Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan
@toraks.bsky.social
👩🏾🔬Scientist🔬🙂 UK Senior Lecturer at Teesside University (like a USA Associate Prof) Studying neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's & Alzheimer's & also mito disease using fruit flies as a model system. Married, 2 sons, USAian UK Cornell BS Duke PhD
Please share! :) 🧠🪰 Funded PhD: Neurodegeneration × social environment - discover sex‑specific brain ageing in Drosophila. Teesside × Leeds 🔬🧬✨ ⏳ Just ~3 weeks until it’s due (7 Jan)! Apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #Neuroscience #Drosophila #Ageing #Parkinsons #Alzheimers#NeuroAgeing
Neurodegeneration and the Social Environment: Sex-Specific Impacts on Neural Ageing and Immune Function in Drosophila melanogaster at Teesside University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Neurodegeneration and the Social Environment: Sex-Specific Impacts on Neural Ageing and Immune Function in Drosophila melanogaster at Teesside University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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📣I had a chat with Teesside Postgraduate Society about my research and being a researcher! I was honoured to be asked and they did a great job. For my 1st podcast experience, it was great. 🙂 Thank you to everyone involved! Click the link to listen! 👂 open.spotify.com/episode/4kI5...
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Today is the 1st day of the PhD conference on drug development for AD (PhD4AD) in Heraklion in Crete at FORTH. This conference has been organised by our PhD students in the TClock4AD consortium. It's been great so far! Organisation is well done and talks really interesting and well-presented!
PhD Conference on Drug Development for Alzheimer Disease (PhD4AD). 5th-7th of November 2025 in Heraklion, Greece. Registration is now open—reserve your spot today! Website: site.unibo.it/tclock4ad/en...
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PhD Conference on Drug Development for AD (PhD4AD). 5th-7th of November 2025 in Heraklion, Greece.
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Big thanks to @clarahowcroft.bsky.social y.social, @toraks.bsky.social ks.bsky.social, @dpdoupe.bsky.social for organising the first NE Fly Meeting! It was inspiring to see the Northern Drosophila community come together with such warmth and energy. Here’s to more science, support, and shared ideas!
Thank you @clarahowcroft.bsky.social, @toraks.bsky.social and David Dupe for getting the Northern Drosophila community together and organising the first NE fly meeting. We had a wonderful time, thanks for creating such a lovely, supportive and enthusiastic spirit. See you soon!
Clara Howcroft Ferreira@clarahowcroft.bsky.social · last yr.It was a lovely first Fly North(East) meeting, diverse and supportive. Thank you all for sharing your science and the enthusiasm in strengthening our community. Thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social for the sponsorship that made it possible.
It was a lovely first Fly North(East) meeting, diverse and supportive. Thank you all for sharing your science and the enthusiasm in strengthening our community. Thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social for the sponsorship that made it possible.
Clara Howcroft Ferreira@clarahowcroft.bsky.social · last yr.It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.
We hosted the first North East Fly Meeting today! It was great to connect with people from all over as well as the local universities. A great learning and networking opportunity for us all! Sometimes it's just great to talk flies with all fly people! @clarahowcroft.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social
Featuring our keynote speaker @amandabretman.bsky.social and many members of northern fly groups @poppi62.bsky.social, @natsansor.bsky.social, @vincentcroset.bsky.social, @exdrososcientia.bsky.social, @wolfhuette.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, Marisa Merino, Alistair McGregor, Rebecca Clark.
It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.
Thrilled to be awarded the RGS-IBG Small Research Grant! Looking forward to some summer #fieldwork in the North York Moors to study the often overlooked shallow #peatland areas of our uplands and the many benefits they provide! #RGSgrants #RGS_IBG #peat #soilscience
✳️ I am recruiting for a fully funded BBSRC NEEDL PhD! ✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni! ✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝 📅 Due 12noon on 31st March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Further musings about how food-hoarding titmice and chickadees remember the locations of their caches.... link.springer.com/10.1007/s100...
What is the nature of cache memory in Parids? A comment on Chettih et al. 2024 - Animal Cognition
Recent findings by Chettih et al. (Cell 187: 1922–1935, 2024) from electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus of black-capped chickadees shed light on the debate about how food-hoarding Parids...
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We’re recruiting a PhD student, come and work with us @newcastleuni.bsky.social! This exciting interdisciplinary project applies the quantum formalism to model experimental observations of human emotional memory performance. #physics #psychology #emotions #neuroscience #quantum #quantumformalism
Smulders Lab@smulderslab.bsky.social · last yr.PhD position advertised in my department. Please spread the word: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Yay! I'm very excited that my ballot has been received in Pennsylvania! My 18yo son's too! It's a great feeling to vote! 😁❤️
This is what 50 looks like! 😀 Me at my 50th birthday party on the 5th of October - which was my actual birthday. 🥳🍾🎉
Me and my poster at the NeuroFly Conference! I was so busy there, and same since I got back, so a long delay, but here we are! Mitochondria and Parkinson’s in a Drosophila model! Photo by Simona 🙂❤️ - an Instagram friend I met in person there 🙂
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,489,383!
Who else is going to @neurofly2024.bsky.social ? I'll be there all week and my poster is on Tuesday - mine's #45 (PD & mitos) & Ishrak's is #89 (AD & circadian rhythms) - he's doing his PhD with me. Looking forward to seeing everyone & their science soon! 🙂#NeuroFly2024
20 years ago, I graduated with my PhD! 🎉🥳 My defense was 13th of Nov 2003, but I went to the Duke graduation ceremonies May 2004 I refreshed my lipstick & a newspaper man asked if he could use my picture! 😀 Madeleine Albright's picture & Duke basketball players are smaller! 😲
Join us for @pintofscience.bsky.social Darlington tonight! 🍻😊 There are still some tickets! pintofscience.co.uk/event/health... Tuesday 14th May - Prof John S. Young, Dr Tora Smulders-Srinivasan, Dr Marc Moore #teessideuni #Pint24 #DarlingtonPint #PintOfScience
I'm doing @pintofscience.bsky.social 🍻on 14 May in Darlington! Excited to do the 1st event in Darlington - the venue is near the National Horizons Centre where I do my research, so that makes sense! See details of my talk & the others & book tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/health... #pint24
Healthcare Heroes
Come and quench your thirst for knowledge at Darlington's first Pint of Science event! <br /> <br /> The Healthcare Heroes evening will be themed on 'Our Body'.
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I made it to the FameLab North East Regional Final using this video talking about my scientific research! It's tomorrow 13th April at Teesside! I hope it goes well 🙂 I thought I'd share this, since it's an okay non-scientific summary of my research 🙂 youtu.be/duZWazRxRMk?...