Join our virtual talk series, Neurodegeneration in Flies today at 4pm GMT. Dr Hongjie Li, Baylor College of Medicine, USA will present a talk entitled ‘Mapping Aging and Longevity at Cellular Resolution Across the Whole Organism’. ucl.zoom.us/j/9935145908... ID: 993 5145 9080 Passcode: 969971

IHA researchers have uncovered a new link between kidney-like tissues & brain health in fruit fly models of Parkinson’s & Gaucher disease. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

This week's departmental seminar is by Prof Nazif Alic from @ihaucl.bsky.social who will discuss the relevance of polymeraze III activity to human ageing. Everyone welcome!

Also wonderful to catch up with Ivana, Jenny, Cathy & Teresa 🥘🦐 Formerly postdoc contemporaries, now successfully leading the Bjedov, Regan, Slack and Niccoli labs! #WomenInScience #Drosophila #IHA @jennyregan.bsky.social @niccolilab.bsky.social @cathyslack.bsky.social @ihaucl.bsky.social

‘Can we live forever: A Question of Science’- Watch Prof. Linda Partridge in conversation with Prof. Brian Cox www.youtube.com/watch?v=EczR...

NEW PAPER- Bähler group ‘Mitochondrial Translation Inhibition Triggers an Rst2-Controlled Transcriptional Reprogramming of Carbon Metabolism in Stationary-Phase Cells of Fission Yeast’ doi.org/10.3390/biom...

Watch the latest talk in the Neurogeneration in Flies series from Dr Teresa Niccoli and sign up for reminders for the monthly events. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, an internationally renowned expert in global health, has been announced as UCL’s new Vice-Provost (Health). www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

PUBLICATION ALERT -Increased neuronal protein synthesis can delay ageing, new paper in @plosbiology.org examining the repressor of RNA polymerase III Maf1 from Alic and Partridge labs at the IHA concludes, with funding from the BBSRC dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Watch Prof Ross Cagan’s talk entitled ‘Flies to Cancer to Tauopathy: A Curious Path to a Therapeutic Lead’ from the Neurodegeneration in Flies Virtual Series. www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/... Available until 16/05/25

Scientists led by Dr Teresa Niccoli @niccolilab.bsky.social have found clues as to why some nerve cells are resistant to disease processes that cause frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in a new @alzheimersresearchuk.org funded study in fruit flies @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY in the Alic & Partridge labs at the IHA. Join us to elucidate the mechanisms of nutritional programming of adult physiology & lifespan in the fruit fly. To apply: tinyurl.com/2m3cvtb3 Closing 7 May 2025 Our recent work on the topic: doi.org/10.1038/s435... doi.org/10.1038/s435...

Watch Prof Adam Dobson’s talk for the Neurodegeneration in Flies Virtual Series entitled ‘The microbiota-gut-brain axis promotes Drosophila ageing’ 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/... (expires 18/04/25)

Expressions of interest are invited for Research Career Development Fellowships in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment. Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...