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👨🏻‍🔬+👨🏻‍🏫 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) @CorpusCambridge / @UnivCamPharm : pain & mole-rats. Likes 📖🚶🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️ & 🤘🏻 @psalmotoxin .bsky.social

Cambridge, England

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Ewan St. John Smith

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Where would a lab be without postdocs? Bringing new ideas to the bench & training up undergrads & postgrads 😃 Our lab @UnivCamPharm wouldn't be where we are now without the amazing efforts of many over the years. For this year's #NPAW2024 , here's a chronological run through.

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2 years

Today marks a special day in the annual rhythm of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock

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I’ve been promoted to a Full Professorship 🥳 😃🍾 Only possible through great work of all in the lab since 2013, wonderful collaborators & super colleagues @UnivCamPharm , @CorpusCambridge , @CamNeuro & @Cambridge_SBS , & an ever-understanding & massively supportive husband!🍾🎉

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Ewan St. John Smith

11 months

Tomorrow is a rather special day in the annual rhythm of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock...just in case you are passing by, here is some info that might encourage you to linger...

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5 years

Here's a little something about the best beast in the world, put together with @JordanChadRaine Meet the naked mole-rat: impervious to pain and cancer, and lives ten times longer than it should via @ConversationUK

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Meet the naked mole-rat: impervious to pain and cancer, and lives ten times longer than it should

It may look like a whiskered cocktail sausage, but the naked mole rat’s incredible biology may one day improve countless lives.

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

As Custodian of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock, it gives me great pleasure to say that it’s back! Come by and take a look, & for more information 👇

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Today marks a special day in the annual rhythm of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock

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@andpru This is just an image of something already known to exist, i.e. study shows lack of originality and novelty. Moreover, seems risky to assume too much of a conclusion on n = 1.

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Ewan St. John Smith

10 months

Cool paper out from @Eijkelkamp_N 's group, continuing their work on the role that mitochondria play in #pain . They show that inflammation disturbs sensory neuron mitochondrial/metabolic function, which predisposes to persistent pain following subsequent inflammation.

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

🤔 14+ years - plenty of happiness here 😬😬😬

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Hurrah, @CambridgeCow are back 😬 🐮 😬 (although I did have to backtrack and find another route to work 🤣)

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Ewan St. John Smith

5 years

I am a gay (he/him) PI neuroscientist @Cambridge_Uni / @CorpusCambridge . We work on understanding pain mechanisms & the weird biology of the naked mole-rat. None science time = galleries with my husband, running & cats! Great to see the representation & visibility #LGBTQScience !

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5 years

Magic of magnets yesterday with Takis @Tate - amazing exhibition

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Looking forward to contributing to the continued success of @CamNeuro

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2 years

📢 We are delighted to welcome Professor Ewan St John Smith @psalmotoxin as the new Co-Director of @CamNeuro . Ewan is Professor of Nociception & Deputy HOD @UnivCamPharm where research focuses on nociception & everything unusual about the naked mole-rat! 🧵⬇️

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

As we settle into the main exam season @Cambridge_Uni , it’s a stressful time, & so one plea to all those taking exams: if you’re struggling, panicking, or generally going “arghhhhh”, please reach out to someone, friends, DoS, Tutor, you’re not alone! #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, which is the Name Day of @CorpusCambridge where I am a Fellow in Pharmacology, largely involved with teaching medicine & biology students, but I'm also the Custodian of the Corpus Chronophage Clock

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2 years

Apparently, on this day in 2007, I met my first naked mole-rat!

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

Massive congratulations to @mbohic28 , @interlukein , @AnissaJhumka , @IshmailSaboor & @VAbraira for leading on our new study out in @NeuroCellPress Mapping the neuroethological signatures of pain, analgesia, and recovery in mice

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Mapping the neuroethological signatures of pain, analgesia, and recovery in mice

Bohic, Pattison, and colleagues use cutting-edge quantitative approaches to uncover hidden signatures of sensory-evoked and ongoing pain. With computer vision and machine learning, they highlight the...

