Professor James Hodge

@drfly
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Professor of Neuroscience, University of Bristol. My lab studies how the activity of neural circuits controls circadian rhythms, sleep and memory. We are interested in affect of ageing, neurodegenerative disease, and neuropathies effect these process and using Drosophila to study these processes.
Please apply for our fully funded BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD
https://www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-mechanisms-pathways-projects/#Physiological
on Circadian ageing https://circadiageing.org.uk/ at Bristol University with HUGH PIGGINS AND KRASI TSANEVA Deadline 3 Dec https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/373/files/2025/11/swbio-26-project-62.pdf
📰 "Micro-/nano-plastics accentuate Parkinson's Disease-relevant phenotypes in a Drosophila model"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688805v1?rss=1
#Mitochondria #Drosophila #Sleep
We’ve not given up trying to work out what is killing the bees, with @Matthias soller and @anna Lassota
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-20109-3 Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model
We’ve not given up trying to work out what is killing the bees, with @Matthias soller and @anna Lassota
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-20109-3 Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model
📰 "Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model"
https://doi.org/doi:10.1038/s41598-025-20109-3
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41102314/
#Drosophila #Sensory
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Apply for a fully funded PhD studying CASK disease at Bristol University with James Hodge Gaynor Ann Smith CASK Research Benjamin Housden Doretta Caramaschi PhD Prof Sam Amin
https://lnkd.in/ehhHZpHv
Developing and characterising new preclinical models and therapies

9 months postdoc will be to continue our labs work development Drosophila models of CASK function and disease funded by https://caskresearch.org/cask-gene-disorders/. This will involve biomedical neuroscience lab work including fly behaviour, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
search for the job ACAD108170 from Here.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=377458&jobTitle=Research%20Associate%20in%20Neuroscience%20and%20Disease%20Models

9 months postdoc will be to continue our labs work development Drosophila models of CASK function and disease funded by https://caskresearch.org/cask-gene-disorders/. This will involve biomedical neuroscience lab work including fly behaviour, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
search for the job ACAD108170 from Here.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=377458&jobTitle=Research%20Associate%20in%20Neuroscience%20and%20Disease%20Models

9 month Research Associate in fly CASK Neuroscience and Disease Models in Hodge lab (Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Bristol University) available:
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-internal/list/details.html?jobId=377457
Fixed term until 30/04/2026
£38,249 - £44,128 per annum
Deadline 17th July.
Interviews 11th August.