Schafer Lab
@schaferlab.bsky.social
Neuropeptide/GPCR signalling | Ion Channels | "wireless" connectome | Caenorhabditis elegans | Octopus vulgaris
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Schafer lab PhD student Joe Gehler-Rahman led a hands-on activity at this year’s @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. You can read all about it here
LMB scientists showcased their work at the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social with a hands-on activity about the scale of biology and an artistic piece about body clocks.
Read about the event here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/lmb-highligh...
#LMBNews #CamFest @nsmyllie.bsky.social
Read about the event here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/lmb-highligh...
#LMBNews #CamFest @nsmyllie.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Schafer lab PhD student Joe Gehler-Rahman led a hands-on activity at this year’s @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. You can read all about it here
Congrats to @anna-neuro.bsky.social on a fantastic performance in the Cambridge FameLab final @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, talking about her masters work
What a great experience, loved every second of it! Thank you for having me and giving me a platform to talk about my research in octopus vision @cambridgefestival.bsky.social #CamFest2025
What a way to finish #CamFest 2025! Congratulations to Spatika Jayaram for winning the FameLab Cambridge final. Spatika will now go on to the national finals later this year. 🥇
Also congratulations to our runner up, David Hardman and to all our FameLab finalists!
Also congratulations to our runner up, David Hardman and to all our FameLab finalists!
April 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Congrats to @anna-neuro.bsky.social on a fantastic performance in the Cambridge FameLab final @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, talking about her masters work
Latest joint venture from the Schafer and Beets labs
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C. elegans wired and wireless connectome: insights into principles of nervous system structure and function - Journal of Biosciences
Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the primary model organisms for neuroscience research due to its well-annotated and compact nervous system. Being the first organism with a mapped connectome, publishe...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Latest joint venture from the Schafer and Beets labs
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The latest from Schafer lab: @lariferg.bsky.social, collaborating with Beets lab, uses Alphafold multimer and deep learning to predict GPCR peptide ligands www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
DeorphaNN: Virtual screening of GPCR peptide agonists using AlphaFold-predicted active state complexes and deep learning embeddings
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important cell surface receptors involved in numerous physiological processes. Although peptides are the cognate ligands for many of these receptors, identifyin...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The latest from Schafer lab: @lariferg.bsky.social, collaborating with Beets lab, uses Alphafold multimer and deep learning to predict GPCR peptide ligands www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Schafer Lab
Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
doi.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...