A study led by @ClaireDurrant1 (UK DRI at Edinburgh) identifies a particular form of phosphorylated tau as a potential disease driver. The research may have important implications for the development of future anti-tau therapies 👉buff.ly/3RNdHCl

Very excited to have been given the opportunity to talk at Alzheimer's Research UK in the translational insights and interdisciplinary innovations session on work led by @ClaireDurrant1 and Robert McGeachan and myself. Edinburgh Neuroscience #ARUKConf24 alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for-r…

Check out our latest preprint from the brilliant Robert McGeachan co-led with my science buddy @ClaireDurrant1 Evidence for trans-synaptic spread of tau in PSP and live human brain slices! #TeamTau medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Such cool data from the amazing @ClaireDurrant1 lab! Glad I was able to help a bit with this important work showing opposing roles of physiological and pathological amyloid-β on synapses in live human brain slice cultures biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out my first commentary co-written with @popazo_lab, delving into recent exciting studies in the field of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. I'm so grateful to @BrainComms for the invitation! academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

📰Check out our latest newsletter sharing SDWG & NDCAN members' highlights from their recent visit to the The University of Edinburgh Brain Sciences Lab 👉bit.ly/3Il7dWT #ActiveVoice #Dementia #Research #BrainScience #PartnersInResearch

Very glad to share these negative results beautifully presented by @ScotsFriction @ClaireDurrant1 and team. Fly neurons in our hands are very resistant to trans-synaptic spread of human tau! 🪰 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Doing the final preparations today before heading to #ARUKConf24 next week in liverpool. Very excited to talk about our latest preprint from the lab using human brain slice cultures to study the role of amyloid-b at the synapse. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The wonderful Lewis Taylor presenting his recent first author paper from the group of @ClaireDurrant1 at #ARUKConf24 Research at ARUK Find him at his poster 1.20 over the next few days if you want to know more! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I'm very honoured to be nominated for the "inspiring others" staff recognition award The University of Edinburgh and proud of @ClaireDurrant1 and the Live Human Brain Team for their "Team Excellence" nomination!!

Is amyloid beta a friend or foe? @ClaireDurrant1 (UK DRI at Edinburgh) discusses the protein's role in health and disease in this review in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Read here ⬇️ buff.ly/3QoTmU7

This week's scientist interview shines a spotlight on Lewis Taylor - PhD student at The University of Edinburgh! 👨‍🔬 He told us about his research, his first talk at a conference & the importance of prioritising mental health in STEM 💪 Read more: ow.ly/Y1jF50Se5JU #scientistinterview

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…

Our commentary written by @ClaireDurrant1 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…

Fantastic to see BSMS undergraduate medical student Nicoleta Stegarescu present their research on APOE4 & the NMDAR at an international conference! Excellent talk, excellent student, excellent physiologist. #PhysiologyinFocus2024 The Physiological Society BSMS Clinical Neuroscience SussexNeuro

Pleased to share the brilliant Eventer software, published this morning in Frontiers Neuroinformatics. Machine learning assisted classification of spontaneous synaptic events, all with Eventer Neuroscience. Andrew Penn SussexNeuro BSMS Clinical Neuroscience frontiersin.org/journals/neuro…

We had a marvellous time sharing research insights & the public at the Doors Open Day😃 More than 170 visitors engaged with our displays of Drosophila & C. Elegans samples as well as 3D printed brains of participants and other The Lothian Birth Cohorts materials. #doorsopenday #Neuroscience

The annual #Connectome2024 visit is over UK Dementia Research Institute . Some science, some fun and a whole lot of slido. Very proud of us winning the 3rs prize (as part of a much larger team!).

🎉 That's a wrap on #BNA2025! 🇬🇧 This year's International Festival of #Neuroscience in Liverpool, UK was a resounding success, and #FENS is thankful to have been able to join alongside European Journal of Neuroscience Editor-in-Chief John Foxe (John J. Foxe). 🧠 Over the last 3 days, we had to