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Alex Gould Lab
@alexgouldlab.bsky.social
Located @Crick.ac.uk in London, we investigate how diet and other factors in the environment affect our metabolism and health
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/alex-gould
Passionate about doing a PhD on metabolism in neural stem cells and their niche? The call just opened for applications for a PhD position in our lab @crick.ac.uk in London. Please repost.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Our latest preprint…Adrien Franchet, Yuhong Jin et al @crick.ac.uk show that circulating glutamine drives brain sparing during nutrient restriction. Great collab with labs of Yaël Grosjean and Ian Gilmore.
#metabolism #Drosophila #neuralstemcells

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Our latest... Congrats to Seb Sorge, Victor Girard & coauthors for devising HolFast, a chemically defined (holidic) diet for #Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet. If you study developmental #nutrition or #metabolism please try it out... www.cell.com/developmenta...
February 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Our latest preprint, Lena Lampe, Clare Newell and colleagues figured out how metamorphosing #Drosophila avoid drying out. The larva makes a lipid barrier of hyper-long hydrocarbons (>C27 and longer) and stores it in the fat body until needed by the pupa.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Our latest preprint from @thecrick.bsky.social
Sebastian Sorge led on this amazing new chemically defined (holidic) diet for fast larval growth & development in Drosophila. Called HolFast, soon to be available to the community, in powdered form, from VDRC
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 23, 2024 at 3:55 PM