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C. elegans scientist in the UK. Studying development and aging of the nervous system.
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An image montage advertising NeuroBioUK - 12th of September 2025 in York. The image is York cathedral superimposed over a fluorescent cortex mouse section coloured to look a bit like a dawn sky.
Registration is now open for NeuroBioUK 2025!
This year we're looking forward to hearing from our plenary speaker @cathyabbott.bsky.social. As ever, all other talks chosen from submitted abstracts so get submitting - we can't wait to see you there!
neurobiouk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/registration
If you need a simple introduction to axonal cell biology and neurodegeneration for your students, here you go:
Shields, Silverdale, Prokop (2024) Understanding the underlying causes of degenerative neural diseases. InnovAiT, 17557380241298477 -- doi.org/10.1177/1755... (OA: tinyurl.com/5dysx3d3)
Scientific poster
Researchers discussing scientific poster
A huge well done to 1st yr PhD student Krishma Parwana, supervised by our members @Simon Trent & @mdesboisphd.bsky.social who gave a talk at the UK Worm meeting (Durham) entitled
"Investigating glutamatergic signalling in learning and memory using C. elegans" !
Join us on March 24th 5:30 PM (GMT) to hear about Professor Albert Garcia-Romeu from @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social on his research on using psychedelics to treat addiction. The event is free & for everyone but you need to register ahead of time: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-reemer...
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Best running title: Mind of a Predatory Worm
Congrats @dumpyunc.bsky.social and team
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Special issue on C. elegans genetics and biology @heredityjournal.bsky.social. Submit your manuscripts by 1st May 2025. Contact me for more info. www.nature.com/collections/...
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Picture of the set up for a women in science outreach event at Keele in town, England. We see a big screen showing a slide presenting C. elegans as an animal model, and 3 tables with crochet models, plushy toys bacteria and a microscope.
A table with a microscope and monitor showing C. elegans, a worm used to study neuroscience in my lab.
A table with crochet models of a frog, a tadpole, lung, kidney, and ciliated cells (either with a lot of cilia or little of them)
A table with plushy toys of different bacteria and a C. elegans worm.
Women in Science weekend @keeleneuro.bsky.social
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Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