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Ewan St. John Smith

11 months

25-years ago this week, I interviewed @JesusCollegeCam for Natural Sciences @Cambridge_Uni , got pooled, wasn’t fished out & was incredibly frustrated. However, I went & had 4-great years at @PharmUnivBath , including a year in 🇨🇭 working for Novartis 1/2

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

I’ve been AstraZeneca’d - thanks to science & the NHS 😬💉😬

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

As Custodian of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage, it brings me great pleasure to say that it will be gracing us with its presence again soon. New glass has been installed overnight & the Chronophage will be back in it’s rightful place in the coming days 😃

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Congratulations @DJuliusSF & @ardemp 🍾 I think I’ll have to add a slide to my pain lectures for this Term! #neuroscience #pain #ionchannels

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The Nobel Prize

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BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

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3 years

Good morning from @CorpusCambridge

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Great to see this Pain Pictured review of cell-cell interactions in osteoarthritis & rheumatoid arthritis out in @PAINthejournal ! Was fun working with @interlukein , @3m3rkr & @PainLab_KI

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

So, that's a little overview of what is truly an incredible thing, slap bang in the middle of Cambridge for everyone to see with plenty more secrets to share, all of which are courtesy of the man whose birthday it is today Dr John C Taylor OBE @DrJCTOBE – happy birthday John!

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2 years

Walking, rather than cycling to work today, & a rather rare sighting from Jesus Green #Cambridge

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Finally a new lab photo….been a loooong time since the last one - great to work with such a friendly, supportive & imaginative bunch 😬 Here’s to a great academic year ahead!

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Cambridge is currently 31°C. Naked mole-rats are cold-blooded and we keep ours at 28-32°C. Today is the right day for wearing a naked mole-rat mask.

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Today is a special day for the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock! The Clock has 4 days/year when it plays a special set of ‘tricks’ and one of those is March 24th. Why, you might ask? Well, it’s all to do with John Harrison, he of marine chronometer fame

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Just recorded first lecture for next year. I am not a fan. Maintaining focus/enthusiasm is tough when stuck talking to oneself, give me a live audience & interaction any day! Understand necessity & great to have recording online for access, but not fun. #AcademicChatter

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Obligatory @CorpusCambridge in the rain/snow photo

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2 years

Slow trudge to work this morning, but @CorpusCambridge looks pretty in the snow 🥶

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Ewan St. John Smith

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Today @CorpusCambridge ’s flag flies at half-mast to mark the passing of Prof. Sir Colin Blakemore, Honorary Fellow, a visionary scientist & communicator

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

The academic year of 2021/22 is good to go, welcome all to @CorpusCambridge !

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

We're recruiting! 3-year PDRA position available to join our lab as part of the MRC APDP ADVANTAGE consortium on visceral pain. Exciting collaboration with @denk_lab @PainRambles @horne_research @GeorgeMalliaras & many others not on Twitter. @CamNeuro

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

8 years ago today the lab started...we've had 4 homes in the same building, worked on ion channels, pain, cancer, naked mole-rats & more. It's been a lot of fun, most importantly because of the people in the lab - thanks a million & here's to whatever the future brings!

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Ewan St. John Smith

5 years

Dead chuffed with this! Thanks to the brilliant people in my lab over the years who have powered the lab’s research! 👀 @NeuroJim @__GRAR__ @fluorescence_SC @interlukein , @jiwonyi2 , collaborators @WTKLAB , @nude_mole_rat , @nicolascenac & @Cyberplasm & those not on Twitter!

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Congratulations to our Fellows David Sneath, Ewan St John Smith and Jonathan Morgan for their academic promotions!

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Ewan St. John Smith

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"minimum salary for a skilled worker arriving in the UK from £26,000 to £40,000". Regardless of the impact on healthcare, hospitality etc. sectors, this would basically rule out any entry level postdoctoral scientists 🤦

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Sunak ‘agreed with Braverman to £40k income threshold for UK migrants’

Purported agreement included raising minimum salary and ending extended visas for graduates

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

Really pleased to representing @UnivCamPharm & @CorpusCambridge by giving a different sort of talk today @BabrahamInst as part of their #Pride2023 work 😃

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Feel like I’m disturbing the locals this morning #Cambridge

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

I lecture final year undergrads on the cellular & molecular basis of pain. The tale surrounding the role of the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7 in pain never fails to produce some confusion, but a new paper, in my opinion, brings clarity.

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Made it to Verona, bring on @PainMechanisms 😬

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3 years

Today is a very special day, Dr John C Taylor OBE @DrJCTOBE inventor of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock celebrates his 85th birthday!

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Flying with 🏳️‍🌈 pride 🏳️‍⚧️ today @CorpusCambridge to mark the beginning of #LGBTHM22

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Dead chuffed to be a runner up - been a lot of fun doing public engagement activities over the years, lots of great partners, and here's to doing more!

