A running commentary on our activities...
Lab members, papers, funding and other interesting stuff.
Publication in eLife - Reflexivity for the Biosciences
January 2024
Over the last couple of years Jenny has been collaborating with other scientists and social scientists on new a project to support post graduate mental health and wellbeing in the Biosciences. This week we had out work published in the scientific journal eLife. This work was enabled by Kent’s participation in the BBSRC funded Doctoral Training Partnership ‘South Coast Biology’ (or SoCoBio for short) and this project was piloted with students from Kent as well as our partners at Southampton, Sussex, Portsmouth and NIAB. The students who participated are all authors on the manuscript.
The title of our work is “Research Culture: Using reflective practice to support PhD students in the biosciences” and can be found here.
PDRA opportunity in our lab for 2024
December 2023
We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated individual to work with Tullet laboratory. This project aims to identify the molecular mechanisms that connect information relating to nutrients in the environment with effects on metabolic health and ageing.
Please get in touch to talk it through and the full details of the position and how to apply can be found here.
New BBSRC grant in Collaboration with Rebecca Taylor at UEA
December 2023
Research Project Title: "How food speaks to you: A new brain-gut axis for lifelong health"
Welcome to Lydia - PhD Student (SoCoBio BBSRC Funded) for 2023 - 2027
October 2023
It's great to have you back with us! Lots of fantastic findings ahead!
Welcome to Justin - Masters by Research Student for 2023 - 2024
October 2023
It's great to have you in the lab! Lots of fantastic experiments ahead!
BSRA Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
September 2023
A fantastic conference with lots of intriguing ageing research!
BBC Politics South East Interview
February 2023
A team from BBC Politics South East visited the Tullet and Ezcurra Labs to learn about ageing research!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PGAcIp-1c&ab_channel=STEMattheUniversityofKent
BBSRC International partnership visit to Melbourne, Australia
November 2022
Alongside one of our BBSRC grants we applied for money to visit and collaborate with colleagues at Monash University. What a fantastic opportunity!
12-14th September 2022
Fully funded PhD opportunity available for 2023 via SoCoBio DTP
October 2022
Had a lot of fun filming with ITV meridian today!
June 2022
So good to be working with my colleague and friend Marina Ezcurra - find out about our Innovate UK funded cherry project!
June 2022
Two grants in 6 months! Thank you Innovate UK and the Leverhulme Trust
March-June 2022
March 2022
After a long hiatus in face-to-face symposia due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were lucky enough to gather in person in the stunning Lake District for a collaborative meeting discussing the impact of nutrition on the ageing process.
Yasir presented a great talk on his Pol III work and there was even time for a swim in the lakes and a couple of good hill walks!
Fully funded PhD opportunity available for 2022 via SoCoBio DTP
October 2021
Welcome to Lydia and Rene - Masters by Research students for 2021-2022!
October 2021
Great to have you in the lab - lots of exciting experiments planned.
Our work published in PLoS Genetics:
Neuronal SKN-1B modulates nutritional signalling pathways and mitochondrial networks to control satiety
March 2021
We are so excited to see our paper out today in PLoS Genetics. Well done to Nick, Max and everyone else that was involved, it was a huge amount of work.
The full manuscript can be viewed @ https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009358
The press release "Key factor identified that makes worms feel full after a good meal" is @ https://phys.org/news/2021-03-key-factor-worms-full-good.html
International Women in STEM Day: Interview on ITV Meridian
February 2021
Was happy to raise awareness of these issues in public forums.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/28032/expert-comment-opportunities-for-women-in-science
Pol III BBSRC Grant collaboration meeting
December 2020
Had a great day with our collaborators at UCL and University of Glasgow discussing the Pol III project.
UK C. elegans Meeting 2020: PhD student Nick Tataridas-Pallas talks about his worm on SKN-1B and satiety.
October 2020
An interesting and inspiring day of science. Well done to Nick for a great talk!
PhD opportunity in our lab for 2021
Applications now open - deadline January
Would you like to join our team? An exciting project is available, starting in 2021 via the SoCoBio Doctoral training Programme - please see advert below or contact me for more details.
SoCoBio is an excellent consortia dedicated to training the next generation of scientists. You can find out more at:
https://southcoastbiosciencesdtp.ac.uk/
Congratulations Dr Scanlon
October 2020
Dan Scanlon worked hard during the 2020 lockdown to complete his thesis. He defended it and obtained his PhD in October. With thanks to Prof. David Carling (Imperial College London) for being the external examiner.
Welcome to James Evans, Masters by Research student
October 2020
James joins us for the next year to work on our exciting SKN-1B project.
Published our work in BioRxiv for the first time!
