Congratulations to Prof Andrew Dick on his appointment as UCL's Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences. As our BRC co-director, Andrew plays a pivotal role in driving translational research that improves outcomes for patients with eye disease. We can't wait to see him flourish in this new role!

Come celebrate UCL's 200th birthday with a very special Shambles event on May 6th with physicists, Olympians, biochemists, musicians, comedians and more!! thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/cosmic-ucl

Our new paper is out today in @arvoiovs.bsky.social We provide evidence that the connecting cilium rootlet in mouse photoreceptors may act as a scaffold that supports ER positioning, enabling it to branch and form membrane contact sites with other cellular membranes. @ucleye.bsky.social

We are thrilled that our new centre for eye care, research, and education will be called Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health. We will be moving to the new centre in 2027 alongside our colleagues at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Charity. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

📣Job alert deadline extension📣 The Lecturer (Teaching) in Audiology role that we are recruiting for at the EI now has a deadline of 10th April! If you know anyone who might be interested in or appropriate to apply, further information is here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Meet Elfride De Baere, Head of Clinic at Ghent University Hospital’s Center for Medical Genetics. She shares why PacBio long-read sequencing + a multiomic approach (genomics + transcriptomics) can help deliver clearer insights for families. #WeCareForRare #RareDiseaseMonth #GeneticEyeDisease

We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.

🧬 Major breakthrough: IOB researchers identify new genetic cause of inherited blindness in overlooked RNA genes. The discovery solves decades-old diagnostic mystery and opens new pathways for many patients worldwide. ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicBlueSky #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs

New international collaborative work (incl us) just out in @natgenet.nature.com showing how dominant variants in RNU genes like RNU4-2 can also cause Retinitis Pigmentosa Mathieu Quinodoz, Kim Rodenburg, Susanne Roosing, @carlorivolta.bsky.social & many others www.nature.com/articles/s41...

another great international collaboration with our friends in UK and Australia to which we could contribute, describing a very unique disease mechanism for a novel neurodegenerative disorder #genetics #raredisease @ajhgnews.bsky.social @jamesfasham.bsky.social @rdexeter.bsky.social

Amazing science being presented @rd2025.bsky.social including from our team @ucleye.bsky.social 🧫🧬🧪🔬

We’ll done Davide 👏 excellent talk @rd2025.bsky.social

We’ll done Owen 👏 great talk at @rd2025.bsky.social in Prague

A new drug for a rare genetic disease that can lead to sudden loss of vision has been approved for NHS patients after a successful clinical trial co-led by Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man @ucleye.bsky.social & Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS. Supported by @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Explore the new resource!

🧬 How can we navigate the genetic complexity of inherited retinal diseases? Our new paper in @ajhgnews.bsky.social presents RetiGene, a curated atlas of IRD genes, built with @erdc-team.bsky.social, to support diagnosis, research and therapy. 👉 bit.ly/467U1S9 #AcademicBlueSky #IRDs #VisionResearch

Congratulations to @ucleye.bsky.social's Professor @pearsekeane.bsky.social on receiving the @royalsociety.org's prestigious Gabor Medal for his contributions to advancing retinal image analysis through AI for the diagnosis of eye disease. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

We are seeking a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow to work with Professor Marinko Sarunic’s group at @ucleye.bsky.social and UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering. Closes 2 September. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)

An absolute scam. Does this serve science? No it does not. www.thebookseller.com/news/springe...

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Everyone at @ucleye.bsky.social has been deeply saddened by the passing of a highly esteemed colleague in June 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

👁‍🗨 We are seeking for a motivated and enthusiastic colleague to join our team. Do you want to know more? visit the link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Congratulations Freddie on your PhD defence 🎉🥳 huge thank to the examiners Chris Inglehearn and Dan Gore 🙏

In both roles, new recruits will be part of an interdisciplinary team that uses state-of-the-art technologies to develop transformative therapeutic targets as part of the LifeArc Centre for Rare Respiratory Diseases. Please DM to discuss opportunities further. 🧪🧪 /fin

It’s incredibly hard to express what Professor Pete Coffey meant to so many of us. The Macular Society has written a beautiful tribute to Pete and I'm honoured to have contributed a few words. Thank you, my friend, for so many happy days. www.macularsociety.org/about/media/...

