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Neuropeptide/GPCR signalling | Ion Channels | "wireless" connectome | Caenorhabditis elegans | Octopus vulgaris

https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/wschafer/
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
April 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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!
April 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Schafer Lab
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...
www.biorxiv.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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...
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