July 2020
Neuronal SKN-1B Modulates Nutritional Signalling Pathways and Mitochondrial Networks to Control Satiety
Nikolaos Tataridas-Pallas, Maximillian Thompson et al.,
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.21.213504
Presented our work at the "Aging in Isolation" international seminar series.
May 2020
It was fantastic to have access to, and present at this great seminar series organised by the Mair and Lamming Labs (USA). Thanks also to Jenny Regan (Edinburgh) for getting a UK/EU version up and running!
Lab in Lockdown
March 2020-July 2020
We had to close down operations, similarly to many of our colleagues in the UK and around the world, for a short period due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We looked after each other as a lab during that time and met regularly online.
Article published with Futurum Careers
January 2020
Had a great time writing this article with Futurum. These information and activity sheets are used by secondary schools for careers education. It's been fun to think about my job and how I got into it!
https://futurumcareers.com/what-can-worms-tell-us-about-ageing-in-humans
BBSRC funded PhD opportunity available from October 2020
January 2020
We are always looking for new team members to enhance, develop and add value to our research. Our lab is currently advertising an exciting new PhD project as part of the BBSRC funded SoCoBio doctoral training program. This project (with others) is advertised on Find a PhD https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/fully-funded-phds-in-biological-sciences-from-the-south-coast-biosciences-doctoral-training-partnership-for-september-2020/?p4764 and further details of the application process are on https://research.kent.ac.uk/socobio/
This is brief description of the project.
Eating and Sleeping: How neuronal SKN-1/Nrf regulates satiety using the worm C. elegans.
Over-eating is unhealthy, but how do we know when to stop eating? This exciting project integrates behavioural physiology, neuroscience, cell biology, genetics and molecular biology to understand how these decisions are made. Our work has recently identified that a neuronal expressed transcription factor called SKN-1 (human Nrf) regulates these processes. During your PhD experience you will unravel the intricate underlying biology, and through our partnership with Sibelius Natural products explore new screening technologies. We hope that your findings will be harnessed to improve the health and fitness of our population.
Fully-funded PhD opportunity available for October 2020.
October 2019
Developing countries such as Thailand are experiencing rapidly ageing populations; by 2050 one in four Asians will be over 60 years old. These dramatic changes are threatening multiple aspects of socioeconomic development and population health. Interventions that promote healthy ageing are therefore vital. We have been awarded a PhD studentship by the Global Challenges Doctoral Centre for an exciting project to investigate the biological effects of traditional Thai medicine and to work towards scientifically proven interventions promoting healthy ageing in developing countries. This project is co-supervised by Dr Marina Ezcurra at Kent and provides with world-class doctoral training in a vibrant research environment and interdisciplinary collaborations with our partners at University of Kent and BIOTEC Institute in Thailand.
An advert will be up soon. In the meantime feel free get in touch if this is something for you. Note: The studentship does not cover fees or visas for overseas students.
Welcome to our summer students.
June-September 2019
This year we are pleased to have Javier Martin (University of Granada, Spain) join us on an Erasmus program, as well as Ryan and Irene (University of Kent stage 2 undergraduates).
Congratulations Dr Thompson.
July 2019
Congratulations to Max, our first PhD student through the door!
Twitter fun
June 2019
https://twitter.com/worm_ukc/status/1135833530284613633
BBSRC grant awarded to work on RNA Pol III
May 2019
Amazing to be awarded a collaborative grant to examine the role of RNA Polymerase III in regulating lifespan in worms, flies and mice. We will be working as a consortia with our collaborators and friends Dr Nazif Alic @UCL and Prof Colin Selman @The University of Glasgow!
Post doc positions will be advertised in all three labs very soon.
Welcome to the Ezcurra Lab.
April 2019
Great to have another worm lab at Kent! Marina Ezcurra and her team join us this month - looking forward to happy and productive days ahead.
www.marinaezcurralab.com
Book chapter on Signal Transduction Pathways in Ageing published.
March 2019
Great writing this together with Cathy Slack (Aston University) and finally seeing it published!
Slack, C. & Tullet, J. (2018) Signal transduction pathways in ageing. In: Harris, J., Korolchuk, V. (eds.). Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Ageing: Part I Biomedical Science. Sub-cellular Biochemistry, 90, 323-350, Springer, Singapore. First online: 19-02-2019 doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2835-0_11.
Talk at London worm club
December 2018
Always great to speak at and attend this meeting.
Superworms at St Stephens Infant School.
November 2018
Invited back by popular demand! We were very happy to be asked back to the school and spent an enjoyable morning showing Year 2 children how to use microscopes to see the worms.
New Masters by Research student joins the lab.
October 2018
Welcome Alex!
Enjoyed a trip to Leeds for the UK C. elegans meeting.
September 2018
Jenny, Max, Dan and Isabel attended this meeting to present our work and talk to other worm workers. Loads of great talks and posters!