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Cambridge University Public Engagement

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First up is the award for the Early Career Researcher! The judges had a tough choice to make, here are our fantastic runners up… Dr @katejnoble , @FitzMuseum_UK Dr Ewan St John Smith, @psalmotoxin , @UnivCamPharm , @CorpusCambridge Dr Ebele Mogo, @ebyral , @MRC_Epid

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Apparently it’s 15 years since my PhD graduation (viva in 2006, but came back the following year to graduate with friends)

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Flown with pride @CorpusCambridge #LGBTHM21

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Good luck to all those with an interview @Cambridge_Uni over the next few weeks: try to relax, give it your best shot & don’t panic...I applied when I was 17, got rejected, was obviously disappointed, but things worked out fine...life has many paths!

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Big shout out on #InternationalWomensDay to Dervila Glynn without whom @CamNeuro wouldn’t function! (Our smiles hide how incredibly tired we both were!)

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3 years

AZ, AZ, Pfizer 🦠 🔨

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Whiteboard out, pens ready, it’s supervision (small group teaching) season again! Today, we’ll be kicking off Natural Sciences Pharmacology, keywords being 💊 affinity & efficacy (there might be a few dose-response/binding curves at play…)

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Really excited to see this paper out! Great collaboration with @PainRambles & @TheCIMR & many more. Work in our group lead by @NeuroJim @interlukein @__GRAR__ - funded by @RosetreesT @BBSRC @VersusArthritis

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Human Labor Pain Is Influenced by the Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel KV6.4 Subunit

Lee et al. find that the KV6.4 variant KV6.4Met-419 is highly prevalent in women requiring no analgesia in childbirth and that KV6.4Met-419 is retained in the cytoplasm, preventing it from modifying...

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Looking for a postdoc in ageing/neurodegeneration? Think that naked mole-rats = best model organism to ever strut their stuff? Then there here's the job for you: in my lab, funded by @DunhillMedical collaboration with @GabrielBalmus & @Cyberplasm @CamNeuro

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9 months

How does mechanosensation work? Nerves are critical, but recent work from @GaryRLewin1 , @PatrikErnfors et al () builds on findings a few years ago that Schwann cells are involved in nociception #neuroscience #touch #pain

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Old Court @CorpusCambridge looking magnificent this morning...with a couple of visitors

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Obligatory @CorpusCambridge in the ❄️ photos, not quite enough for a ⛄️ yet though...

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"Dear Dr. Ewan St. John Smith, I ask you to review a manuscript entitled "Lipid membranes from naked mole-rat brain lipids..." I mean, I'd love to, but I'm one of the corresponding authors and so probably shouldn't... #ScienceTwitter #AcademicChatter

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I am a Fellow in Pharmacology @CorpusCambridge , teaching medicine & biology, but am also the Custodian of the Corpus Chronophage Clock. One of my jobs is to give tours of the Clock on College feast days…but, today there is a need for a virtual tour…

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Led by Terry Walters, our review: Persistent nociceptor hyperactivity as a painful evolutionary adaptation with Robyn Crook, @Neely_Lab & @UTDPainLab is out in @TrendsNeuro !

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Ewan St. John Smith

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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Interested in osteoarthritis pain mechanisms? In a @wellcometrust collaboration with @DaveHughes_Gla , there are 2 openings to join us @UnivCamPharm : 1) Full-time postdoc 2) 0.6 FTE research assistant / lab manager

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Naked mole-rats are interesting for lots of reasons, eusocial, cold-blooded, living for 35+ years, exceptional cancer resistance etc. In work led by @Javimmunopain , we investigated gastrointestinal barrier function in the naked mole-rat

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Not the post-conference collaboration I was after…I made it to June 2022, but alas no longer 🤦‍♂️ Just a little achy so far, but no runs this week, first ones missed since the first lockdown. Here’s to a speedy recovery 🤞

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Here is the @guardianscience explanation of our work:

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New study of naked mole rats’ cancer resistance sparks row

Cambridge team say 2013 study was flawed and rarity of tumours in rodents still unexplained

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Science can be tough. In the lab, experiments don't always work, equipment can fail, we all make silly mistakes, there's that side project that you never quite get to spend the time on that you want, weird working hours & then there's the fear of being scooped! #AcademicChatter

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2 years

Need to be careful with hand gestures…

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5 years

If you’re a PhD student who’s struggling, please reach out to your supervisor and/or other mentor - no work is so important that it’s conducted at a cost to your well-being. #phdlife #phdchat

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Being a PhD student shouldn’t be bad for your health

Nature - The first international meeting on postgraduate mental health opens this week, but much more is needed to solve academia’s crisis.

