Varsha Singh
@varshasinghuk.bsky.social
PI at University of Dundee, UK.
Love my kids, C elegans, microbes and Art.
We study olfaction during development and disease (PD, anosmia) and odours produced by microbiome of animals.
Love my kids, C elegans, microbes and Art.
We study olfaction during development and disease (PD, anosmia) and odours produced by microbiome of animals.
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Very excited to share this finding from my postdoctoral work that is now published in #ScienceAdvances. We show how the gut’s epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes.
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Gut epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes
Gut epithelium modulates output from distinct enteric circuits by altering secretion of insulin and noninsulin peptides.
www.science.org
September 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Very excited to share this finding from my postdoctoral work that is now published in #ScienceAdvances. We show how the gut’s epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes.
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Leishmaniasis is 95% fatal if untreated — yet it’s still overlooked, and media coverage is low.
Our new report shows what gets decision-makers to pay attention ⤵️
wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...
Our new report shows what gets decision-makers to pay attention ⤵️
wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...
August 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Leishmaniasis is 95% fatal if untreated — yet it’s still overlooked, and media coverage is low.
Our new report shows what gets decision-makers to pay attention ⤵️
wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...
Our new report shows what gets decision-makers to pay attention ⤵️
wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...
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Lecturer in Medical Bioscience at Nottingham Trent University. #jobs #microsky
Covering topics including:
Infectious disease;
Clinical and molecular microbiology;
Mechanisms of drug action and therapeutic innovations.
Contact @jodywinter.bsky.social for full details.
Covering topics including:
Infectious disease;
Clinical and molecular microbiology;
Mechanisms of drug action and therapeutic innovations.
Contact @jodywinter.bsky.social for full details.
Lecturer in Medical Bioscience at Nottingham Trent University
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August 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Lecturer in Medical Bioscience at Nottingham Trent University. #jobs #microsky
Covering topics including:
Infectious disease;
Clinical and molecular microbiology;
Mechanisms of drug action and therapeutic innovations.
Contact @jodywinter.bsky.social for full details.
Covering topics including:
Infectious disease;
Clinical and molecular microbiology;
Mechanisms of drug action and therapeutic innovations.
Contact @jodywinter.bsky.social for full details.
What a nice review. Congratulations.
Great to see our Review "The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health" making the cover of this month's @natrevgastrohep.nature.com
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @eranelinav.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @eranelinav.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
What a nice review. Congratulations.
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I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück
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August 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
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🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Special thanks to Ahna Skop, Morris Maduro, and Curtis Loer for bringing so much joy to the meeting!
Also, big thanks to GSA and Anne Marie Mahoney for making #worm25 happen despite the challenging times. Thank you also to USDavis for hosting us and the delicious food.
Also, big thanks to GSA and Anne Marie Mahoney for making #worm25 happen despite the challenging times. Thank you also to USDavis for hosting us and the delicious food.
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Special thanks to Ahna Skop, Morris Maduro, and Curtis Loer for bringing so much joy to the meeting!
Also, big thanks to GSA and Anne Marie Mahoney for making #worm25 happen despite the challenging times. Thank you also to USDavis for hosting us and the delicious food.
Also, big thanks to GSA and Anne Marie Mahoney for making #worm25 happen despite the challenging times. Thank you also to USDavis for hosting us and the delicious food.
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We are looking forward to the Worm Meeting 2027 and thank
Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China),
Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and
Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore, USA)
for organising. #worm25
Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China),
Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and
Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore, USA)
for organising. #worm25
July 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We are looking forward to the Worm Meeting 2027 and thank
Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China),
Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and
Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore, USA)
for organising. #worm25
Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China),
Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and
Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore, USA)
for organising. #worm25
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Congrats to the winners of the #Worm25 poster competition!
Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research!
Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!)
Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!
Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research!
Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!)
Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!
July 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Congrats to the winners of the #Worm25 poster competition!
Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research!
Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!)
Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!
Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research!
Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!)
Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!
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Very cool talk from Ritika Siddiqui ( @varshasinghuk.bsky.social lab) on neuronal sensing of essential amino acids. #worm25
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Olfactory basis for essential amino acid perception during foraging in Caenorhabditis elegans
elifesciences.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Very cool talk from Ritika Siddiqui ( @varshasinghuk.bsky.social lab) on neuronal sensing of essential amino acids. #worm25
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Wanted to post a video we accidentally forgot to show at the Worm art show #worm25 from the Van Buskirk lab @cswormlab.bsky.social @baristursun.bsky.social
Hope you all enjoy!
youtu.be/7IMrOsmg5UY
Hope you all enjoy!
youtu.be/7IMrOsmg5UY
"Use More OP50" (2025)
YouTube video by Kimberly K
youtu.be
July 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Wanted to post a video we accidentally forgot to show at the Worm art show #worm25 from the Van Buskirk lab @cswormlab.bsky.social @baristursun.bsky.social
Hope you all enjoy!
youtu.be/7IMrOsmg5UY
Hope you all enjoy!
youtu.be/7IMrOsmg5UY
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Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay! 🦠
If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
June 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay! 🦠
If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
All fathers need paid time off, to be with their newborn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How UK paternity leave compares to the rest of Europe
Most dads in the UK get two weeks off work after their baby is born, but dads in many European countries get more.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
All fathers need paid time off, to be with their newborn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The flags at our EU office in New Delhi fly at half-mast today in memory of the victims of this morning’s plane crash in Ahmedabad.