Congrats Owen! And of course also to you and @cheethamlab.bsky.social! He did great & we had very interesting discussions! Thanks for the invitation & thinking about me as the external expert. I really enjoyed it! It was lovely to catch up with you! Thanks a lot for the hospitality!

Check our latest paper... Variants in NR6A1 cause a novel oculo vertebral renal syndrome #RareDisease #Genetics #zebrafish #devbio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Owen and many thanks to Alex and Amanda.

Congratulations Owen on your PhD defence 🥳🎉🥂huge thank you to examiners @jandritu.bsky.social and @amandajcarr.bsky.social

Congratulations to @ucleye.bsky.social's Early Career Researcher (ECR) community for delivering another inspiring early career researchers' symposium last week, and to all recipients of the IoO ECR awards 2025. lnkd.in/gikiRGTF

A.I. is improving the accuracy of medical diagnoses. Today for inherited retinal diseases [IRD] (Eye2Gene vs retinal experts) nature.com/articles/s42...

Excited to be offering a new Macular Society funded UK PhD studentship at @ucleye.bsky.social with Giulia De Rossi. The project will investigate a new therapeutic target for fibrosis in age-related macular degeneration. Deadline for applications is 14th July. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

1 in 2000 young adults in the UK are affected by inherited retinal diseases. Pioneering #GeneTherapy offers new hope. Read more here: moorfieldsbrc.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Prof. Alison Hardcastle & Prof. James Bainbridge @ucleye.bsky.social

Congratulations Mathieu! @mquinodoz.bsky.social @iobswiss.bsky.social @erdc-team.bsky.social

It's true! If your submitted manuscript reports findings presented in your ASHG talk, we will send it out for peer review.

🧬 HIghly recommended multidisciplinary, inspiring, cutting-edge top event of human genetics! 🧬 👇

🚨New paper alert🚨 After 40+ years of diagnostic uncertainty, we cracked the case! rdcu.be/eiLAg In an individual with Senior-Løken syndrome, traditional tests failed to identify a genetic cause. By combining #OGM and #LRS, we uncovered a hidden intronic mobile element insertion in IQCB1 (1/2).

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

A list of planned sessions with @ucleye.bsky.social's researchers at this year's @arvoinfo.bsky.social's conference in Salt Lake city is now available on our site. We look forward to seeing some of you there. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/news/202...

New hope for inherited vision loss IOB researchers (@karkam.bsky.social, @carlorivolta.bsky.social, @mquinodoz.bsky.social, @abimoye.bsky.social) identify AP5Z1, AP5M1, AP5B1 mutations, revealing new causes of macular dystrophy. 🔗 www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex... #AcademicBlueSky #Ophthalmology

Now in print and open access. Thanks @ajhgnews.bsky.social for feature in Editors Corner 🧪🧫🧬

Big thank you 🙏 to Julio Corral-Serrano @cheethamlab.bsky.social @carlorivolta.bsky.social @hardcastlelab.bsky.social @elfridedebaere.bsky.social & many colleagues. Funded by @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social ‪@iobswiss.bsky.social‬ @ugent-fge.bsky.social JTC EJPRD Solve-RET FWO

You can now view the recordings of @ucleye.bsky.social's inaugural lectures directly on our YouTube channel. Make sure to subscribe to stay up to date with new content. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And @hardcastlelab.bsky.social supported by @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social and many others

Delighted to be part of this study led by Julio Corral-Serrano with @elfridedebaere.bsky.social and @carlorivolta.bsky.social

We are delighted to offer a 3-year PhD studentship at the UCL Ear Institute to study transcriptomic changes of auditory neurons in hearing loss. Funded by RNID; open to UK & international students. 🧪👂🧠 #neuroskyence Apply by 25th May 2025: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A landmark study, involving UCL researchers including Prof Henry Houlden & Dr Heba Morsy @uclqsion.bsky.social, has found 69 previously unidentified genetic determinants of rare disease, including uncommon forms of epilepsy and schizophrenia www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...