Dr Yvonne Couch

Early Career Researcher Travel Grants for UKEV Forum 2025 - UK Society for Extracellular Vesicles Early-career research travel grants for UKEV Forum 2025 UKEV Travel Grants are available to help early career researchers (the applicants) attend and present their research at the UKEV Forum (15th to ...

Some travel grants for UKEV if there are any big UK extracellular vesicle fans out there!
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www.ukev.org.uk/early-career...

It is doggy lido day at Cheltenham and I am SO excited!! (possibly more excited than the dog!)
#dogsky

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Check out some of the very early studies on pain asymbolia, I found them fascinating as an undergrad!

Magdalen. Or Loughborough.

this....brings me so much joy!

a bunch of wooden spoons on a white surface with the words it 's like 10,000 spoons ALT: a bunch of wooden spoons on a white surface with the words it 's like 10,000 spoons

this mornings office kitchen is the opposite of the Alanis Morrisette song, 10,000 knives when all I need is a spoon...

I even have the lecture scribbles...

But the amount of detail in my actual notes probably explains my lack of social life ..

Pile of white lines paper covered in small neat handwriting with some hand drawn pictures of scientific things like kidneys and antibodies

It's time.

Rainy Saturday afternoon activity is recycling the 20 year old undergrad notes...
#academia

Protein folding and misfolding - PubMed The manner in which a newly synthesized chain of amino acids transforms itself into a perfectly folded protein depends both on the intrinsic properties of the amino-acid sequence and on multiple contr...

Oh I'll add this quite old review as well (sorry for going twice) again for just being beautifully written. Eloquent explanations in science are such glorious things and this one is worth reading even if you don't work on protein misfolding...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14685248/

Acute Inflammation Alters Brain Energy Metabolism in Mice and Humans: Role in Suppressed Spontaneous Activity, Impaired Cognition, and Delirium Systemic infection triggers a spectrum of metabolic and behavioral changes, collectively termed sickness behavior, which while adaptive, can affect mood and cognition. In vulnerable individuals, acute...

Ok so this is almost certainly not up your street but I LOVE this paper because it is simple, beautifully written and super clear. It's just a good paper and I fangirled the senior author about it in an email to him

www.jneurosci.org/content/40/2...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

The breakfast show I listen to does a stupid amnesty which I LOVE. My favourites thus far:

1. Person only realised recently that the Wombles live on Wimbledon Common, and are not, in fact, just common
2. Person only realised recently that the phrase was 'prima donna' not 'pre-Madonna'

You'll enjoy this...it was followed today by me having to fill in a form about out of hours working which had to be signed by my project license holder.

That person is also me.

It would not surprise me...

a man in a suit and tie is yawning while talking on a stage . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is yawning while talking on a stage .

Apparently my local ethics board have learned nothing from the pandemic when we realised that actually, some large meetings work really well remotely.

Today I did a round trip of about half an hour cycling (involving hills) to answer questions that took approximately three minutes of my time.

Super exciting news from UCL...
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Gus will simply not be your performing monkey, not now, not ever, the treatos keep coming and he still gets to eat them even if he doesn't catch them first. I call Gus a hidden genius.

My PhD student has gotten herself a job and I am super proud!
#mentoring

17 of my 180 emails after AL actually require reading...

Back off AL and feeling slightly less enthusiastic than normal but at least well rested after a brief tour of some English fizz vineyards with doggo...
#dogsky

okie dokie....switching off the email, switching off all the socials and going to have a couple of weeks of down time....see you on the other side people!
#worklifebalance

And it bites!!!

a person is laying on a blanket on the floor in a living room . ALT: a person is laying on a blanket on the floor in a living room .

Voila...

It lives!!!!
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Lecture theatre scene from high up, brown floor, brown lectern, large screen, lady all in black on the left with blonde hair pointing at the screen, lots of chemical names all over the screen

Just wrapping up discussing metabolism with the 7th preclinical stroke symposium here at Keble College in Oxford, an interesting experience hosting and presenting all at once but a great time had by all!

@kebleoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

I'm broadly against the 'I'm so thrilled to announce' type post you get all over LinkedIn but what it did allow me to do today was link with a total stranger who happens to be a histol expert. We organized a teams call and spent 40 minutes nerding out about glass coating protocols and histology 😍🧪

Two boxes of tea with pictures of tea cups on, the left is brown and described as Mens Tea, the right box is dark pink and described as women's tea

I have no comments. Only confusion....

The Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness is one of my favourite quotes, Men at Arms was my first Discworld, passed to me at aged 11 by my Dad