Watch this month’s Neurodegeneration in Flies speaker Dr Simon Lowe discuss ‘Microplastic pollution as an emerging driver of Parkinson’s Disease: interactions with genetic defects in mitophagy’ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
Join our department (GEE) as a fellow - Research Career Development Fellowships Program Call: tinyurl.com/2sfpyhsz
GEE invites #ECRs who wish to be sponsored to apply for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
More info: tinyurl.com/mtwhwzjj
Meet the PhD students who joined the IHA this year and find out about their research projects. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
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UCL is now ranked in the top 10 globally in 12 subject areas in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, with @ioe.bsky.social and @thebartlettucl.bsky.social topping the ranks in Education, and Architecture & Built Environment.👏 Read more: https://bit.ly/3PHDsGJ
Watch the latest talk from our Neurodegeneration in Flies Series. Dr Jaeada Coutinho-Budd, University of Virginia USA with a talk entitled 'Reemergence of developmental signaling mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease' ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/-l...
A recording will be available to view for two weeks from tomorrow via the series website www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science....
Organisers: @niccolilab.bsky.social @kinghornlab.bsky.social @nathanwoodling.bsky.social
Join our virtual talk series, Neurodegeneration in Flies today at 4pm GMT. Dr Hongjie Li, Baylor College of Medicine, USA will present a talk entitled ‘Mapping Aging and Longevity at Cellular Resolution Across the Whole Organism’.
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The study shows that GBA1 and Park mutations disrupt the fly’s kidney-equivalent tubules, affecting whole-body balance and contributing to neuronal stress. @elife.bsky.social.
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IHA researchers have uncovered a new link between kidney-like tissues & brain health in fruit fly models of Parkinson’s & Gaucher disease. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
This week's departmental seminar is by Prof Nazif Alic from @ihaucl.bsky.social who will discuss the relevance of polymeraze III activity to human ageing. Everyone welcome!
Also wonderful to catch up with Ivana, Jenny, Cathy & Teresa 🥘🦐 Formerly postdoc contemporaries, now successfully leading the Bjedov, Regan, Slack and Niccoli labs!
#WomenInScience #Drosophila #IHA
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‘Can we live forever: A Question of Science’- Watch Prof. Linda Partridge in conversation with Prof. Brian Cox www.youtube.com/watch?v=EczR...
NEW PAPER- Bähler group ‘Mitochondrial Translation Inhibition Triggers an Rst2-Controlled Transcriptional Reprogramming of Carbon Metabolism in Stationary-Phase Cells of Fission Yeast’ doi.org/10.3390/biom...
Watch the latest talk in the Neurogeneration in Flies series from Dr Teresa Niccoli and sign up for reminders for the monthly events.
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Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, an internationally renowned expert in global health, has been announced as UCL’s new Vice-Provost (Health).
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PUBLICATION ALERT -Increased neuronal protein synthesis can delay ageing, new paper in @plosbiology.org examining the repressor of RNA polymerase III Maf1 from Alic and Partridge labs at the IHA concludes, with funding from the BBSRC
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Watch Prof Ross Cagan’s talk entitled ‘Flies to Cancer to Tauopathy: A Curious Path to a Therapeutic Lead’ from the Neurodegeneration in Flies Virtual Series.
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Available until 16/05/25
Scientists led by Dr Teresa Niccoli @niccolilab.bsky.social have found clues as to why some nerve cells are resistant to disease processes that cause frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in a new @alzheimersresearchuk.org funded study in fruit flies @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY in the Alic & Partridge labs at the IHA. Join us to elucidate the mechanisms of nutritional programming of adult physiology & lifespan in the fruit fly. To apply: tinyurl.com/2m3cvtb3 Closing 7 May 2025
Our recent work on the topic:
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