Robert Lucas

Professor of Neuroscience in Manchester. Interested in chronobiology, photoreception and vision.

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Congratulations Bea!

[Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci]

We have awarded over £6.6 million in funding to 54 exceptional biomedical & health researchers through our Springboard scheme for early career scientists.

Read more about our new awardees: https://t.co/QoEWMdAlPt

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

How to measure light for laboratory mammals? How to replicate experimental conditions? What light for husbandry? Delighted to announce the publication of our consensus view answering these questions (summarised in Box 3).
https://t.co/CY4auI09wC

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

We find widespread failure to achieve recommendations for daytime light. Does this matter for healthy adults leading ordinary lives? Alertness higher on days with brighter light in morning and light through day associated with earlier bedtimes.
@altugdidikoglu @BrownlabV

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Spectrawear (our open-source wearable a-opic light dosimeter) has been in action to reveal associations between personal light exposure and subjective daytime sleepiness + the timing of night-time sleep in everyday life https://t.co/4sQdyh65VX

[Patrycja Orlowska-Feuer @Orlowska_Feuer]

Happy to share our latest paper in @JPhysiol
introducing staircase light stimuli to probe irradiance coding in the mouse SCN! An exciting journey with a fantastic team! @BeaBanoTime @RiccardoStorch1 @RobLucasDar
https://t.co/F4EbdnnEjE

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Effort to improve animal welfare and experimental rigour from fantastic group of experts including @netty_allen @altugdidikoglu @michaeltrido @SamerHattar @BrownlabV @RoelofHut @tiffmschmidt @CircadianClocks @VVoikar

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

How should you measure light to predict its appearance to non-human mammals and what constitutes healthy lighting for animal husbandry? Here’s what we agreed when we met in Manchester earlier this year to discuss https://t.co/DjUButbeH5

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Take homes: 1. Measuring light in lux doesn’t accurately quantify brightness for animals. 2. You can use species specific a-opic EDI metrics instead and we show you how. 3. We provide quantitative advice on the amount of light mammals should experience at day and night.

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Proud to be part of this project led by @BrownlabV showing the importance of colour for mice.

[BrownLab_Clocks&Vision @BrownlabV]

Happy to share our latest paper in @BMCBiology showing colour- opponent regulation of mouse behaviour: Colours resembling twilight oppose an innate tendency to avoid light!
https://t.co/nPRPPMYrsm [https://t.co/GVFXaFmzUY]

From Liz Tamayo,@CircadianJosh,@RobLucasDar, @Time_MCR

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Congratulations Andreea!

[Dr Andreea D. Pantiru @A_Pantiru]

Took me a few days to process this, but officially graduated from @UniversityLeeds with a #PhD in #Neuroscience

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Great summary of our latest on striped mice from Ricardo in this thread.

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

So pleased to see this fantastic calloboration published. Striped mice such a powerful model for circadian and vision research! @BeaBanoTime @R_Mallarino @netty_allen

[Beatriz Bano-Otalora @BeaBanoTime]

Happy to see the result of this great & fun collaboration out in @CurrentBiology!

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

@mspitschan @MPICybernetics @teulerlab Very enjoyable trip to Tubingen. Interesting science in a beautiful location. Thanks Manuel!

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

Delighted to see this important work published, great collaboration!

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

..and why I will be submitting evidence to this committee
https://t.co/APwpTBxIs3

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

https://t.co/GwOdNHdQ9R
Desperately needed.

[Robert Lucas @RobLucasDar]

We asked how well optogenetic therapy could recreate the visual code in advanced retinal degeneration - reassuringly well! Great collaboration.
https://t.co/tKDLQ6MRhM
#optogenetic #genetherapy
@UniofOxford
@DNS_UOM
@Time_MCR
@MoritzLindner2
@The_MRC
@CurrentBiology

[Moritz Lindner @MoritzLindner2]

Surviving retinal circuity in advanced RP (rd1) can recreate a rich visual code after #optogenetic #genetherapy! Great to see our paper out! Rodgers et al., @CurrentBiology : https://t.co/17ndeyfeJ8. Amazing work, Jess! @UniofOxford
@Uni_MR @RobLucasDar @spp2127 @OfficialUoM

[Aghileh S Ebrahimi @AghilehE]

I’m delighted to announce, my first corresponding and first author paper (3D-UPPER) in neuroscience with collaboration of @RiccardoStorch1 @RasSPet @Orlowska_Feuer @antoniozippo @qian_huang66 published🎉.It is a good start for new year🎉

https://t.co/8ylynarpem

[Riccardo Storchi @RiccardoStorch1]

Great paper!!! By Annette Allen, revealing circadian regulation of mesopic vision https://t.co/gRF2dP4Fjm