Md Farhan @FlyNeuroS
Associate Professor @HBKU, Qatar | Neurodevelopment, genetics & behavior | Formerly @DukeNUS, @ASTARhq, @OxNeuro scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user… Doha, Qatar Joined December 2009-
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#Dopamine is important for guiding responses to beneficial & harmful stimuli, and simultaneously writing memories for future reference. @FlyNeuroS @myish_irl @adamcchang &co show how dopaminergic systems mediate both functions in #Drosophila #PLOSBiology plos.io/3YUyR55
3 postdoc position available in @TheHassanLab: 1- Biologist to model non-coding human neurodevelopmental disorders 2- Bioinformatician specialised in genomic data analysis 3- Biologist to study the link between neuronal diversity and function in Drosophila details👇. Please RT.
Happy to share our collaborative paper “Control of TGFβ signalling by ubiquitination independent function of E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIP12 | Cell Death & Disease” led by Dr Omar Khan lab and Fly data from my lab. nature.com/articles/s4141…
We are live. Full room. #Drosophila rocks! @EMBO keynote lecture by Mike Levine
Fruit flies are shaping the future of autism research dohanews.co/fruit-flies-ar… via @dohanews @Spectrum @AutismINSAR @Autism @AutismSociety @DrosophilaRTC
Human 1p32.3 microdel/dup is implicated in #neurological phenotypes. @SafaSalim1125 @FlyNeuroS &co show that ssDNA-binding protein Ssdp (fly ortholog of human 1p32.3 gene SSBP3) influences #neurodevelopment & #autism-like behavior @CHLS_HBKU #PLOSBiology plos.io/3Y9fRz8
We need to fill five open positions for scientists to work on behavior, optogenetics, brain imaging, synapse biology, and biostatistics. Please ask your neurogeneticist, neurochemist, and data-science friends to contact me. Lab is at Duke-NUS, Singapore.
I am proud to share the news of the successful defense of my first Ph.D. student Ayesha from CHLS, HBKU. Despite disruptions and challenges, she remained committed and Her hard work paid off with the completion of her PhD, Congrats to her for this incredible achievement! Thanks
Attention Qatari citizens and residents! The @CHLS_HBKU @HBKU has launched a new Ph.D. in Biopsychology & Neurosciences program. Take your first step towards a career in neuroscience, & apply now! #BNS #Neuroscience #PhDProgram hbku.edu.qa/en/chls/phd-ap…
New Research: Identification of novel natural drug candidates against BRAF mutated carcinoma; An integrative in-silico structure-based pharmacophore modeling and virtual screening process: The BRAF gene is responsible for transferring signals… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #chemistry
Banu, A., Gowda, S. B. M., Salim, S. and Mohammad, F. (2022). Serotonergic control of feeding microstructure in #Drosophila. Front Behav Neurosci 16: 1105579 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
New research from @FlyNeuroS et al. Formulation of a next-generation multiepitope #vaccine for use as a prophylactic candidate against Crimean-Congo #hemorrhagicfever using computational approaches: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #CCHF

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