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Ajantha Abey

@ajanthaabey.bsky.social
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Researching Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cell models at University of Oxford. Photographer of cells and other things outside the lab too :)

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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Hope for me is not passive, hope is the fight” Amazing address by Linde Jacobs at #Tau2025, whose family’s journey with MAPT FTD I first read about in the NYT. Rings similar for me to @ayanaeliza.bsky.social about climate. Paul Johnson, a PSPA rep and PSP patient, also made an excellent point:
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Excited to be sharing some of my data on cell specific vulnerability to tau for the first time (surprise, I’ve also been working on tau, and alpha synuclein) at #Tau2025 in London today! Come and say hi at poster #45 :) Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity and conference fellowship!
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@OxfordPDCentre @oxfordpdcentre.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
To celebrate #WorldParkinsonsDay we are sharing you a photo of the wonderful lab researchers working hard to find a cure for #Parkinsons Disease #WPD2025 @wademartinslab.bsky.social @sophielfarrow.bsky.social @kavlioxford.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It’s only taken 5 days but I think I’ve finally managed to navigate to Hall B and Hall C with above chance accuracy at #ADPD2025 😂😂 This whole centre is like a cognitive testing maze, and I’ve been put in the sleep deprivation condition 🥲😅
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🗣️ Come along to Hall C this evening at #ADPD2025 for my talk on modelling Lewy pathology in selectively vulnerable iPSC dopaminergic and cortical neurons in AD and PD! It’s a late one (7:10pm in the stem cell session) but I promise lots of cool images to make it worth it 😁
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Catch me this week at #ADPD2025! 📜 Poster: 01-025 on Wednesday and Thursday. 🗣️ Talk: Friday 17:10 in Hall C, in the “Cell Replacement Therapy and Diagnostics” session. Can promise cool cell pictures (and learning about synucleinopathy in AD, autophagy, and iPSC neurons) at both! 🧫🧠🧑‍🏫🧪🧬🔬🦠📊📈📑
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Dicey start to #ADPD2025 with not enough food and lines out the door as 1000s queue for 3 tables. Nevertheless, great talks to open from Tony Wyss-Coray, Florence Layburn, and Margot Teil, on proteome aging, mixed pathology, and PFFs. Glad other people are considering counterintuitive pathology :)
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Double rainbow in Edinburgh this morning! (Before it started hailing on me…) Going to be a good last day of #SCMND2025!
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Very cool talk by @andreaserio.bsky.social about axon modelling and how much size matters at #SCMND. Lots of food for thought on neurite outgrowth and the influence of cell morphology on disease phenotypes.
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Come by poster #34 at #SCMND to see some cool pictures of Lewy Pathology in cortical and dopaminergic neurons! 😁🧫 (And learn about how Lewy bodies form, what effect they have on cells, and what cell characterisrics make them vulnerable and resilient in AD and PD 🙂)
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sydney-Singapore ✈️ Singapore-London ✈️ London-Oxford 🚌 Oxford-Edinburgh 🚆 Final leg of the journey to #SCMND! 39 hrs and counting of transit (do I get a prize for furthest travelled? 😅) but excited for the next three days of stem cell modelling talks 😁
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Ajantha Abey @ajanthaabey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Excited to be giving a talk about the basics of using AI as a Daily Research Tool for the @istaart.bsky.social Alzheimer's Association Technology and Dementia PIA later today 😊 You can still register here, and it will be available on demand subsequently: lnkd.in/gREC9rs5
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