Camelia Haywood
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Camelia Haywood
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Molecular Medicine Researcher at UNSW @SiereckiGambin, BMedSc, BSc (Hons) | TDP-43, ALS, FTD, alpha-syn, PD | mum | crochet/knitting enthusiast 🧶
New insights into alpha-Syn's behaviour from our lab

Divalent and Trivalent Metallic Ions Differentially Affect Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation | ACS Chemical Neuroscience pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Divalent and Trivalent Metallic Ions Differentially Affect Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation
Alpha-synuclein (αSyn) is the constituent protein associated with neurodegenerative synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy. Recent studie...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I have fond memories of going to my grandparents' house in the countryside, helping with grass cutting using scythes (as young as 10 years old), building these beautiful haystacks, and then climbing them with my cousins.

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Big, biodiverse and beautiful: can Romania’s centuries-old giant haystacks survive modern farming?
Traditional methods benefit hundreds of species but as new agricultural techniques take over, the distinctive haystacks mark a vanishing way of life
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April 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Our lab’s latest collaboration “Dynamic PRC1–CBX8 stabilizes a porous structure of chromatin condensates” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic PRC1–CBX8 stabilizes a porous structure of chromatin condensates - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Here the authors show that a gene-inactivating protein complex packs inactive genes into a dynamic and accessible structure. The study challenges the traditional views that restricted accessibility an...
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January 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM