Abigail Pienaar

Manchester based neuroscientist. Researching circadian rhythms and vision but with other interests too!

[Abigail Pienaar @AbiPienaar]

Excited to finally share our latest preprint! 🎉

Its been a long time in the making so it's great to finally have it out in the world.

https://t.co/Gn6e6twpBR

#Neuroscience #CircadianRhythms #Preprint

[Abigail Pienaar @AbiPienaar]

Had a great time presenting my poster yesterday, thanks to everyone who stopeed by @SRBR_Outreach @SRBRHQ

[British Neuroscience Association @BritishNeuro]

🔬 In vivo patch-clamp electrophysiology FREE webinar in partnership with @Scientifica_Int

Learn core principles, applications in brain research, and practical experimental insights.

#Neuroscience #Electrophysiology

https://t.co/n8qayCKqKZ

[HDR UK Learning @HDRUKLearning]

HDR UK and Coeliac UK are offering a £10,000 Master’s Scholarship in Health Data Science. Apply for our masters scholarship programme and help utilise data science to improve understanding of coeliac disease. More details here: https://t.co/xMGHDY9Gt6

[Abigail Pienaar @AbiPienaar]

How do circadian clocks shape how we see? I'll be presenting at this online event on Thursday, so come along if you want to find out! Free for BNA members
@DNS_UOM
@Time_MCR

[British Neuroscience Association @BritishNeuro]

The BNA Members’ Meeting programme is now live!

Join us online 22–23 April for Rapid-fire talks, research communications, posters and more.

Free for BNA members - join instantly from £11/year.
Explore the full programme and register via https://t.co/pfvywshM20

[Biological Time MCR @Time_MCR]

New paper from our Centre!
The impact of self-selected light on activity rhythms in the diurnal striped mouse: Current Biology https://t.co/0olpjX2CLw

[Division of Neuroscience @DNS_UOM]

We then had a fascinating talk from our Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Annette Allen of @Time_MCR, talking about circadian clocks in the visual system 🧠

[The Betley Lab at UPenn @BetleyLab]

This is your brain.
This is your brain on exercise.

This dataset collected over 5 years ago captivated our neuroscience lab.

[Hiroki R. Ueda @hiroking1975]

#PR Our Ms on brain atlas of circadian activity is out in Science! ~80%(508 regions) of whole brain show significant oscillations. We envisioned it at first CUBIC papers in 2014. It took a decade. Congrats, Katsu&Fukuaki! Ms→https://t.co/VZNUIEsHbm
DB→https://t.co/01evod4ChG

[BrownLab_Clocks&Vision @BrownlabV]

Happy to share our latest paper on the lateral hypothalamic visual circuits in @NatureComms :

https://t.co/jjWxHNtgR5 [https://t.co/GVFXaFmzUY]

We find many cells tuned to detect spatiotemporal contrast and/or motion and identify a role in modulating visually-guided behaviour

[British Neuroscience Association @BritishNeuro]

Is your dosing approach improving science and animal welfare?
Join our joint event with @BritPharmSoc to rethink preclinical dosing.
Let’s shift from “what we’ve always done” to what works.

#3Rs #Neuroscience #Pharmacology #EthicsInScience

https://t.co/kNlU1cK3U5

[Abigail Pienaar @AbiPienaar]

My tips as a chronobiologist for better sleep! @WellbeingUOM @DNS_UOM @BioClocksUK https://t.co/uopM7OU2Jx

[Rebecca Williams @beccasue99]

Was lovely to do this interview with @WomeninNeuroUK 🥰

Hopefully some useful tips on engaging with #scicomm but the main one is... just do it!!

You are an expert (whether you believe it or not 😉) so get out there and get talking!

[Lukasz Chrobok @ChrobokLukasz]

I am advertising a PhD project with @GW4BioMedDTP on daily rhythms in the brainstem and cannabinoids - please share and encourage students to apply!
https://t.co/BoxgGHjFlO

[Aleksandr Kovalev @koval_alvi]

Brain-To-Text Competition 2024

This is the most fascinating BCI competition yet, organized by Stanford.

Everyone has time to develop the world's best brain-to-speech decoder!

Deadline: June 2, 2024

Task: Predict attempted speech from brain activity.

Dataset: They've recorded 12,100 sentences from a patient who can no longer speak intelligibly due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

"""For each sentence, we provide the transcript of what the participant was attempting to say, along with the corresponding time series of neural spiking activity recorded from 256 microelectrodes in speech-related areas of cortex"""

Link: https://t.co/S7V7pSrlPw

Just letting you know we're jumping into this challenge!
@alex_timcenko and @koval_alvi, together with @alvilabs team, we're going to create something interesting.

Like this post if you want to follow our updates���️

[Emily Manoogian @EmilyManoogian]

Attending SRBR 2024? Become a research participant and find out what attending the conference does to your circadian rhythms!
Participants from all countries are welcome.
Informed Consent: https://t.co/3ivgM1XuVM
Information Sheet: https://t.co/DBiUuDonpn

[Wykes_Lab @LabWykes]

Post-doc job opportunity at the University of Manchester. Epilepsy electrophysiology and MRI.
https://t.co/EhedOYPv87 @DNS_UOM @ResearchNetERI @mern_UoM

[Linda Lako @linda_lako]

We are looking for a motivated post-doctoral research associate or research assistant to join our dynamic team!
https://t.co/8KSkU7vh0O

[Gerrit Hilgen @Gerrit__H]

Please share #RetweeetPlease. I have a 4.5-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position within a multidisciplinary project to offer. If you are interested in #retina, #neuroscience, #bipolardisorder, #circadianrhythms, have a look at the advert:
https://t.co/mfipVbmypi

[Professor James Hodge @doctor_fruitfly]

A fully funded SWBio DTP PhD studentship in the Hodge, @HughPiggins lab (Bristol University) @KrasiTsaneva @mino_belle on the effect of ageing on circadian rhythms in flies and mice
https://t.co/qutmEz1PdW