🚨🚨We have a three year fully funded RetinaUK Macular Society
PhD studentship available with Roly Megaw in my lab at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh to study #ActinDynamics, #MembraneRemodeling and how it all goes wrong in models of #RetinitisPigmentosa disease 🗓️closes June 21 2023 🗓️ - Check it out: https://findaphd.com/phds/project/deciphering-rpgr-s-role-in-disc-formation/?p158922 Retoots most welcome 🙏

🚨🚨We have a three year fully funded RetinaUK Macular Society
PhD studentship available with Roly Megaw in my lab at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh to study #ActinDynamics, #MembraneRemodeling and how it all goes wrong in models of #RetinitisPigmentosa disease 🗓️closes June 21 2023 🗓️ - Check it out: https://findaphd.com/phds/project/deciphering-rpgr-s-role-in-disc-formation/?p158922 Retoots most welcome 🙏

@gratefuldread
^ "a new study reveals the protein responsible for transporting choline into the cell. The findings ... may have immediate implications for people living with posterior column ataxia with retinitis pigmentosa (PCARP), a disease caused by a mutation in this transporter protein."

research paper:
Integrative genetic analysis identifies FLVCR1 as a plasma-membrane choline transporter in mammals
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2023.04.003

#ataxia #RetinitisPigmentosa #PCARP #neuroscience

Veelbelovende #gentherapie bij #retinitispigmentosa, maar nog zeker niet uitontwikkeld.

https://www.amsterdamumc.org/nl/vandaag/eerste-patienten-met-erfelijke-oogaandoening-behandeld-met-nieuwe-experimentele-gentherapie.htm

Funny eyes of FayGNewton
's mice!
Connecting cilium📢 :
#RetinitisPigmentosa, take your pick of mechanisms for retinal degeneration
Photoreceptors, please comply!

#UKCilia2023 #UKCiliaNetwork @Mill_lab #BSCB
@J_Cell_Sci #GenSocUK

How #photoreceptors die in #retinitispigmentosa using #scRNAseq, proteomics & quantitative imaging with slow #RPGR & fast #PDE6B mouse models- understanding early and late disease mechanisms! Great talk by Fay Newton, postdoc extraordinaire funded by Fight for Sight UK in Megaw/Mill labs at MRC HGU, University of Edinburgh. #ukcilia2023 /7

would be great to find and connect with others who are also gradually losing sight via #RetinitisPigmentosa or similar (i actually have #USH and it's specifically my #USH2A gene that is causing issues for me)

in any case, please reach out if you're also traveling this road

i have #LowVision (under the #RetinitisPigmentosa umbrella) am #neurodivergent and a dad of two #neurodiverse kiddos; husband to a wonderful partner :blobfoxheartcute: love #GongfuCha 🍵 and #PourOverCoffee ☕ into total liberation and i live for positive leftist news

looking forward to getting to know you all :blobfoxaww: