🚨Preprint Alert 🧠
Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online!
👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super-cool work from the Ch’ng lab
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked
What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective
We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Come and join us!
Fantastic opportunity to come and join us!
UK Scientists Launch C. elegans Nematode Worms To Support Future Moon Missions
astrobiology.com/2026/04/uk-s... #astrobiology #microgravity #microbiology #ISS
a photo of an abstract
abstracts back in the day were crazy work. Ed Hedgecock, 1981 #Celegans meeting at CSHL.
Excited to share this study where we identified the functions of ZFH-2, a large (181 kDa) transcription factor of the evolutionarily conserved ZFHX family. ZFH-2 has 19 DNA binding domains: 16 zinc fingers and 3 homeodomains!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Electricity dashboard, showing 5.8% fossil fuels, 77% renewables, 16.9% other sources, 4.2% interconnectors
It's a bit gusty out there, but on the plus side, the UK is currently running on 77% renewable electricity right now. 🎉🎉💨💨
Yay nature!
(screenshot from grid.iamkate.com )
Celebrating Professor Anne Warner, an extraordinary woman whose pioneering work in cell biology and belief in opportunity and education continues to shape lives today.
https://www.mba.ac.uk/donate/leave-a-gift-in-your-will/
#InternationalWomensDay
New preprint alert 📣 We are sharing our protocol for calcium imaging of acute brain slices from Octopus vulgaris hatchlings during application of neurotransmitters. Another fruitful collaboration between the Schafer and Seuntjens labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No plans to abandon the worm, though!
And this one: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We are indeed! First preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interested in mapping the 🐙 octopus hatchling connectome? Come and join us!
mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
Cartoon transparent human with skeleton showing, red glowing points on joints to indicate pain
Do YOU live with joint pain?
Do YOU experience poor pain management?
Have you got 2-minutes to tell pain researchers about it?
If yes 👉 forms.gle/7NTwma2gnVN1...
We hope to gain insight into lived experience for those with joint pain & involve people in our #PainResearch 😃
"It is what transforms rejection into redirection and crisis into continuity..." Ogochukwu Uweru on the stress that politics & bureaucracy create & the importance of relationship building as part of scientific endeavour.
edin.ac/3PN1mAQ
This is so, so well-articulated.
Even better, if you’re interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour, in C. elegans or octopus, come and join us in the lovely @schaferlab.bsky.social 🪱 🐙
www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/wscha...
#BlackInNeuro, #BlackInSTEM? Heads up that this fantastic postdoc opportunity opens for applications this month (closing date 17th May). Come and join us at @mrclmb.ac.uk!
mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Congratulations to the legendary scientist Judith Kimble!!!
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
#womeninSTEM #celegans
Looking to get back into research after a career break? Come and join us!
Exposure to different viruses linked to Alzheimer's and vaccines prevent this, more and more proof accumulates over time (reviewers in higher impact journals: "but what's the mechanism?")
⚒️ NEW TOOLBOX for #Celegans researchers 🪱
Theresa Gibney and Ariel Pani developed a method that allows for a standardized workflow to generate N-terminal and internal tags in any background and without the need for genetic balancers.
Paper in #GENETICS:🔗 buff.ly/wXMml3x
Congratulations to all the newly elected @aaas.org Fellows, including LMB alumnus Andrew Chisholm!
Andrew completed his PhD in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social in 1989 and is now a Distinguished Professor in the @ucsandiego.bsky.social School of Biological Sciences.
#LMBAlumni
My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.
Proud to share the yeast telomerase structure, led by the talented @hongmiaohu.bsky.social in collaboration with the Wellinger and Chartrand labs. Discovered 37 years ago and took us nearly 7 years but totally worth the wait 😍.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFE4...
Tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group, @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social & @medcambridge.bsky.social, studies how TB thrives, including what drives its drug tolerance.
Read more: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/GdOa...
#LMBintheNews #WorldTBDay #EndTB
