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Julia Edgar

@juliae.bsky.social
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Neuroimmunology, oligodendrocyes, myelin, axons, cell biology, electron microscopy, University of Glasgow

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Katie Chapple @katiechapple.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📢 Thrilled to share our new paper @juliae.bsky.social! We show that myelin does more than insulate axons: it contains an activity-responsive transport system, TRAM, that moves organelles and helps maintain axonal health 🧠🔬 👏 Huge thanks to all our collaborators. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An activity-modulated transport route across myelin (TRAM) for motor-driven organelle transfer in oligodendrocytes - Nature Neuroscience
Axons require intracellular transport of cargoes between the soma and the terminus. The authors show a related logistical challenge exists at smaller scale with respect to the interaction of process-b...
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Julia Edgar @juliae.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Just heard David Walsh talk. Shocking and fascinating. @mickcraig.bsky.social
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 24/11/2025
🦠 Measles is back. Cases have exploded in 2025 in France, UK, US & Europe due to falling vaccine coverage. The MMR vaccine is ~100% effective with 2 doses. It's saved 94M lives since 1974. Measles isn't just for kids – 34% of US cases were adults over 20. www.pasteur.fr/en/research-... #Measles
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Three questions about measles: why is it on the rise, is the vaccine effective, and can you catch it at any age?
A few years ago, measles seemed to be on the verge of being eradicated in many countries. The recent rise in cases raises several questions. Why is measles making a comeback? Is the measles, mumps and...
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University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity @uofgsii.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social's Professor Donal Wall has been acknowledged by @microbiologysociety.org for his expert review of their new briefing exploring the role of microbiomes across human, animal, and environmental health. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe... 📝 online.flippingbook.com/view/7778675...
Professor Donal Wall in lab coat in the lab.
The front cover of the Microbiology Society briefing, with society logo, an image of a hand holding soil, and text.
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Julia Edgar @juliae.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@milngavie.bsky.social The underpass from the train station, perhaps……
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Tom Gillingwater @tomgillingwater.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Time to say farewell (with a sizeable pour) to this old friend. It’s been one of my absolute favourite whiskies over the last few years. Benromach from a bourbon cask hitting the spot perfectly. Aberdeen Whisky Shop don’t half pick some amazing exclusive bottlings #Whisky
Benromach single cask whisky from Aberdeen Whisky Shop
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University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity @uofgsii.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
☀️ | On Saturday, 2 August 2025, staff and PhD students from across @uofgsii.bsky.social came together for a fantastic day trip to Millport. Organised by Social Committee Chair Dawn Mylet, the group enjoyed a cycle around the island, the fresh sea air, stunning views - and ice cream! 🚴⛵️🍦
A group selfie taken by Dawn Mylet in the foreground, with the rest of the group stood together on a slipway with local landmark Crocodile Rock, the sea, and boats behind.An image taken from a distance showing the group standing with their bikes in front of the bay and boats ahead of their cycle round the island.A member of Sii staff stood on crocodile rock in Millport with her dog, a black poodle, and pointing into the distance.
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We have updated our nucleus reuniens paper: now with added data from rat (courtesy of Zaf Bashir's lab in Bristol). They also failed to evoke a synaptic response in CA1 pyramidal cells when activating reuniens axons, in either dCA1 or vCA1. #NeuroSkyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thalamic nucleus reuniens preferentially targets inhibitory interneurons over pyramidal cells in hippocampal CA1 region
The prefrontal - hippocampal - entorhinal system is perhaps the most widely-studied circuit in cognitive and systems neuroscience, due to its role in supporting cognitive functions such as working mem...
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Rikesh Rajani @rikeshrajani.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Rajani Lab is hiring! We are looking for a postdoc to join us at @ukdri.ac.uk @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to investigate neuronal activity and white matter changes in vascular dementia. Apply here 👇 bit.ly/44AFJHx
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Research Fellow
We are looking for a postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Rajani Lab as part of the new national BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research.
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Tom Gillingwater @tomgillingwater.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We’re recruiting 2 senior anatomy technicians the Department of Anatomy at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social One 12-mth maternity cover post (👇) and one permanent position (advert on its way). Please share and get in touch if you would like to know more: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Senior Anatomy Technician
The role requires an individual with organisational and communication skills. Experience of working with human material is essential (prior dissection experience is desirable) as well as a recognition...
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French Glial Cell Club @glialclub.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Bruno Weber plenary lecture at #Glia2025 #FLIM The auditorium is full! ✅ Neurons can sustain activity with lactate ✅ Astrocytes become more oxidized under a ketogenic diet. ✅ Similar glucose concentrations in astrocytes and neurones ✅ Higher concentration in the ECS!
