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Many thanks to Matt Swire for presenting his seminar on: Oligodendrocyte-driven plasticity: From Circuit Adaptation to Cognitive Resilience

With thanks to James Tribble on giving the department his Seminar: Targeting metabolic dysfunction and inflammation for neuroprotection: insight from glaucoma - it was a full house!

New job opportunity! We are looking for a Research Assistant to join the Wolfson SPaRC: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137085-...

Starting 2026 with a CommuniTEA event to let everyone to have a quick catch up - we're back!

A photo from the recent Wolfson SPaRC Christmas Party. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday period and a Happy New Year!

The Mall School in Twickenham kindly hosted our researchers who were able to teach their students about the brain, neurons and the human nervous system. Read their report here: www.themallschool.org.uk/2025/12/11/h...

Many thanks to both Marzia Malcangio for hosting Pablo Brumovsky for his presentation on Translational Research in the Pursuit Of New Strategies to Control Pathological Pain. #WolfsonSPaRC

Happy to share our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025... We present a protocol to generate Parasympathetic neurons from hiPSC. They express key parasympathetic/autonomic markers, #ephys features and respond to nicotine. They can also form functional connections with hiPSC-atrial cardiomyocytes.

Stuart Bevan and I are offering an exciting MRC DTP-funded PhD project exploring the mechanisms of pain in Long COVID. Find out more about the project here: 🔗 tinyurl.com/3caseacv Application deadline: 28th October @wolfsonsparc.bsky.social y.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social sioppn.bsky.social

Some scenes from this year's Work Experience event, where we hosted a group of A-Level students for a week and gave them a variety of demonstrations, hands-on experiments, and lectures.

I can never get bored of recording action potentials from my iPSC sympathetic neurons and the RMP was -70mV 😍 #patchclamp #ephys

A huge thank you to the Eva and Bradbury Lab members, @wolfsonsparc.bsky.social, and all the GRC CNS Injury and Repair attendees. So much fun, so much science and all top quality. A poster prize for Zahra to top it off! New ideas, collaborations, connections. As a great conference should be!

Hello Bluesky. Thrilled to finally share some exciting news: I’ve been awarded a 5-year Career Development Fellowship from @versusarthritis.bsky.social to investigate the role of silent nociceptors in arthritis pain. More info below in the PR.

Many thanks to Harvey Davis for visiting us with their seminar: Capillary pericytes as instigators of reduced nerve blood flow during diabetic neuropathy @denklab.bsky.social

Honoured to have presented at the super cool Ephys Club⚡😎👩‍🔬 and thank you for all the constructive comments!

Many thanks to Professor Daniel Bendor today for visiting us to give a talk on 'Time in the auditory cortex: from encoding to expectation'! @ucl.ac.uk

Congrats to the Eva lab for their participation in Wings for Life run to raise money for spinal cord research @richardevalab.bsky.social More info: www.wingsforlife.com/us/research/ Donate: app2.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/en/overlays/...

Elisa Martelletti Talks About In2Research @drelisamartelletti.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/elisa-martel...

Meet Professor SPaRC, part of @wolfsonsparc.bsky.social's outreach to increase awareness of their research in the local community, and to help children learn more about the brain, using a comic written by Christopher Bottoms + illustrated by @theorah.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-profess...

Dr Richard Eva was interviewed on the EyeNews website @richardevalab.bsky.social www.eyenews.uk.com/features/int...

Wolfson SPaRC Lead Researcher Professor David Andersson explains why his work proves Fibromyalgia is autoimmune on the Dr A Says Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDij...

Fancy an academic job in London? Apply below and come join us at our amazing institute! 👏🧪🧠 #PainResearch #PainScience

A fantastic place to work with brilliant colleagues in a vibrant part of London! Wolfson SPaRC is hiring for Lecturer and above-level roles. Come and be part of the exciting work happening here. Amazing people, meaningful impact, and a location that’s hard to beat.

The Wolfson SPaRC (Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre) is recruiting! Two posts available at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader position. Take a look! @kingsioppn.bsky.social #TranslationalResearch #SpinalCordandBrainRepair #HearingLoss #ChronicPain #Migraine www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/111846-...

Many thanks to Bart Trummers visitng us today for his seminar on Ripoptosome regulation of alpha-synuclein-related neurodegeneration www.kcl.ac.uk/people/bart-...

Congratulations to Marzia Malcangio for her article "How microglia contribute to the induction and maintenance of neuropathic pain" being published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience rdcu.be/eeRyl

Our team visited Wellington Primary School for Science Week to teach them about the brain, nerves and neurons! We had a great time and hope that your students enjoyed their lessons as well!

I illustrated a kid's science comic for @wolfsonsparc.bsky.social recently 😄 The comic is all about nerves! I had SO much fun drawing it, and here's a few of my favourite pages. Professor SPaRC's worries on the first page are unfounded- the comic is VERY silly and fun and I'm sure kids will love it!

We visited Bygrove Primary school for Science Week to help the students learn about the brain, nerves and neurons. By combining science with arts and crafts, we hope everybody had a good time!

Had a great time! Remembering the amazing Steve McMahon, whose impact continues to inspire us all. Never to be forgotten. Thank you! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

Many thanks to @flaviamancini.bsky.social in visitng us today and giving a seminar on Learning and Modulating Pain: Neural Control from Cells to Brain Networks!

Many thanks to @theorah.bsky.social who did a wonderful job as our comic artist and bringing Professor SPaRC to life!

Congratulations to Silvia for her PNAS paper on the resolution of chronic arthritis pain! link.growkudos.com/1e7seqxhuyo

Introducing Professor SPaRC! To contribute to Science Week, members of our department will be visiting local schools to teach children about the brain and the human nervous system with models, interactive classes and comics! @kingsioppn.bsky.social #BSW25

Many thanks to Professor Huiliang Li for giving us his seminar on Cholesterol Metabolism: A Key Player in Brain Diseases today!

Morag presenting her poster at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting (and having a great time!). Thanks to The Company of Biologists for the DMM travel grant @dmmjournal.bsky.social #DMMgrants #ARO2025 #AROMWM

We've displayed some of our researchers' images up in our atrium. Some nice colours to brighten things up!

Congrats to the team for their ongoing commitment to the IoPPN Research Culture Fund in their successful running of the CommuniTEA event on Guy's Campus! @lau-fed.bsky.social @juliavw.bsky.social ☕️ #CommuniTEA Learn more here: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/seven-p...

Hello! We are the Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre (SPaRC), a department of King's College London. We focus on researching the molecular basis of pain and hearing loss, and on neural repair and regeneration following disease and injury. Nice to meet you! www.kcl.ac.uk/neuroscience...