Ilan davis
He/him. Ilandavis.com 🧪
Professor Spatial Biomedicine, Uni Glasgow
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Davis
Drosophila. RNA. Neuroscience. Advanced microscopy. Spatial biology technology development. Rockclimbing.
- Human induced climate change is an existential threat to humans living on the planet. It is also making it harder year in year to find good winter climbing conditions in Scotland. Luckily two weeks ago there was a spell of very cold weather - I climbed in Glen Coe: grade IV Raeburn route.
- elifesciences.org/articles/102... I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
- Dear friends and scientific colleagues, (especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz). Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared). Many thanks Best regards Ilan www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Obituary in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/arti... Obituary in Development Development (2024) 151, dev204429. doi: 10.1242/dev.204429
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- A typical part of the playbook for a dictator on the rise, coupled with bringing out troops to suppress democratic protests against their xenophobic policies.
- Genius. Just as topical now as when made - I think when Thatcher was first elected as prime minister in the uk in 1980 or so.
- Reposted by Ilan davis#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
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- Another way to donate to save flybase from disappearing: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- Reposted by Ilan davisThe Trump administration's chaotic changes to diversity-based funding have left trainees in limbo. My colleagues and I at @thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke to ten neuroscience trainees about what the uncertainty means for them, their research and their futures: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
- The wold scientific base is in serious crisis. Including Flybase, the heart and soul of the Drosophila community. Read below. If you work on flies or are a fan or want to help. Please consider donation. As termination of Harvard NIH means flybase will stop after the end of July 2025.
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- Walking through the Glasgow botanical guardians I found d countless magical patterns on the leaves
- You maybe interested in this film I made in a very remote part of Tibet while I was doing my PhD in Developmental Biology, shown on BBC2 in 1988. A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism. youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
- Reposted by Ilan davisWe are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ilan davisA tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Jeff Lee et al paper from my lab is out now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper. Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
- I wonder if anyone has built a continuously variable fluorescent light source using delta optical filters and dichroic mirrors with galvo mirrors and/or piezo movers? deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...
- Interesting analysis free of political bias or opinion. However a popularist with disregard of the law and truth backed by oligarch tech billionaires with no morals may “achieve” much more than is easily predicted by rational expert analysis.
- Went to Glen Coe to climb dorsal arête on stone coire nan lochen. (Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
- Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.
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- Went winter climbing last Sunday in magnificent conditions in the Cairngorms. Arrived a bit late so the popular climbs were in log jam. Had to do a shorter “off piste” sideline to the right to avoid the crowds
- View of Central London from Ken Wood, across Hampstead Heath two days before Xmas eve.
- Boxing Day tour of street art scene in Bristol uk.
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- Been on holiday in Italy. Is there any other language that uses hand gestures so extensively and comprehensively in parallel with spoken language? Inspiring to watch people in conversation on trains or in cafes. Interesting to know if AI image analysis can interpret Italian without sound.
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- Capri at sunset yesterday.
- That is really cool. I guess (x,y,z) = (sin2t, sin3t,sin4t). ?
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- Answer to my visual riddle below. Two different pictures out of the window of the airplane focusing on the glass or on the view.
- The trend is interesting
- Reposted by Ilan davisEver wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
- Can you guess how these two pictures are related?
- I am delighted that our long standing close collaboration with AlfredoCastello lab has led to yet another very exciting publication in Mol Cell: thanks so much to Wael and Alfredo for taking the lead. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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- How big does an asteroid have to be to make it to the ground?
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- Reposted by Ilan davisPostdoc position available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge! Join us and discover the role that control of cytoskeletal dynamics, crosstalk and cell adhesion play in the formation of the nephron tube in human renal organoids! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48947/
- The statistics of global food industry are incredible: www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/... Revenue in the Food market amounts to US$9.09tn in 2024. Expected to grow annually by 6.48% (CAGR 2024-2029). The market's largest segment is the segment Meat with a market volume of US$1.46tn in 2024.
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- Reposted by Ilan davisMix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)
- Amazing
- ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes! Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social [re-post from Twitter]
- Really exciting
- Interesting times for evidence-based science and medicine in the next few years. With the media, Social media and judiciary controlled by Donald and his large numbers of followers: conspiracy and miss-information lovers, and crucially his richest groupie controlling X. Will democracy survive?
- It has even been reported today on dead ringers - the BBC radio 4 political comedy - making fun of Elon reacting to the mass defection from x to blue sky.
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- Glasgow maths and stat building.
- July entry of annual calendar of my rockclimbing club. Me leading an easy route up a pillar on Loudon Hill - 1 hour south of Glasgow - evening climbing after work.
- Sorry. I see the link to the tardigrades science communication programme below on radio4 was wrong. Here is the correct link: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- This discussion of the future of AI is incredibly interesting and profound on YouTube.
- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Amazing science communication programme about tardigrades and whether they would survive an apocalypse. We isolated them from miss on walls outside the lab -used them to teach biology to physicists building microscopes. >1500 species. Uk gutters to Antarctica.
- at://did:plc:m2z5mpfvbvhmmu4t7637p3qj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laxkofjz6723
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- Interesting development. Wellcome stopped funding all PhD programmes in the UK - so great to see others stepping in. I wonder what the criteria of eligeability are?
- The uk paper the Guardian is no longer posting on X
- Does anyone know if there is proper direct evidence regarding this claim by a Kremlin official (reported by BBC Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg below) of electoral interference by “certain forces”?
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- Lilly pollen is fab at autofluorescence under the microscope
- November.
