Robert Lucas

Congratulations Bea!

How to measure light for laboratory mammals? How to replicate experimental conditions? What light for husbandry? Delighted to announce the publication of our consensus view answering these questions (summarised in Box 3). journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

We find widespread failure to achieve recommendations for daytime light. Does this matter for healthy adults leading ordinary lives? Alertness higher on days with brighter light in morning and light through day associated with earlier bedtimes. @altugdidikoglu @BrownlabV

Spectrawear (our open-source wearable a-opic light dosimeter) has been in action to reveal associations between personal light exposure and subjective daytime sleepiness + the timing of night-time sleep in everyday life pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Happy to share our latest paper in @JPhysiol introducing staircase light stimuli to probe irradiance coding in the mouse SCN! An exciting journey with a fantastic team! @BeaBanoTime @RiccardoStorch1 @RobLucasDar physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Effort to improve animal welfare and experimental rigour from fantastic group of experts including @netty_allen @altugdidikoglu @michaeltrido @SamerHattar @BrownlabV @RoelofHut @tiffmschmidt @CircadianClocks @VVoikar

Take homes: 1. Measuring light in lux doesn’t accurately quantify brightness for animals. 2. You can use species specific a-opic EDI metrics instead and we show you how. 3. We provide quantitative advice on the amount of light mammals should experience at day and night.

How should you measure light to predict its appearance to non-human mammals and what constitutes healthy lighting for animal husbandry? Here’s what we agreed when we met in Manchester earlier this year to discuss preprints.org/manuscript/202…

Proud to be part of this project led by @BrownlabV showing the importance of colour for mice.

Congratulations Andreea!

Great summary of our latest on striped mice from Ricardo in this thread.

So pleased to see this fantastic calloboration published. Striped mice such a powerful model for circadian and vision research! @BeaBanoTime @R_Mallarino @netty_allen

@mspitschan @MPICybernetics @teulerlab Very enjoyable trip to Tubingen. Interesting science in a beautiful location. Thanks Manuel!

First BBQ of the year for our group at @MPICybernetics, with guests @RobLucasDar and @teulerlab!

Delighted to see this important work published, great collaboration!

..and why I will be submitting evidence to this committee committees.parliament.uk/committee/193/…

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Desperately needed.

We asked how well optogenetic therapy could recreate the visual code in advanced retinal degeneration - reassuringly well! Great collaboration. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09… #optogenetic #genetherapy @UniofOxford @DNS_UOM @Time_MCR @MoritzLindner2 @The_MRC @CurrentBiology

Surviving retinal circuity in advanced RP (rd1) can recreate a rich visual code after #optogenetic #genetherapy! Great to see our paper out! Rodgers et al., @CurrentBiology : authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…. Amazing work, Jess! @UniofOxford @Uni_MR @RobLucasDar @spp2127 @OfficialUoM

I’m delighted to announce, my first corresponding and first author paper (3D-UPPER) in neuroscience with collaboration of @RiccardoStorch1 @RasSPet @Orlowska_Feuer @antoniozippo @qian_huang66 published🎉.It is a good start for new year🎉 #Sec13" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4159…

Great paper!!! By Annette Allen, revealing circadian regulation of mesopic vision jneurosci.org/content/early/…