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Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL QSION @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Congratulations to Natalia Dominik on receiving a Guarantors of Brain non-clinical postdoctoral fellowship for 3 years from October 2026.

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Abigail Wilson, PhD @abigaildwilson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Was delighted to host Tzu-Ting (Tammy) Huang to give a talk and chat to everyone in the @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Neurology, she gave a fantastic talk for the UCL fly community & was great to reconnect after meeting at CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology programme in 2023! 🪰

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One more pre-print! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is an amazing collaboration investigating the mechanisms underlying an intriguing and mysterious neurodegenerative disorder: cerebellar ataxia and sensory neuropathy caused by AAGGG repeat expansions in the RFC1 locus.

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CANVAS causing AAGGG repeat expansions cause tissue-specific reduction in RFC1 expression and increase sensitivity to DNA damage

Biallelic AAGGG expansions in Replication Factor Complex Subunit 1 ( RFC1) are associated with cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) and are increasingly recognised as ...

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Also, quick additional post to highlight this fantastic work on novel genetic mutations in the ARHGAP19 gene that cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Disease, now published in @jci.org . www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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JCI - Biallelic variants in ARHGAP19 cause a progressive inherited motor-predominant neuropathy

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Abigail Wilson, PhD @abigaildwilson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The Inaugural UCL Dystonia Day Symposium was held this week! An amazing line up of speakers, posters and panel discussion. It was fantastic (and important) to be joined by @dystoniauk.bsky.social. A big shout out to @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social for organising. We hope to make this a regular occurrence!

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British Neuroscience Association @britishneuro.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🎉We are delighted to congratulate the winner of the 2025 BNA Credibility in Neuroscience Prize: Rob Wykes, @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @epilepsyinst.bsky.social www.bna.org.uk/mediacentre/...

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Deadline for the UCL Dystonia Day Symposium is coming up this week! May 1st, 4pm! If you would like to join us to hear about cutting-edge research into dystonia patho-mechanisms, please visit the link below: www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/events/2...

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Inaugural UCL Dystonia Day symposium

The UCL Dystonia Day Symposium seeks to bring basic and clinical researchers together to address this critical question. The Symposium will showcase cutting-edge research from early career researchers...

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Very excited by the spectacular range of talks and posters we have planned for the UCL Dystonia Day Symposium on May 14th! Anyone in the neighbourhood who is interested in dystonia, please join us by registering through the link below: www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/events/2...

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Worth following @fly-broadcast.bsky.social for new fly papers on PubMed. They deserve a lot more than 50 followers! @bdsc.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @dgrc.bsky.social

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Really proud that @abigaildwilson.bsky.social was awarded the best talk prize at the Crick Rare Disease Conference today 👍.

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

FYI: we will be hosting the inaugural UCL Dystonia Day, on May 14th! This Symposium will showcase the latest research into defining dystonia patho-mechanisms and identifying novel treatments for this debilitating disease. www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/events/2...

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Inaugural UCL Dystonia Day symposium

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Reza Maroofian @reza-maroofian.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

We report 35 patients with biallelic RBL2 loss-of-function variants presenting with developmental delay/intellectual disability, hypotonia, seizures, microcephaly & brain abnormalities. Drosophila models recapitulate key features & suggest RBL2 re-expression may help rescue neurological symptoms.

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Very happy to see our work with Henry Houlden's group and others on RBL2/Rbf mutations linked to a multifaceted neurodevelopmental disorder, published in Brain today. This work was led by super post-doc @gabrielaughey.bsky.social, Elisa Cali, and Reza Maroofian. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

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Clinical and genetic characterization of a progressive RBL2-associated neurodevelopmental disorder

RBL2 dysfunction, which disrupts cell-cycle gene expression, has been linked to a severe neurodevelopmental disorder. Aughey et al. characterize a cohort o

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Moita Lab @moitalab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵

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Jepson Lab, UCL @jepsonlabucl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

First post on BlueSky! Stellar post-doc from the lab @gabrielaughey.bsky.social will be giving a Development Node webinar next week 🙂, describing his work using Drosophila to probe cell-cycle dysregulation in neurodevelopmental disease. Please tune in! thenode.biologists.com/development-...

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Development presents... December webinar on gene regulation - the Node

Hear from two early-career researchers studying gene regulation.

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