Excited to present our work on RNA pol III and lifespan at the International C. elegans meeting in Madison USA.
June 2018
Jenny and Max travelled to Madison to present their work and learn about other incredible work in the field.
BBSRC New Investigator grant to work on SKN-1 started.
January 2018
Welcome to Dr. Isabel Goncalves Silva. Exciting times ahead!
Paper showing the conserved role of RNA pol III in lifespan published.
December 2017
Our collaboration with Drs Nazif Alic (UCL) and Matthias Heinemann (University of Gronigen) has come to fruition. Read all about it in Filer et al.,2017 Nature.
Nick Tataridas-Pallas joins the lab as a PhD student.
October 2017
Welcome Nick!
Worms on tour at St Stephens Infant School, Canterbury.
May 2017
We talked about being a biologists and the children has fun looking at the worms down the microscope and taking part in some science based activities.
Paper describing the role of SKN-1 in stress resistance and lifespan published.
January 2017
Read all about it in Tullet et al., Ageing Cell 2017.
Had fun making a podcast for The Guardian.
November 2016
Dan Scanlon Joins Lab as PhD student.
October 2016
Welcome Dan!
Think Kent Talk published online.
October 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRn5hHJi_Ds
Max Thompson joins Lab as PhD student.
October 2015
Our first PhD student!
Fully funded PhD opportunity available for 2022 via SoCoBio DTP
October 2021
Welcome to Lydia and Rene - Masters by Research students for 2021-2022!
October 2021
Great to have you in the lab - lots of exciting experiments planned.
Our work published in PLoS Genetics:
Neuronal SKN-1B modulates nutritional signalling pathways and mitochondrial networks to control satiety
March 2021
We are so excited to see our paper out today in PLoS Genetics. Well done to Nick, Max and everyone else that was involved, it was a huge amount of work.
The full manuscript can be viewed @ https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009358
The press release "Key factor identified that makes worms feel full after a good meal" is @ https://phys.org/news/2021-03-key-factor-worms-full-good.html
International Women in STEM Day: Interview on ITV Meridian
February 2021
Was happy to raise awareness of these issues in public forums.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/28032/expert-comment-opportunities-for-women-in-science
Pol III BBSRC Grant collaboration meeting
December 2020
Had a great day with our collaborators at UCL and University of Glasgow discussing the Pol III project.
UK C. elegans Meeting 2020: PhD student Nick Tataridas-Pallas talks about his worm on SKN-1B and satiety.
October 2020
An interesting and inspiring day of science. Well done to Nick for a great talk!
PhD opportunity in our lab for 2021
Applications now open - deadline January
Would you like to join our team? An exciting project is available, starting in 2021 via the SoCoBio Doctoral training Programme - please see advert below or contact me for more details.
SoCoBio is an excellent consortia dedicated to training the next generation of scientists. You can find out more at:
https://southcoastbiosciencesdtp.ac.uk/
Congratulations Dr Scanlon
October 2020
Dan Scanlon worked hard during the 2020 lockdown to complete his thesis. He defended it and obtained his PhD in October. With thanks to Prof. David Carling (Imperial College London) for being the external examiner.
Welcome to James Evans, Masters by Research student
October 2020
James joins us for the next year to work on our exciting SKN-1B project.
Published our work in BioRxiv for the first time!
July 2020
Neuronal SKN-1B Modulates Nutritional Signalling Pathways and Mitochondrial Networks to Control Satiety
Nikolaos Tataridas-Pallas, Maximillian Thompson et al.,
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.21.213504
Presented our work at the "Aging in Isolation" international seminar series.
May 2020
It was fantastic to have access to, and present at this great seminar series organised by the Mair and Lamming Labs (USA). Thanks also to Jenny Regan (Edinburgh) for getting a UK/EU version up and running!
Lab in Lockdown
March 2020-July 2020
We had to close down operations, similarly to many of our colleagues in the UK and around the world, for a short period due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We looked after each other as a lab during that time and met regularly online.
Article published with Futurum Careers
January 2020
Had a great time writing this article with Futurum. These information and activity sheets are used by secondary schools for careers education. It's been fun to think about my job and how I got into it!
https://futurumcareers.com/what-can-worms-tell-us-about-ageing-in-humans
BBSRC funded PhD opportunity available from October 2020
January 2020
We are always looking for new team members to enhance, develop and add value to our research. Our lab is currently advertising an exciting new PhD project as part of the BBSRC funded SoCoBio doctoral training program. This project (with others) is advertised on Find a PhD https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/fully-funded-phds-in-biological-sciences-from-the-south-coast-biosciences-doctoral-training-partnership-for-september-2020/?p4764 and further details of the application process are on https://research.kent.ac.uk/socobio/
This is brief description of the project.
