Prof Khakh quote - I hope to make a meaningful difference to the lives of people affected by dementia by advancing new therapeutic mechanisms grounded in fundamental neuroscience, and by helping to build a research environment where great science and great scientists can thrive.

Very excited to share the news today that Professor Baljit Khakh will become the new Centre Director of the UK DRI at Cardiff University!

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Led by Marcus Keatinge
"Mislocalisation of TDP-43 to the cytoplasm of either neurons or oligodendrocytes causes axonopathy and dysmyelination"

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£70 million investment in IRR spinout Trogenix to tackle aggressive cancers.
The funding will enable the rapid advancement of its pipeline of potentially curative cancer therapies across multiple treatment-resistant cancers
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Brilliant Kick off day #ISNASN2025
@neurochemistry.org with the best conference views ever 😎
Glad to be part of it #TogetherForScience

If you wanna know more about my work on axons & zebrafish in the @lyons-lab.bsky.social join me during the poster session tmr evening (LBA45) or just reach out 🐠

Activity-driven myelin sheath growth is mediated by mGluR5 - Nature Neuroscience Employing pharmacology, genetics and all-optical approaches in zebrafish, Braaker et al. find that neuronal activity influences the growth of myelin sheaths along axons by signaling through metabotrop...

For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker

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The LSI Exeter invites you to join the first UK Zebrafish Meeting, 10/ - 12/9/ @lsiexeter.bsky.social. We are looking for motivated PhD students/ECRs to present their work - as talks and posters. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... . The deadline for the early bird registration is 15/5/. So, be quick!

Fast, accurate, and versatile data analysis platform for the quantification of molecular spatiotemporal signals Optical recording of intricate molecular dynamics is becoming an indispensable technique for biological studies, accelerated by the development of new…

Fun to have contributed a little to this, led by the team of the incomparable Guoqiang Yu.

Suspect that this will prove to be an immensely popular image analysis platform for interrogation of dynamic signallingl!
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Hot damn!
Spectacular news Karl. Massive congrats Michelle!@michellemonje.bsky.social

Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in vertebrates Hasel et al. show that molecularly and morphologically specialized astrocytes make up the brain and spinal cord surface, thereby creating the glia limitans superficialis. These astrocytes selectively ...

Our paper on the superficial glia limitans is now published - huge thank you to all co-authors that helped getting this work across the finish line! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Two new opportunities in Edinburgh:

Research technician in our lab
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Senior research technician to support the Zebrafish Imaging and Screening Facility
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One week to go before application deadlines...

1. Postdoc, investigating how neurons respond to demyelination.
2. Research assistant, investigating how conduction properties are established in neural circuits

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Couple of opportunities up to join the group!
One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path.
One research assistant role.
Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more!
Or just apply!
Thanks!

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Developmental axon diameter growth of central nervous system axons does not depend on ensheathment or myelination by oligodendrocytes Myelination facilitates the rapid conduction of action potentials along axons. In the central nervous system (CNS), myelinated axons vary over 100-fold in diameter, with conduction speed scaling linea...

First post at this side.

Latest axon diameter action led by Jenea Bin, in collaboration with Nolan, Mobius, Monk, Werner, and Emery labs.

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