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University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity @uofgsii.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🆕 | The @uofgsii.bsky.social Musculoskeletal Research Team has been named a @eular.org Centre of Excellence in Rheumatology Research. A distinction the group has now held for a decade, the renewed status was awarded for 2025–2030 at the June congress in Barcelona. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
Professor Iain McInnes (Head of College of MVLS), Ronald Van Vollenhoven (Research Chair of EULAR), Professor Neil Basu (Sii Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine & Vasculitis) stood in front of a pull-up banner with EULAR branding, with Ronald holding the presentation plaque.
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - @hislopmd.bsky.social
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Being part of the myelin field has been the most rewarding aspect of my scientific career ❤️
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Manuel Friese @manuelfriese.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our latest work: The immunoproteasome disturbs neuronal metabolism and drives neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The immunoproteasome disturbs neuronal metabolism and drives neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
Neuronal proteasomal dysfunction is a hallmark of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. This study reveals that the interferon-induced immunoproteasome drastically decreases proteasomal ac...
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UofGARC @uofgarc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Last week we spoke to our Principal & Vice Chancellor @uofgvc.bsky.social about the ARC & how this interdisciplinary & collaborative space enables us to do things differently. Hosting the Carbon Exhibition is a fantastic example. The exhibition is on until the 29th June.
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Vizgen @vizgen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New study featured on the June cover of Nature Neuroscience used Vizgen’s MERSCOPE® to uncover how microglia and CD8⁺ T cells drive white matter degeneration in aging brains. Learn more: vizgen.com/study-publis... #SpatialBiology
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Amy Strom @dnamystrom.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If heterochromatin is really a liquid-like condensate, why is it not spherical? We investigated whether mechanical interactions between a condensate and a fiber network can explain the variety of morphologies seen in phase-separated nuclear compartments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tom Gillingwater @tomgillingwater.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New paper from the lab 🚨: Expansion microscopy reveals nano-scale insights into the human neuromuscular junction: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Expansion microscopy reveals nano-scale insights into the human neuromuscular junction
Ramadan et al. employ expansion microscopy to visualize neuromuscular junctions in human and mouse muscles. Their findings demonstrate expansion microscopy as an accessible and cost-effective approach...
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Janos Groh @janos-groh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Pleased to share our latest work on neural-immune interactions in aging white matter. It was a long journey, made possible by incredible support and persistent efforts of many colleagues across various locations. Many thanks to everyone involved. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microglia activation orchestrates CXCL10-mediated CD8+ T cell recruitment to promote aging-related white matter degeneration - Nature Neuroscience
White matter aging leads to degenerative and inflammatory changes. Here the authors show that microglial dysfunction exacerbates glial CXCL10 expression, harmful CD8+ T cell recruitment, myelinated ax...
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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 24/04/2025
Our Gilbert Scott building in all its Gothic Revival glory! Captured on a beautiful Glasgow day by UofG student Zhijun Dong. #TeamUofG
View of the Gilbert Scott Building at the University of Glasgow on a clear sunny day, with its iconic Gothic Revival tower rising above the trees and blue sky in the background.
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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 04/04/2025
@uofgcareers.bsky.social is advertising 41 paid, summer internships on the Student Opportunities Hub! Find out how you could help charities and third sector organisations make a positive impact in the community! Learn more and apply at bit.ly/findasolution2025. ⌛Apply by Monday, 14 April.
University of Glasgow, Student Opportunities Hub and Find A Solution logos with text: Apply for a paid summer internship; We're advertising 41 paid summer internships with Glasgow-based charities and third sector organisations; Learn more at bit.ly/sohinternships
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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Emma Thomson @emcat1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New in Nature Comms: We applied metagenomic + targeted NGS to serum from febrile patients in Uganda. Post-COVID, LMICs have sequencing infrastructure that could be repurposed for pathogen discovery. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Uncovering the viral aetiology of undiagnosed acute febrile illness in Uganda using metagenomic sequencing - Nature Communications
Acute febrile illness is common in sub-Saharan Africa and causative agents are often unknown. Here, the authors perform metagenomic sequencing on samples from patients with acute febrile illness in Ug...
