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Janelia conference

Earlier this month I have spent a few days at Janelia at the Neuro-Evo conference . Heard about brains of many interesting weird animals, met lovely people and got to tell them about what I do too. And realised that Janelia hotel … Continue reading

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British Science Week 2018

On Wednesday and Friday this week I was taking part in the British Science Week events for local schools, organised by our Fly Facility: mutant Drosophila and larval painting fun 😀

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First lecture

Today I gave my first undergraduate lecture – in the first year course Excitable Cells at Manchester. The lecture was about visual systems. On Thursday I will give the second one, about all other sensory modalities. Crazy short time for … Continue reading

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Xmas news

This past week has really been full of xmas presents that have arrived just in time before the global shutdown and worldwide food coma. The main present is the VILLUM Young Investigator award (yes, I am also impressed by the amount … Continue reading

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Science Spectacular event at Manchester Museum

Last Saturday the 21st of October I was helping out at the Science Spectacular public event at the Museum. We were showing mutant flies and had a shoot-a-brain-region game for the kiddies – was a lot of fun! 🙂

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Science Uncovered / European Researchers’ night Event

Last Friday the 29th of September I took part in the public engagement event called Science Uncovered/ European Researchers Night. I had 8 amazing volunteers helping me to tell people about how flies and mosquitoes perceive smells, and how this … Continue reading

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ESITO XV

I am just back from ESITO XV that took place in beautiful Villasimius, Sardinia. I’m pretty sure this has been my best conference so far – the science was very relevant, and the location is just perfect 🙂 Can’t wait … Continue reading

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Plymouth Microelectrode Course

I am currently in Plymouth at the Microelectrode course, learning to poke thin glass needles into cells and see what happens 🙂 More info here: @CPW_Plymouth

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Insectary climate monitor and notificator

Christian Brandt has made a very nice climate monitoring and notification system for my mosquito room. It checks temperature and humidity every minute and sends me an email if either of these two parameters are out of the permitted interval. … Continue reading

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First Manchester results

Today I got a good evidence that my new genetic tool has worked! Now need to pedal through a long list of experiments for the new paper, but the good news it that there will be a paper!

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