Claudio R. Alonso

Sir John Gurdon, 1933-2025 | Wellcome A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 October. He made a discovery that opened up the field of cloning research, and created one of the best environments for res...

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This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed…

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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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Gosh, isn’t that like phalloides the source of alpha-amanitin? Keep all your RNApol IIs away and protected!

Amazing! Look forward to reading the piece. Many congratulations to all authors!

Great, thank you very much!

This is excellent. Are you planning to discuss and produce a set guidelines to guide the field and policy, like in the famous (and crucial) Asilomar meeting on Recombinant DNA in the 70s? If so, will the meeting produce a report on the discussion? Many thanks for sharing!

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Thank you very much!

Here is the flyer

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

Ah, thank you for clarifying!

Many thanks! We are currently looking for 2x postdocs to join my lab in Brighton, UK. We are very keen on scientific curiosity, independence, rigor and passion. Happy to support fellowship applications too. Please could you add me to the list as a PI? Thank you ever so much

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Many congratulations Max!

It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

Thanks Tom!

Many thanks also to Jonathan Menzies and Victoria A. Lipscomb for their contributions to this exciting story 🙏🏼

Many thanks to the talented larval optogeneticist postdoc Will Roseby @wroseby.bsky.social for his excellent work leading this project!

Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Guys I made a breakthrough

All the very best to our colleagues at @standupforscience.bsky.social today! We are all with you: science is international

👆🏼important perspective from
Tom Maniatis on the current funding situation of the NIH, to be published in Cell next week

Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States NIH’s abrupt decision to cap indirect cost reimbursement at 15% threatens the critical infrastructure supporting groundbreaking biomedical research in…

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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding National Institutes of Health said the $4bn loss will affect ‘indirect’ funding of buildings, equipment and staff

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And also this paper from JP Couso 👉🏼 www.science.org/cms/asset/cc...

Here is a flyer to print or email. Thank you very much!

Our lab is looking for 2 postdocs interested in the molecular basis of neural development and behaviour.
Post 1: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ521/r...
Post 2: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ529/r...
The deadline is 17-FEB-2025
For informal enquiries email me at: c.alonso@sussex.ac.uk
Please repost - Thank you!

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

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