Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab

Cardiff University Lab studying muscle differentiation & neurodegeneration 🐁🪰 Large focus on Mef2 gene expression & protein interactions 🧬

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

The Official Twitter page for Dr Mike Taylors Lab at Cardiff University, focusing on muscle & neurodegeneration using Drosophila Melanogaster and mouse models 🪰 🧠

📷 Mef2 activity in Muscle

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

Next week we'll be heading to Paris for @FENSorg! Hope to see you there 🧠 🧬

[Rachel Spicer, PhD @rachelmspicer]

Today I got to discover the awesome welsh countryside 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tomorrow, I talk at Bangor University!!🪰🧠

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

One of our PhD students is using pseudopupil analysis to measure neurodegeneration in Drosophila models of HD 🪰 🧠 Do you use pseudopupil analysis? 🔬

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

A huge congratulations to this year’s GSA Award recipients! https://t.co/pENcGPXGTa
@alanaeclose @ASUBiodesign @Dara_eCLOSE @EcloseI @FoxChaseCancer @HarmitMalik @HHMINEWS @HutchBasicSci @Princeton @StanfordMed

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

Great to hear from Iris Salecker this afternoon about the role of glia in the nervous system & the molecular control of visual circuit assembly 🪰 🧫

📷 Drosophila Visual System

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

One of our PhD students has been getting to grips with rhabdomere imaging as a way to quantify neurodegeneration 🧠🪰

The only way is up 👀

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

Registration for the 63rd Annual #Drosophila Research Conference is open! This year, attendees can participate either in-person or virtually. Register before January 27th to receive an Early Registration discount! #Dros22 • https://t.co/uQGqugVIba

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

The most powerful answer you can give to a question in a talk, interview, thesis defence is "I don't know" it shows you know the limits of your knowledge, it shows you know there's things still left to learn, it shows humility, it means you will go out there study & get better.

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

Great to hear from David Whitworth this afternoon about the use of Drosophila Melanogaster to investigate mitochondrial function and dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease models 🧠🪰

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

Abstract submission is now open for #Dros22! Topics cover the diversity of #Drosophila investigations, from genetics to molecular biology, cell biology, development, immunology, physiology, neuroscience, evolution, and more. Submit your abstract by Nov 18! https://t.co/FvIvzSTtM4

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

Brilliant to hear from some great Drosophilists at our bi-weekly University Fly Lab Meeting this afternoon 🪰

[Hefin Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @THJ1961]

Lots of mixed feelings @CUBiosciences as we said farewell and wished well to our Deputy School Lead #DanielaRiccardi. Inspiring lecture from Daniela on her research but also an opportunity for us to say thank you for considerable contributions on diversity and inclusivity issues.

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

Two of our PhD students will be participating in the @SWBio_DTP annual conference tomorrow! 🪰

They'll be sharing their work on Drosophila models of Huntingtons's Disease & the use of CRISPR-Cas9 to study how HDAC proteins regulate Mef2 in Muscle cell differentiation 🧬

[Dr Mike Taylors Fly Lab @Taylor_MLab]

A PhD student in our lab is looking at the importance of Mef2 in the developing fly muscle 🪰 Here's an antibody staining for Mef2 in the larval imagine disc 🧬

📷 Rob Mitchell