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Prof. Agnes

@agnesserp.bsky.social

Cat, professor of biochemistry. LouiseSerpell Currently withdrawn from news and politics. Protein misfolding. Amyloid. Alzheimer’s

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Inhibiting disulphide bonding in truncated tau297-391 results in enhanced self-assembly of tau into seed-competent assemblies. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636249v1

06.02.2025 02:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The architecture of amyloid fibrils formed by a human tau-derived hexapeptide VQIVYK https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.11.642642v1

12.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If you are interested in functional #amyloids, join us in September in Hamburg for our first Functional Amyloid Meeting! Abstract submission has already opened, and full registration will open shortly.
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20.03.2025 08:24 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Aw, we got the cover for our new paper on X-ray imaging and atlas building in the snail brain. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thanks @pnas.org .. and to @sussexneuro.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @ukri.org for funding support #invertebrate #brain #neuroscience THREAD: bsky.app/profile/kevi...

05.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2
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We are still recruiting for PhD studentships in basic & translational brain sciences! SIDB provides an annual stipend of £25K, plus tuition fees (inc. international).

Find out more & apply by 26th Jan >> sidb.org.uk/phds/

#ExtraordinaryEdinburgh @edinunineuro.bsky.social

28.11.2024 15:45 — 👍 9    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
Sunset over the tay bridge from The school of life sciences building in dundee

Sunset over the tay bridge from The school of life sciences building in dundee

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I'm looking for a research tech to come and work on Alzheimers and ApoE! If you love cell culture, astrocytes, APOE or just fun science with fun people then come do science with us in beautiful Dundee!
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Seriously the sunsets are on point!

20.11.2024 08:30 — 👍 20    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

I have four ….

20.11.2024 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have a cat scarf too. She’s actually a shoulder kitten

19.11.2024 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Correlative cryo-soft X-ray tomography and cryo-structured illumination microscopy reveal changes to lysosomes in amyloid-β-treated neurons - PubMed Protein misfolding is common to neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) including Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is partly characterized by the self-assembly and accumulation of amyloid-beta in the brain. L...

A chance to catch up on structural biology in neuroscience at #dri imperial today. Im going to talk about our work on amyloid beta neurotoxicity assessed using cryo soft X-ray tomography. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38471506/

19.11.2024 10:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I love your posts. Always so beautiful and inspiring

16.11.2024 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Agnes is only four months old and one eye did not develop. She is happy and plays like all the other kittens

Agnes is only four months old and one eye did not develop. She is happy and plays like all the other kittens

Hello winky from agnes

16.11.2024 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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