Marco Brancaccio
@mbra3.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Imperial College London and UK Dementia Research Institute Group Leader. Expert in chronobiology and dementia research. Views are my own
Fresh off the press. Just flagging up a short opinion piece I wrote for Bioessays about astrocytes in sleep and circadian rhythms. It has been fun to write it! @circadiageing.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social
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Integrating Astrocytes in the Sleep–Wake Cycle: The Time Is Now
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September 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fresh off the press. Just flagging up a short opinion piece I wrote for Bioessays about astrocytes in sleep and circadian rhythms. It has been fun to write it! @circadiageing.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social
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Reposted by Marco Brancaccio
Our BBSRC CircadiAgeing sLola project launches today with
@hughp.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @mbra3.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social studying clock excitability, circadian rhythms and healthy ageing
circadiageing.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
@hughp.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @mbra3.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social studying clock excitability, circadian rhythms and healthy ageing
circadiageing.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our BBSRC CircadiAgeing sLola project launches today with
@hughp.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @mbra3.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social studying clock excitability, circadian rhythms and healthy ageing
circadiageing.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
@hughp.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @mbra3.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social studying clock excitability, circadian rhythms and healthy ageing
circadiageing.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
We have extended the deadline for this position by a couple of weeks because of the Imperial Easter break. Still time to apply!
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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April 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We have extended the deadline for this position by a couple of weeks because of the Imperial Easter break. Still time to apply!
One week left to apply to this. We look forward to have you working with us in London @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
One week left to apply to this. We look forward to have you working with us in London @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
Postdoc position still available in my group at Imperial. We are looking for talented and enthusiastic candidates with significant experience with live imaging/ electrophysiology. Deadline 3/4/25 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
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March 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Postdoc position still available in my group at Imperial. We are looking for talented and enthusiastic candidates with significant experience with live imaging/ electrophysiology. Deadline 3/4/25 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialbrains.bsky.social Today is the last day to apply for this postdoc position investigating a new chronotherapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s Disease. Please apply on the Imperial website, if interested!
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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February 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialbrains.bsky.social Today is the last day to apply for this postdoc position investigating a new chronotherapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s Disease. Please apply on the Imperial website, if interested!
Only one week left to apply to join our lab at Imperial! Please do remember to send your applications on the Imperial website, even if you got in touch with me informally. I will only be able to assess formal applications and not other expressions of interest
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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February 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Only one week left to apply to join our lab at Imperial! Please do remember to send your applications on the Imperial website, even if you got in touch with me informally. I will only be able to assess formal applications and not other expressions of interest
First PhD student Natalie passed her viva with flying colours. Thanks to the viva panel! It was nice to see some past and present members of the lab joining the celebrations. If you would like to be a future member of the lab, a postdoc job advert is out, get in touch
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
First PhD student Natalie passed her viva with flying colours. Thanks to the viva panel! It was nice to see some past and present members of the lab joining the celebrations. If you would like to be a future member of the lab, a postdoc job advert is out, get in touch
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
www.imperial.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
Reposted by Marco Brancaccio
Announcing award of our 5 year BBSRC sLola CircadiAgeing: clock excitability, circadian rhythms & healthy ageing grant with @hughp.bsky.social @MeganGJackson @mbra3.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social Edgar Buhl
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December 13, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Announcing award of our 5 year BBSRC sLola CircadiAgeing: clock excitability, circadian rhythms & healthy ageing grant with @hughp.bsky.social @MeganGJackson @mbra3.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social Edgar Buhl
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Excited to be part of one of the BBSRC larger and longer grants with such a great team. Healthy circadian aging is healthy brain aging… @imperialmed.bsky.social
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BBSRC injects £20 million into long-term discovery research
BBSRC is backing four major research projects to help pioneer critical advances in healthy ageing, drug discovery and sustainable agriculture.
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December 12, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Excited to be part of one of the BBSRC larger and longer grants with such a great team. Healthy circadian aging is healthy brain aging… @imperialmed.bsky.social
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Reposted by Marco Brancaccio
Rhythmic astrocytic GABA production synchronizes neuronal circadian timekeeping in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Natalie Ness, Marco Brancaccio and colleagues
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Natalie Ness, Marco Brancaccio and colleagues
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December 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Rhythmic astrocytic GABA production synchronizes neuronal circadian timekeeping in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Natalie Ness, Marco Brancaccio and colleagues
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Natalie Ness, Marco Brancaccio and colleagues
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hot off the press! this is the work of natalie ness and others in the lab. It turns out that rhythmic GABA produced by astrocytes act as a ”metronome” for the body clock. A pathway recently found to be altered in AD @ImperialBrains @UKDRI @ImperialMed
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Rhythmic astrocytic GABA production synchronizes neuronal circadian timekeeping in the suprachiasmatic nucleus | The EMBO Journal
imageimageAstrocytes can drive circadian behavior in mammals, but the nature of the temporal
information generated by astrocytes is largely unknown. This study identifies GABA
produced by polyamine de...
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December 2, 2024 at 10:39 AM
hot off the press! this is the work of natalie ness and others in the lab. It turns out that rhythmic GABA produced by astrocytes act as a ”metronome” for the body clock. A pathway recently found to be altered in AD @ImperialBrains @UKDRI @ImperialMed
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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just moved to bluesky from X!
November 14, 2024 at 5:10 AM
just moved to bluesky from X!