Europe mourns with India, the UK, Canada and Portugal.
This tragedy affects us all.
Europe mourns with India, the UK, Canada and Portugal.
This tragedy affects us all.
June 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The flags at our EU office in New Delhi fly at half-mast today in memory of the victims of this morning’s plane crash in Ahmedabad.
Europe mourns with India, the UK, Canada and Portugal.
This tragedy affects us all.
Europe mourns with India, the UK, Canada and Portugal.
This tragedy affects us all.
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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
How do olfactory sensory neurons manage to express only one odorant receptor?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Solid phase transitions as a solution to the genome folding paradox - Nature
In vitro reconstitution and in vivo live-cell imaging of LHX2–EBF1–LDB1 enhancer hubs in olfactory sensory neurons reveals that these transcription factors form condensates with solid, rathe...
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
How do olfactory sensory neurons manage to express only one odorant receptor?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New review on the ecological and pathogenic versatility of P. aeruginosa:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: ecology, evolution, pathogenesis and antimicrobial susceptibility - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a functionally versatile bacterium, a leading opportunistic human pathogen and a model organism in microbiology. In this Review, Letizia, Diggle and Whiteley discuss P. aerug...
www.nature.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New review on the ecological and pathogenic versatility of P. aeruginosa:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Keith was a kind and thoughtful scientist. My memories of him as a student in the Harvard BBS program were that he was always thoughtful and even-keeled and cared about students
Sad to learn we lost Keith Blackwell, an unsung hero of the aging field. Keith showed rapamycin extends C. elegans lifespan, that mTORC2 has diet-dependent effects on aging, and linked together skn1 TOR splicing and aging.
www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
THOMAS BLACKWELL Obituary (1957 - 2025-05-09) - Boston, MA - Boston Globe
View THOMAS KEITH BLACKWELL's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Keith was a kind and thoughtful scientist. My memories of him as a student in the Harvard BBS program were that he was always thoughtful and even-keeled and cared about students
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Several mammal species live in cold-water environments thanks to adaptations like blubber and large size. A notable exception is the sea otter—so how does it stay warm?
A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis.
Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL
A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis.
Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL
![Fig. 2 Whole-body estimates of sea otter metabolism scaled to body mass.
Estimated scaled whole-body metabolic rates include predicted [BMR; predicted on the basis of scaled rate for eutherian mammals], sea otter resting metabolic rate, and whole-body skeletal muscle leak capacity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vqgovau5gkirnk3ss5qwjdmz/bafkreifqng4uadol3gghmq6ktpvj5vksaptsqxdfvtenfsgubbfr2l6ani@jpeg)
May 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Several mammal species live in cold-water environments thanks to adaptations like blubber and large size. A notable exception is the sea otter—so how does it stay warm?
A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis.
Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL
A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis.
Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL
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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
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We are pleased to launch the KlebNET Genomic Epidemiology Consortium!
We aim to build a public metadata repository; systematic risk framework for global genomic surveillance; and genomic epi reviews for high-impact #Klebsiella clones.
Join us here:
klebnet.org/klebnet-gsp-...
#ABPHM25
We aim to build a public metadata repository; systematic risk framework for global genomic surveillance; and genomic epi reviews for high-impact #Klebsiella clones.
Join us here:
klebnet.org/klebnet-gsp-...
#ABPHM25
KlebNET-GSP
klebnet.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We are pleased to launch the KlebNET Genomic Epidemiology Consortium!
We aim to build a public metadata repository; systematic risk framework for global genomic surveillance; and genomic epi reviews for high-impact #Klebsiella clones.
Join us here:
klebnet.org/klebnet-gsp-...
#ABPHM25
We aim to build a public metadata repository; systematic risk framework for global genomic surveillance; and genomic epi reviews for high-impact #Klebsiella clones.
Join us here:
klebnet.org/klebnet-gsp-...
#ABPHM25
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
Small research grant 10000 GBP for social science and humanities www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
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May 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Small research grant 10000 GBP for social science and humanities www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
Congratulations Alessio!
May 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Congratulations Alessio!
I hope you are attending Worm2025 in June. Please consider submitting to our awesome Worm Art Show. It is as good as the science.
Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025.
Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community.
genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...
Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025.
Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community.
genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...
Worm Art Show - 25th International Worm Meeting
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
May 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I hope you are attending Worm2025 in June. Please consider submitting to our awesome Worm Art Show. It is as good as the science.
Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025.
Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community.
genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...
Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025.
Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community.
genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...