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Really excited that our ADVANTAGE consortium led by Geoff Woods with @PainRambles , @denk_lab , @horne_research , @GeorgeMalliaras , Amanda Williams, David Andersson, Philippa Saunders & Thanasis Tsanas was funded! Exciting times ahead in visceral #pain research 😬 More news soon.

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We’re pleased to announce that – alongside @BBSRC and @ESRC , and in partnership with @VersusArthritis & @HDR_UK – we’re funding four new consortia and a data hub to advance research into chronic pain, a major unmet public health challenge. Read more:

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2 years

Sunday 🏃🏻‍♂️ = ✅ at the @CambridgeHalfUK with a new PB = 😀Still time to donate to @BowelResearch & @MSF_uk 👇

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

March 5th will see loads of people in the Bulmer/Smith labs running @CambridgeHalfUK ! We're raising 💷💶💴 to support @BowelResearch & @MSF_uk . We would love your support, check out our fundraising page to read more 😀

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Pleased to finally see this review out on naked mole-rat biology, led by @ShelleyBuffens1 , where we deal with some 'myths' in the field. Hopefully, this article provides a good starting point for anyone setting out into the world of naked mole-rats!

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4 years

A 🌈 over @CorpusCambridge

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

👏 Paper up on @biorxiv_neursci from PhD student Katie Barker in David Bulmer's lab & our lab @UnivCamPharm , supported by @interlukein & many not on Twitter, funded by @ASTRAZENECAUK : TNFα sensitises colonic nociceptors via TNFR1 & P38 MAPK 👏 #pain

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Sensitisation of colonic nociceptors by TNFα is dependent on TNFR1 expression and p38 MAPK activity

Visceral pain is a leading cause of morbidity in gastrointestinal diseases, which is exacerbated by the gut related side-effects of many analgesics. New treatments are needed and further understand...

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3 years

Last night @CorpusCambridge held its Commemoration of Benefactors dinner, honouring our greatest living benefactor @DrJCTOBE ’s 85th birthday - what a dessert! (More about the Chronophage in the thread below)

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Today is a very special day, Dr John C Taylor OBE @DrJCTOBE inventor of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage Clock celebrates his 85th birthday!

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Action shot of first in person lecture in ages, all about acetylcholine, noradrenaline is up next! Definitely more fun looking at people than looking at once reflection in Zoom 🤣

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Magical lunch to celebrate 15-years of the @CorpusCambridge Chronophage & Taylor Library, designed by @DrJCTOBE - what a dessert 😃

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3 years

Grant rejected. Guess it’s better to find out on a Monday than a Friday? On to the next one… #academiclife

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Ewan St. John Smith

10 months

Naked mole-rats won’t solve all ageing problems, but they sure have a good healthspan & so there’s lots to learn for sure 😃

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Cambridge researchers at @UnivCamPharm and @GeneticsCam are on the cusp of finding ways to actually reverse our biological age – so we can live healthier for longer.

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5 years

Nothing beats a friendly @CambridgeCow whilst out on a morning run 😊

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4 years

First 🏃🏻‍♂️ aged 40+ = ✅...can now spend the rest of the day working out what I should do with my mid-life crisis....

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

Busy commute in #Cambridge with @CambridgeCow this morning

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

We're recruiting! Exciting PhD opportunity in the lab, co-supervised by @NeuroJim at GSK, focused on neuroimmune interactions & the role of non-neuronal cells & cytokines in pain Pls RT!

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

That moment you join a Zoom for a chat about naked mole-rats in Colombia & discover it’s a live broadcast!!! #Econoticias @EcosdelCombeima

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Currently 15 minutes into a Zoom Q&A on some of my teaching. Out of ~350 students who could attend none have arrived yet...was everything crystal clear in the online material? More importantly, I see a raised hand, should I respond and ask myself a question on the material?

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Greetings from Ashdown Forest - a weekend getaway - have a good one everyone!

