How do circadian clocks shape how we see?
I'll be presenting at this online event on Thursday, so come along if want to find out! Free for BNA members@dns-uom.bsky.social @biologicaltimemcr.bsky.social

The impact of self-selected light on activity rhythms in the diurnal striped mouse Hughes et al. allow day-active striped mice control over their home-cage light exposure, investigating the impact of self-selected light on daily activity rhythms. These mice prefer bright light when ...

New paper from our Centre!
The impact of self-selected light on activity rhythms in the diurnal striped mouse: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

🔔 Our latest special issue, guest edited by Prof. Carrie Partch, is now live! Featuring:

⏰ The latest advances in our understanding of the molecular basis of circadian rhythms
⏱️ Circadian rhythms' pervasive and powerful control of biology
⌚ And — new frontiers in the field.

▶️ tinyurl.com/3a7nr7je

Biological Time MCR on X: "Here is the audio file for thos without BBC account! https://t.co/r2yNfbqbeg" / X Here is the audio file for thos without BBC account! https://t.co/r2yNfbqbeg

Bluesky did not accept the audio file, unfortunately, but it's available on our X account:
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Today - 10/01/2026 - BBC Sounds Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

On BBC radio 4,Dr Gareth Kitchen shared with us insights on his latest publication in Anaesthesia: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New publication for the CfTB!
Time of day of cardiac surgery and postoperative outcomes in the UK: a secondary analysis of linked national datasets

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VKP7YS...

ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime Nature - The inability of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells to shift the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during daytime is caused by light-dependent depolarization...

A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ld

Wishing the international circadian community a Happy New Year! 🌍⏰ May your 2026 be filled with stable rhythms, bright zeitgebers, and groundbreaking discoveries. Here’s to another 365 cycles together! 🥂 #Chronobiology #CircadianRhythms

Registration is open for the SRBR 2026 Biennial Meeting to take place on May 9-13, 2026 - Amelia Island, FL.
Early career scientists and PhD students are encouraged to apply. Share you discoveries!
srbr.societyconference.com/v2/

The CfBT welcomes Eder Zavala @ederzavala.bsky.social as a new PI! Eder is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow; his group’s research lies at the interface of mathematics, physiology, and medicine, using quantitative models and data-driven approaches to reveal how hormonal dynamics shape human health.

New database of c-Fos Circadian Expression in Whole Mouse Brain by Hiroki Ueda, to use at will and freely! circadian.cfosdb.systems-based-medicine.org/database/

Daylight Awareness Week 2025 - Daylight Academy 3-7 November 2025 Celebrate daylight with us!

💡Need more light science in your life?💡

🚨Check out Daylight Awareness Week 3-7 November 2025 by the Daylight Academy!

🌟This year’s Daylight Awareness Week explores how daylight can help build healthier, more sustainable, and fairer societies

daylight.academy/daylight-awa...

☀️ Exciting developments coming soon from SLRCH for our early career folks! Stay tuned! ☀️

@airwayamlan.bsky.social will give a seminar at Pints with Parse on the 20th November, speaking about biological timing and asthma! More details at resources.parsebiosciences.com/pints-with-p...

Hannah Durrington_9x16 Social_FINAL This is "Hannah Durrington_9x16 Social_FINAL" by Asthma + Lung UK on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Dr Hannah Durrington @h_durrington is featured in a film made by Asthma and Lung UK about time of day in asthma diagnosis and treatment! Watch at:
vimeo.com/1117260180/0...

12 CfBT representatives and associates presented talks and posters at the European Biological Rhythms Society 2025 congress
ebrs-online.org/index.php/ev...

Rob Lucas, Bea Bano Otalora and Tim Brown recipients of a Wellcome Trust Discovery award to study the mechanisms by which light across daytime shapes daily profiles of sleep and influences the circadian clock!

The club cell circadian clock regulates temporal patterns in leukocyte trafficking in chronic allergic airways disease Rationale: Asthma displays temporally variable symptoms which worsen overnight, corresponding with a nocturnal increase in airway eosinophils. The molecular clock within the club cell of the bronchial...

New preprint from our CfBT! Congratulation to Jafar, who defended his thesis back in May!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Guanine is an inhibitor of c-jun terminal kinases - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Guanine is an inhibitor of c-jun terminal kinases

New paper from our CfBT! Congratulations to Jess Treeby, second year PhD student!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New exciting preprint from our CfBT and associates!

Guanine is an inhibitor of c-Jun terminal kinases
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

New exciting preprint from our CfBT and associates!

The 18S rRNA methyltransferase, BUD23, is required for appropriate lipid and mitochondrial metabolism
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Upcoming: Joanna Chiu's Seminar at the CfBT!
Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
Title: “Metabolic and environmental regulation of circadian biology”.

Afternoon inhaler puff could improve asthma symptoms - study finds Researchers in Manchester say coordinating asthma medication to the body clock could bring benefits.

CfBT in the News!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The impact of dosage timing for inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: a randomised three-way crossover trial Background Asthma demonstrates a robust daily rhythm, with airflow obstruction and airway inflammation peaking overnight. Aligning the timing of drug administration with rhythms in disease (chronother...

Latest from our CfBT!
The impact of dosage timing for inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: a randomised three-way crossover trial thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...

Brain sensing of metabolic state regulates circulating monocytes Brain-initiated hunger signals control circulating monocyte dynamics.

Our latest study
@science.org #Immunology on perception of #hunger and #immunity.

#BrainBody #Melanocortin #AgRP #POMC neurons. #Brain-liver axis. Permissive action of #stress #hormones.

@ukri.org @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

3 of us representing the Centre at the EuroAgeNet conference in Liverpool!

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

CfBT's recommended reading:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Spring Clock Club 2025 Coventry | Bioclocks Uk Join us for our bi-annual Clock Club gathering! The main event and talks will be taking place on Friday the 21st of March. We also have several enriching workshops running on Thursday the 20th of Mar...

Don't miss the Spring Clock Club in Coventry on March 20-21!
www.bioclocks.uk/event-detail...

very excited for Clock Club @bioclocksuk.bsky.social this week, and especially for @williams-steph.bsky.social talk on flowering and winter! ❄️🌼

More details on our new Bicentenary PhD Student­ships and Fellow­ships:
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...