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Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold presents at the Brain Organoid Summer School (BOSS25) 🧠📣
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, presented the poster entitled “Towards the generation and validation of a functional human organoid of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus” at the Brain Organoid Summer S...
Post · October 08, 2026
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold presents our latest findings at the EvoDevo in Croatia🧠📣
Very proud of Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold, our Postdoctoral Researcher who is representing the Astiz Lab at the Evolution and Development of Nervous Systems Conference in Zadar (Croatia) this week. Check out her fantastic poster on the latest findings f...
Post · October 08, 2026
Summer of conferences for Astiz Lab researchers: EBRS and SENC 2025 🧠📣
Our team has been very busy this summer season attending to two conferences back-to-back! And not only attending but also presenting these three fantastic posters showcasing our most recent results:
📢 Long-lasting changes induced by the circadia...
Post · October 08, 2026
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold gives a talk at the 2nd DevoHub Meeting🧠📣
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, gave the talk entitled “A journey into mouse SCN development” during the 2nd DevoHub Meeting in Leioa (Spain).
With the idea that “it takes more than one brain to understand how th...
Post · October 08, 2026
Astiz Lab researchers present their work at Neurogune 2026🧠📣
Members of the Astiz Lab participated in Neurogune 2026 in Bilbao (Spain), a meeting that brings together researchers from across the Basque neuroscience community to share their latest discoveries and foster new collaborations.
📢 Dr. Sylvia A. ...
Post · October 08, 2026
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold has been awarded a Research Visit Grant from the BSN!🏆
We are very happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold has been awarded a Research Visit Grant from the British Society for Neuroendocrinology (BSN)🙌🏽.
Thanks to the great support of this BSN grant, Sylvia will travel to Germany ...
Post · October 08, 2026
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold is making the most of her Research Visit Grant from the BSN! 🏆🧬
Dr. Sylvia A. Newbold is currently in Germany for her Research Visit Grant from the British Society for Neuroendocrinology (BSN), hosted by our long-term collaborators in Prof. Malte Spielmann’s Lab.
Sylvia is getting fully immersed in the resea...
Post · October 08, 2026
Longitudinal research from The College Learning Study is published
The first longitudinal qualitative paper from The College Learning Study is available now in CBE - Life Sciences Education. In a tour de force led by Dr. Emily Bremers, this paper uses longitudinal semi-structured interview data from a cohort of s...
Post · October 07, 2026
First publication from the lab highlighted in ASCB Newsletter
The first paper from the lab has been published in the September 2026 issue of CBE - Life Sciences Education. Five undergraduate researchers from the lab, Joyce, Mara, Asu, Swasti, and Abeeha, contributed to the data collection and analysis that w...
Post · October 07, 2026
New preprint: omnidirectional gamma-ray detection with machine learning
Our latest preprint, Omnidirectional Radiation Detector with Perpendicular Dual Silicon Photomultiplier Readout – Directional Sensitivity and Machine Learning Source Positioning, is now available on arXiv.
The study presents a compact detector de...
Post · October 07, 2026
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