Super proud of our postdoc @sophiesiems.bsky.social for securing a MSCA award to fund her ambitious project on the axon-myelin interface across vertebrates 🐟🐁🧠. Very competitive call this year– feeling humbled and grateful to @ec.europa.eu marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-aw...

New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687

If you're interested in the factors that enable the regular structure of CNS #myelin sheaths by #oligodendrocytes, check this out. Featuring a #CDC42 - effector proteins - #septin axis. Congrats to 1st author Sophie, and a big thank you to all who contributed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy holiday wishes from the Almeida Lab 🎄✨️ Very grateful to an excellent team for all the thinking, tinkering, and troubleshooting in 2025. Extra proud of our two postdocs @sophiesiems.bsky.social and @katymarshallphelps.bsky.social landing their own pilot grants just in time for Christmas 🎁

Very grateful to the RSMacDonald Trust for funding my pilot project to establish zebrafish models of STXBP1-related NDDs - a brilliant pre-Christmas 🎁 Thanks so much to the @almeidalab.bsky.social for their continued support!

Pleased to share that I’ve been awarded a Catalyst Award from the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social 🥳 Many thanks to the MS Society UK for supporting our research in the @almeidalab.bsky.social and helping to advance understanding of MS!

Shout-out to our PhD student Wei Huang for stepping up to present her work on zebrafish motor neuron synaptic protein heterogeneity at the Darwin Trust symposium — great to see the project (and presentation skills) evolving nicely! 🐟 🔬🧠

Enhorabuena Dr Carla Peiró for smashing your PhD defence cum laude! And teaching us about myelin internalization when she visited from the Achucarro! 🐟🐁

OPPORTUNITIES ⏰Dec 15➡️Assistant Researcher➡️Project FORTIFISH at #i3S. Profile: PhD in biomed sci, veterinary sci or related; Relevant publication record demonstrating research expertise in zebrafish behaviour & welfare; Extensive hands-on expertise in ...👇 👉https://tinyurl.com/3mk3bbfa #i3Sjobs

This is important for 🧪🔬 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Happy to share that I passed my tenure review. Excited to be doing research until someone kicks me out!

Excitement is brewing amongst the team to welcome Neuroscience MSc students to the lab next week. Can't wait to show them Fin Diesel 🐟🔬

👁Happy Halloween from our resident Cyclops fish 👁

Congrats to our PhD Wei Huang for getting a wee grant for upskilling her 🐟🔬 analysis - thank you Darwin Trust!

Updated Almeida lab photo :)

If you're interested in trafficking of #myelin constituents in #oligodendrocytes, and of course you are, you may want to check out our new preprint. It's very nice PhD work by @sophiesiems.bsky.social, and we're grateful to all who contributed! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled that myelin purifier extraordinaire @sophiesiems.bsky.social bagged a DFG fellowship from the Walter Benjamin Program to study axon-myelin adhesion dynamics in zebrafish! Congrats Sophie, and thanks DFG ☺️

Couple of opportunities up to join the group! One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path. One research assistant role. Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more! Or just apply! Thanks! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Celebrating a very Scottish Christmas season in the Almeida lab with deep fried mars bars 🤤🎅🎄