Lisa's Lab Book

Long, long life science blog covered our work on Carbonic anhydrase, I wanted to share this with you - click on the link below. http://www.longlonglife.org/en/longevity/lifespan-news/carbonic-anhydrase-protein-controlling-aging/

Our new laboratory friend - the Loligo A really important measure of mitochondrial health is oxygen consumption of a cell or tissue or in our case the nematode worm. We were fortunate to receive funding from Alzheimer's Research UK and the University of Nottingham SVMS to purchase an oxygen electrode array. Our first experiment gave us a real insight into some knock-down worm experiments and I was so excited I decided to take a video of the machine as it 'disco' flashed it's way through the measurement time.

Congratulations Tom on a great presentation!

Biology of Aging - Gordon Conference In July thanks to funding from Alzheimer's Research UK I attended this conference, see if you can spot me in the photograph above. A few days of excellent science and the chance to meet and talk in depth with scientists all thinking about Aging (of course we are all 'doing' aging too!). I met some great people and listened to some outstanding talks. Steve Horvath, Cynthia Kenyon, Vera Gorbonova, Jadwiga Giebultowicz and others all gave inspirational and thought provoking presentations of their work and ideas. The conference was organised well in the Alpine village of Les Diablerets (The Little Devils). We enjoyed some long walks in the sun, dodging most of the thundery rain showers, along the rivers and and streams in the company of Swiss mountains and their associated cattle. Later in the same week a couple who went missing 70 years ago emerged perfectly preserved in the ice from the glacier near this village -...

Apologies for the radi o silence. I haven't posted for a while even though we are as busy as ever!  I have been encountering some technical problems with updating the blog. I am hoping to fix the issues today so check back soon and there should be some new content.

Great evening at Pint of Science! Brilliant interested audience, so much fun!

This week on Tuesday at The Canal House Nottingham Brainergetics What happens to us as we grow older? At some point do our bodies just run out of energy? Our research is looking at this question. We are comparing the energy producing parts of the brain ‘the mitochondria’ from healthy young and old and diseases connected with advanced age. To help us understand how we might extend the energetic lifespan of our brains we are examining Pipistrelle bat mitochondria. Bats live far longer than their body size and metabolic rate predict, they are ‘exceptionally long-lived’ mammals. Our ultimate aim is to keep the brain running on full batteries until the end.