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Institute for Regeneration and Repair @edinuni-irr.bsky.social · 2d

£70 million investment in IRR spinout Trogenix to tackle aggressive cancers.
The funding will enable the rapid advancement of its pipeline of potentially curative cancer therapies across multiple treatment-resistant cancers
regeneration-repair.ed.ac.uk/ps70-million...
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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21

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FBXW7 regulates MYRF levels to control myelin capacity and homeostasis in the adult central nervous system - Nature Communications

The homeostasis of myelin in the central nervous system is highly regulated, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Here, the authors show that the FBXW7 protein has a role in constraining myelin ...

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MariaEichelVogel.bsky.social @mariaeichelvogel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Brilliant Kick off day #ISNASN2025
@neurochemistry.org with the best conference views ever 😎
Glad to be part of it #TogetherForScience

If you wanna know more about my work on axons & zebrafish in the @lyons-lab.bsky.social join me during the poster session tmr evening (LBA45) or just reach out 🐠

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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · May 14

For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker

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Activity-driven myelin sheath growth is mediated by mGluR5 - Nature Neuroscience

Employing pharmacology, genetics and all-optical approaches in zebrafish, Braaker et al. find that neuronal activity influences the growth of myelin sheaths along axons by signaling through metabotrop...

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Steffen Scholpp @scholpplab.bsky.social · Apr 14

The LSI Exeter invites you to join the first UK Zebrafish Meeting, 10/ - 12/9/ @lsiexeter.bsky.social. We are looking for motivated PhD students/ECRs to present their work - as talks and posters. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... . The deadline for the early bird registration is 15/5/. So, be quick!

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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Apr 8

Fun to have contributed a little to this, led by the team of the incomparable Guoqiang Yu.

Suspect that this will prove to be an immensely popular image analysis platform for interrogation of dynamic signallingl!
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Fast, accurate, and versatile data analysis platform for the quantification of molecular spatiotemporal signals

Optical recording of intricate molecular dynamics is becoming an indispensable technique for biological studies, accelerated by the development of new…

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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Mar 6

Hot damn!
Spectacular news Karl. Massive congrats [email protected]

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Philip Hasel @philiphasel.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our paper on the superficial glia limitans is now published - huge thank you to all co-authors that helped getting this work across the finish line! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in vertebrates

Hasel et al. show that molecularly and morphologically specialized astrocytes make up the brain and spinal cord surface, thereby creating the glia limitans superficialis. These astrocytes selectively ...

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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Two new opportunities in Edinburgh:

Research technician in our lab
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Senior research technician to support the Zebrafish Imaging and Screening Facility
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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Jan 27

One week to go before application deadlines...

1. Postdoc, investigating how neurons respond to demyelination.
2. Research assistant, investigating how conduction properties are established in neural circuits

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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Jan 16

Couple of opportunities up to join the group!
One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path.
One research assistant role.
Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more!
Or just apply!
Thanks!

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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · Jan 11

First post at this side.

Latest axon diameter action led by Jenea Bin, in collaboration with Nolan, Mobius, Monk, Werner, and Emery labs.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Developmental axon diameter growth of central nervous system axons does not depend on ensheathment or myelination by oligodendrocytes

Myelination facilitates the rapid conduction of action potentials along axons. In the central nervous system (CNS), myelinated axons vary over 100-fold in diameter, with conduction speed scaling linea...

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