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Claudio R. Alonso

@claudiomics.bsky.social

Molecular biologist interested in how the brain forms and functions. Professor, PI and proud member of Sussex Neuroscience. Core interests in Hox genes and microRNAs. And Drosophila!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Sussex Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

The links to apply for each position are copied below:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS842/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS846/p...

Thank you very much!

24.07.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here is the flyer

24.07.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

24.07.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Ah, thank you for clarifying!

17.07.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

17.07.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

03.06.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 12

Many congratulations Max!

25.04.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

24.04.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 6

Thanks Tom!

23.04.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many thanks also to Jonathan Menzies and Victoria A. Lipscomb for their contributions to this exciting story πŸ™πŸΌ

23.04.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.04.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘‰πŸΌ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

23.04.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Guys I made a breakthrough

07.04.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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All the very best to our colleagues at @standupforscience.bsky.social today! We are all with you: science is international

07.03.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘†πŸΌimportant perspective from
Tom Maniatis on the current funding situation of the NIH, to be published in Cell next week

06.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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06.03.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

08.02.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1017    πŸ” 863    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 32
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Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding National Institutes of Health said the $4bn loss will affect β€˜indirect’ funding of buildings, equipment and staff

Trump administration to cut billions in research funding to NIH www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

08.02.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And also this paper from JP Couso πŸ‘‰πŸΌ www.science.org/cms/asset/cc...

30.01.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here is a flyer to print or email. Thank you very much!

30.01.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

30.01.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump hits NIH with β€˜devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

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23.01.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A foundation model of transcription across human cell types - Nature A foundation model learns transcriptional regulatory syntax from chromatin accessibility and sequence data across a range of cell types to predict gene expression and transcription factor interactions...

This study by Fu, Xing, Rabadan and colleagues might represent a novel and promising application of AI to the prediction of cell-specific transcriptional patterns, a key unresolved problem in gene regulation. Take a look πŸ‘‰πŸΌhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08391-z

09.01.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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