@RobLucasDar

Professor of Neuroscience in Manchester. Interested in chronobiology, photoreception and vision.

 Manchester, England
lucasgroup.lab.manchester.ac.uk/
Joined November 2013
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Congratulations Bea!
Academy of Medical Sciences@acmedsci18 Mar 2024
We have awarded over £6.6 million in funding to 54 exceptional biomedical & health researchers through our Springboard scheme for early career scientists. Read more about our new awardees: ow.ly/VgrY50QVqE1
"I am very excited, and very much looking forward to taking the full benefit of the mentorship and networking opportunities provided by the Academy." Beatriz Bano Otalora 2024 Springboard awardee, University of Manchester

ALT "I am very excited, and very much looking forward to taking the full benefit of the mentorship and networking opportunities provided by the Academy." Beatriz Bano Otalora 2024 Springboard awardee, University of Manchester

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How to measure light for laboratory mammals? How to replicate experimental conditions? What light for husbandry? Delighted to announce the publication of our consensus view answering these questions (summarised in Box 3). journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

Recommendations for measuring and standardizing light for laboratory mammals to improve welfare and...

Lighting conditions for laboratory mammals is currently set according to the sensitivity of human vision. This Consensus View defines alternative ‘animal-centric’ metrics and provides guidance for...

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Spectrawear (our open-source wearable a-opic light dosimeter) has been in action to reveal associations between personal light exposure and subjective daytime sleepiness + the timing of night-time sleep in everyday life pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Associations between light exposure and sleep timing and sleepiness while awake in a sample of UK...

Experimental and interventional studies show that light can regulate sleep timing and sleepiness while awake by setting the phase of circadian rhyt...

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We find widespread failure to achieve recommendations for daytime light. Does this matter for healthy adults leading ordinary lives? Alertness higher on days with brighter light in morning and light through day associated with earlier bedtimes. @altugdidikoglu @BrownlabV
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Happy to share our latest paper in @JPhysiol introducing staircase light stimuli to probe irradiance coding in the mouse SCN! An exciting journey with a fantastic team! @BeaBanoTime @RiccardoStorch1 @RobLucasDar physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…

The mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus encodes irradiance via a diverse population of neurons monotoni...

Abstract figure legend This study introduces staircase light stimuli mimicking changes in ambient light intensities across night to day transition with the inclusion of more naturalistic, high...

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How should you measure light to predict its appearance to non-human mammals and what constitutes healthy lighting for animal husbandry? Here’s what we agreed when we met in Manchester earlier this year to discuss preprints.org/manuscript/202…

In the Eye of the Beholder: Measuring and Standardising Light for Laboratory Mammals

Light enables vision and exerts widespread effects on physiology and behaviour, including regulating circadian rhythms, sleep, hormone synthesis, affective state, and cognitive processes. Appropriate...

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Take homes: 1. Measuring light in lux doesn’t accurately quantify brightness for animals. 2. You can use species specific a-opic EDI metrics instead and we show you how. 3. We provide quantitative advice on the amount of light mammals should experience at day and night.
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Effort to improve animal welfare and experimental rigour from fantastic group of experts including @netty_allen @altugdidikoglu @michaeltrido @SamerHattar @BrownlabV @RoelofHut @tiffmschmidt @CircadianClocks @VVoikar
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Proud to be part of this project led by @BrownlabV showing the importance of colour for mice.
BrownLab_Clocks&Vision@BrownlabV22 Aug 2023
Happy to share our latest paper in @BMCBiology showing colour- opponent regulation of mouse behaviour: Colours resembling twilight oppose an innate tendency to avoid light! rdcu.be/dj4g6 [rdcu.be] From Liz Tamayo,@CircadianJosh,@RobLucasDar, @Time_MCR
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Congratulations Andreea!
Dr Andreea D. Pantiru@A_Pantiru1 Aug 2023
Took me a few days to process this, but officially graduated from @UniversityLeeds with a #PhD in #Neuroscience
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Great summary of our latest on striped mice from Ricardo in this thread.
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So pleased to see this fantastic calloboration published. Striped mice such a powerful model for circadian and vision research! @BeaBanoTime @R_Mallarino @netty_allen
Beatriz Bano-Otalora@BeaBanoTime25 Jul 2023
Happy to see the result of this great & fun collaboration out in @CurrentBiology!
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Delighted to see this important work published, great collaboration!
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theguardian.com/commentisfre… Desperately needed.

Royal commissions transformed Britain in the 1960s – we desperately need them now | Simon Jenkins

These independent inquiries would rise above the party-political deadlock over reform for the NHS and housing, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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..and why I will be submitting evidence to this committee committees.parliament.uk/com…

Artificial light and noise inquiry launched - Committees - UK Parliament

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is conducting an inquiry into the impacts of artificial light and noise on human health.

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We asked how well optogenetic therapy could recreate the visual code in advanced retinal degeneration - reassuringly well! Great collaboration. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… #optogenetic #genetherapy @UniofOxford @DNS_UOM @Time_MCR @MoritzLindner2 @The_MRC @CurrentBiology
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Surviving retinal circuity in advanced RP (rd1) can recreate a rich visual code after #optogenetic #genetherapy! Great to see our paper out! Rodgers et al., @CurrentBiology : authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…. Amazing work, Jess! @UniofOxford @Uni_MR @RobLucasDar @spp2127 @OfficialUoM
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I’m delighted to announce, my first corresponding and first author paper (3D-UPPER) in neuroscience with collaboration of @RiccardoStorch1 @RasSPet @Orlowska_Feuer @antoniozippo @qian_huang66 published🎉.It is a good start for new year🎉 nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Three-dimensional unsupervised probabilistic pose reconstruction (3D-UPPER) for freely moving...

Scientific Reports - Three-dimensional unsupervised probabilistic pose reconstruction (3D-UPPER) for freely moving animals

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Great paper!!! By Annette Allen, revealing circadian regulation of mesopic vision jneurosci.org/content/early/…
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Delighted to welcome 2019 Sir Martin Wood prize winner Dr Kei-ichi Inoue (Univ Tokyo) to Manchester on his Covid-delayed lecture tour. Fantastic talk on microbial opsins and exciting discussions. @Time_MCR @DNS_UOM @OxInst
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