Postdoc @NDCNOxford | Passionate about science & education capacity building in Africa | Councillor @SONAorg | Webinar coordinator @TReNDinAfrica @IPDGC_Africa
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture on AI careers. It will teach you more about winning in the AI race than all the AI content you’ve scrolled past this year.
Thrilled to have contributed to a newly published Nature Medicine Policy Perspective on Accelerating Africa’s Brain Health Agenda.
Read the full article here ➡️https://t.co/Okrra5QT8F
One of the fastest ways to end the war in Sudan – where 25 million people need aid, 10 million have been displaced, and 5 million are near famine – is for the UAE to stop arming the RSF. That’s why I introduced a bill to cut off U.S. arms sales to the UAE until they do so.
Can an animal sense the world with neurons from another species ? See our brain chimera paper and the accompanying one by Jun Wu mentioned in last post
I'm finally hiring to the newly-established Fowler Lab in Oxford! 👩🔬 Drop me a line if you're interested in EVs, tau, proteomics, and super-resolution microscopy! 2-yr RA (https://t.co/6zxkOldtui) and 3-yr Postdoc (https://t.co/6zxkOldtui) positions available! #phd#science#jobs
The GENtoniK paper is finally out in Nat Biotech! https://t.co/IsQzBk7Xq7 A chemical cocktail to drive maturation of neurons and other hPSC-derived cell types. Congrats to Emiliano, Andrew, @OberstPolina, @YZorina, @BaggioliniA, @ChenShuibing@gabriele_ciceri and many others.
The #DFG invites interested #researchers from all African countries and Germany to engage in a scientific exchange and to initiate new collaborative ventures in the field of #neurosciences. Subject areas include basic, applied and clinical topics. More: ⬇️ https://t.co/yQXJFq5L36
The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund is open!
Applications are invited from pairs of researchers from Cambridge and African institutions, across all disciplines, to initiate and/or strengthen research collaborations.
https://t.co/YGxMXHp90z
WINGS, the WIN Global Scholars Programme, is now open for applications for 2023-24! We are looking for PhD students and early career researchers from the Global South working with MRI research. 🧵1/3
Excited to share this review prepared jointly by the James Ellis and @JulioMTNeuro labs, published online today at @Biology_MDPI. Here, we discuss the use of in vitro multielectrode array technology in iPSC models of neurodevelopmental disorders.
(A long thread 🧵)
DYK that researchers funded by our Regenerative Medicine Program developed a method that could accelerate the search for #ChronicPain treatments? The method uses human #StemCells to make #NerveCells that can be used in #PainResearch. Read more: https://t.co/e4lX8FMzwF
Interested in single cell genomics but need help getting started? Check out the full agenda for our Single Cell Genomics Day next Friday (4/7). All talks will be live-streamed (no registration required) at https://t.co/mkkGb2p91d
Excited to share my lab’s new paper out today @CellCellPress.
"Touch neurons underlying dopaminergic pleasurable touch and sexual receptivity"
Congratulations to this amazing team of scientists.
https://t.co/VYf1nfkWtB
Jimena and I are excited to share our latest preprint on the chemogenetic silencing of pain, in rodent & human models! Big thanks to the whole team (many twitterless), @interlukein@psalmotoxin
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