Our preprint "Non-synaptic encoding of behavior by neuropeptides" is posted in ZENODO zenodo.org/records/136917… @JekelyLab

theguardian.com/environment/co…

Scientists discover how starfish easily amputate their own legs studyfinds.org/how-starfish-a…

So that's it, first PhD finishing in the lab! Kudos to Luke Sarre for his viva defence, and thanks again to Tobias Warnecke and Richard Nichols for testing his knowledge!

Arm ab, Gefahr gebannt: Der spannende Abwehrmechanismus von Seesternen nationalgeographic.de/wissenschaft/2… via National Geographic

I'm both proud and pleased to see that, less than two weeks after the autotomy promoting factor paper was published in current biology, National Geographic has picked up on the story and its attention score is still rising! Maurice Elphick Current Biology Queen Mary University of London

A single peptide helps starfish get rid of a limb when attacked arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…

Starfish Defense: The Mechanism Behind the Voluntary Loss of an Arm ruetir.com/2024/09/13/sta…

🚨Mark your calendars! We are launching the London EvoDevo club, a space to learn great new science, meet new colleagues and have fun! First meeting on Nov the 8th at Queen Mary University of London Register now! shorturl.at/34BOj Margarida Cardoso Moreira Alex de Mendoza Ferdinand Marlétaz

Starfish: the incredible secret of their self-amputation techno-science.net/en/news/starfi…

Ein einzelnes Peptid hilft Seesternen, bei einem Angriff ein Körperteil abzuwerfen germanic.news/ein-einzelnes-…

Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science nature.com/articles/d4158…

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! #QMPAW24 #LovePostdocs QM_SBBS

Read about the latest circuit tools for studying neuromodulator & neuropeptide signaling in vivo! We describe the use of neurochemical sensors, actuators, and probes in our lab’s first Review Science Magazine tinyurl.com/4mcfb24w Congrats Jessie Muir & Maribel Anguiano!

🚨 Beyond happy to share the second first-author pre-print out of my PhD! This time we dive into the evolution of histone-based chromatin regulation in our favourite group of animals. You know them by now: annelid worms! 🧬🪱 Check it out here 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Nature research paper: Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila go.nature.com/4dNAkjf

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Very grateful to Lindy Holden-Dye for writing this splendid dispatches article about our recent paper in Current Biology Neurobiology: Neuropeptides go out on a limb: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Over the moon with the impact of our work published in Current Biology. Thanks Lindy Holden-Dye for this excellent dispatches article

What a great afternoon at the London EvoDevo Meeting yesterday Queen Mary University of London QM_SBBS ! Lots of familiar faces and friends (nearly a 100 attendees!) and stimulating research. Stayed tuned for more soon & thank u all for joining us. Let’s keep building community!