Delighted to have been awarded Runners Up in the "Team Excellence" category for the CMVM Staff Recognition Awards Edinburgh Medical School. Great to see our Live Human Brain Tissue Research Team of scientists, research nurses and neurosurgeons recognised for our collaborative research!🧠

I’m very biased but a wonderful talk from Paul Brennan and my PI Claire Durrant on the use of human brain slice cultures to study AD at #EdNeuroDay Edinburgh Neuroscience

We are proud to announce that Christian Hewgill is now a #raceagainstdementia Ambassador. Christian works as a presenter on The Fast And The Curious and F1 Explains. In 2023 Christian’s Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. He is determined to help us win this race - faster.

I’m really proud to be doing this. A fantastic charity, as you’d expect with it being founded by the great Sir Jackie Stewart I’ll help in any way I can to find a cure so at some point in my life time people don’t have to go through what we’re going through

Please RT - I have a 12 month research technician post studying resilience to Alzheimer's linked tauopathy. If you're looking for your next step in your neuro career and have primary/cell culture and molecular biology skills this might be for you! 🧬🧠 qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

Super excited to join forces with Dr Jo Jackson (jojacksonhere.bsky.social) Natalie Connor-Robson Claire Durrant Owen Dando to understand the synaptic basis of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's. Thanks UK Dementia Research Institute

Really enjoyed writing this journal club for Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Thanks for the invite and the chance to reflect on one of my favourite papers!

Our paper is finally out (my first published first author)! In a tau model, we saw changes in signal encoding in vivo in tandem with synapse and structure alterations. A full summary in the qt below or go read the paper if you’re interested! academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

Major Edinburgh bucket list finally ticked off after years of chasing! Absolutely amazing to see the Northern Lights!

Congratulations to Dr Soraya M from The University of Edinburgh who has been shortlisted for the SULSA Postdoctoral Prize! 🏆 Soraya will present her research to our panel of judges tomorrow!

Very proud to have been shortlisted for this award amongst other very high quality candidates, reflecting how great Scotland is for research 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

First preprint from our group was released - led by the twitterless Max Wilson. In this, we determine that GABABR signalling differs between rats and human cortical circuits, and may contribute to anti-seizure drug mechanisms.

This couldnt have been performed without amazing collaborators Claire Durrant Paul Brennan, Fiona LeBeau, Dr Soraya M Lewis Taylor Robert McGeachan

Such a pleasure to take part to the UK Dementia Research Institute Synapse Theme ECR meeting in York and to be awarded the prize for best flash talk! So many great talks and promising research! 🧠🔬

Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Gregor Smith has updated Health Boards on the launch of a new vaccination programme for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) to protect babies and older people from serious respiratory infection. bit.ly/RSVlaunch

Today is the day! If human brain slice cultures, alzheimers proteins or age related changes are your jam, come find me this afternoon. #FENS2024

Today I will be presenting at #FENS2024 14:00 - 17:30 poster session. If you're interested in synaptic pathology in primary tauopathies or using human brain slice cultures come and say hi🙋‍♂️Preprints below: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… medrxiv.org/content/10.110… medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now at #FENS2024 Dr Soraya M from Claire Durrant lab with her awesome data modelling Alzheimer’s in organotypic human brain slices

Our commentary written by Claire Durrant Prof Tara Spires-Jones and I is now online! We discuss a new antibody against oligomeric tau, that showed efficacy in both cellular and mouse models, following intranasal delivery (in the mice not the cells lol). science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today marks the official end of my PhD journey with the publication of the last of my work done in Gareth Miles . We looked at an idea of developmental excitatory : inhibitory synaptic biases underlying early ALS pathology. Thanks to all who supported me! doi.org/10.1371/journa…