Clem Bernard
@clembrnrd.bsky.social
Neurobiologist fascinated by brain development | University of Exeter | she/her | #WomeninSTEM
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PhD studentship: Building Brain Cir | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter’s Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a faculty-funded PhD studentship to commence on September 21st 2026 or as soon as possible therea...
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📣 Funded PhD studentship in developmental neuroscience in my lab @exeter.ac.uk 🧠🧑🎓
Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!
#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky
Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!
#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky
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Exeter rising-star @hiwwright.bsky.social leading the way in bridging population-scale WGS datasets for federated meta-conditioning across genetically-inferred ancestries. Haplotype effects are rife across the chromosomes: reference panels and LD matrices struggle with the rarest of variation!
Excited to share my first preprint on federated conditional analysis of rare single variant and aggregate association tests across six genetically-inferred ancestry groups in All of Us and UK Biobank doi.org/10.64898/202...
February 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Exeter rising-star @hiwwright.bsky.social leading the way in bridging population-scale WGS datasets for federated meta-conditioning across genetically-inferred ancestries. Haplotype effects are rife across the chromosomes: reference panels and LD matrices struggle with the rarest of variation!
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We are recruiting a postdoc to join a Wellcome Trust-funded project at LSI-Exeter, investigating the role of neural-pancreas dynamics in maintaining glucose homeostasis. 🐟🔬🧠
@lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet #postdocjobs
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February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
We are recruiting a postdoc to join a Wellcome Trust-funded project at LSI-Exeter, investigating the role of neural-pancreas dynamics in maintaining glucose homeostasis. 🐟🔬🧠
@lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet #postdocjobs
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@lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet #postdocjobs
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To keep up the momentum in strengthening our UK #zebrafish community, ECRs at @lsiexeter.bsky.social prepared this meeting review of #UKZF2025 🐟
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
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Fin-ally together: the first UK zebrafish meeting
Summary: The inaugural UK Zebrafish Meeting 2025 brought together over 150 UK researchers to share scientific advances and discuss strategies for strengthening the national zebrafish research communit...
journals.biologists.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:24 AM
To keep up the momentum in strengthening our UK #zebrafish community, ECRs at @lsiexeter.bsky.social prepared this meeting review of #UKZF2025 🐟
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
📣 Funded PhD studentship in developmental neuroscience in my lab @exeter.ac.uk 🧠🧑🎓
Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!
#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky
Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!
#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky
PhD studentship: Building Brain Cir | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter’s Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a faculty-funded PhD studentship to commence on September 21st 2026 or as soon as possible therea...
www.exeter.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 4:38 PM
📣 Funded PhD studentship in developmental neuroscience in my lab @exeter.ac.uk 🧠🧑🎓
Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!
#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky
Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!
#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky
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Very happy to share our new paper in #ScienceSignaling revealing that importin β1 isn’t just important for nuclear transport or neuronal growth.
We now show it is key for presynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, local translation, and memory!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We now show it is key for presynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, local translation, and memory!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Subcellular depletion of importin β1 impairs presynaptic local translation and spatial memory
Axonal localization of importin β1 is required for presynaptic functions that support spatial memory tasks.
www.science.org
January 20, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Very happy to share our new paper in #ScienceSignaling revealing that importin β1 isn’t just important for nuclear transport or neuronal growth.
We now show it is key for presynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, local translation, and memory!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We now show it is key for presynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, local translation, and memory!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Announcing the 10th edition of the European Synapse Meeting in Leuven, October 21-23, 2026. Registration will open soon. Hope to see you all in Leuven this fall! All info: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...
European Synapse Meeting 2026
21-23 October 2026, Leuven, Belgium Supported by VIB Training & Conferences
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January 13, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Announcing the 10th edition of the European Synapse Meeting in Leuven, October 21-23, 2026. Registration will open soon. Hope to see you all in Leuven this fall! All info: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...
If you’re looking for a great PhD opportunity on 🧠 development and a top-notch supervisor, look no further than Giselle’s project! 👇🏻
⚡️Funded PhD position in my lab in Exeter 🧠 @exeter.ac.uk If you are interested in brain development, cell-type diversity, neuroglia, subcortical structures and neurodevelopmental disorders, check out this opportunity. Deadline 28 Feb.
Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
PhD Funding: Subcortical brain deve | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter’s Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a PhD studentship to commence on September 21st, 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
www.exeter.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:53 AM
If you’re looking for a great PhD opportunity on 🧠 development and a top-notch supervisor, look no further than Giselle’s project! 👇🏻
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We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In preprints: the deep evolutionary roots of Cajal-Retzius cells
Vertebrates show a striking diversity of brain size and morphology. Mammals, in particular, have an especially large cerebral cortex, presenting with a characteristic six-layered structure that is bel...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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For those working in psychiatric genomics and related disciplines: join us next Wednesday as we discuss accurate and trusted science communication.
I will cover how researchers can get involved in lending their expertise to educate and combat misinformation, and introduce @authentisci.bsky.social.
I will cover how researchers can get involved in lending their expertise to educate and combat misinformation, and introduce @authentisci.bsky.social.
❗Join us to discuss: ‘Scientifically accurate and ethically responsible science communication in psychiatric genetics’ on 14th Jan !
Organised by the PGC Outreach Committee, BGA Public Science Committee @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social, and @ibangs.bsky.social
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Organised by the PGC Outreach Committee, BGA Public Science Committee @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social, and @ibangs.bsky.social
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
For those working in psychiatric genomics and related disciplines: join us next Wednesday as we discuss accurate and trusted science communication.
I will cover how researchers can get involved in lending their expertise to educate and combat misinformation, and introduce @authentisci.bsky.social.
I will cover how researchers can get involved in lending their expertise to educate and combat misinformation, and introduce @authentisci.bsky.social.
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Lots of exciting PhD projects available through @swbiodtp.bsky.social
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Lots of exciting PhD projects available through @swbiodtp.bsky.social
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
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Multiple BBSRC funded PhD projects available via SWBio
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Multiple BBSRC funded PhD projects available via SWBio
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join our growing team @exeter.ac.uk!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join our growing team @exeter.ac.uk!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
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I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We have a fully funded PhD studentship exploring glial cell development with techniques ranging from molecular neuroscience to system biology.
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We have a fully funded PhD studentship exploring glial cell development with techniques ranging from molecular neuroscience to system biology.
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
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Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
October 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
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WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowships | Wu Tsai Institute
wti.yale.edu
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
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We are recruiting for a Research Associate / Project Manager to help us build and run a Brain Organoid Platform at King’s College London, as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Neurodevelopment Cluster! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/125125-...
Research Associate - Project Manager - Brain Organoid Platform | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We are recruiting for a Research Associate / Project Manager to help us build and run a Brain Organoid Platform at King’s College London, as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Neurodevelopment Cluster! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/125125-...
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How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Local translation of circular RNAs is required for synaptic activity and memory
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are enriched in synapses and implicated in cognitive processes, and recent studies have shown that circRNAs can encode micropeptides, which suggests that there may be novel sy...
www.biorxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell-extrinsic controls over neocortical neuron fate and diversity
Cell-extrinsic cues are key for neocortical cell identity and diversity.
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
GABAergic circuits reflect different requirements for sensory integration in postnatal mouse neocortex
Information transfer in mammalian cerebral cortex is dependent on GABAergic interneuron circuits that are widely assumed to be uniform across the neoc…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Yang and Phillips labs have an exciting GW4 MRC BioMed DTP PhD project on beta-cell regeneration & designing new proteins with AI tools to control neural signals. Come join us at LSI-Exeter!
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
Regenerating insulin cells by using new designer biologics to fine-tune neural signals - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code MRCPHS26Ex Yang Project Type Wet lab Research Theme Population Health Science Project Summary Download Summary A hallmark of type 1 diabetes is elevated blood glucose levels caused by aut...
gw4biomed.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Yang and Phillips labs have an exciting GW4 MRC BioMed DTP PhD project on beta-cell regeneration & designing new proteins with AI tools to control neural signals. Come join us at LSI-Exeter!
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
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It was a pleasure writing this Perspective of our work. If you are interested in learning more about activity-dependent regulation of cortical cell numbers, do have a read.
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
It was a pleasure writing this Perspective of our work. If you are interested in learning more about activity-dependent regulation of cortical cell numbers, do have a read.
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
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Hello #Drosophila & #insect people!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
September 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hello #Drosophila & #insect people!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
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PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
Architects of the Genome: Using genomic technologies to elucidate the role of CTCF in neurodevelopmental disorders - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code MRCNMH26Ex Flynn Project Type The project is primarily wet-lab based, with a dry-lab component in Years 2 and 3. Research Theme Neuroscience and Mental Health Project Summary Download Sum...
gw4biomed.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Please share!
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...