Denise Walker
@denisewalker.bsky.social
Neuroscientist @MRC LMB, 🪱worm tamer, ion channel enthusiast, gardener
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Introducing the experts joining our webinar in partnership with the BPS
Prof. Kirsty Bannister – pain mechanisms
Prof. Katy Vincent – gender differences in pain
Dr. Letizia Pontoriero – clinical management and research
📅 Wednesday, 26 November | 6:30 PM
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Prof. Kirsty Bannister – pain mechanisms
Prof. Katy Vincent – gender differences in pain
Dr. Letizia Pontoriero – clinical management and research
📅 Wednesday, 26 November | 6:30 PM
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Introducing the experts joining our webinar in partnership with the BPS
Prof. Kirsty Bannister – pain mechanisms
Prof. Katy Vincent – gender differences in pain
Dr. Letizia Pontoriero – clinical management and research
📅 Wednesday, 26 November | 6:30 PM
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Prof. Kirsty Bannister – pain mechanisms
Prof. Katy Vincent – gender differences in pain
Dr. Letizia Pontoriero – clinical management and research
📅 Wednesday, 26 November | 6:30 PM
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!
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I wrote this insight for eLife. A friend said, "Why would you want to step on that rake?". Well, I guess that's just who I am. Enjoy. elifesciences.org/articles/109...
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
elifesciences.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I wrote this insight for eLife. A friend said, "Why would you want to step on that rake?". Well, I guess that's just who I am. Enjoy. elifesciences.org/articles/109...
#caturday again.
My little Tallulah, looking angelic, just before chasing the neighbours’ cat over the fence, her first adventure outside the garden.
My little Tallulah, looking angelic, just before chasing the neighbours’ cat over the fence, her first adventure outside the garden.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#caturday again.
My little Tallulah, looking angelic, just before chasing the neighbours’ cat over the fence, her first adventure outside the garden.
My little Tallulah, looking angelic, just before chasing the neighbours’ cat over the fence, her first adventure outside the garden.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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My article in tomorrow's @theobserveruk.bsky.social now online. But go and buy a copy!
Francis Crick: The science genius with poetry in his DNA
He is celebrated for co‑discovering the double helix, but it was Crick’s poetic appreciation of the world that was key to how his mind worked
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My article in tomorrow's @theobserveruk.bsky.social now online. But go and buy a copy!
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@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
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Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
Imagine if you had your very own lab to play in at home!
Super-cool Lego design from an LMB colleague. Vote to help make it a reality!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Super-cool Lego design from an LMB colleague. Vote to help make it a reality!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
beta.ideas.lego.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Imagine if you had your very own lab to play in at home!
Super-cool Lego design from an LMB colleague. Vote to help make it a reality!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Super-cool Lego design from an LMB colleague. Vote to help make it a reality!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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In #GENETICS, @jsrinivasanwpi.bsky.social and the team present a rescue-by-feeding approach, showing that feeding engineered E. coli containing neuropeptides to #Celegans mutants can successfully rescue behavior defects in worms. buff.ly/Qdw9Nsq
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In #GENETICS, @jsrinivasanwpi.bsky.social and the team present a rescue-by-feeding approach, showing that feeding engineered E. coli containing neuropeptides to #Celegans mutants can successfully rescue behavior defects in worms. buff.ly/Qdw9Nsq
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Mild stresses on the body, like fasting or cold exposure, can delay ageing. But how?
A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan.
buff.ly/wJIQKfm
A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan.
buff.ly/wJIQKfm
October 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Mild stresses on the body, like fasting or cold exposure, can delay ageing. But how?
A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan.
buff.ly/wJIQKfm
A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan.
buff.ly/wJIQKfm
Kittens exploring the garden for the first time (while we all stood around anxiously trying to pretend we weren’t watching their every move)
October 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Kittens exploring the garden for the first time (while we all stood around anxiously trying to pretend we weren’t watching their every move)
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One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Startups Are Racing to Make Water Out of Thin Air
Materials that are bigger on the inside than the outside provide a futuristic solution to supply water to an increasingly arid planet.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!
🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.
📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.
📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
October 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!
🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.
📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.
📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
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Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether
October 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether
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📢 Deadline for Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship extended till 13th Oct 2025!
12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡
Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡
Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
Fellowship Programme - Cambridge NeuroWorks
Fellowship programme Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, offering two transformative fellowship streams …
cambridgeneuroworks.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 Deadline for Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship extended till 13th Oct 2025!
12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡
Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡
Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
One of my @somervillecollege.bsky.social science heros. Loved my Structural Biology tutorials with her.
Born #OnThisDay was Louise Johnson FRS, British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was part of the team that was the first to solve the structure of an enzyme by x-ray crystallography, and she and her lab solved the structures of many other proteins through her career. #WomenInSTEM
September 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
One of my @somervillecollege.bsky.social science heros. Loved my Structural Biology tutorials with her.
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What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies.
🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Inside Science - The science behind autism - BBC Sounds
What do we know about the causes of autism?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies.
🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology
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Over the last 8 years, Oliver Burton has tested >1000 different fix/perm combos, and here the final verdict is: "Burton's Best Buffer": 2% formalin, 0.05% Fairy dish soap, 0.5% Tween-20, 0.1% Triton X-100.
Yep, replace all of those expensive detergents with @pg.com dishwashing liquid
Yep, replace all of those expensive detergents with @pg.com dishwashing liquid
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Over the last 8 years, Oliver Burton has tested >1000 different fix/perm combos, and here the final verdict is: "Burton's Best Buffer": 2% formalin, 0.05% Fairy dish soap, 0.5% Tween-20, 0.1% Triton X-100.
Yep, replace all of those expensive detergents with @pg.com dishwashing liquid
Yep, replace all of those expensive detergents with @pg.com dishwashing liquid
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Somerville's final Open Day of 2025 is this Friday! If you're thinking of applying to Oxford, please come and visit us between 8.45am and 5pm. It's a great opportunity to meet some of these friendly faces, learn about the college, and talk to our fantastic tutors.
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Somerville's final Open Day of 2025 is this Friday! If you're thinking of applying to Oxford, please come and visit us between 8.45am and 5pm. It's a great opportunity to meet some of these friendly faces, learn about the college, and talk to our fantastic tutors.
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Our Emeritus Fellow Barbara Harvey is featured on today's episode of Last Word. Barbara's former colleague Professor Emeritus Joanna Innes speaks about her life and career, alongside her former student, Professor John Blair.
Last Word - Robert Redford, Barbara Harvey, Rosa Roisinblit, Stuart Craig - BBC Sounds
Matthew Bannister on a film star, a historian, a campaigner and a designer.
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our Emeritus Fellow Barbara Harvey is featured on today's episode of Last Word. Barbara's former colleague Professor Emeritus Joanna Innes speaks about her life and career, alongside her former student, Professor John Blair.