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Marco Brancaccio

@mbra3.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Imperial College London and UK Dementia Research Institute Group Leader. Expert in chronobiology and dementia research. Views are my own

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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New live-imaging platform reveals how brain circuits keep time ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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New live-imaging platform reveals how brain circuits keep time
Researchers led by Dr Marco Ferrari and Dr Marco Brancaccio (UK DRI at Imperial) have developed a live imaging platform capable of processing hundreds of samples at a time, to investigate how circadia...
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New paper out by @marcofe.bsky.social and team. We developed a new high-throughput live imaging platform to monitor circadian rhythms in up to 144 brain tissues. We are now using it to screen AD chronotherapeutics @ukdri.ac.uk @bioclocksuk.bsky.social advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A High‐Throughput Live Imaging Platform to Investigate Circuit‐Dependent Regulation of Circadian Rhythms in Brain Tissue
Biological rhythms coordinate physiology, from genes to behavior. Study of circadian rhythms in brain tissue is constrained by limited throughput and spatial and temporal information quality. A new p...
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fresh off the press. Just flagging up a short opinion piece I wrote for Bioessays about astrocytes in sleep and circadian rhythms. It has been fun to write it! @circadiageing.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Integrating Astrocytes in the Sleep–Wake Cycle: The Time Is Now
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Professor James Hodge @docfly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Our BBSRC CircadiAgeing sLola project launches today with @hughp.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @mbra3.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social studying clock excitability, circadian rhythms and healthy ageing circadiageing.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We have extended the deadline for this position by a couple of weeks because of the Imperial Easter break. Still time to apply!
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
One week left to apply to this. We look forward to have you working with us in London @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Postdoc position still available in my group at Imperial. We are looking for talented and enthusiastic candidates with significant experience with live imaging/ electrophysiology. Deadline 3/4/25 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @bioclocksuk.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialbrains.bsky.social Today is the last day to apply for this postdoc position investigating a new chronotherapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s Disease. Please apply on the Imperial website, if interested!
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Only one week left to apply to join our lab at Imperial! Please do remember to send your applications on the Imperial website, even if you got in touch with me informally. I will only be able to assess formal applications and not other expressions of interest
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
First PhD student Natalie passed her viva with flying colours. Thanks to the viva panel! It was nice to see some past and present members of the lab joining the celebrations. If you would like to be a future member of the lab, a postdoc job advert is out, get in touch @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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Professor James Hodge @docfly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Announcing award of our 5 year BBSRC sLola CircadiAgeing: clock excitability, circadian rhythms & healthy ageing grant with @hughp.bsky.social @MeganGJackson @mbra3.bsky.social @krasimiratsaneva.bsky.social @mino-belle.bsky.social @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social Edgar Buhl bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/de...
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Inter-university programme will examine the role of circadian rhythms in ageing | Imperial News | Imperial College London
The CircadiAgeing Research programme has been awarded £4.4million by the BBSRC.
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Excited to be part of one of the BBSRC larger and longer grants with such a great team. Healthy circadian aging is healthy brain aging… @imperialmed.bsky.social www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...
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BBSRC injects £20 million into long-term discovery research
BBSRC is backing four major research projects to help pioneer critical advances in healthy ageing, drug discovery and sustainable agriculture.
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 03/12/2024
Rhythmic astrocytic GABA production synchronizes neuronal circadian timekeeping in the suprachiasmatic nucleus Natalie Ness, Marco Brancaccio and colleagues www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
hot off the press! this is the work of natalie ness and others in the lab. It turns out that rhythmic GABA produced by astrocytes act as a ”metronome” for the body clock. A pathway recently found to be altered in AD @ImperialBrains @UKDRI @ImperialMed www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Rhythmic astrocytic GABA production synchronizes neuronal circadian timekeeping in the suprachiasmatic nucleus | The EMBO Journal
imageimageAstrocytes can drive circadian behavior in mammals, but the nature of the temporal information generated by astrocytes is largely unknown. This study identifies GABA produced by polyamine de...
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Marco Brancaccio @mbra3.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
just moved to bluesky from X!
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