Congratulations to Saima Rahman who completed her University of Bristol’s Widening Participation Summer Research Internship in my lab and circadiageing.org.uk project investigating Alzheimer’s disease risk genes using Drosophila.

Enjoyed giving a talk on CircadiAgeing: Clock excitability, circadian rhythms and healthy ageing at 3rd MIA-Portugal Ageing Spring School. To find out more visit circadiageing.org.uk

Happy to announce we are hosting a new Southwest and Wales Epilepsy Research Network | Epilepsy Research Institute epilepsy-institute.org.uk/epilepsy-netwo… If you are interested please get in touch

Please apply for our fully funded BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD lnkd.in/ecUVSmHw on Circadian ageing lnkd.in/e6zkTpFi at Bristol University with @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @hughp.bsky.social Edgar Buhl @mino-belle.bsky.social Deadline 3 Dec lnkd.in/e2qFY-4Z

🔊 PhD Opportunity! See here for an exciting @swbiodtp.bsky.social PhD studentship in circadian signalling and healthy ageing with @docfly.bsky.social at The University of Bristol: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Making beta to alpha - see our latest work here pinning honey bee nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha8 gene into flies to test neonicotinoid sensitivity thanks to @annalassota.bsky.social and @docfly.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model

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We’ve not given up trying to work out what is killing the bees, with @matthiassoller.bsky.social @annalassota.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model

Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model

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Interested in what happens when a fly gets a bee receptor? 🐝➡️🪰 Check out our new paper! Many thanks to @matthiassoller.bsky.social and @docfly.bsky.social

Matthias Soller@matthiassoller.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Making beta to alpha - see our latest work here pinning honey bee nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha8 gene into flies to test neonicotinoid sensitivity thanks to @annalassota.bsky.social and @docfly.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Apply for a fully funded PhD studying CASK disease at the Hodge Bristol University with @gaynorasmith.bsky.social CASK research, Ben Housden, Doretta Caramaschi PhD Prof Sam Amin gw4biomed.ac.uk/towards-a-be... Developing and characterising new preclinical models and therapies

New Preprint from the lab, and the second half of Elizabeth Hodge’s masters project - we dived into whether shifts in visual #foraging behaviours and spatial #memory in #Heliconius involved changes in sensory systems🧪 1/n

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · last yr.

Conservation of sensory pathways implies a localised change in the mushroom bodies is associated with cognitive evolution in Heliconius butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663516v1

9 months postdoc will be to continue our labs work development Drosophila models of CASK function and disease funded by caskresearch.org/cask-gene-di.... search for the job ACAD108170 from Here. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

9 month Research Associate in fly CASK Neuroscience and Disease Models in Hodge lab (Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Bristol University) available: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in... Fixed term until 30/04/2026 £38,249 - £44,128 per annum Deadline 17th July. Interviews 11th August.

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

Research Associate in fly CASK Neuroscience and Disease Models in Hodge lab (Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Bristol University) www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in... Fixed term until 30/04/2026 £38,249 - £44,128 per annum Deadline 17th July. Interviews 11th August.

ARUK Southwest – Bristol University Dementia research Public Patient involvement event Friday 19th September 10:30am-4:30pm Concorde Room, BAWA 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol. BS34 7RF Please RSVP: forms.office.com/e/nQUYGB8bjT

We have a 3 year postdoc in rodent circadian behaviour and ageing at University of Bristol www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in... deadline 15 April join our BBSRC sLola on CircadiAgeing: circadian rhythms, clock excitability & healthy ageing www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

Our @Edgar Buhl @Arni Majumdar new paper is out “Infantile Cerebellar‐Retinal Degeneration Associated With Novel ACO2 Variants: Clinical Features and Insights From a Drosophila Model” in Clinical Genetics doi.org/10.1111/cge....

Infantile Cerebellar‐Retinal Degeneration Associated With Novel ACO2 Variants: Clinical Features and Insights From a Drosophila Model

Our Translational Loop integrates patient genetic data with Drosophila models to study disease mechanisms. We identified ACO2 variants in a patient linked to ICRD and show that our animal model mirro...

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bsky.app/profile/alzh... Please see our research using flies to study novel genes involved in Alzheimer's, thanks for the support BRACE

BRACE Dementia Research@alzheimersbrace.bsky.social · last yr.

We recently spoke to Professor James Hodge at the University of Bristol, to learn more about his research into Alzheimer’s genes.   Using fruit flies, his work explores how these genes impact memory and sleep - key areas in dementia research. @docfly.bsky.social

We @hughp.bsky.social have a 3 year postdoc in rodent circadian behaviour and ageing at University of Bristol www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in... deadline 15 April join our BBSRC sLola on CircadiAgeing: circadian rhythms, clock excitability & healthy ageing www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

We @hughp.bsky.social have a 3 year postdoc in rodent circadian behaviour and ageing at University of Bristol www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in... deadline 15 April join our BBSRC sLola on CircadiAgeing: circadian rhythms, clock excitability & healthy ageing www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

A honey bee chimeric nAChR ion channel in Drosophila for modelling species-specific insecticide response thanks to @annalassota.bsky.social and @docfly.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels and the main mediators of synaptic neurotransmission in the insect brain. In insects, nAChRs are pivotal for sensory processing...

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Honoured that Drs Sam Amin, Thiloka Ratnaike, Qiang Liu, Bethan Vaughan and I have been awarded an EBI grant to explore the feasibility of using AI for Patient Registries elizabethblackwellinstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/02/26/m...

One week to go until my inaugural lecture at University of Bristol

Our @hannahrees.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social @dynamicbrain.bsky.social @andrewmillar.bsky.social @rebeccahughes.bsky.social @antdodd.bsky.social @mvonschantz.bsky.social @roblucas.bsky.social @andrewmillar.bsky.social BioclocksUK review published royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

BioClocks UK: driving robust cycles of discovery to impact | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Chronobiology is a multidisciplinary field that extends across the tree of life, transcends all scales of biological organization, and has huge translational potential. For the UK to harness the oppor...

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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 bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/de...