Mike Flower

Stopping C-A-G Repeat Expansion In Its Tracks ift.tt/0ij8tT1

We're recruiting a Senior Research Technician to join our group at the Huntington's Disease Centre - find out more: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Excited to share that I've been awarded a @UKDRI @lifearc1 pilot award to research biomarkers in Huntington's and related repeat expansion diseases! #Research #Dementia #Biomarkers #Huntingtons #HD

📢 New publication alert! 'Therapeutic validation of MMR-associated genetic modifiers in a human ex vivo model of Huntington disease' by Ferguson et al., 2024 @AJHGNews 🧬 @mike_flower @UCLBrainScience @UCLIoN sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I went on a pilgrimage to Bristol Airport’s world famous multi-faith area

📢 New publication alert! Check out this comprehensive review of genetic modifiers of repeat expansion disorders by @_SRajagopal et al. (Jasmine Donaldson, @mike_flower, @DrDavinaMoss, Sarah Tabrizi) published in #ETLS 🧬#HD @UCLIoN @UCLBrainScience portlandpress.com/emergtoplifesc…

@woofcoffee what’s up? Not opening?

Watching @Wimbledon final on catch up, second set paused til tomorrow, no spoilers don’t ruin it for me

One of fave Bob Mortimer clips with Richard Ayoade. Gets me every time!

STOP PRESS! I promise that as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip I WILL move the hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the Crown & Treaty to a more sensible position. TO PROVE IT, I have just signed a treaty with the Crown & Treaty, that if I win they will move it. I keep my promises!

New publication alert! 🚨 PolyQ length-dependent metabolic alterations and DNA damage drive human astrocyte dysfunction in Huntington’s disease — by @DrJLange @mike_flower @simonjeaton1 @duchen_michael in Progress of Neurobiology @ELSneuroscience #sec0160" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please see linked advert for London ACL posts in Neurology SA4-6 at UCL, other posts detailed at Kings and Imperial. These are highly sought after integrated academic training posts. Do email me for discussions / details of UCL post. Please circulate news. oriel.nhs.uk/Web/Vacancy/Va…

Paternity leave reduces sexist attitudes in countries that have introduced it.

@smead2 Dreamy

Arrived at Walberswick, Suffolk for a few days. Girls revising so I’ll be running /walking on pebbly coast or walkways through reed beds with Betty. Maybe oysters in Orford tomorrow. Maybe just laze around.

So Pret baristas will now be earning up to £14.10 an hour. New NHS doctors - after their 5-year medical degree, whopping £80,000 of student debt, & life & death responsibilities - get paid £14.13 an hour. And the government wonders why they're striking? bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

@GroverChloe told u

@DacreJane @willquince @SteveBarclay @paygapsmedics @medicalwomenuk For academic clinician parents who are trying to do PhD & post doc work before CCT, the changes to training - eg compulsory dual training in GIM, two foundation years, inflexibility, have made it career restricted to the heroic. Lots of knock on for life sciences and research.

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@neuromenation Presents are very neat!

Have a holly jolly Christmas everyone! 🎄