Happy Purple Day from the Cousin lab!!

Registration for the EMBO workshop «Organelle dynamics in health and disease» is open : meetings.embo.org/event/26-organelle-dynamics Happy to share this exciting programme with top-notch international speakers. @edinunineuro.bsky.social Sponsors: @embo.org @neurochemistry.org @ibroorg.bsky.social

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "Organelle dynamics in health and disease: Bridging molecules to organisms" in #Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 12–14 October 2026. Deadline: 15 July 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-organelle-dynamics#Edinburgh#EMBOOrganelleDynamics #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

• We are delighted to contribute to this work just out in @jneurochem.bsky.social, where we collaborate with the BlueSkyless Smillie lab to reveal that Huntington’s Disease model neurons display excess activity-dependent bulk endocytosis (ADBE).

Fantastic effort from the Presynaptic Pacers, covering the slow leg from an old PI in their team at the Hairy Haggis relay!! All done to support @epilepsyinst.bsky.social!

At the end of the month, The Presynaptic Pacers - a team of epilepsy researchers from the Cousin Lab - are running the Edinburgh Hairy Haggis Relay (May 25th) to raise funds for the Epilepsy Research Institute. Support our run and help drive life-changing research: shorturl.at/hUPhh

Our paper in Nature Comms is now online! Summary below but in short we use living human brain slice cultures in a number of different ways to model dementia processes. Big team effort led by myself, @robertmcgeachan.bsky.social and @clairedurrant1.bsky.social rdcu.be/ej647

If anyone knows of any budding chemists/biochemists looking for a PhD, check out this opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project... in @ecalder.bsky.social new lab at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social. Looking to make lots of cool new tools for studying SUMOylation.

Some of our lab members will be running in the Hairy Haggis Relay Marathon on the 25th of May in support of the Epilepsy Research Institute. We are reaching out to ask for your support in raising funds to support the ERI in advancing epilepsy research and would appreciate any contributions.

My lab is happy to poach people considering greener pastures. We’re currently recruiting a postdoc. 5 years of funding. Visa fees covered by the lab. www.donlin-asp-lab.com/openings I myself avoided Trump 1.0 as a postdoc in Germany- which ended up being an amazing experience.

New review out from our lab on SV2A! Thanks to James for all his hard work on this!