Latest exciting work from me and @mirresimons.bsky.social (and the first bit of data from my @vivensa.bsky.social ECR Fellowship) now out as a preprint, looking at effects of knocking down individual spliceosome components on lifespan in vivo: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint. ATF4 activation is thought to lead to longer lifespans. However, our study shows that suppression rather than activation extends lifespan in the fly. New Qs: how we can target ATF4 or its downstream targets to gain targeted longevity benefits. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest. Dan tested the importance of Drosophila immune cells by ablating or expanding them using conditional genetics. Turns out no lifespan phenotype, perhaps because there is compensation within the immune cell lineage. More exciting biology to discover. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Really excited to say that from January I'll be starting as an ECR Fellow with the Dunhill Medical Trust based at the University of Sheffield, using Drosophila to look at RNA splicing in ageing! Seems as good a first post on here as I can come up with!

PhD available in my lab, please be in touch should you want more information. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Latest preprint. Well done Dan. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...