Ilan davis
@ilandavis.bsky.social
He/him. Ilandavis.com 🧪
Professor Spatial Biomedicine, Uni Glasgow
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Davis
Drosophila. RNA. Neuroscience. Advanced microscopy. Spatial biology technology development. Rockclimbing.
Professor Spatial Biomedicine, Uni Glasgow
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Davis
Drosophila. RNA. Neuroscience. Advanced microscopy. Spatial biology technology development. Rockclimbing.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
Deep3DSIM: Super-resolution imaging of thick tissue using 3D structured illumination with adaptive optics
Deep3DSIM enables super-resolution imaging >130 µm into complex tissues of fixed and live specimens in an upright configuration, allowing sample manipulation, as well as rapid refocusing without th...
elifesciences.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
Dear friends and scientific colleagues,
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).
Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).
Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).
Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).
Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
David Ish-Horowicz memorial symposium, Francis Crick Institute, London, 23 June 2025. - YouTube
A public symposium organised by friends, scientific colleages and David's wife Ros Diamond to cellebrate David Ish-Horowiccz's, FRS, scientific achievements,...
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August 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Dear friends and scientific colleagues,
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).
Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).
Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).
Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).
Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪
A typical part of the playbook for a dictator on the rise, coupled with bringing out troops to suppress democratic protests against their xenophobic policies.
~40% cuts to NIH research awards.
~35% cuts to training programs.
~27% cut to internal research.
~30% fewer grants awarded overall.
The Common Fund will be cut in half.
American science has never faced a threat like this.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n... via @statnews.com
~35% cuts to training programs.
~27% cut to internal research.
~30% fewer grants awarded overall.
The Common Fund will be cut in half.
American science has never faced a threat like this.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n... via @statnews.com
NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers
President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%
www.statnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
A typical part of the playbook for a dictator on the rise, coupled with bringing out troops to suppress democratic protests against their xenophobic policies.
Genius. Just as topical now as when made - I think when Thatcher was first elected as prime minister in the uk in 1980 or so.
Our health setup in these 'new' times
Best Bits of Series 1 Not the Nine O’clock News Part 1
YouTube video by Snagsmug Archives
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Genius. Just as topical now as when made - I think when Thatcher was first elected as prime minister in the uk in 1980 or so.
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#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
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Through its programmes and schemes, scientific #publications, #policy and #innovation, EMBO continues to promote excellence in the #LifeSciences at national, European and global level.
This week, we focus on: #Denmark
www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
🧪 #research #opportunities #funding
This week, we focus on: #Denmark
www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
🧪 #research #opportunities #funding
Focus on Denmark - EMBO communities in EMBC Member States
Facts and figures, life scientists in Denmark, EMBO opportunities
www.embo.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Through its programmes and schemes, scientific #publications, #policy and #innovation, EMBO continues to promote excellence in the #LifeSciences at national, European and global level.
This week, we focus on: #Denmark
www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
🧪 #research #opportunities #funding
This week, we focus on: #Denmark
www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
🧪 #research #opportunities #funding
Another way to donate to save flybase from disappearing:
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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 ...
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June 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Another way to donate to save flybase from disappearing:
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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The Trump administration's chaotic changes to diversity-based funding have left trainees in limbo. My colleagues and I at @thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke to ten neuroscience trainees about what the uncertainty means for them, their research and their futures: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Trump administration's chaotic changes to diversity-based funding have left trainees in limbo. My colleagues and I at @thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke to ten neuroscience trainees about what the uncertainty means for them, their research and their futures: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
The wold scientific base is in serious crisis. Including Flybase, the heart and soul of the Drosophila community. Read below. If you work on flies or are a fan or want to help. Please consider donation. As termination of Harvard NIH means flybase will stop after the end of July 2025.
FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations
The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The wold scientific base is in serious crisis. Including Flybase, the heart and soul of the Drosophila community. Read below. If you work on flies or are a fan or want to help. Please consider donation. As termination of Harvard NIH means flybase will stop after the end of July 2025.
