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@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...
Pints with Parse Manchester
Join Parse Biosciences for a happy hour networking event at Victoria Baths in Manchester.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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:
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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.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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12 CfBT representatives and associates presented talks and posters at the European Biological Rhythms Society 2025 congress
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September 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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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!
August 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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New preprint from our CfBT! Congratulation to Jafar, who defended his thesis back in May!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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New paper from our CfBT! Congratulations to Jess Treeby, second year PhD student!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Guanine is an inhibitor of c-jun terminal kinases - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Guanine is an inhibitor of c-jun terminal kinases
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August 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New exciting preprint from our CfBT and associates!

Guanine is an inhibitor of c-Jun terminal kinases
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Guanine is an inhibitor of c-Jun terminal kinases
The toxicity of purine bases adenine and guanine is mostly recognized when associated with inborn errors of purine metabolism such as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, and metabolic diseases with a lifestyle comp...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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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...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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”.
May 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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CfBT in the News!
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Afternoon inhaler puff could improve asthma symptoms - study finds
Researchers in Manchester say coordinating asthma medication to the body clock could bring benefits.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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...
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...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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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.

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Brain sensing of metabolic state regulates circulating monocytes
Brain-initiated hunger signals control circulating monocyte dynamics.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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3 of us representing the Centre at the EuroAgeNet conference in Liverpool!
March 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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CfBT's recommended reading:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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...
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March 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Don't miss the Spring Clock Club in Coventry on March 20-21!
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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...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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very excited for Clock Club @bioclocksuk.bsky.social this week, and especially for @williams-steph.bsky.social talk on flowering and winter! ❄️🌼
March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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More details on our new Bicentenary PhD Student­ships and Fellow­ships:
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...
March 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Launch of CfBT's Recommended Readings, highlighting papers of interest for chronobiologists and beyond!
Today's choice, a review:
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells | Annual Reviews
Life on this planet is heavily influenced by light, the most critical external environmental factor. Mammals perceive environmental light mainly through three types of photoreceptors in the retina—rod...
doi.org
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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For its 200th anniversary, the University of Manchester is offering competitive PhD Studentships and Early Career Research Fellowships. The CfBT is keen to support applications in biological timing research as a strategic priority.
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Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships | Biology, Medicine and Health | University of Manchester
Find out more about the Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships for researchers with an interest in discovery and innovation in bioscience, biomedical and health research.
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The Meth Lab is featured in @bioclocksuk.bsky.social,
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What you don’t eat could be affecting your circadian behaviour | Bioclocks Uk
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February 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Feeling blue?
doi.org/10.1093/slee...
Blue Light Influences Negative Thoughts of Self
Abstract. Darkness is equated with sadness. This study explored how light that differentially impacts non-visual photoreception (blue-enriched vs blue-depl
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February 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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On the path to a better NHS? The Trump effect? Conspicuous lack of The Three Keywords:
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/20...
NHS England » 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance
Foreword from the NHS Chief Executive Our 76-year history is one of progress and transformation – as society, technology and medicine have changed, so has our health service. But the NHS currently fac...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Stuck in time: The slow march of circadian medicine and how to speed it up
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<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
While there is considerable enthusiasm for the translational and clinical applications of chronobiology, their actual implementation is not progressing as rapidly as might be expected. Here we discus...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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We are excited to announce that we have retained our top 10 global position in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings🎊

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Manchester retains top 10 global position QS World University Sustainability Rankings > Social Responsibility
The University of Manchester has reaffirmed its status as a global leader in sustainability by retaining its position in the top 10 worldwide in the 2025 QS World University Sustainability Rankings.…
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February 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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We'll be welcoming Gen Kurosawa from RIKEN to our centre of Biological Timing in February to deliver a talk about his latest work on hibernation nature.com/articles/s44....
January 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM