Kenny Wilson
@_KAWilson_
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ellerby Lab @BuckInstitute. #geroscience #aging #Alzheimers #neurodegeneration #dietaryrestriction. Read more at https://t.co/rjkd66tRO2
Berkeley, CA
Joined May 2009
Pleased to share my newest publication about OXR1, a gene that protects the aging brain, published today in @NatureComms! A thread describing the results below 👇, and here is a link to the article: . @KapahiLab #Drosophila #aging #longevity #retromer.
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RT @BCMFromtheLabs: DeBakey Research Award recipient, Dr. Dr. @HongjieLi5, receives his award for his work on the #FlyCellAtlas. @bcmhousto….
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RT @BCMFromtheLabs: #AlzheimersDisease Affects Tissues Beyond the #Brain. @HongjieLi5 Belen lab @YeJin_YeahGene @TzuChiaoLu explain their f….
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RT @americanaging: Congrats to Dr. Rozalyn Anderson, recipient of the 2025 Denham Harman Award for excellence in #AgingResearch!.Thank you….
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Thanks to @theA4LI for highlighting me in their Scientist Spotlight series! It was fun to discuss my career path thus far and the field of aging!.
This week on A4LI’s Scientist Spotlight, we sit down with Dr. Kenneth Wilson (@_KAWilson_ ), a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Lisa Ellerby's lab at the @BuckInstitute. In this episode, we discuss Kenny's first contributions to the aging field, his rise to prominence, as well as
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RT @Sen_Alsobrooks: In our Aging Committee hearing today, Dr. Eric Verdin made it clear: the NIH is the crown jewel of all biomedical resea….
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RT @americanaging: TODAY at 3:30pm EST, there will be a special US Senate committee hearing on #aging! Click the link below to tune in to O….
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RT @americanaging: AGE Members,. The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4LI) is looking for feedback to better understand the impacts of….
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RT @americanaging: Congratulations to Manuel Alvarez, AGE 2025 Early Career Scholar Award 🌟 These exceptional individuals are shaping the f….
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RT @americanaging: 🌟 Join us in Anchorage, Alaska for the AGE 53rd Annual Meeting: New Frontiers in Aging Research! 🌟 . This is an event yo….
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RT @DenaDubal: The X chromosome inherited from mom impairs cognition and speeds up brain aging. Check out our latest @Nature. @UCSFAging….
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RT @americanaging: We are on Bluesky! If you are over there as well, be sure to give us a follow!
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All-in-all, this work led by my friend and colleague Tyler ties a neat bow on our PhD work. We always wondered how the dozens of traits we measured could be used together to make up aspects of longevity. Really cool how it all turned out! (3/3).
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A key finding was that supplementation with threonine, which was linked to lifespan prediction, extended lifespan in flies. Importantly, we used Mendelian Randomization to demonstrate that threonine, along with other candidate metabolites, holds health relevance in humans. (2/3).
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New publication from @KapahiLab! Link here We used computational modeling on data collected during my PhD in >150 #Drosophila strains to find traits that predict lifespan and healthspan across different genotypes in response to dietary restriction. (1/3).
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RT @americanaging: Applications are now open for this year's Early Career Scholars award! Click the link below for more details, and spread….
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RT @DPromislow: The @DogAgingProject seeks a Program Manager to help lead our nationwide, groundbreaking research team. Are you passionate….
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RT @DPromislow: We’re hiring! I have moved my #systemsbiology of #aging Drosophila lab to @HNRCA_Tufts in the heart of #Boston. We are look….
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#CMMSRC #BrainAging was so much fun! Great to see familiar faces and make new connections. Huge thanks to @AndersonRozalyn @HollyBrownBorg1 @VilledaLab for putting this together. Already looking forward to the next one! @FASEBorg
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RT @americanaging: 📢📢📢 AGE Trainees! Are you interested in taking a more active role in the AGE Trainee Chapter? Nominate yourself or someo….
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This sounds like such a cool opportunity!.
Interested in studying #elephant cognition? The Chusyd lab (@dchusyd) at @IUBloomingtonIndiana is looking for a PhD student to lead a project on #memory and brain structures elephants! For more info, check out our post here:
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