Only two weeks to go until Pint of Science UK arrives in Sheffield! Less than 10 tickets remaining for 'Our Body' Sheffield Tap on Tuesday 10th May, 7pm! #pint22 @UniShefEngage Neuroscience Institute

Thoroughly enjoyed presenting at Pint of Science UK last night! @UniShefEngage Neuroscience Institute #pint22 (Long series of tweets incoming)

In September, I'm running the Dragon's Back Race (the length of Wales from Conwy Castle to Cardiff Castle: dragonsbackrace.com). I'm raising money for people living with MND. You can read more info and donate on: justgiving.com/fundraising/sa… MND Association #MND

Completed day two of the Dragon's Back Race! Want to see what I've been up to? Check out this video from day one: fb.watch/fnpSYFOTNV/ justgiving.com/fundraising/sa…

Congratulations to Dr Rachel Hughes Rachel Hughes for passing her PhD viva! 🥳 thanks to Laura and Robin Ketteler R Ketteler for being super examiners! Fantastic effort Rachel! Neuroscience Institute DiMeN DTP

Two positions available to join the Mortiboys Lab team - a research technician and post doctoral research associate! Join us at SITraN with Prof Heather Mortiboys.

Join us this week when Rachel Hughes and Francesco Capriglia attend the International Symposium on Autophagy in Sapporo, Japan! After a busy couple of days in Tokyo getting used to the new time zone, they are heading up to Sapporo for the start of the conference today!

Had a wonderful time at the international symposium on autophagy in Sapporo. Lots to think about when we get home Rachel Hughes Francesco Capriglia

On the #blogathon today we chat to Sarah Roscoe who is presenting at #alsmndsymp this year. Sarah’s research investigates a method to help determine the optimal number of calories a person living with #MND #ALS should be consuming. Find out more ⬇ mndresearch.blog/2022/11/11/sym…

A brilliant four days at the #BNA2023 ! Lots of great talks and lovely to have five posters from the lab! Tia Parker Francesco Capriglia Toby Burgess Louise Heywood Aina Mogas-Barcons #mitochondria #neuroscience

Francesco Capriglia, Rachel Hughes and Naomi are in Bologna for Euromit 2023. Looking forward to a fantastic week of talks! #Euromit2023 #mitochondriac

Rachel Hughes sharing her work in Leigh Syndrome patient-derived cells with the mitochondrial research community. Off to a great start #euromit2023

Rachel Hughes and Katy Barnes are excited to be at the South Holland Centre Auditorium in Spalding for a Parkinson's fundraising concert!

EJS ACT-PD Cure Parkinson's Emma Davies UK Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Studies Group Another poster presenter was Rachel Hughes Rachel Hughes from Neuroscience Institute who was providing background & an outline of the project she is working on exploring the repurposing of anti-gout drugs for #Parkinsons youtube.com/watch?v=Ijkn9t…

It was graduation day! And what a graduation it was. The fantastically talented MortiboysLab former PhD student, now postdoc, Rachel Hughes received her PhD, followed across the stage by Tom Payne receiving his PhD too!

🔥Paid summer studentship opportunity! 🔥 For students at any Yorkshire university to investigate cellular mechanisms in ageing here at Sheffield, using live cell culture and fluorescent imaging techniques. Application deadline: Thursday 29 February noon. generationresearch.ac.uk/studentships/2…

🔬 On #WorldParkinsonsDay, our lab stands united with the community in our dedication to advancing research towards a future free from Parkinson's disease. Here's a glimpse of our work in action! #ParkinsonsResearch 🧬

Congratulations to our award-winning ECRs and thank you to all those who took part in our first ECR symposium. sheffield.ac.uk/neuroscience-i…

Super excited to share the latest paper from MortiboysLab Simon Bell We show metabolic abnormalities in astrocytes from Alzheimer's patients which is rescued with hexokinase 1. Am amazing team effort and I am so happy this exciting work is now out rdcu.be/dTTcf