Eder Zavala

Eder Zavala @ederzavala.bsky.social will be speaking on:

Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data

at #BSNBradford2025

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The advert for Head of School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (@uob-sop.bsky.social, working closely with @thechbh.bsky.social) is currently open, deadline August 6th #neurojobs

Multimodal AI correlates of glucose spikes in people with normal glucose regulation, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes - Nature Medicine Multimodal data from 347 deeply phenotyped individuals including healthy, prediabetic individuals and individuals with T2D report remotely acquired patterns of glucose control via continuous glucose m...

Our @naturemedicine.bsky.social paper on glucose spikes (CGM sensor) and their relationship with physical activity, gut microbiome, genomics, food intake, and sleep via multimodal A.I. Helps identify people with prediabetes who have high risk of progression (cf HbA1c)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Symposium 3| Beyond traditional models in neuroendocrine research includes:

🧠Dr Chris Faulkes - Social control of reproduction

🧠Tabinda Islam - Evolution of kisspeptin

🧠Eder Zavala - Endocrine rhythms

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Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy

https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s

I will be soon advertising a highly competitive PhD position on mathematical endocrinology, to start in the academic year 2026. Stay tuned! (3/3)

As the Birmingham lead, we will model the crosstalk interactions between the HPA axis, the renin-angiotensin system and the menstrual cycle, predicting their rhythmic behaviour as well as their dynamic responses to stimuli from clinical tests to environmental factors associated to disease. (2/3)

🚨 A bit of delayed news: I'm happy to announce we have secured an EU Marie Curie doctoral network grant 🍾 🇪🇺 Together with an European consortium of endocrinologists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians, we will train the next generation of innovators in digital endocrinology. (1/3)

Probably because data ≠ insight. This is why we need rigorous mathematical analysis of multimodal data in biomedicine.

Consumer wearable devices and disease prevention Research has linked wearable devices with the prevention, detection and mitigation of disease. What are the public health benefits and what are the risks?

A new Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) report into consumer wearables and disease prevention. The report finds that wearable devices could help support the government's 10 Year Health Plan by preventing, detecting, and mitigating diseases. doi.org/10.58248/PN741

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Check out "The cortisol awakening response: Fact or fiction?" Interesting commentary on our CAR paper. Always pleasing when work is cited in a meaningful way :D
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

Nature asked computer scientists and bioinformaticians what advice they would give to researchers who recognize the need to pick up some coding skills but don’t know where to start. Here are four key questions to help you decide. #Academicsky #Compsky 🧪

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

We @hughp.bsky.social have a 3 year postdoc in rodent circadian behaviour and ageing at University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...
deadline 15 April join our BBSRC sLola on CircadiAgeing: circadian rhythms, clock excitability & healthy ageing www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

Elbows up, Canada.

Really exciting science from the chronobiology community in the UK clock club yesterday. Here’s Belinda with her poster on a data driven mathematical model of the HPA axis in humans @bioclocksuk.bsky.social

At Warwick university for the UK Clock Club 2025. Looking forward to hear about @bioclocksuk.bsky.social activity and showcase our work on HPA axis rhythms.

Thread-based computer could be knitted into clothes to monitor health Wearable technology could go beyond smartwatches to items of clothing that monitor large parts of your body

A computer contained in a thin thread of stitchable fabric could be used to record, and understand, all sorts of information about the body that devices like Apple watches can't.

And it's being tested on Canadian and US soldiers right now, in the Arctic.

www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable

Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

That’s a wrap up for our workshop on modelling endocrine systems. Really grateful to the students from all over Mexico for their enthusiasm and dedication, and to CIMAT, CINVESTAV Mty and ITAM for contributing to a successful event. Already planning the 2nd edition!

Day 3 of our workshop, this time talking about HPA axis rhythms and bifurcation analysis methods to understand the origin of rhythmic behaviour. So far getting great feedback from students 😀

Day 2 of our workshop on modelling endocrine systems, today focusing on metabolic models and uncertainty quantification methods.

First day of our workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Endocrine Systems at the beautiful CIMAT centre for research in mathematics in Guanajuato, Mexico. Delighted to see so much enthusiasm from students attending from all over the country. modeladomsendocrino.eventos.cimat.mx/programa_mod...

No surprises in assembling IKEA furniture. Maybe they should start purportedly throwing in some wrong bolts and fixtures to keep it exciting!

High visa fees putting skilled scientists and entrepreneurs off the UK Leading scientists have now called on ministers to review the upfront costs that must be paid by workers in science, technology, engineering and maths fields.

‘There is a worldwide shortage of scientists and because it’s a worldwide shortage, there’s worldwide competition,' says our Foreign Secretary Professor Alison Noble, as she warns that the UK's visa process and costs could put off scientists from moving to the UK: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

A 'hold my beer' moment. Scary times.

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Looking forward to deliver this workshop on modelling endocrine systems to maths students in Mexico. Current challenges in endocrinology need a critical mass of researchers with interdisciplinary skills! Thanks Research England (ODA) for funding. modeladomsendocrino.eventos.cimat.mx/programa_mod...

Really like these 'maths in a minute' resources from Plus: plus.maths.org/content/tags...

Including this handy collection on disease modelling: plus.maths.org/content/epid...