Also wonderful to catch up with Ivana, Jenny, Cathy & Teresa 🥘🦐 Formerly postdoc contemporaries, now successfully leading the Bjedov, Regan, Slack and Niccoli labs!

#WomenInScience #Drosophila #IHA

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‘Can we live forever: A Question of Science’- Watch Prof. Linda Partridge in conversation with Prof. Brian Cox www.youtube.com/watch?v=EczR...

NEW PAPER- Bähler group ‘Mitochondrial Translation Inhibition Triggers an Rst2-Controlled Transcriptional Reprogramming of Carbon Metabolism in Stationary-Phase Cells of Fission Yeast’ doi.org/10.3390/biom...

Watch the latest talk in the Neurogeneration in Flies series from Dr Teresa Niccoli and sign up for reminders for the monthly events.
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Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, an internationally renowned expert in global health, has been announced as UCL’s new Vice-Provost (Health).

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PUBLICATION ALERT -Increased neuronal protein synthesis can delay ageing, new paper in @plosbiology.org examining the repressor of RNA polymerase III Maf1 from Alic and Partridge labs at the IHA concludes, with funding from the BBSRC

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Watch Prof Ross Cagan’s talk entitled ‘Flies to Cancer to Tauopathy: A Curious Path to a Therapeutic Lead’ from the Neurodegeneration in Flies Virtual Series.
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Available until 16/05/25

Scientists led by Dr Teresa Niccoli @niccolilab.bsky.social have found clues as to why some nerve cells are resistant to disease processes that cause frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in a new @alzheimersresearchuk.org funded study in fruit flies @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY in the Alic & Partridge labs at the IHA. Join us to elucidate the mechanisms of nutritional programming of adult physiology & lifespan in the fruit fly. To apply: tinyurl.com/2m3cvtb3 Closing 7 May 2025
Our recent work on the topic:
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Watch Prof Adam Dobson’s talk for the Neurodegeneration in Flies Virtual Series entitled ‘The microbiota-gut-brain axis promotes Drosophila ageing’ 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/... (expires 18/04/25)

Expressions of interest are invited for Research Career Development Fellowships in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment. Find out more:

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