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Neuropeptide/GPCR signalling | Ion Channels | "wireless" connectome | Caenorhabditis elegans | Octopus vulgaris www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/wscha…

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Schafer Lab @schaferlab.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Schafer lab PhD student Joe Gehler-Rahman led a hands-on activity at this year’s @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. You can read all about it here
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Schafer Lab @schaferlab.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Congrats to @anna-neuro.bsky.social on a fantastic performance in the Cambridge FameLab final @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, talking about her masters work
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Schafer Lab @schaferlab.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Latest joint venture from the Schafer and Beets labs link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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C. elegans wired and wireless connectome: insights into principles of nervous system structure and function - Journal of Biosciences
Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the primary model organisms for neuroscience research due to its well-annotated and compact nervous system. Being the first organism with a mapped connectome, publishe...
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Denise Walker @denisewalker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The latest from Schafer lab: @lariferg.bsky.social, collaborating with Beets lab, uses Alphafold multimer and deep learning to predict GPCR peptide ligands www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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DeorphaNN: Virtual screening of GPCR peptide agonists using AlphaFold-predicted active state complexes and deep learning embeddings
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important cell surface receptors involved in numerous physiological processes. Although peptides are the cognate ligands for many of these receptors, identifyin...
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Amy Courtney @amycourtneyyy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙 We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system… doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
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