Brand new lab coat time! You REALLY don’t want to see my old one - I use it as a teaching tool to show why we wear lab coats…. 😀

I don’t usually endorse anything, but I am making an exception for my wife Linda. She makes jewellery for all occasions and budgets. Find her shop on Etsy - Lindaurum. She also shows her work on Twitter Lindaurum

The Delta variant is still clearly the most transmissible variant out here. Please, wear a mask when in public. Let’s do everything we can to break the infection link.

The Cell Culture Facility’s new Nikon Fluorescence/DIC/phase-contrast microscope which will allow live-cell quantitative imaging as well as imaging fixed cells and tissues. Funded by IPS, it is a perfect example of how research is supported by School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Ten days left to the closing deadline…

A fantastic opportunity not to be missed. If you are interested, find yourself an academic who will sponsor you and work with them to develop your application. If you are interested in the field of neurodegeneration, I am your man!

Just to let you know, the whole world is rooting for you Rayan. What a brave lad #Save_Rayan bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

A warm welcome to Wen Li, who has joined Richard Parsons to study for a PhD. Wen will be investigating the dysregulation of NAD+ synthesis in Alzheimer’s disease and its role in synapse and axon loss. King's College London Pharmacy 🌈 School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Not every day can be spent doing science. Sometimes, you just have to get up the ladder and repair the damage caused by Storm Eunice.

Our latest paper, a collaboration between me and my colleagues Frank Hirth and Paul Facey Paul Facey which describes a molecular link between the accumlation of a protein linked to Parkinson's with the destruction of the connections between neurones academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-ar…

Parsons neuro lab Christmas lunch!!! 😀😀

Welcome to the lab Yuecheng Zhang. Yuecheng is studying for a PhD into the role of post translational modification upon the enzymology of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase.

Not a science post, but this is the weather in Kent at the moment. 😍

Waking the dogs in our local park and came across some science-themed graffiti 😀#graffiti #science

Back “home” today to give the keynote speech at the University of Birmingham School of Biosciences PhD symposium. I spent 10 happy years here doing my undergraduate, PhD and first post-doc position. Even more proud as Anna is doing her PhD here also. #BGRS2023

The Richard Parsons Posse at the KCL IPS Postgraduate Research Symposium 😀👍

Last call, Neurofliers! Go submit abstract 16 June: uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/abs… Early bird deadline 16 June: uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/reg… Got travel bursaries for PhD students 16 June: uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/the… Don't get left out! Deadline 16 June, Sunday 🏃🏃‍♂️🏃🏃‍♂️

My excellent MSc students Zexuan and Caro with their posters. Fantastic work, they both have bright futures ahead 👍

Back home where it all started for me 33 years ago as a bright eyed, eager undergrad. ❤️ (It was Dept. of Biochemistry then). NeuroFly2024

Welcome to Jingwen Wang, our latest PhD student. Jingwen is on a China Scholarship Council-funded PhD in which she is developing a Drosophila model of NNMT expression as a tool for candidate screening in drug discovery.