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Worms are cleverer than you think!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Senior Scientist Denise Walker and former postdoc Kristin Webster developed this award-winning<\/a> activity, showing how worms can be used to study the brain. We have taken it to several science festivals, LMB open days, even a Peterborough shopping centre, as well as to local primary schools. We also developed an online version<\/a> for the Cambridge Festival 2021, so you can play at home. If you want to organise your own activities, you can find the materials and guidance here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Octopus research on BBC Radio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Amy Courtney appeared on the popular BBC Radio program\/podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage, featuring Brian Cox. In this episode (“Octopuses!”<\/a>) she describes her research on octopus brains, along with many more interesting facts about octopus behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neuropeptide networks in the news<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Our papers on neuropeptide networks in C. elegans<\/em> (Ripoll-Sanchez et al., 2023<\/a>; Beets et al., 2023<\/a>) were featured in a number of newspaper and magazine articles, including in Nature <\/em>News and Views<\/a>, The Transmitter<\/a>, Science Times<\/a>, Chemical and Engineering News<\/a>, Eos<\/a> (in het Nederlands!), el Periodico<\/a>, and ABC de Sevilla<\/a> (\u00a1en espa\u00f1ol!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview for alumni<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bill was interviewed<\/a> for the LMB alumni magazine in December 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When science meets dance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Find out about Denise\u2019s annual collaboration with Linton Village College Dance department, in which GCSE students conceive and perform choreography based on her research, in this Artsmark article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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