Robles Lab

Proud moment to see work from my PhD in the @granadalab.bsky.social featured on the cover of the April 2025 issue of @molsystbiol.org 🥹 special thanks to my talented husband who helped design this cover. Check out the full paper here: lnkd.in/eDVQuRfc.

Congratulations to @immunothrombosis.bsky.social and Afra! We are glad for our little contribution.

Not Everyone May Need Eight Hours of Sleep Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects. Turns out they’re genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us

Only last week I spent two hours with a journalist emphasising this concept: expecting everyone to sleep 8 hours is like expecting everyone to wear the same shoe size. That's not how biology works.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Researchers need to better address time-of-day as a critical biological variable | PNAS Researchers need to better address time-of-day as a critical biological variable

ICYMI 💡 This @pnas.org essay from July discusses a critical #confound in experiments on animals. 🕰️ Time-of-day matters, but it is rarely addressed in experimental design or reported in published papers. By Nelson, DeVries, & Prendergast.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Daily glucocorticoids promote glioblastoma growth and circadian synchrony to the host Gonzalez-Aponte et al. identify daily glucocorticoid receptor signaling as an intrinsic driver of glioblastoma (GBM) progression and a synchronizer of tumor clock gene expression to the host. This work provides an intrinsic circadian driver, and therapeutic target, to slow GBM growth, and offers considerations for glucocorticoid use in the clinic.

Excited to share our latest article! We find that the brain tumor Glioblastoma has a circadian clock that syncs with its host’s environment. These tumors also hijack the circadian clock and use daily signals, like glucocorticoids, to grow 🧠⏱️ @erikherzog.bsky.social
More: www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

If you just moved to BlueSky and interested in #chronobiology, find some of your community here!

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With all the new people coming over, I’ll repost weekly for the next month or so.

🧪 🌍 🦑 #EvoBio