Agnete Kirkeby’s 2025 Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecture is available online: youtu.be/EtuRHdPX4rc?... She delivered a masterclass on stem cell therapies for #Parkinsons. A PwP told me : “I was expecting not to understand much, but I understood everything!” @kirkebylab.bsky.social @parkinsons.org.uk

OK, this is your last chance! Applications for the @cureparkinsons.org.uk Research Committee Internship programme close on Monday 1st December (5pm UK). Open to PhD students & post-docs doing #Parkinsons research in the UK or Europe cureparkinsons.org.uk/2025/10/cure...

New research from @kunathlab.bsky.social & colleagues reports G51D mutagenesis of the endogenous Snca rat gene caused reduced synaptic localisation of #Parkinsons-associated α-synuclein, proteomic evidence of early synaptic dysfunction, & ⬆️ propensity for α-syn path academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

I’m really pleased the brilliant work by Stephen West and Ammar Natalwala - 2 very talented PhD students - is now out in @braincomms.bsky.social

I'm so proud that Andrew Chai passed his viva with flying colours :-) Huge thanks to Prof Roger Barker and @clairedurrant1.bsky.social for being exceptional examiners 🙏

The first Parkinson’s Nurse Specialist role in the UK was created 35 years ago. Thank you Liz Craig and the army of amazing Parkinson’s nurses past and present.

A group of rats is called a mischief. Happy World Rat Day. 🐀

This was the most fun I’ve had in a while. Kuhan and Dave were so lovely to chat with 😃@2parkiesinapod.bsky.social

Wish I was there. Super-proud of Pleasie Mill @cilialab.bsky.social 🥰

Great to catch up with Simon Stott @cureparkinsons.org.uk in Pisa at Spark NS meeting

Get ready for our Spring Research Update Meeting! 🔬 Taking place at BMA House, home of the British Medical Association in London on 24 March, the event will focus on updates from the phase 3 clinical trial for Ambroxol, AsPro-PD, which begins this spring. Book your place: https://buff.ly/42W11jW

Multi-arm, multi-stage (MAMS) platforms allow multiple therapies to be tested simultaneously. Georgia Mills (EJS ACT-PD), Kuhan (@2parkiesinapod.bsky.social), Haris Charalampos Tzoulis (Bergen), Emma Gray (MS Society) discuss MAMS for Parkinson’s. youtu.be/D5Qacc6WJNY?...
 ejsactpd.com #Parkinsons

Dave and Kuhan are awesome @2parkiesinapod.bsky.social I had so much joy doing the podcast with them 🙏

📢 Exciting news: Our call for LOIs is OPEN for the CRN 2025 Scientific Track! This #FundingOpportunity focuses on dissecting the mechanisms that can contribute to PD heterogeneity. Be part of a global network pushing the boundaries of #ParkinsonsResearch. Submit your LOI: bit.ly/3DXOBxt

My new work clothes 😊

Transcription factors find and activate their target genes by recognising how DNA is packaged inside the nucleus of cells. New research from Dr Abdenour Soufi & colleagues published in Nature. #RegenerativeMedicine #CRM regeneration-repair.ed.ac.uk/news/irr-new...

Three great PhD student talks for Parkinson’s UK ERIG Faidra Batsaki ( Prof Chris Coxon) Marc Forndt (Prof Mathew Horrocks) Zhijun Wang (Prof Tilo Kunath) Congrats to Marc for winning the Ken Bowler Travel Award 🥇 😃

Congrats to Emily Prescott for successfully defending her thesis. First PhD student of Suman De at SITraN at the University of Sheffield.

Abstract submission for Stem Cell Models of Neurodegeneration 2025 is open until January 31st 2025! Come register and share your work with us! scmnd.com We look forward to hosting you in Edinburgh next year :-) #neuroscience #iPSC #neurodegeneration #stemcells #dementia #organoids

Here is a nice mushroom

INTR 2024 joint with 34th NECTAR

Anne Rosser & Clive Svendsen … in Singapore 😊

Here are some nice mushrooms

For people in Edinburgh: I will give an IEE seminar at 2pm on upcoming Wednesday (27 March) discussing two big questions in biology: 1) Where is the position of the root of the eukaryotic tree of life? 2) What is the evolutionary origin of mitosis/meiosis?

Hermitage of Braid #fungifriends 😃

Dawn Redwood in #grangecemetery 😃

Confirmation 😊. Proud of my first spore prints. Thanks 🙏 for advice

Lovely tree is some Scottish sunshine. 😊Inch Park, Edinburgh

Not sure what kind of mushrooms these are? Inch Park, Edinburgh #FungiFriends

#FungiFriends Found another wee mushroom on the Dawn Redwood this morning 😃 #GrangeCemetry Edinburgh

Wow…such an interesting article about mitochondrial-derived vesicles. Still interesting and ancient stuff to discover 😃

#FungiFriends Inch Park, Edinburgh

Another one this morning 😃

Two wee #FungiFriends on a Dawn Redwood in #GrangeCemetry Edinburgh … very tiny 😅

Still time to register for Cure Parkinsons webinar on Stem Cells and #Parkinsons. Prof Agnete Kirkby will be discussing the STEM-PD trial. Dr Cheney Drew and Rachel Gibson will cover the patient experience of surgical trials...see you 😀 cureparkinsons.org.uk/2023/11/upco...

Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh