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Brain metrics reveal sex differences
EPFL article about our paper using genetic tools built for computer assisted science – which we have dubbed ‘robogenetics’. Using these tools to quantitate the entire Drosophila larval Central Nervous System, we find less neurons (10.3K) plus more glia than predicted and that females have 10% more neurons than males. EPFL article, eLife paper
Innosuisse article on ALS project
Innosuisse support enables us to develop novel potential gene therapies for the motor neuron disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Read more in this article by Innosuisse about the project.
Well done Wei
Congratulations to Wei on her new position at our neighboring institute of the University of Lausanne – UNIL. We are very happy you are staying in Lausanne and we look forward to collaborating.
Congratulations Jamshid
Congratulations to Jamshid on his new position as Data Manager at Clario. They could not have made a better choice.
Brain ‘noise’ keeps nerve connections young
Nice article by Giorgia Guglielmi on EPFL news about our paper on miniature neurotransmission and ageing.
Minis maintain synapses
Exciting new publication from the lab on miniature neurotransmission and ageing led by Soumya. In the paper we describe a new adult Drosophila motor synaptic terminal NMJ preparation, genetic tools and electrophysiology methods. We use the prep to examine the effects of ageing on motor synapses. We find that synaptic terminal boutons fragment into smaller (…)