🧠 NeuroLab returns to CDN with @Foundry10.org! 🌟 An immersive 1-day developmental neurobiology workshop for passionate Harrison Academy Year 12 Biology students on 22 April. 🔗 Find out more and meet the team: lnkd.in/eHX--4Np #NeuroLab #Neurobiology #SciComm #STEM

A ‘tour de force’! First description of human early telencephalon patterning & signalling centre dynamics, coupling transcriptomics & 4D gene expression imaging. ➡️ Human forebrain is distinct from mouse as soon at anterior neural plate closes. First @crick.ac.uk paper from @houartlab.bsky.social

Afnan Azizi@stochastalive.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share our new #preprint uncovering how early human forebrain is patterned. Compared to mouse, human dorsoventral and anteroposterior telencephalon patterning is strikingly delayed, which is correlated with SHH and FGF signalling differences. Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to the @aims2trials.bsky.social team who have been awarded a EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Black Pearl Award for Patient Engagement, for their commitment to involving patients as equal partners in research. 🏆 🧠 Read more here: lnkd.in/eiFDxQnq, as we mark this year's #RareDiseaseDay

EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe@eurordis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✨ That’s a wrap on the 15th #EURPRDISAWARDS2026! Tonight in Brussels and online, we celebrated leaders driving change in the rare disease community. Congrats to all our awardees! 🎥 https://go.eurordis.org/BPA2026

🧠 Fascinating day at 2026 MRC CNDD symposium on how environment shapes neurodevelopment. 🌎 Inspiring talks on cannabis & psychosis, maternal COVID-19, influence of environment in autism & epilepsy, and immune–brain links, among more! 🎤Huge thanks to speakers, attendees and organisers!

🏅 We’re excited to share that CDN has achieved My Green Lab® Certification at the Platinum level! 💚 👣 This globally recognised certification reflects our commitment to measurable, science-based improvements that reduce the environmental footprint of our research. #MyGreenLab #SustainableScience

📣 We’re hiring! Research Strategy Manager - Maternity Cover The appointee will work closely with Director Prof Oscar Marín, to contribute to scientific & strategic decision-making & oversee the Centre's public profiles. 📅 Fixed term contract May 26–January 27 📩 Apply by 22 Feb: lnkd.in/eRZPgh2v

🌟 Join us for the MRC CNDD Symposium 2026! 🌟 🗓 Friday 13 February 2026 | 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM 📍 Great Hall, Strand Campus, London 🧠 Shaping the Brain: Environmental Influences on Neurodevelopmental Conditions 🧠 Reserve your spot and take a look at the exciting programme here: tinyurl.com/mu6mbe5p

MRC CNDD Symposium 2026

Shaping the Brain: Environmental Influences on Neurodevelopmental Conditions

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New organoid research with input from CDN's Benedikt Berninger shows that the “inactive” X chromosome in female brain cells can be dynamically reactivated during development, helping protect against X-linked neurological disorders. Take a look! 🧠 ♀️https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68428-x

Congratulations to CDN Managing Director Robert Hindges for winning the 2025 Supervisory Excellence Award for the faculty @kingsioppn.bsky.social! 👏 🔗 Read more about the award here: devneuro.org/cdn/news-det...

A handful of neurobiologists, 2,000 volunteers 🙋 and tens of thousands of segmented synaptic boutons 🔬 🧫 Take a look at CDN researchers Guilherme Neves and Juan Burrone's journey into citizen science - read more about the project here: 🔗 devneuro.org/cdn/news-det...

Can’t be happier seeing Richard starting this. His original angle to an old problem ( 😉) has great potential for success. Fascinating to see how findings in dev. neuro. leads to insights in age-related degenerative disorders! @houartlab.bsky.social @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Research at ARUK@alzheimersresearchuk.org · 9mo ago

🚨Meet the latest early career researchers awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowships🚨 These rising stars are challenging old ideas and driving bold new approaches to speed up progress @RichardTaylor @sorayam.bsky.social @HelenRowland

Congratulations to Dr Richard Taylor for being awarded the Race Against Dementia Fellowship 👏 🔗 Read more about the prestigious 5-year award and Richard's research into synapse resilience and neuroprotective mechanisms in healthy ageing and dementia: tinyurl.com/2s39mcma

Research at ARUK@alzheimersresearchuk.org · 9mo ago

🚨Meet the latest early career researchers awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowships🚨 These rising stars are challenging old ideas and driving bold new approaches to speed up progress @RichardTaylor @sorayam.bsky.social @HelenRowland

Our Neureka! Seminar Series is back 🧠 We’re very pleased to welcome Professor Nicky Clayton from the University of Cambridge, who will be presenting the first seminar of the academic year, hosted by Alexi Mery. Join us at 1pm today in the Large Meeting Room to hear about her exciting research!