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Great to see our first work out using sheep to study joint pain - congratulations to @fluorescence_SC & @minjicell09A in great collaboration with @henson_et_al & @karinaltenhofen - out in @SfNJournals #eneuro

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Functional Characterization of Ovine Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons Reveal Peripheral Sensitization...

Knee joint trauma can cause an osteochondral defect (OD), a risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA) and cause of debilitating pain in patients. Rodent OD models are less translatable because of their...

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

When you walk out of a meeting & your email has gone crazy with multiple emails due to paper accepted…congratulations: @mbohic28 , @interlukein , @VAbraira , @IshmailSaboor , @AnissaJhumka , @YttriLab , @Will__Foster & others, great collaboration & here’s to more to come!

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Henry’s ‘human’ age is a little younger than me ~36 vs. 39, think the grey hair gives my age away a little more though! Purring makes for a rather loud pillow though. #Caturday

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Not much beats a walk through @CorpusCambridge Leckhampton garden for peace and quiet

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

So happy to see this out....big thanks to @DunhillMedical for funding this & our research, & to @sciencesplained for his creativity! Have a watch & find out about some of the magic of naked mole-rats 😀

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Cambridge University

3 years

What can naked mole-rats teach us about healthy #ageing ? Watch this animated series to find out: @psalmotoxin @Sciencesplained @DunhillMedical @CorpusCambridge

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

New academic year is rattling along already. We’ve welcomed new post docs & PhD students in recent months so it’s time for a new lab photo! Great to have such a wonderful group of people to work with 😬

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

Great to see @CorpusCambridge flying 🏳️‍🌈 for Pride this morning. Exciting month ahead with Corpus’ Pride Event (lectures/Formal Hall) on Sunday, & then off to give a talk about LGBTQ+ in STEM @BabrahamInst next week!

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Ewan St. John Smith

5 years

Just a thought on something I find brilliant about science - the travel & meeting people from all over the place: I’m 🇬🇧, have lived/worked in 🇨🇭, 🇩🇪, 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧; so far people in my lab have come from: 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇺🇸, 🇲🇾, 🇫🇷, 🇪🇸, 🇮🇳, 🇹🇷, 🇧🇷, 🇬🇷 - how cool is that?! #AcademicChatter

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Ewan St. John Smith

5 years

7-years to the day that I started working @Cambridge_Uni . We've been in 4 different labs, people have come & gone, papers published and classes taught...It's been a lot of fun - will be interesting to see how the next 7-years go!

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Today the @CorpusCambridge flag flies at half-mast in memorial of Aaron Rapport & Joyce Heckman. Aaron joined Corpus a year after I did so we were newbies together. Greatly missed by all. Lovely speeches this morning at the dedication of a tree in their memory.

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Lovely to see @CorpusCambridge flying the Pride flag 🏳️‍🌈 for the first day of #LGBTHM23

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

I've been been husbandless for a month as Aaron has been in Japan on an art residency! This week sees him exhibiting what he has created during the residency - very proud 😃 More work on his (new) Instagram 👉

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

Amazing the number of coming outs one has to have to get through life, but I’ve found it gets easier w time & also, at least where I’ve lived/worked, has become less of a thing over time. Wishing all those on their coming out journeys all the v best, I know how tough it can be!

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Pride In STEM

4 years

Happy #NationalComingOutDay Whether your circumstances allow you to be out or not, no matter where you are on your journey, you are one of us. Our community is vibrant, global, and lucky to have you! 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Ewan St. John Smith

1 year

Excited this morning to be at #CamNeuro2023 , “Interdisciplinary Insights on the Future of Dementia Research” - should be a fun day ahead!

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Ewan St. John Smith

5 years

7-years to the day that I started working @Cambridge_Uni . We've been in 4 different labs, people have come & gone, papers published and classes taught...It's been a lot of fun - will be interesting to see how the next 7-years go!

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Freedom!

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Ewan St. John Smith

3 years

Greetings from Freiburg!

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Ewan St. John Smith

4 years

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIST JOB OPENING: Come and join our lab () for an 18-month @VersusArthritis funded postdoc position looking at modulation of NaV1.7

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Ewan St. John Smith

5 years

New pre-print: chemogenetic control of joint neurones alleviates joint pain - lead by @fluorescence_SC with great support from @interlukein , @__GRAR__ & others, including key collaborator Paul Heppenstall

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Ewan St. John Smith

2 years

Here we go: Welcome @CorpusCambridge undergraduates to the academic year 2022/23! Good luck for the years ahead!

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