New invited review published by our Centre in The Journal of Biochemistry! Nutrigenomic Regulation of One-Carbon Metabolism and the Circadian Clock in Health and Disease academic.oup.com/jb/article/d...

Nutrigenomic Regulation of One-Carbon Metabolism and the Circadian Clock in Health and Disease

Abstract. Methylation of DNA, histones, and RNA is central to the regulation of circadian rhythms, yet the biochemical origin of the methyl groups driving

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Prof Hannah Durrington contributed to an article in The New York Times (account required to read)! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/c...

Bright City Lights Might Be Making Your Allergies Worse

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We are delighted to welcome John O'Neill at the CfBT on the 22nd May!

That's one of ours! Look at these enormous heatmaps!

bioRxiv Physiology@biorxiv-physio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A high-resolution, sex-stratified atlas of transcriptional and alternative splicing dynamics in the fasting mouse liver https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.28.720569v1

We are delighted to welcome John O'Neill at the CfBT on the 22nd May!

How do circadian clocks shape how we see? I'll be presenting at this online event on Thursday, so come along if want to find out! Free for BNA members@dns-uom.bsky.social @biologicaltimemcr.bsky.social

British Neuroscience Association@britishneuro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The BNA Members’ Meeting programme is now live! Join us online 22–23 April for Rapid-fire talks, research communications, posters and more. Free for BNA members - join instantly from £11/year. Explore the full programme and register via bna.org.uk

New paper from our Centre! The impact of self-selected light on activity rhythms in the diurnal striped mouse: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

The impact of self-selected light on activity rhythms in the diurnal striped mouse

Hughes et al. allow day-active striped mice control over their home-cage light exposure, investigating the impact of self-selected light on daily activity rhythms. These mice prefer bright light when ...

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🔔 Our latest special issue, guest edited by Prof. Carrie Partch, is now live! Featuring: ⏰ The latest advances in our understanding of the molecular basis of circadian rhythms ⏱️ Circadian rhythms' pervasive and powerful control of biology ⌚ And — new frontiers in the field. ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a7nr7je

On BBC radio 4,Dr Gareth Kitchen shared with us insights on his latest publication in Anaesthesia: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 10/01/2026 - BBC Sounds

Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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New publication for the CfTB! Time of day of cardiac surgery and postoperative outcomes in the UK: a secondary analysis of linked national datasets associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VKP7YS...

A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ld

ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime

Nature - The inability of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells to shift the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during daytime is caused by light-dependent depolarization...

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Wishing the international circadian community a Happy New Year! 🌍⏰ May your 2026 be filled with stable rhythms, bright zeitgebers, and groundbreaking discoveries. Here’s to another 365 cycles together! 🥂 #Chronobiology #CircadianRhythms

Registration is open for the SRBR 2026 Biennial Meeting to take place on May 9-13, 2026 - Amelia Island, FL. Early career scientists and PhD students are encouraged to apply. Share you discoveries! srbr.societyconference.com/v2/

The CfBT welcomes Eder Zavala @ederzavala.bsky.social as a new PI! Eder is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow; his group’s research lies at the interface of mathematics, physiology, and medicine, using quantitative models and data-driven approaches to reveal how hormonal dynamics shape human health.

New database of c-Fos Circadian Expression in Whole Mouse Brain by Hiroki Ueda, to use at will and freely! circadian.cfosdb.systems-based-medicine.org/database/

💡Need more light science in your life?💡 🚨Check out Daylight Awareness Week 3-7 November 2025 by the Daylight Academy! 🌟This year’s Daylight Awareness Week explores how daylight can help build healthier, more sustainable, and fairer societies daylight.academy/daylight-awa...

Daylight Awareness Week 2025 - Daylight Academy

3-7 November 2025 Celebrate daylight with us!

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☀️ Exciting developments coming soon from SLRCH for our early career folks! Stay tuned! ☀️

@airwayamlan.bsky.social will give a seminar at Pints with Parse on the 20th November, speaking about biological timing and asthma! More details at resources.parsebiosciences.com/pints-with-p...

Dr Hannah Durrington @h_durrington is featured in a film made by Asthma and Lung UK about time of day in asthma diagnosis and treatment! Watch at: vimeo.com/1117260180/0...

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This is "Hannah Durrington_9x16 Social_FINAL" by Asthma + Lung UK on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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12 CfBT representatives and associates presented talks and posters at the European Biological Rhythms Society 2025 congress ebrs-online.org/index.php/ev...

Rob Lucas, Bea Bano Otalora and Tim Brown recipients of a Wellcome Trust Discovery award to study the mechanisms by which light across daytime shapes daily profiles of sleep and influences the circadian clock!

New preprint from our CfBT! Congratulation to Jafar, who defended his thesis back in May! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The club cell circadian clock regulates temporal patterns in leukocyte trafficking in chronic allergic airways disease

Rationale: Asthma displays temporally variable symptoms which worsen overnight, corresponding with a nocturnal increase in airway eosinophils. The molecular clock within the club cell of the bronchial...

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New paper from our CfBT! Congratulations to Jess Treeby, second year PhD student! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Guanine is an inhibitor of c-jun terminal kinases - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Guanine is an inhibitor of c-jun terminal kinases

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New exciting preprint from our CfBT and associates! Guanine is an inhibitor of c-Jun terminal kinases www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

New exciting preprint from our CfBT and associates! The 18S rRNA methyltransferase, BUD23, is required for appropriate lipid and mitochondrial metabolism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Upcoming: Joanna Chiu's Seminar at the CfBT! Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025 Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Title: “Metabolic and environmental regulation of circadian biology”.

CfBT in the News! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Afternoon inhaler puff could improve asthma symptoms - study finds

Researchers in Manchester say coordinating asthma medication to the body clock could bring benefits.

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Latest from our CfBT! The impact of dosage timing for inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: a randomised three-way crossover trial thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...

The impact of dosage timing for inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: a randomised three-way crossover trial

Background Asthma demonstrates a robust daily rhythm, with airflow obstruction and airway inflammation peaking overnight. Aligning the timing of drug administration with rhythms in disease (chronother...

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Our latest study @science.org #Immunology on perception of #hunger and #immunity. #BrainBody #Melanocortin #AgRP #POMC neurons. #Brain-liver axis. Permissive action of #stress #hormones. @ukri.org @fbmh-uom.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Brain sensing of metabolic state regulates circulating monocytes

Brain-initiated hunger signals control circulating monocyte dynamics.

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3 of us representing the Centre at the EuroAgeNet conference in Liverpool!