@mdesboisphd.bsky.social
C. elegans scientist in the UK. Studying development and aging of the nervous system.
*Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship available*
This MRC DiMeN DTP funded project will look at the direct interactions between talin and the hypoxic response machinery to define the protective mechanisms at play in cells that protect against oxygen depletion
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come work with us @keeleuniversity.bsky.social ! We are recruiting a Research Assistant to work on an exciting project aimed at defining the role of brown adipose tissues in spinal muscular atrophy! Further details can be found here:
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Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research?
Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26.
Apply by 1 September 2025
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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...
