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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · 7d

Sam has now started her new group at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research Diseases. Congratulations! I wish her the very best for her independent career. The time Sam spent with us was hugely successful in many respects and we will all be sad to see her go..

Sampurna Chakrabarti @amapruns.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted to be starting a new research group at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social ! Happy to chat about working together! #pain #infection #electrophysiology
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/...

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Widely accepted findings should be validated. For example, mechanically-activated currents (MA-currents) in sensory neurons depend on PIEZO2..right?. Here we show that PIEZO2 is NOT associated with a huge loss of MA-currents in sensory neurons. #ion channels #sensory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mechanically-gated currents in mouse sensory neurons lacking PIEZO2

Touch sensation starts with the opening of mechanically-gated activated ion channels at neuroglial endings of mechanoreceptors in the skin. The function of around half of low threshold mechanoreceptor...

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Jul 6

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I worked as a tram driver for two summers with this fella (nearly 40 years ago!)...he is right, best job I ever had

Driver celebrates 'unbelievably unique' 50-year horse tram career

Tram driver Peter Cannon is celebrating half a century working on the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway.

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Jun 30

Read about how a book about extraordinary animals with Russ Hodge and Kat Menschik came to be.
www.stiftung-charite.de/en/our-fundi....

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Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 28

This has been a great #lndw25 on @campusbuch.bsky.social! Thank you for everyone who made this happen! 🎉

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wonderful visit @mdc-berlin.bsky.social thanks @hannahornberg.bsky.social for the invitation and congrats @khallaf.bsky.social for showing me such cool data on naked mole rats!

Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · Jun 20

Incredibly special and inspiring talk today by @dulaclab.bsky.social at @mdc-berlin.bsky.social. Thanks to @hannahornberg.bsky.social for inviting Cathrine to visit!

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Proud to a part of this great study from the lab of Annette Hammes. A new role for mechanosensitive PIEZO2 channels in the development of the coronary arteries.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Jun 16

Looking forwrd to once more presenting the wonderful naked mole-rats!

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Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social · May 26

#LNDW is celebrating 25 years of science and discovery – with a special reduced price of one night for just €5.

The #mdcBerlin and others open their labs on June 28, 2025. Visit us at #CampusBuch!
Our full program here 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/long-night-s... 👈

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · May 14

I left my 50s today..celebrated by walking to the top of Snaefell. The top of the lovely Isle of man.

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · May 8

Back in Pretoria for more mole-rat fun..special smell and touch abilities to be measured!

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Hanna Hörnberg @hannahornberg.bsky.social · Dec 23

Excited to share the first preprint from the lab, led by the talented trio: PhD student Rosalba, master student Erika and technician Maria. We examined the roles of the translational modulators MNK1 and MNK2 and found that they have distinct functions at the synapse www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Distinct roles for MNK1 and MNK2 in social and cognitive behavior through kinase-specific regulation of the synaptic proteome and phosphoproteome

Local mRNA translation is required for adaptive changes in the synaptic proteome. The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) interacting protein kinases 1 and 2 (MNK1 and MNK2) have emerged as key re...

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Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social · Apr 10

From an #AI-powered search engine for omics data to a scalable drug screening platform for neuromuscular diseases – 4 of our labs present their projects at @biovaria.bsky.social #techtransfer networking event!
www.biovaria.org/

@danilexn.bsky.social@nukappa.bsky.social @garyrlewin.bsky.social

Technology Transfer: Our innovations at Biovaria. Munich, 28 - 29 April

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Mar 31

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our latest paper is now published, open access of course. Check it out! Mechanotransduction and regeneration! More to come soon..

The mechanotransduction protein STOML3 is required for proprioceptor plasticity following peripheral nerve regeneration

Nerve regeneration is associated with the plasticity of sensory neurons such that even muscle afferents directed to the skin form mechanosensitive receptive fields appropriate for the new target. STO...

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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · Mar 26

Honored to present my work on naked mole rats from @garyrlewin.bsky.social at the @modolfor.bsky.social symposium (@silkesachse.bsky.social) during the Göttingen Neuroscience Meeting #NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social —and finally getting the famous and amazing Drosophila from @katrinvogt.bsky.social!!

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Manx Neurobiologist @garyrlewin.bsky.social · Mar 16

This came out today a 26 min interview with me about touch. In German. It turned out pretty good #pain #painresearch #touch

www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/wiss...