James Catterson

@scotsfriction.bsky.social

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Researching neurodegeneration using flies. Based at Edinburgh University. UKDRI. Also Music. Politics. Ceramics. Leith4Life

Whatsapp pic of a bunch of gold teaspoons that had appeared overnight
Me chatting to HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh about the cool stuff we do with Drosophila
Picture shows 2 little Drosophila toys in front of 2 vials of newly generated transgenic flies.
Schematic showing C9 flies exposed to cold stress do better when they have a higher membrane fatty acid unsaturation. Flies that have low fatty acid unsaturation don't fare well at all.
Picture of baby toy macaw, baby grow with my micrograph of a fly brain, and dungarees covered in bugs and insects
The album cover for Cindy Lee's 'Diamond Jubilee' released this year.
A package addressed to BestGene, a Drosophila transgenics company
Hundreds of Drosophila stocks in a cold incubator
Picture of a culture plate with bacterial colonies growing on it. The transformation seems to have worked!
Figure 2 from the BiorXiv paper shows the schematic of the dsTango circuit and a working example below of Orco neurons and their post-synaptic and post-post-synaptic partners
Album cover- Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s ‘The Way It Is’ from 1986
200+ vials of Drosophila stocks from Bloomington Stock Center