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@avezovlab.bsky.social
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Exploring brain cell biology, organelle dynamics & proteostasis. 📍University of Cambridge @cambridge-uni.bsky.social | @UKDRI | 🔬developing live cell biosensing tech

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🔬🔦In our latest Imaging spotlight, Pierre Parutto and Edward Avezov @avezovlab.bsky.social explain single-particle tracking (SPT) and present FidlTrack, their new method for benchmarking and optimising SPT. Check out their advice for optimising your SPT experiments ⤵️
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Imaging spotlight: FidlTrack - FocalPlane
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it". – Daniel Kahneman
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thrilled to see our paper now featured on the cover, as part of the highlight “Neurodegeneration Through the Lens of Selective Brain Cell Vulnerability.” advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4YDKRX...
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My choice this week in @science.org Roman Polishchuk, Franck Perez and collaborators A coordinated transcriptional program controls de novo Golgi biogenesis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge @cneurodept.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🧠 New paper, Avezov lab @ukdri.ac.uk: Problems with cell’s ‘plumbing’ linked to signalling issues in neurodegenerative conditions. The geometry of the endoplasmic reticulum can cause issues with the supply of calcium in neurons www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/problem...
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UK Dementia Research Institute @ukdri.ac.uk · 01/07/2026
How does the cell's transport network go wrong in neurodegenerative conditions? 🧠 New research led by @avezovlab.bsky.social (UK DRI at @cneurodept.bsky.social ) reveals new insight and a potential therapeutic avenue 👉 ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Last chance to apply for Associate or Senior Editor in Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine for Science magazine @science.org jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679035/a...
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Associate or Senior Editor - Washington D.C., Cambridge, UK job with American Association for the Advancement of Science | 679035
Join the editorial team at Science! We are seeking a full time Associate or Senior Editor
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Congratulation to Dr. Daniel Maddison on his @alzheimersresearchuk.org award! This is a hugely exciting research direction, and there is no better scientist to lead it — we are delighted to host this project in the lab🧠 @cneurodept.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...
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Alzheimer's Society funding announcement DRLs | Daniel Maddison | 14 comments
I am thrilled and honoured to share that I have been awarded an Alzheimer’s Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. Over the next three years, hosted in the Edward Avezov lab, UK Dementia Research Institute,...
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Jonny Nixon-Abell @abelljonny.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Dysregulation of autophagosome–mitochondria contacts contributes to autophagy dysfunction and neurodegeneration in tauopathy | PNAS
Mitochondria (Mito) engage in extensive communication with other organelles through membrane contacts. Perturbed mitochondria–organelle interaction...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Congratulation to Dr. Daniel Maddison on his @alzheimersresearchuk.org award! This is a hugely exciting research direction, and there is no better scientist to lead it — we are delighted to host this project in the lab🧠 @cneurodept.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...
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Alzheimer's Society funding announcement DRLs | Daniel Maddison | 14 comments
I am thrilled and honoured to share that I have been awarded an Alzheimer’s Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. Over the next three years, hosted in the Edward Avezov lab, UK Dementia Research Institute,...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
simple it wasn’t :)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/05/2026
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

Photo: Andreas Teichmann/laif/Redux
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
These fields are moving fast, with real momentum and discovery ahead — whoever takes this on will have plenty to be excited about!
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Just published in @science.org The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia
During wakefulness, neuromodulators operate largely independently to support behavior and cognition. By contrast, sleep reorganizes their activity into a coordinated brain rhythm. During sleep, the ma...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/05/2026
The more we learn about #glycotime, the more dramatic will be our revisions to textbooks on such basic principles as protein trafficking and organelle privileges www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nuclear N-glycosylation maintains H3K9me3 heterochromatin and genomic stability - Nature Cell Biology
Tang, Dai, Qing, Zhang and colleagues describe a role for N-glycosylation in the nucleus: N-glycans modify inner nuclear membrane proteins, and the modification is implicated in the maintenance of H3K...
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My choice last week in @science.org Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse 10.1016/j.cell.2026.01.037
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This mesmerizing timelapse captures the nonstop motion inside an animal cell. Red/orange streaks are the growing ends of microtubules, tiny “highways” that can rapidly assemble and disassemble to move proteins & other molecules within the cell. 📸: Andy Moore, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🧪 Biomedical Picture of the Day from the Presynapse -
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Kalydnai @gemistosplethon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Nice very interesting idea.