Eating and Sleeping: How neuronal SKN-1/Nrf regulates satiety using the worm C. elegans.
Over-eating is unhealthy, but how do we know when to stop eating? This exciting project integrates behavioural physiology, neuroscience, cell biology, genetics and molecular biology to understand how these decisions are made. Our work has recently identified that a neuronal expressed transcription factor called SKN-1 (human Nrf) regulates these processes. During your PhD experience you will unravel the intricate underlying biology, and through our partnership with Sibelius Natural products explore new screening technologies. We hope that your findings will be harnessed to improve the health and fitness of our population.
Fully-funded PhD opportunity available for October 2020.
October 2019
Developing countries such as Thailand are experiencing rapidly ageing populations; by 2050 one in four Asians will be over 60 years old. These dramatic changes are threatening multiple aspects of socioeconomic development and population health. Interventions that promote healthy ageing are therefore vital. We have been awarded a PhD studentship by the Global Challenges Doctoral Centre for an exciting project to investigate the biological effects of traditional Thai medicine and to work towards scientifically proven interventions promoting healthy ageing in developing countries. This project is co-supervised by Dr Marina Ezcurra at Kent and provides with world-class doctoral training in a vibrant research environment and interdisciplinary collaborations with our partners at University of Kent and BIOTEC Institute in Thailand.
An advert will be up soon. In the meantime feel free get in touch if this is something for you. Note: The studentship does not cover fees or visas for overseas students.
Welcome to our summer students.
June-September 2019
This year we are pleased to have Javier Martin (University of Granada, Spain) join us on an Erasmus program, as well as Ryan and Irene (University of Kent stage 2 undergraduates).
Congratulations Dr Thompson.
July 2019
Congratulations to Max, our first PhD student through the door!
Twitter fun
June 2019
https://twitter.com/worm_ukc/status/1135833530284613633
BBSRC grant awarded to work on RNA Pol III
May 2019
Amazing to be awarded a collaborative grant to examine the role of RNA Polymerase III in regulating lifespan in worms, flies and mice. We will be working as a consortia with our collaborators and friends Dr Nazif Alic @UCL and Prof Colin Selman @The University of Glasgow!
Post doc positions will be advertised in all three labs very soon.
Welcome to the Ezcurra Lab.
April 2019
Great to have another worm lab at Kent! Marina Ezcurra and her team join us this month - looking forward to happy and productive days ahead.
www.marinaezcurralab.com
Book chapter on Signal Transduction Pathways in Ageing published.
March 2019
Great writing this together with Cathy Slack (Aston University) and finally seeing it published!
Slack, C. & Tullet, J. (2018) Signal transduction pathways in ageing. In: Harris, J., Korolchuk, V. (eds.). Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Ageing: Part I Biomedical Science. Sub-cellular Biochemistry, 90, 323-350, Springer, Singapore. First online: 19-02-2019 doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2835-0_11.
Talk at London worm club
December 2018
Always great to speak at and attend this meeting.
Superworms at St Stephens Infant School.
November 2018
Invited back by popular demand! We were very happy to be asked back to the school and spent an enjoyable morning showing Year 2 children how to use microscopes to see the worms.
New Masters by Research student joins the lab.
October 2018
Welcome Alex!
Enjoyed a trip to Leeds for the UK C. elegans meeting.
September 2018
Jenny, Max, Dan and Isabel attended this meeting to present our work and talk to other worm workers. Loads of great talks and posters!
Excited to present our work on RNA pol III and lifespan at the International C. elegans meeting in Madison USA.
June 2018
Jenny and Max travelled to Madison to present their work and learn about other incredible work in the field.
BBSRC New Investigator grant to work on SKN-1 started.
January 2018
Welcome to Dr. Isabel Goncalves Silva. Exciting times ahead!
Paper showing the conserved role of RNA pol III in lifespan published.
December 2017
Our collaboration with Drs Nazif Alic (UCL) and Matthias Heinemann (University of Gronigen) has come to fruition. Read all about it in Filer et al.,2017 Nature.
Nick Tataridas-Pallas joins the lab as a PhD student.
October 2017
Welcome Nick!
Worms on tour at St Stephens Infant School, Canterbury.
May 2017
We talked about being a biologists and the children has fun looking at the worms down the microscope and taking part in some science based activities.
Paper describing the role of SKN-1 in stress resistance and lifespan published.
January 2017
Read all about it in Tullet et al., Ageing Cell 2017.
Had fun making a podcast for The Guardian.
November 2016
Dan Scanlon Joins Lab as PhD student.
October 2016
Welcome Dan!
Think Kent Talk published online.
October 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRn5hHJi_Ds
Max Thompson joins Lab as PhD student.
October 2015
Our first PhD student!