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Erika Kague

@kaguelab.bsky.social
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Group Leader @Institute of Genetic and Cancer, University of Edinburgh. Researching Bone diseases using fish.

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Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) @zdmsociety.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Registration & Abstract submissions are now open for #ZDM19 in Oxford 🤩 Please share with your colleagues! 📅When: 28th-30th September, 2026 🌍Where: Mathematics Institute at University of Oxford, UK Find more details (including deadlines) at the official conference website: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm19
Logo for the upcoming Zebrafish Disease Models 19 (ZDM19) conference in Oxford, UK. There are two silhouettes of fish that are swimming (one grey and one blue).
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🦴🐟 I’ve step into the role of Senior Leader for the Skeletal Diseases Research Interest Group (RIG) within the Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS). 🐟🐟🦴🦴I’ll be reaching out soon to discuss our roadmap for the year, upcoming webinars, and collaborative initiatives. #ZebrafishResearch #ZDMS
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Looking for a PhD position? Join the Kague Lab as a PhD student in Precision Medicine (funded by the MRC) to work on a multidisciplinary project about Bone Fragility! 🦴 👇 usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
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2026/27 Projects | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher Institute
The below list of projects is being offered as part of the standard MRC studentship the MRC iCase studentships for 2026/27 entry.
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Struan Grant @struangrant.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@shaonsengupta.bsky.social and I are still hiring! Please DM us if interested www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow – Circadian Biology and Genomics - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US) job with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 12846607
A postdoctoral fellow is needed to join a strong team involved in spanning both dry and wet lab approaches.
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Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Interested in ME/CFS research? Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social? Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship. See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please contact us to discuss before applying.
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Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We’ve finally got to meet the Burryman today. May all the best luck be with us for the year 🍀🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🏆🥇Congratulations to our 1st year PhD student Rory Stewart for being awarded “Best Short-Talk Oral Presentation” at the Cutting Edge OA in Oxford. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🐟🐟
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yeayyy Congrats Bea and Ximena! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“We need to change doctoral education to prepare doctors for all walks of life,” “Their skills are needed — innovation, critical thinking, analytical thinking — all of this is in demand in the labour market.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia
PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Due to their aquatic environment, #zebrafish are perfect for small molecule drug screens. Many drugs have been repurposed for novel treatments such as COX inhibitors in leukemia & glucocorticoids in long QT syndrome. For more, read this Nature review ($): doi.org/10.1038/nrd4... #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
Figure taken from MacRae & Peterson (2015): How suitable are zebrafish for discovering human drugs? Although zebrafish enable in vivo studies on a large scale, questions remain about how relevant the findings are for drug discovery. Recent studies have begun to elucidate the degree of conservation between humans and zebrafish, which share 82% of disease-associated targets and a large number of drug metabolism pathways (as illustrated by the mass spectrometry of metabolic by-products). Zebrafish physiology is often well conserved (sometimes more so than rodent physiology); for example, cardiac electrophysiology (illustrative electrocardiogram (ECG) tracings from each organism are shown). Several compounds discovered in zebrafish screens have been shown to exhibit similar effects in rodent models and humans, including eight out of ten compounds tested by our groups. m/z, mass to charge ratio.
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We were up and shining up on the stage at the “Impact Festival” yesterday 🐟🐟🐟🎉🎉🎉🤩🤩 Thank you for the nomination 🥰 Go Fish !
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
These were the numbers of people interacting with us through FishEye Reality at the Edinburgh Festival 2025 ❤️Loved = 501 🙂Liked =198 ☹️Disliked=7
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We are having so much fun this week ! 🐟🐟🐟🐟🔬🔬🔬🧬🧬🧬🥼🥼🥼🧪🧪🧪 Come to visit us at the Edinburgh Festival at the National Museum of Scotland :) www.kaguelab.com/fisheyereality
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Come visit us at the National Museum of Scotland to learn about our cool science on Osteoarthritis using fish! 🐟🐟🐟 @versusarthritis.bsky.social @nc3rs.bsky.social www.kaguelab.com/fisheyereality
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FishEye Reality | Kague Lab
Through Virtual Reality, visitors can witness a tiny zebrafish larva in breathtaking detail. Put on the VR goggles and dive into a whole new world of zebrafish research and exploration.
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Joint us at the BRS 2025 in Edinburgh. It's time to submit your abstract for BRS 2025! The deadline is Monday 3 March 2025 (23:59 GMT)
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Are you interested in Physics and Biology ? What about doing a PhD applying physics to understand osteocyte connectivity? In collab with Drs Francesco Turci and Davide Michielleto we have a funded PhD available Get in touch with us eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship
Applications now open for 2025 intake
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“leadership is more than just making choices; it's about the continuous effort to improve human connection, enabling collaboration, and creating a shared sense of purpose” Great article by @fdelin.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/decodi...
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Decoding Human behaviour: Laws every business leader should know
As business and tech leaders, we're not just accountable for outcomes but driving change through others in complex organisational systems. Effective leadership today transcends traditional notions of ...
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
PhD position available in my lab through the EASTBio to research mechanisms of Osteoarthritis using zebrafish Please get in touch if you are interested Applications deadline:Jan 17th If selected, interviews: March biology.ed.ac.uk/eastbio/how-... @ZebrafishRock
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How to Apply
Are you thinking of applying to an EastBio project? This section explains the timing and processes we use for our annual recruitment.
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What a fun group to work with! At the Kague lab, we're a team of six, each from different parts of the world. And guess what? Together, we speak a whopping nine languages! Isn't that fantastic? #KagueLab #Diversity #Science @uoe-igc.bsky.social
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thank you to @kevinthiessen.bsky.social for the kindness to present to our lab today the most updated list of bioinformatic web-tools available to the zebrafish community! It was a hit! 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🧬🧬🧬🧬
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“ When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty I think only how to solve the problem But when I’m finished If the solution is not beautiful I know I am wrong “ - R. Buckminster Fuller
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Well done Yushi for this great work! Zebrafish genetically modified affect the collective behaviour of biological active matter systems intrinsically rather than by external factors. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Tuning collective behaviour in zebrafish with genetic modification
Author summary Collective behaviour emerges across a very wide range of systems which span lengthscales of many orders of magnitude. Examples include phase transitions in atomic and molecular material...
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Erika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Are you working with zebrafish or other small laboratory fish? 🐟🔬 If so, you'll want to check out our latest paper on standardizing skeletal phenotyping. We propose guidelines for image acquisition, analysis, and reporting. doi.org/10.1093/jbmr...
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Standardization of bone morphometry and mineral density assessments in zebrafish and other small laboratory fishes using X-ray radiography and micro-computed tomography
Abstract. Zebrafish and other small laboratory fishes are emerging as important animal models for investigating human skeletal development and diseases. In
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