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨📜Our new paper out in @AdvSciNews: ER shape matters for neuronal health - disrupting ER continuity halts neuro-firing as it slows Ca2+ store refill, explaining selective neuronal vulnerability to ER problems in neurodegeneration 🧠 a thread to follow advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates and Exposes Selective Neuronal Vulnerability
The ER's continuous tubular network is maintained by ER-shaping proteins whose mutation or dysregulation contributes to neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we show that ER morphology sets the speed of ...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨📜Our new paper out in @AdvSciNews: ER shape matters for neuronal health - disrupting ER continuity halts neuro-firing as it slows Ca2+ store refill, explaining selective neuronal vulnerability to ER problems in neurodegeneration 🧠 a thread to follow advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates and Exposes Selective Neuronal Vulnerability
The ER's continuous tubular network is maintained by ER-shaping proteins whose mutation or dysregulation contributes to neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we show that ER morphology sets the speed of ...
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🧪 Collective cognition in weaver ants? wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physic...
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High-Rise Living: The Tiny Engineers that Build with Their Bodies - Weizmann Wonder Wander - News, Features and Discoveries
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how weaver ants "think" as a group and link their bodies together to "zipper" the treetops
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British Society for Research on Ageing @bsrageing.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨 #BSRA2026 is LIVE! Registration now open for our 75th Annual Meeting 📍 Oxford (Keble College) Great science, great people, and some special 75th year surprises 👀 Tag someone who should be there! 🔗 meetinghand.com/e/75th-asm-o...
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🧪 ‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness
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Christian Baumann @cjbaumann.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Excited to share our new preprint on how membranes shape SNARE TMDs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Florian Schueder @florianschueder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Please check out our newest work on fluorogenic speed imager probes, in which we combine the strengths of speed-optimized imagers and fluorogenic imagers. #SuperResolution #DNAPAINT #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Going to the Zoo in Haiku thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
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HAIKU DIALOGUE – World of Animals – (Put Me in the Zoo) – long list - The Haiku Foundation
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 24/03/2026
Huilun Helen Wang, Shengyi Sun, Ling Qi et al. serendipitously discover that mouse models expressing a fatal ERAD pathway mutation in SEL1L are rescued by alternative-splicing-mediated exclusion of the defective region link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Functional rescue of a disease-linked ERAD pathway mutation via alternative splicing - The EMBO Journal
ER-associated degradation (ERAD) targets misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) for proteasomal degradation. Mutations in its most conserved branch involving the SEL1L-HRD1 complex cause...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🚨📰Now online in its full form www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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FidlTrack: high-fidelity structure-aware single particle tracking resolves intracellular molecular motion in organelles sensing APP processing - Nature Communications
Tracking fast molecules in crowded organelles is error-prone, obscuring dynamic processes like Alzheimer’s secretase activity or secretory sorting. Here, authors present FidlTrack, a structure-aware m...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🚨📰Now online in its full form www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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FidlTrack: high-fidelity structure-aware single particle tracking resolves intracellular molecular motion in organelles sensing APP processing - Nature Communications
Tracking fast molecules in crowded organelles is error-prone, obscuring dynamic processes like Alzheimer’s secretase activity or secretory sorting. Here, authors present FidlTrack, a structure-aware m...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 13/03/2026
For our annual alumni newsletter, Sean Munro reflected on his time at the LMB, including how opportunity and curiosity have shaped his group’s research into the Golgi apparatus and his tenure as Head of Division for @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social Watch the interview: youtu.be/xFGb7_RmO9c
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From the scientist's view: a conversation with Sean Munro
YouTube video by MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
1/3 Thrilled to see our paper led by Kirandeep Deol is out in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! CRISPR screens to uncover a role for vitamin B2 metabolism in stabilizing FSP1 via FAD, revealing a new way vitamins regulate ferroptosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Vitamin B2 metabolism promotes FSP1 stability to prevent ferroptosis - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Here, Deol et al. use genetic screens in gene-edited reporter cell lines to identify regulators of ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) expression and stability. They show that vitamin B2 metabolis...
