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Ryan West
@westwingslab.bsky.social
Drosophilist, DIY enthusiast, group leader, senior fellow & Dementia Research Leader Fellow based in SITraN, Sheffield, UK. Working on #FTD, #ALS and #MND

Find us here: sites.google.com/view/the-west-lab-sheffield
I'm looking forward to discussing our work at Tambourine’s ALS Breakthrough Research Fund investigators meeting this week. A pretty good view from my room
October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
taking a break from all the hills and letting the 5 yo loose down the monsal trail
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Scott Allen and myself have an opportunity for a postdoc working on pyruvate metabolism in normoxia and hypoxia using a combination of C9orf72 patient-derived iNPC and Drosophila models. Based at SITraN (sheffield.ac.uk/sitran)

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Research Associate in C9orf72 ALS metabolic dysfunction
Research Associate in C9orf72 ALS metabolic dysfunction
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Check out our new #neuroscience @BiologyatYork banner to showcase our diverse, multidisciplinary, multi model, and so much fun research environment that you could be in by joining us as an under or postgrad
york.ac.uk/study/undergra… or/and postgrad too!
March 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🚀 Hot off the press! Our team findings @livuni-ismib.bsky.social on brain ageing unveil a novel connection between oxidative stress, neuronal microtubules, and the cytoskeletal protein EB1 driving neuronal atrophy. 🎉 A huge thank you to the fantastic team!
www.aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/...
Oxidative Stress Promotes Axonal Atrophy through Alterations in Microtubules and EB1 Function
<p>Axons are crucial for transmitting neurochemical signals. As organisms age, the ability of neurons to maintain their axons declines; hence, aged axons are more susceptible to damage or dysfunction....
www.aginganddisease.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
oh ChatGPT what monstrosity is this?
January 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
There are some hills over there somewhere!
January 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Clear skies over SITraN this morning
January 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I think santa will enjoy the whisky the 4 year old left for him 👀
December 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
a slightly chilly lab walk in the peaks
December 10, 2024 at 5:02 PM
A birthday card from the lab. A @comeflywithjo.bsky.social special. I wonder what they are trying to imply?
December 9, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Poster session B, 5.30-7 7th December
For anyone heading to #alsmndsymp in montreal look out for @mndassoc.bsky.social funded student Charlotte Gale-Rogers work on C9orf72 DPR disruption to locomotor rhythmicity using some of our fly models. Poster IVV-26.
December 7, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I am pleased we were able to help with this nice paper showing RuvBL1/2 can reduce DPR abundance and reduce phenotypes observed in our fly models
www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/2/...
RuvBL1/2 reduce toxic dipeptide repeat protein burden in multiple models of C9orf72-ALS/FTD
A G4C2 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (C9ALS/FTD). Bidirectional transcription and subsequent repeat-a...
www.life-science-alliance.org
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 PM
For anyone heading to #alsmndsymp in montreal look out for @mndassoc.bsky.social funded student Charlotte Gale-Rogers work on C9orf72 DPR disruption to locomotor rhythmicity using some of our fly models. Poster IVV-26.
December 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
striking views from my office this morning
November 29, 2024 at 8:12 AM
twitter account deactivated. It's bluesky only now
November 24, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Google scholar vs pubmed wordclouds
November 22, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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🧠Sharing this Starter Pack again as the list has now reached 80 people! A great mix of Profs/PIs/Post-docs/PhDs/Technicians.

Please re-post so it can reach a wider audience as I'm sure there are more of us out there ☺️🦋

go.bsky.app/S6FfsTp
November 19, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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a quick trip down to London for a grant panel and to say hello to some old friends
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
back from a very enjoyable @nc3rs.bsky.social Partnership and Impact panel meeting. Lots of great science. Looking forward to seeing some of those projects going forward.
November 19, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Green, M. M. (2010) 2010: A century of #Drosophila genetics through the prism of the 'white' gene. Genetics 184, 3-7 — www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20061...
November 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM

a quick trip down to London for a grant panel and to say hello to some old friends
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Trying for a molecular and cellular neurobiology starter pack - happy to add folks and connect :) #neuroskyance #cellbiology

go.bsky.app/PgEk7aF
November 11, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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As PIs we can mentor our team to select colorblind friendly pseudo colors at acquisition time 🔬and share free (and super cool) resources like colororacle.org and medialab.github.io/iwanthue/ that helps you select or design color friendly palettes for projects that have many categories 💻 #dataViz
November 16, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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If you're not sure which Starter Packs you've been added to, you can check them on clearsky.app
That's where I found the ones that I'm part of. Wish we could get notified when added to a pack @bsky.app ?
November 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM