Andrew Beale
drbatmo.bsky.social
Andrew Beale
@drbatmo.bsky.social
Comparative molecular chronobiology. Senior Scientist @ MRC LMB
A conference in Europe gives the opportunity to not travel by plane
So, I'm travelling to GRC Chronobiology #circadian in Barcelona by train from Cambridge. Smooth ride so far but Eurostar is unexpectedly busy! Next connection - the overnight from Paris to Perpignan. Travelling backpacker style 😀
July 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If anyone is interested, I've updated our take on a cellular basis of the mammalian nocturnal-diurnal switch @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

We've refined the paper (for the better, hopefully!) - my fave updates are the results from a collab with Zoonomia (Fig 3)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A cellular basis for the mammalian nocturnal-diurnal switch
Early mammals were nocturnal until the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction enabled diurnal niche expansion. Diurnality evolved multiple times independently, but the mechanisms driving this shift remain un...
www.biorxiv.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reposted by Andrew Beale
#EMBOClimateResilience
“The way in which our universities have divided up the sciences does not reflect the ways in which nature has divided up its problems”
@embo.org
@monicabettencourt.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Andrew Beale
I was today years old when I first heard this gorgeous quote at #EMBOclimateResilience: “The way in which our universities have divided up our sciences does not reflect the way in which nature has divided up its problems” (Kurt Salzinger) - thank you @luciastrader.bsky.social!
April 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Is anyone (virtually) attending the @embo.org EMBO Workshop on Integrating cell and planetary scales to address climate resilience? Looks fascinating but I think I put my application in too late to get the stream link. So, if anyone wants to fill me in I would love to hear!

#EMBOclimateresiliance
April 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Biology-inspired design has always fascinated me. I am by no means an expert, but I was interested to see this paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social this month - using the autonomous Kai oscillator for time-dependent synthetic assembly: "circadian materials".

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#1stpost
Programming scheduled self-assembly of circadian materials - Nature Communications
Harnessing biomolecular systems to endow synthetic materials with life-like properties is a significant challenge. Here, the authors use the biomolecular KaiABC circadian clock proteins to control aut...
www.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM