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Dr🦋 Research Programme Manager @MNDoddie5. Previously doing research on SMA and MNDs in @GillingwaterLab, Edinburgh. She/Her.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined August 2011
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There’s only a few days to go until our webinar focusing on the Discovery Network & Advancing Treatments Award: 🗓️15 April ⏰12pm Researchers, if you’re thinking of applying, the webinar is a chance to have questions answered & gain insights. Join here 👇 https://t.co/N5SGj9pQKh
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We’re officially launching @doddie_aid today with the announcement that MNDF has so far committed £18 million to vital MND research 🔬 2 years on from Doddie’s death, we are as focused as ever on reaching his goal of a world free of MND. Read more👇 https://t.co/8grweCFExr
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We're proud to announce £1.27 Million funding for 3 exciting MND research projects as part of our Advancing Treatment Awards 🔬 This vital research is only possible because of the efforts of our fantastic supporters! Find out more about the projects 👇 https://t.co/qxZj1LEWi9
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Come and join My Name’5 Doddie’s most excellent Advisory Board, to review exciting science and build with us an ambitious research programme for therapeutic target identification! All info on our website. Contact me for questions and application submissions 😊💙💛
📢 Calling all early career researchers! We are now inviting applications from early career researchers (ECRs) to join our Advisory Board, the steering and reviewing committee for the foundation's Discovery Network. Find out more and apply here 👇 https://t.co/rChsFMrkt6
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4 July was Doddie’s Birthday & we're encouraging everyone to wear a little (or a lot) of tartan on the day to raise awareness of MND 🔵🟡 We hope this is a fitting way to pay tribute to the big man & urge everyone to get involved to turn 4 July tartan for MND for years to come🤝
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🚨London friends! Come join us @pintofscience to hear all about MND research, have a pint, and show off your ping pong skills 🏓 14th of May at Bounce
We're really excited for our first @pintofscience event at Bounce, London! If you're based in London, we'd love to see you there...it'll be a cracking evening. Find out more 👇 https://t.co/jhYRyfxhYP
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Very grateful to the #Target2Patient conference for supporting us and giving us an opportunity to present the Foundation and our Discovery Network. Lots of exciting interactions and engagement, and great speakers: the present and future of target discovery looks bright! @emblebi
It's great to have our research team at the Target to Patient Conference today, presenting My Name’5 Doddie Foundation's Discovery Network The Discovery Network has been launched to catalyse the search for effective MND treatments To find out more visit: https://t.co/dsqRackpCW
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So proud of my PhD student @fd_rca - masterclass in science communication ⭐✨ And what a great opportunity to present our work on embryonic disease mechanisms, since we 1st showed my own PhD work in 2020. Amazing to now have a whole session on development! #SMACongress2024
@fd_rca What a great talk from our PhD student Federica, giving her first ever talk at a conference, introducing the idea that SMA is a developmental disease at #SMACongress2024 @SMAEurope @GillingwaterLab @EuansCentre
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Please share with your labs and any Europe-based PhD students/postdocs working on SMA! Exciting event happening on the 13th of March in Ghent, just before the next SMA Europe conference- meet the SMA community, share and reflect on your research, and receive a travel grant!
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Lab mate, ex-housemate and awesome friend @dinjavd being a superstar and submitting her PhD thesis, and on her 30th birthday. What a moment!
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Come join us at the next SMA Europe scientific conference!! March next year, in lovely Ghent. Registration and abstract submission portals are open 👐
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Today we are proud to reveal our brand refresh and new website! Whilst things may look a little different, SMA UK are still providing vital support to all those affected by SMA. Find out more about our new website here 👉 https://t.co/yY1WPsws0c
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Today we had a fascinating visit to the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at @EdinburghUni where @GillingwaterLab, @hellychayts & a number of brilliant researchers are working to find effective treatments for MND🔬 We're proud to support this vital work & you make it possible!
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Annual lab away day - the rain having scuppered our plans to roast in the sun in North Berwick, we've opted for the faaancy Balcony room at Old Moray House. Such big smiles, playing the lab-inspired Codenames and Herd Mentality☀️🤩 @GillingwaterLab
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Fancy a drink while @hellychayts and I talk about our research on motor neuron diseases and developing therapies for ALS and Spinal Muscular Atrophy? Pint of Science is happening this month, grab your tickets here 🌈 https://t.co/hseRYi2btA
@SMA_UK_ @EuansCentre @MNDoddie5
pintofscience.co.uk
How can we use fish to develop treatments for motor neuron disease? What are the treatments that currently exist? Dr Helena Chaytow and Dr Anna Motyl will …
🧠Beautiful Mind 🧠 events will explore tools scientists use to study the brain, shed light on gender bias in neuroscience research & dive into whether new exciting dementia treatments deserve the hype #pint23
https://t.co/kmM48d3Prv
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Check out the full programme and get your tickets for @PintofScience in Edinburgh 🏴 this May! 🍺🧠 #pint23 Lots of amazing science across 6 broad themes, coming to pubs near you for only a fiver 🌌🧠🫀🖥️🏙️🎨 Tickets & info: https://t.co/kmM48d3Prv
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70 years ago, 3 papers appeared in @Nature under the title ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids’. In an article in Nature today (link at end) @nccomfort and I shed new light on ‘what Watson and Crick really took from Rosalind Franklin’. This thread summarises our findings. 1/23
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The now traditional @GillingwaterLab Christmas quiz was as excellent as ever and, after a fierceful competition, the trophy is *back* in its rightful place. Above my desk, until next year...?
Winner of @GillingwaterLab gets a trophy... Loser has to wear the Santa outfit to dinner @AnnaMotyl
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Please come and do a PhD with me and @NCMlab ! Feel free to DM me, or retweet and share!
findaphd.com
PhD Project - Tripartite synapses – a weak link in Motor Neuron Disease? at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
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