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Vilaiwan Fernandes

@fernandesflylab

Drosophila developmental neurobiologist (she/her) at University College London

 London, England
fernandesflylab.com
Joined March 2019
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We recently interviewed Associate Professor Nazif Alic from the Institute of Healthy Ageing. Nazif mentions his work with the @UCL_Biosci_REC and Athena Swan. Read more: ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-facul… @uclbiosciences
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Please join us this Thursday at 4pm GMT for a talk by Prof Marc Freeman, Director of the Vollum Institute, Portland. "How does the nervous system respond to injury?" Details and link at: ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/events… #uclbiosciences #marcfreeman #axons
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Amoyel lab@AmoyelLab10 Jan 2022
Hey #Flyfolk, we're pleased to share our reporter for ERK signalling using the Kinase Translocation Reporter technique from @RegotLab. It works in flies! Here's the preprint bit.ly/3r1mhQB and stocks will be available soon from @flystocks
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Amoyel lab@AmoyelLab12 May 2021
The Amoyel lab is on Twitter! Better late than never... And you can join us - we have open positions, see website for details or get in touch, we welcome any enquiry. amoyellab.com/join-the-team
Join the team | Amoyel Lab

Join the team | Amoyel Lab

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CDN | King's College@dev_neuro16 Apr 2019
Join our leading researchers, @Rico_lab and Prof Benedikt Berninger for @ComunidadCeru Science in the Pub - How to Build a Brain on 01 May. Registration is free: sruk.org.uk/events/how-to-bu… … We'll be in Horseshoe Inn nr London Bridge
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Kevin Lee@nyckevil11 Apr 2019
A tragic, thoughtful, beautifully written story by @sarahzhang on the importance of glia in brain development. #RareDiseases theatlantic.com/science/arch…
The Boy Missing an Entire Type of Brain Cell

The Boy Missing an Entire Type of Brain Cell

Microglia make up 10 percent of the brain, and an extremely rare case shows just how important they are.

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the Node@the_Node12 Apr 2019
Our #devbioFF is the @LanuzaLab from @fundacionleloir in Buenos Aires, who work on the generation of neuronal cell diversity in the hindbrain and spinal cord #devbio #FF 🇦🇷🔬🇦🇷 leloir.org.ar/lanuza-en/
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the Node@the_Node11 Apr 2019
Do you have an image that could grace the cover of @Dev_journal's special issue? Send it in!
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A special issue needs a special cover: our 'Development at the single cell level' cover competition is now open! Please Retweet dev.biologists.org/content/s…
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EMBO@EMBO8 Apr 2019
Flexible #childcare grants are now available at the 90+ scientific meetings EMBO supports each year. They can be used for: >babysitter >childcare facility >accompanying carer >child travel ... More information: bit.ly/2G1Y6d5
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Congratulations Kate Storey for the 2019 BSDB Waddington award! bsdb.org/2019/04/08/kate-sto…
Kate Storey - Waddington medal winner 2019 - BSDB - British Society for Developmental Biology

Kate Storey - Waddington medal winner 2019 - BSDB - British Society for Developmental Biology

The Waddington Medal is the only national award in Developmental Biology. It honours outstanding research performance as well as services to the subject community. The medal is awarded annually at...

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Simon Baron-Cohen
@sbaroncohen31 Mar 2019
What is the relationship between a spider and its web? Is the web its tool, like its own computer? Does the spider’s brain do all the processing or is some outsourced to the web itself? A fascinating peek into the science of spiders quantamagazine.org/the-thoug… via @QuantaMagazine
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Why morphine didn't work so well for my wife recently: Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way. So tired of the gender gap. So.Tired. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Tanentzapf Lab@TanentzapfLab1 Apr 2019
1. Some thoughts from discussions that took place over #dros19. Not all scientists give great talks or write beautiful papers but those who do we usually assume are naturally great at it & that it is easy for them to do those tasks (as if touched by some sort of magic).
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The Royal Society
@royalsociety29 Mar 2019
Come and work for the Royal Society. We’re recruiting for a full-time Policy Advisor to join the policy team which uses science to understand and promote the wellbeing of people, plants, animals and the environment. bit.ly/2Wv7kp9
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We are recruiting secondary schools in or near London to take part in an emotion regulation study. Do you know a school that might interested? If so, please contact my PhD student @jovitaleung at [email protected]
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Mark Miodownik@markmiodownik21 Mar 2019
Calling UCL staff and students - we launched the UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub last week - we have £1000 summer studentships available - please get in touch if you are interested.
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Alex Cagan@ATJCagan25 Oct 2018
Claude Desplan on studying the Drosophila motion visual circuit to understand neural development systems #bimsb2018
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M. Emília Santos@emiliapsantos16 Mar 2019
One year of trash. We still cannot fit it in a mason jar, but we'll get there 🤓 . #zerowaste #notrash #planetorplastic #sustainableliving instagram.com/emiliapsantos/…
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