Conserved and diverged patterns of senescence in Pristionchus nematodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734768v1
Rebekah J. White, PhD
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Ageing, molecular biology, worms, and omics, plus attempting science writer 🧬 📷 https://www.instagram.com/bio_bex?igsh=MWI3NXhpbHRjcmd4cw==
New preprint out (actually, my first preprint)! 😊 Ageing in Pristionchus nematodes 🧪 We studied lifespan & healthspan traits, the first step in using these worms as model organisms for healthy ageing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #academicchatter #healthyageing #lifespan #arxiv #research
Conserved and diverged patterns of senescence in Pristionchus nematodes
Healthspan, the period of life where organisms are without frailty and/or disease, is a major focus of biogerontological research. To understand late-life decline and increased mortality risk, short-l...
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Promising work going on in my home county ☺️ Love to see it! Temperate rainforest restoration project to begin in Cornwall - BBC News share.google/B7WFoAcVLwny... 🧪 #academicsky
Temperate rainforest restoration project to begin in Cornwall - BBC News
Cornwall Wildlife Trust is to begin a temperate rainforest restoration project at its 150-acre site near Looe.
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Hanging out at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. I really like it here! A great place to read ageing pop sci books for research purposes ☺️ @thebotanics.bsky.social #academicsky 🧪
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Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women
After years of worm-ing, I can finally pop on the robes, floppy hat... and hold my PhD thesis! Graduation was an awesome day, marking the end of my time as a student. I'm looking back with fondness, but also with great excitement for the future ☺️ #exeterforever #academicchatter 🧪 @exeter.ac.uk
A call to academic institutions and leaders, worldwide. An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.
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Proteomic aging signatures across mouse organs and life stages #EMBOJ www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Proteomic aging signatures across mouse organs and life stages | The EMBO Journal
imageimageGenomic and transcriptomic studies have advanced our system-level understanding of aging, but large-scale proteomic analyses of the underlying processes remain limited. This resource provides comprehensive proteomic profiles across eight ...
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I didn't realise how much I had missed the online academic community. I pretty much left Twitter over 2 years ago, so I'm glad there is BlueSky now! #academicchatter 🧪
'Even more troubling are recent reports from a number of labs that senescent cells themselves seem to have some beneficial functions, as opposed to being loafing cellular deadweight, and that if you did find a targeted way of clearing them out that you might end up wishing that you hadn’t'
Senolytic Update
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This was the first showcase of my postdoc work! It was quite "ahhh" presenting something after only 6 months, but it went super well ☺️ #worm25 🧪🔬➰〰️