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Clive McKimmie @clive-mckimmie.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The burden of viral disease in many African countries is underreported. Here, using the latest #sequencing approaches, this much needed study has identified the viral aetiology in patients with #fever. Numerous (re) emerging #arboviruses of concern found; #CCHFV #YFV #RVFV #DENV
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ISATTGlobal @isattglobal.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A spectacular photograph of the beautiful University of Glasgow in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social Our hosts for the #ISATT2025 international conference in July. @ioz100.bsky.social @margery25.bsky.social @sineadgormally.bsky.social @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Absolutely loving this call-to-arms by @vigocarpathian.bsky.social in @naturebiotech.bsky.social — here it is summarized in today's Briefing
“Your job is to have ideas and spread them so that they impact other people’s work. Writing is your job. Nothing else,” argues computational biomedicine researcher Dennis Hazelett in an open letter to early-career scientists. While offering encouraging advice on how to overcome writers’ block, read difficult prose and tackle your next scientific manuscript, Hazelett is unstinting in his assertion that “writing is the only thing you do that matters”. “Doing top-tier science requires deep thinking,” he says. “Deep thinking means writing.”
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University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity @uofgsii.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🟣 Happy International Women's Day! Today, we celebrate two of the women leading by example in @uofgsii.bsky.social. We are especially proud to highlight these inspirational figures as the first females to lead Sii and @cvrinfo.bsky.social. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe... #IWD2025 🧵 1/4
An International Women's Day graphic, featuring cartoon representations of four individuals performing the Accelerate Action pose around the words Happy International Women's Day
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University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences @uofgsocsci.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Still time to register for the next Stevenson Trust lecture with Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli (@uofgvc.bsky.social) The event will highlight how geopolitical tensions may impact the world economy in the next 2 to 3 years. Register here: tinyurl.com/2knys4wt @uofgasbs.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
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Geopolitics and Global economic shocks: the prospects for the world economy
Bute Hall, University of Glasgow
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Julia Edgar @juliae.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“great television”!!!! In the context of a war!!! OMG!!!!!
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Perona Lab, Edinburgh, UK @peronalab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our search for a flow cytometry core facility manager for King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, is finally live. Join us! Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended. Apply by 17 March. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Flow Facility Manager
We are looking for a facility manager for the SBS flow cytometry core facility. This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) with most of that time expected to be on campus in the flow facility. W...
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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Two new opportunities in Edinburgh: Research technician in our lab elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Senior research technician to support the Zebrafish Imaging and Screening Facility elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Julia Edgar @juliae.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Figure 1 is stunning!
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We now have #NeuroSkyence manuscript 3 of 2025 on BioRxiv. I had a relatively small role in this molecular project, which was led by my colleague Brian Morris and our student, Liang Yue. 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Glucocorticoids modulate expression of perineuronal net component genes and parvalbumin during development of mouse cortical neurons
Severe prenatal maternal stress is a risk factor for schizophrenia in offspring. Since parvalbumin-containing GABAergic interneuron function in cortex and hippocampus is compromised in schizophrenia, ...
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Julia Edgar @juliae.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Annina Schmid @anninaschmid.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Do you have a basic science background and are interested in doing a PhD at Oxford University? Fully funded UK studentship available for 2025 intake to study the role of B-cells in human neuropathic pain To apply please see here: www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
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Glasgow Gut Science @glasgowgutscience.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We have moved! Previously in Edinburgh, our group is mainly in School of Infection and Immunity, @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Very excited to work with new friends + partners and continue to share our work inc www.musicstudy.uk & www.marvelstudy.uk in IBD. #ibd #crohns #colitis #research #Glasgow
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Seth Coffelt @coffeltlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
#hiring #postdoc We are looking for a postdoc to work on anti-tumor gamma delta T cells in breast cancer metastasis mouse models. Apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...
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Julia Edgar @juliae.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Welcome!!
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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Very pleased to have been able to contribute to this important call to arms to protect preclinical neuroscience in the UK #neuroskyence
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Calum Bain @bainlab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
REMINDER - EMDS25 The European Macrophage & Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS) meeting will take place in Edinburgh from 16-18th Sept. Website & registration details coming soon. @britsocimm.bsky.social @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social
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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Tom Gillingwater @tomgillingwater.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Great opportunity here for any ECRs wanting to come and work in a UK lab 👇
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How many cool observations have we missed because of fixation artifacts?! Cool descriptive work from Shigeki’s lab.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
To all of us Early Career Scientist out there. Even the Nobel Prize Winner got his grant rejected today. I got my rejection today as well 💩💩
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Lucy MacDonald @drlucymac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
So happy to (finally!!) announce that our paper studying synovial tissue dendritic cells in joint health and rheumatoid arthritis is now out in Immunity! 🚨 doi.org/10.1016/j.im...
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Bravo @biologists.bsky.social let's have all the publishers follow quickly! @natureportfolio.bsky.social @aaas.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social
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