Huge congratulations to Dr. Leigh Wilson who recently won the award for Innovative and Inclusive Practice at the @vitae-news.bsky.social Impact, Culture and Engagement Awards! 🎉 @devneuroacademy.bsky.social @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

We're very pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Reh from the University of Washington, who is visiting the CDN to present an external seminar hosted by Professor Benedikt Berninger. Join us at 1pm today in the Large Meeting Room to hear all about his exciting research!

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Dimphna Meijer from the Delft University of Technology, who will be presenting an external seminar today, hosted by Prof. Robert Hindges. Join us at 1pm in the Large Meeting Room to hear her talk!

1/10 Our latest research, led by Monika Moissidis, identifies a mechanism regulating the maturation of PV interneurons in the #cortex. This is the story @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... ⬇︎ thread @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

A postnatal molecular switch drives activity-dependent maturation of parvalbumin interneurons

Neuronal activity triggers PGC-1α-mediated transcriptional programs that drive the late maturation of PV+ interneurons, essential for cortical circuit function. PGC-1α partners with ERRγ and Mef2c to ...

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Sneak peek of the exhibition happening today👀🤞

Happy Friday and Day 4 of DNA CREATE!!! Today the students will be presenting their projects at the Science Gallery 🖼️🥼

Day 3 has been busy, busy, busy!!! Students are focused working on their group projects! Excited for the exhibition tomorrow

Day 1 of DNA CREATE is off to a great start! We started the morning with some introductions, ice breakers and reflection as we created our own self portraits🙌

Good morning and happy Wednesday from the DNA Create team! Today’s morning session is all about brains (literally) 🧠 Our students are diving into neuroanatomy and getting a firsthand look at neuroscience research, thanks to our incredible researchers at @devneuro.bsky.social 🤞🤞🤞

Dr. Katie Long is leading vital research, funded by an MRF award, to learn how pregnant people feel about vaccines during pregnancy. We want your views! Take this short survey: tinyurl.com/vaccines-in-... For more information on vaccines in pregnancy visit tommys.org/vaccinations-pregnancy

We're #hiring! We're looking for an experienced and dynamic Research Strategy Manager to join our vibrant Centre. More details in link. Deadline 09 July www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118025-...

Research Strategy Manager

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We're #hiring for a new role as Senior #ExecutiveAssistant to our fantastic Director and Managing Director! Deadline 23 June @marinlab.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/116505-...

Senior Executive Assistant

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New paper from Julie Jézéquel and the Rico lab on role of cadherins in neuronal inhibition out now in Nat Comms! @natureportfolio.nature.com rdcu.be/el18f

Cadherins orchestrate specific patterns of perisomatic inhibition onto distinct pyramidal cell populations

Nature Communications - How cortical interneurons establish precise connections among intermingled populations of excitatory neurons remains unclear. Here, the authors reveal that Cadherins...

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@houartlab.bsky.social first time at the comparative neuro conference. Fantastic #ECCN2025 meeting! The mix of ‘old’ and new technologies brings the field a new edge and the potential for new understanding of brain evolutionary mechanisms. Exciting!

Roberto Toro@r3rt0.bsky.social · last yr.

Differences in neurogenesis across species appear since the earliest stages of development, as shows @cohouart.bsky.social #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social

Dkk genes dynamically expressed in the zebrafish nervous system, some in very discreet brain populations (watch this space for brain images). Malik Missaoui is using genetics to follow behaviour of endogenous proteins and crack their local functions. @mrc-cndd.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Houart Lab@houartlab.bsky.social · last yr.

🎣 Fishing for Dkk in #zebrafish 🎣 In the lab, PhD student Malik Misssaoui looks for the expression patterns of the dkk genes in zebrafish. Dkk proteins are modulators of wnt singalling, and changes in their expression levels have been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers.

10/10 Here’s the paper @nature.com if you want to dig in www.nature.com/articles/s41... That’s it. Thanks for sharing! @devneuro.bsky.social @mrc-cndd.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

9/10 In sum, our findings identify a previously unknown form of interneuron plasticity and strengthen the idea that neuropeptide signalling plays crucial roles in maintaining neural circuit stability. Funded by the magnificents @erc.europa.eu and Rosetrees Trust