutors.

Last Word - Robert Redford, Barbara Harvey, Rosa Roisinblit, Stuart Craig - BBC Sounds Matthew Bannister on a film star, a historian, a campaigner and a designer.

Our Emeritus Fellow Barbara Harvey is featured on today's episode of Last Word. Barbara's former colleague Professor Emeritus Joanna Innes speaks about her life and career, alongside her former student, Professor John Blair.

Want to run your own lab one day?

In our Postdoc to PI series with Scientifica, Dr Sam Booker shares practical tips on the 5 pillars of academic independence:

Research, Funding, Teaching & supervision, Outreach and Balance

Register: tinyurl.com/337ww4mc

#PostdocLife #FuturePI #PhDLife

Tau filaments formed into their distinctive paired helical filaments in Alzheimer's disease

#ICYMI spearheaded by Sofia Lövestam, Michel Goedert & @sjorsscheres.bsky.social's groups have identified a combination of 12 residues in tau’s fuzzy coat which, when mutated, facilitates assembly of amyloid filaments.
Read more in AlzForum: www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
#LMBintheNews #PAD12

UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences 2025 The UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences is a prize awarded annually since 1997 to individuals who have excelled in these fields.

I will give the UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences. If you are in London on December 3, come say hello. Registration is required but free:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-prize-...

This year, for Postdoc Appreciation Week, could we please STOP referring to them as TRAINEES!

They are exceptionally qualified professionals, highly experienced researchers, mentors, educators, world-leading experts in their field, grownups with responsibilities, not interns!

Best practice by @embo.org : all #symposia are #hybrid for #inclusion and #accessibility. Supports #disability & #carers, #sustainability, #climate. This needs to be standard for all scientific meetings to become fully inclusive, non-discriminatory and sustainable. 🌿♿️🧑‍🧒

www.embl.org/about/info/c...

I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities In Denmark, this Ph.D. student fell in love with an egalitarian society that values work-life balance

I still sometimes wonder how my life might have unfolded had I returned to the U.S. I might have gained more recognizable credentials. But I would have missed the chance to build a life here, to invest in a relationship with someone I love...

www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you interested in uncovering how the tiny C. elegans nervous system uses complex dopaminergic signalling to control behaviours? If so check out our new postdoc position, applications are now open: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

#caturday kittens again! Hope you’re not bored yet

A gentle reminder that you can ask (as in pay) Black people to talk about Black British history any month of the year. Not just October…

An integrated transcriptomic and proteomic map of the mouse hippocampus at synaptic resolution - Nature Communications Understanding the brain’s diversity requires spatially resolved maps of transcripts and proteins. Here, the authors construct an integrated molecular atlas of the mouse hippocampus revealing loca...

“An integrated transcriptomic and proteomic map of the mouse hippocampus at synaptic resolution” 🧪🧠🧬

Great study (+resource) by @evakaulich.bsky.social Erin Schuman and colleagues
@natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our latest collaborative work from Erin Schuman's lab @mpibrain.bsky.social : An integrated transcriptomic and proteomic map of the mouse hippocampus at synaptic resolution, now published in @natcomms.nature.com. Here’s a thread summary 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s414...