🌞The sun finally came out this weekend, feel that Spring energy!
Sound on 🔊 to hear a moment from our rehearsal of Lucy Walker’s “Today.” With beautiful words by Ogbaji🌿🌸
🎫 See us live — ticket link in our bio!
#SpringEquinox #ChoirLife #LucyWalker #Ogbaji #ChoralMusic #SpringVibes
On 21 March we’re performing Heal You by Anna Meredith, who grew up near Edinburgh.
Written for Juice Ensemble — a moment of intimacy in the midst of louder music.
🎟 Ticket link in bio.
#EdinburghMusic #LiveMusicEdinburgh #ChoralMusic #AnnaMeredith #ScottishComposers #ContemporaryChoral
Ever heard @olagjeilo’s Luminous Night of the Soul?
It’s a masterclass in how piano and strings dance with a choir. Come experience it live!
📆21 March 2026
📍Stockbridge Parish Church
🎫 link in the bio
youtu.be/0OaRZrdoTQ0
#liveperformance #stockbridge #edinburgh
Latest from the lab, led by @ara-donia.bsky.social and @juliavdkorput.bsky.social
Huge team effort, with immense contributions by friends from nearby and around the globe.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
VIDA is a multi-institutional partnership between Alzheimer’s Society and four world-leading research sites. Projects focus on the importance of vascular and immune mechanisms in dementia. Fully-funded and cohort based! Search "VIDA" on FindAPhD.com and apply before 9 January 2026.
Our new facility, the UK's only dedicated axolotl research colony, is an exciting next step into regenerative medicine.
"What we learn from axolotls could one day help us unlock new treatments for everything from spinal cord injuries to degenerative diseases." - @aidarodrigo.bsky.social
We’ve been touring MS labs and facilities. 4 hours flashed by in the blink of an eye! We covered a whole campus and met 5 teams. We have so many researchers and support staff working on so many different aspects of this disease, every day advancing therapies and striving to reverse symptoms of MS.
Join Calton Consort for “Midwinter” at Canongate Kirk, 5pm on Saturday 6th December — perfectly timed to head straight to that party or head home to cosy up afterwards. ❄️🎶
Tickets are selling fast… don’t miss out!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/edi...
The lab went to our institute Halloween party as research models- spot yeast, human, E.coli, naked mole rat, axolotl, fusing organoid, frog, drosophila, excitatory neuron and oligodendrocyte!!!
We have an exciting PhD position available in the Williams lab related to cerebral small vessel disease and funded through our Racing Against Dementia project - if you are interested then do apply here: regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
And he won the Ian Wilmut Prize! Hurray!
Amazing talk by Karl from our @annawilliamslab.bsky.social (who was also nominated for the Wilmut Prize) about his PhD work on Oligodenrocyte Progenitors and their differentiation potentials at the CRM away day.
The Edinburgh participants at dinner at VasCog!
Ronja gets the top abstract prize at Vascog!!
Trials are happening in MS right now- to find out if it really works in people with MS. They should report fairly soon....🙂
The lab is having a good few months for publications with this one as well in case you missed it: doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(Thank you Themis and Francesca, and all!)
Our new paper on metformin, myelin, mitochondria and metabolism is now out at rdcu.be/eDbFD
Thanks to Nina and all of the team!
Now out in Molecular Therapy! With Francesca Vacante, we describe MYRACL, a novel candidate lncRNA driving human oligodendroglia differentiation & myelination. Grateful to our amazing co-authors & mentors @annawilliamslab.bsky.social & Andrew Baker!
Read more👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our reception team smiling at the camera in front of IRR South Reception
On National Receptionist's Day we would like to thank our fantastic reception team for all they bring to our Institute. They are the friendly face of IRR and help make our staff, students and visitors feel so welcome. Thank you! #NationalReceptionistsDay
For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
EDINBURGH AXOLOTLS!
Super-excited to hear my wonderful colleague @aidarodrigo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 talking about the axototl colony she has established in our institute @edinuni-irr.bsky.social 😃
Available on BBC sounds: Aida's section starts at 23.37
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Genetic subtypes predict multiple sclerosis severity and response to treatment #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠
http://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.04.15.25325853v1
📣 Open call for early-career composers. 📣
The successful applicant will be invited to collaborate with the choir in a composition, and receive £1000 upon completion of the work.
🔹Deadline: 25th April 2025
🔹Details: caltonconsort.org.uk/compose/
Today I met @rodtmitchell.bsky.social at our Fringe bootcamp. We will be representing the @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at the @edfringe.bsky.social this year! Super excited. Lot's of thought-provoking talks by amazing academics - stay tuned!
The findings from my focus group project on #dementia and #multimorbidity are now available to download as an infographic
Thanks to the Global Brain Health Institute and @nrs-ndn1.bsky.social for supporting this work. It was an enjoyable and illuminating process!
www.gbhi.org/projects/exp...
"Neurons are like trees with roots and branches that talk!" was my favourite comment from a 4-year old from my last workshop for #BrainAwarenessWeek at the Little Muslims children's group. Thanks @edinuni-irr.bsky.social and @edinunineuro.bsky.social for the support!
Book now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/calton-consort
#choral #whitacre #tallis #liveperformance #edinburgh #acappella #sadmusic
"Your brain is your superpower!" was the takehome message of my second workshop for #BrainAwarenessWeek2025. So glad to represent @edinuni-irr.bsky.social and @edinunineuro.bsky.social again at Danderhall Primary School.
It’s international woman’s day! Well we have a lot of amazing women in our group to celebrate from our fierce leader @annawilliamslab.bsky.social to our PhD students, postdocs, bioinformaticians, and everyone in between💪🏻 Thank you ladies for being amazing scientists, colleagues and friends 💜💙🩵
Looking for a #postdoc in #regenerative #biology? 🔬🧬Look no further than this amazing opportunity with my super office mate @aidarodrigo.bsky.social at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social to explore regenerative capacity across species! 🐭 🐁
Closing 📅 01/04/25
