Rafael Almeida
Chancellor's Fellow (ERC StG & NIRG) @ Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research, University of Edinburgh 🐟🧠 🏳️🌈
Interested in synaptic and non-synaptic neurotransmission, and myelin
#zebrafish #neurobiology #neuroscience
http://almeida-lab.com
- Reposted by Rafael AlmeidaNew paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
- Reposted by Rafael AlmeidaIf you're interested in the factors that enable the regular structure of CNS #myelin sheaths by #oligodendrocytes, check this out. Featuring a #CDC42 - effector proteins - #septin axis. Congrats to 1st author Sophie, and a big thank you to all who contributed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Happy holiday wishes from the Almeida Lab 🎄✨️ Very grateful to an excellent team for all the thinking, tinkering, and troubleshooting in 2025. Extra proud of our two postdocs @sophiesiems.bsky.social and @katymarshallphelps.bsky.social landing their own pilot grants just in time for Christmas 🎁
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- Reposted by Rafael AlmeidaPleased to share that I’ve been awarded a Catalyst Award from the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social 🥳 Many thanks to the MS Society UK for supporting our research in the @almeidalab.bsky.social and helping to advance understanding of MS!
- Shout-out to our PhD student Wei Huang for stepping up to present her work on zebrafish motor neuron synaptic protein heterogeneity at the Darwin Trust symposium — great to see the project (and presentation skills) evolving nicely! 🐟 🔬🧠
- Enhorabuena Dr Carla Peiró for smashing your PhD defence cum laude! And teaching us about myelin internalization when she visited from the Achucarro! 🐟🐁
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- Reposted by Rafael AlmeidaThis is important for 🧪🔬 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
- Happy to share that I passed my tenure review. Excited to be doing research until someone kicks me out!
- Excitement is brewing amongst the team to welcome Neuroscience MSc students to the lab next week. Can't wait to show them Fin Diesel 🐟🔬
- 👁Happy Halloween from our resident Cyclops fish 👁
- Congrats to our PhD Wei Huang for getting a wee grant for upskilling her 🐟🔬 analysis - thank you Darwin Trust!
- Updated Almeida lab photo :)
- Reposted by Rafael AlmeidaIf you're interested in trafficking of #myelin constituents in #oligodendrocytes, and of course you are, you may want to check out our new preprint. It's very nice PhD work by @sophiesiems.bsky.social, and we're grateful to all who contributed! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Thrilled that myelin purifier extraordinaire @sophiesiems.bsky.social bagged a DFG fellowship from the Walter Benjamin Program to study axon-myelin adhesion dynamics in zebrafish! Congrats Sophie, and thanks DFG ☺️
- Reposted by Rafael AlmeidaCouple of opportunities up to join the group! One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path. One research assistant role. Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more! Or just apply! Thanks! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
