Kenny Wilson
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Kenny Wilson
@kennywilson.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Ellerby Lab @buckinstitute.bsky.social studying brain aging, endolysosomal trafficking, and senescence 🧠 🐁

#aging #Alzheimers #neurodegeneration #dietaryrestriction #senescence
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Amphibian expert shares about their work protecting species and raising awareness of these great animals, all on the basis of thoughtful science in conservation.

When budgets are slashed, this work is undermined.

#standupforscience2025
March 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I would like to be added please!
December 10, 2024 at 11:03 PM
We found that low OXR1 levels in humans correlate with #Alzheimers, so we drove tau-induced toxicity in fly eyes, to see if we could rescue it with OXR1/retromer. Overexpression of OXR1 or retromer genes prevented this toxicity. Lots more to come from this, so stay tuned! Happy to discuss more 😊
December 3, 2024 at 7:37 PM
We next wanted to see if enhancing the retromer rescues brain degeneration. Not only did it reduce degeneration in brains of flies that had lost OXR1, but it improved age-related #neurodegeneration as well.
December 3, 2024 at 7:37 PM