🎙️New episode alert! Prof. Massimo Hilliard and Dr. Ramón Martínez-Mármol discuss neuronal fusion🧠, how viral infections🦠 can disrupt neural circuits through fusion, and how C. elegans🪱, a tiny roundworm, might one day revolutionise nerve injury repair! 🎧 Listen now: qbi.uq.edu.au/podcast-fusi...

Had a great time at the #EMBOcellBioComm in Crete! Huge thanks to @gtavosanis.bsky.social, @hilliardlab.bsky.social, Claudia Bagni, Nektarios Tavernarakis & @embo.org for organising such a memorable event. Congratulations to Miguel Berbeira Santana, winner of the @reviewcommons.org poster prize!

Do not miss out on this amazing meeting! The deadline for abstract submission and registration is March 1st. Check out the program and apply now: meetings.embo.org/event/25-cel... #EMBOcellBioComm @embo.org

Out now! We found a new molecule, OSP-1, that protects neurons from damage caused by oxidative stress. We show that OSP-1 reduces cell death by regulating autophagy, and can be an exciting target for future treatments of acute insults such as stroke. www.nature.com/articles/s41...