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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New preprint out! In this study, we introduce NanoFLex, a strategy that combines #HaloTag variants with #nanobodies -based immunolabeling to enable rapid, OneStep-IF #lifetime #multiplexing. Possible due to SmartSecondaries fused to #HaloTag from @nanotag.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
More great #bps2026 #SingleMolecule science on Monday! Sam’s poster (B393) identifies IDR function in HP1 protein homologs, and Xiaofeng’s poster (B178) describes combining 2D tracking and 3D simulations to measure how the nucleoid viscosity responds to cellular processes!
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Out now in @science.org Ribosomal RNA expansion segments mediate the oligomerization of inactive animal ribosomes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ribosomal RNA expansion segments mediate the oligomerization of inactive animal ribosomes
Cells down-regulate protein synthesis when stressed to conserve energy and shift resources toward repair. We found that in some mammalian cells, including neurons, stress also resulted in the formatio...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Thanks Felix, for your and Roger’s fantastic contribution. Your bespoke approach to visualisation of ER exit sites was truly invaluable 🙏
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Thanks Edward, any time :)
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🙏 This study was powered by fantastic collaborations — especially with @abelljonny.bsky.social & @joechambers.bsky.social with contribution form @felixmendu.bsky.social @lasergroup.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social 🔬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Resolving nanobodis binding status from their single molecule mobility
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Thanks Jonny for the generous creative effort, bottomless appetite to pushing the concept deeper. 🙏
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Jonny Nixon-Abell @abelljonny.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Congrats Pierre and Edward!
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Thanks Felix, for your and Roger’s fantastic contribution. Your bespoke approach to visualisation of ER exit sites was truly invaluable 🙏
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Congratulations Edward and Pierre! Great work, I'm sure this will be a very useful tool for many in the field, including us :)
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🙏 This study was powered by fantastic collaborations — especially with @abelljonny.bsky.social & @joechambers.bsky.social with contribution form @felixmendu.bsky.social @lasergroup.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social 🔬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Resolving nanobodis binding status from their single molecule mobility
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our new paper's out: FidlTrack—structure-aware single-particle tracking benchmarks/boost SPT fidelity With it we resolve with sub-organelle res. e.g. BACE1 amyloidogenic APP cleavage #Alzheimers, ER exit events, map nanobody binding in realtime in ER/organelles 🔬🧠#SingleMolecule rdcu.be/e3Ris
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 13/02/2026
☕Donahue et al. show that #aging is associated with changes in ER morphology. ER-phagy drives age-associated ER remodeling through tissue-specific factors. #autophagy #longevity bit.ly/40dNHEE
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ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy - Nature Cell Biology
Donahue et al. show that ageing is associated with changes in ER morphology. ER-phagy drives age-associated ER remodelling through tissue-specific factors.
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our new paper's out: FidlTrack—structure-aware single-particle tracking benchmarks/boost SPT fidelity With it we resolve with sub-organelle res. e.g. BACE1 amyloidogenic APP cleavage #Alzheimers, ER exit events, map nanobody binding in realtime in ER/organelles 🔬🧠#SingleMolecule rdcu.be/e3Ris
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Eric Chevet @ericchevet.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Good Morning! This week's selection of articles on #proteostasis thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social -- biomed.news/bims-proteo/... Highlight: CRISPR screens in iPSC-derived neurons reveal principles of tau proteostasis www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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bims-proteo 2026-02-01 papers
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Out now in @science.org DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality
DNA-protein cross-links (DPCs) are highly toxic DNA lesions that block replication and transcription, but their impact on organismal physiology is unclear. We identified a role for the metalloprotease...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Check this out TuroID attached to inactive Cas to identify transcription regulators 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A CRISPR-based sequence proximity binding protein labelling system for scanning upstream regulatory proteins - Nature Plants
The authors developed a CRISPR-based proximity labelling system to profile DNA-binding proteins in plants, especially the transcription factors of target genes, as exemplified by studies on the regula...
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EMBO @embo.org · 19/01/2026
Learn about #axon regulation in the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "Axonal degeneration and regeneration" in Onna-son, JP, 18–22 Oct. Abstract submission/Registration by 31 May/15 Jun meetings.embo.org/event/26-axonal-d… #EMBOAxonalRegeneration #EMBOevents #meeting 🧪
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