PhD student working with cerebral organoids @WrayLabUCL / @UCLIoN 👩🏻‍🔬🧠 & coordinate the @GENFI1 Participant Engagement Board 📝

Joined December 2021
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Super excited to be running the London Landmarks Half next April for The National Brain Appeal 🧠🏃🏼‍♀️ just set up my just giving page - any donations / sharing my page would be FAB ⭐️ justgiving.com/page/sophie-g…
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Thrilled to share that I passed my PhD upgrade viva yesterday 😀🧠 Extremely grateful for all the support I’ve had from my supervisors & team who have helped me get to this point & a big thank you to my upgrade panel for the insightful feedback & discussion. @WrayLabUCL
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Super exciting that The Brain at Rest is out! Was a huge privilege to be Joe’s research assistant for this book, searching through all the research papers & learning so much in the process! Huge thank you to Joe for this opportunity to help out on such a fab project!
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Had a fantastic time at the @FTDUK1 conference yesterday in Edinburgh ⭐️🧠so many brilliant talks - exciting to hear about the cutting edge FTD research & clinical trials underway!
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Was a huge pleasure to co-host the 2nd GENFI Participant Webinar! Nearly 100 attendees and a fantastic lineup of speakers—thank you to everyone who joined and to all the speakers for their brilliant talks! Followed by a hugely informative participant engagement board roundtable!
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A recording of the talks will be available on the GENFI website in the coming weeks! 😀 Watch the talks from last year here: genfi.org/participate/webina…

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Fab first day at the Stem Cell Models of Neurodegeneration conference in Edinburgh! 🧠 #SCMND So many exciting talks, and I really enjoyed presenting my poster with the work from the first year of my PhD! Looking forward to the rest of the conference! 🧫🧠
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Getting some final images before going on Xmas break! 🧫🎄 GFAP & Nestin staining in forebrain organoids using whole mount ICC 🧠
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Always exciting to get images like these 😁🧠 first go at whole mount staining of organoids in the first image!🧫
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Sophie Goldsmith retweeted
It is World FTD Awareness Week! From September 22-29, @worldFTDunited and advocates around the world are leading a campaign to empower the global community to unity and action and raising awareness about FTD. #FTD #WorldFTDAwarenessweek
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Sophie Goldsmith retweeted
Had the most fantastic time @isftd in Amsterdam, with teams @frontlabparis @InstitutCerveau and @FTDtalk @GENFI1 ♥️ Sad it’s already over & have to wait 2 years for the next!! So lovely seeing all our friends and collaborators for 4 consecutive days of #FTD-science-intense fun!
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It’s been an amazing few days at the @isftd conference in Amsterdam so far! 🧠 I am very excited to have the fantastic opportunity to present a poster (P372) on some preliminary work from my PhD! 🧫Come say hi if you’re around ☺️ #ISFTD2024
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Sophie Goldsmith retweeted
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Our team are heading to the #isftd2024 meeting tomorrow - look out for our talks and posters from our digital, imaging and fluid biomarker work @GENFI1 - we look forward to meeting other researchers and members of the FTD community during the week! #endftd
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New blog post on the @FTDtalk website - a summary of this year’s annual fFTD support group meeting. See link below to give it a read☺️⬇️& check out other recent blogs posts including ‘Day in the life of the GENFI researchers in the fluid biomarker team’ 🧠 ftdtalk.org/2024/06/the-annu…
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Yet another fantastic fFTD support group meeting today☺️ I had the opportunity to talk about my PhD project & how we are using cerebral organoids to study fFTD 🧠🧫 as always, a fantastic session & super to hear how engaged family members are in helping us push forward research!
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You can now catch up on the recording of the GENFI Participant Spring Webinar using the link below 😀 really looking forward to the next one! @PhoebeFoster_ @GENFI1 genfi.org/participate/webina…

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@PhoebeFoster_ and I had the pleasure of hosting the first annual GENFI Participant Spring Webinar 💻 Big thanks to our speakers and most importantly to all participants who joined & continue to participate in the GENFI study as without you this research wouldn’t be possible ☺️
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Fantastic few days at the annual @GENFI1 summer meeting in Barcelona!Great to hear about the wonderful work happening across the sites 🧬🧠 @PhoebeFoster_ and I shared feedback from our Participant Engagement Board & now have lots to think about & implement going forward!😀
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Sophie Goldsmith retweeted
✍️Check out our newest @FTDtalk blog post providing insight into what a day looks like in the GENFI biofluids team! ftdtalk.org/2024/06/day-in-t…

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Had the absolute best best time at the weekend 🫶🏻🏃🏼‍♀️ sharing the JustGiving link one final time below! Thank you once again for all your donations ☺️🧠 time to think about which one I should do next… justgiving.com/page/sophie-g…
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Hackney Half Marathon ✅ thank you everyone for your support over the last few months & for all your generous donations to such a fantastic cause 🫶🏻🧠 @BrainAppeal @RareDementia had a fab day! Until the next one…
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