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Scientists in a race to discover why the Universe exists. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
DUNE: new detectors race to discover why the Universe exists
Researchers in the US and Japan are racing to build new particle detectors that they hope will explain why the Universe exists.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Scientists in a race to discover why the Universe exists. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Walking through the Glasgow botanical guardians I found d countless magical patterns on the leaves
May 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Walking through the Glasgow botanical guardians I found d countless magical patterns on the leaves
You maybe interested in this film I made in a very remote part of Tibet while I was doing my PhD in Developmental Biology, shown on BBC2 in 1988.
A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism.
youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism.
youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
A pilgrimage to Mt Kailas, Tibet 1987. BBC2 14min 50sec
YouTube video by Ilan Davis Lab
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February 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You maybe interested in this film I made in a very remote part of Tibet while I was doing my PhD in Developmental Biology, shown on BBC2 in 1988.
A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism.
youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism.
youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
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We are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jeff Lee et al paper from my lab is out now
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper.
Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper.
Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
Imp/IGF2BP and Syp/SYNCRIP temporal RNA interactomes uncover combinatorial networks of regulators of Drosophila brain development
RNA binding protein combinations control neuronal identity through a network of temporal regulators.
www.science.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Jeff Lee et al paper from my lab is out now
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper.
Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper.
Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
I wonder if anyone has built a continuously variable fluorescent light source using delta optical filters and dichroic mirrors with galvo mirrors and/or piezo movers?
deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...
deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...
Best Fluorescence Filters for Microscopy and Spectroscop
Explore top fluorescence filters for microscopy and spectrometry. Find the perfect excitation, emission, or dichroic filter for precision.
deltaopticalthinfilm.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I wonder if anyone has built a continuously variable fluorescent light source using delta optical filters and dichroic mirrors with galvo mirrors and/or piezo movers?
deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...
deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...
Interesting analysis free of political bias or opinion. However a popularist with disregard of the law and truth backed by oligarch tech billionaires with no morals may “achieve” much more than is easily predicted by rational expert analysis.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 What Trump’s flurry of executive orders means for science
What Trump’s flurry of executive orders means for science
The new president has signed decrees designed to shift the US government’s stance on climate and public health.
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interesting analysis free of political bias or opinion. However a popularist with disregard of the law and truth backed by oligarch tech billionaires with no morals may “achieve” much more than is easily predicted by rational expert analysis.
Went to Glen Coe to climb dorsal arête on stone coire nan lochen.
(Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
(Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
January 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Went to Glen Coe to climb dorsal arête on stone coire nan lochen.
(Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
(Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.
The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years
"Founded by biologists to promote science, our core ethos remains to support the community by publishing top-notch science and by providing grants to sustain scientific societies and community activities." 🧪
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"Founded by biologists to promote science, our core ethos remains to support the community by publishing top-notch science and by providing grants to sustain scientific societies and community activities." 🧪
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years
Summary: As we begin celebrating our 100-year anniversary, we reflect on our extraordinary story so far, consider the Company's current support for our communities and prepare for some inspiring activ...
journals.biologists.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.
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I am obsessed with these fungi. LOOK AT HOW WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THEY ARE. I imagine that's what moa thought, too... that story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🍄
January 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I am obsessed with these fungi. LOOK AT HOW WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THEY ARE. I imagine that's what moa thought, too... that story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🍄
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Using this method, we determined that the eruption at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai released ~61 Mt, slightly higher in magnitude than the yield of the Tsar Bomba. The paper is open access (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). #PhysOrg wrote a nice article about our work 🧪⚛️[5/n] phys.org/news/2022-08...
Tonga volcano eruption released more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb
The eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga that triggered a tsunami earlier this year (January 2022), released more energy than the Tsar Bomba—the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated—accord...
phys.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Using this method, we determined that the eruption at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai released ~61 Mt, slightly higher in magnitude than the yield of the Tsar Bomba. The paper is open access (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). #PhysOrg wrote a nice article about our work 🧪⚛️[5/n] phys.org/news/2022-08...
Went winter climbing last Sunday in magnificent conditions in the Cairngorms. Arrived a bit late so the popular climbs were in log jam. Had to do a shorter “off piste” sideline to the right to avoid the crowds
January 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Went winter climbing last Sunday in magnificent conditions in the Cairngorms. Arrived a bit late so the popular climbs were in log jam. Had to do a shorter “off piste” sideline to the right to avoid the crowds