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Alice Lester

@AliceBLester

PhD student exploring the effect of sleep on cerebrovascular function / University of Exeter & University of Queensland

Joined May 2021
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📢Just 4 days left to register for the health and life sciences postgraduate research conference!📢 Posters, presentations and prizes across 26th & 27th June 🏆Follow the link to register: forms.office.com/e/5nJETYiRJ… before 5pm on 22nd May. #HLSPGRCon
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New Research: Cerebral blood flow regulation is not acutely altered after a typical number of headers in women footballers: Background The repeated act of heading has been implicated in the link between football participation and risk of… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #Neurology
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📢Southwest dementia researchers!📢 The ARUK South West Network scientific conference will be taking place on the 28th November at the gorgeous M Shed in Bristol. Come share your work and meet members of the newly expanded network centre. Sign up at tinyurl.com/2p92buu5
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🥇Congratulations to Dr. Bert Bond and colleagues for their #APSselect article “The acute effect of exercise intensity on peripheral and cerebral vascular function in healthy adults” 👏 ow.ly/Xh0H50KQumm @maxeweston @jodiekoep
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🚨 Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate Come and work @CHERC_UoE to help deliver an NIHR-funded feasibility trial related to digital physical activity support for young people with cystic fibrosis. 👍 Closing Date: 03/10/22 ✅ Link to job spec included below 👇
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Vala Afshar
@ValaAfshar21 Sep 2022
This is why sleep is so important
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Tim Ferriss
@tferriss5 Sep 2022
“If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.” - Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly)
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🚨 Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate Come and work @CHERC_UoE to help deliver an NIHR-funded feasibility trial related to digital physical activity support for young people with cystic fibrosis. 👍 Closing Date: 03/10/22 ✅ Link to job spec included below 👇
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Very pleased to have our latest paper included as one of the #APSselect winners for this month! @CHERC_UoE @ExeterSHS @ExeterDoctoral
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Check out the #APSselect winners for September -- all free to access! ow.ly/3c7I50KyaWb
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Did you know traumatic brain injury, is now widely recognised as a risk factor for dementia? Join us on 18 August for our next Lab Notes event, exploring the link between head injuries & dementia. Register today 👇 alzheimersresearchuk.org/res…

Head injury and dementia - what is the link?

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Do you live in Exeter and want to take part in an experiment to help us understand mental fatigue? If so, contact @EleanorHassan £50 compensation. No biopsy or anything, but you'll earn it...
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Age-related changes in cerebrovascular health and their effects on neural function and cognition: A comprehensive review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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A new study in Diabetologia finds that the timing of exposure to bright #light can have a significant influence on postprandial (post-meal) glucose metabolism, thermoregulation, & energy expenditure during #sleep in overweight, insulin-resistant adults. ow.ly/POyc50HLZLb
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The within- and between-day reliability of cerebrovascular reactivity using traditional and novel analytical approaches @jodiekoep @maxeweston @tombailey86 @jefcoombes @AliceBLester @CHERC_UoE @pulse_UQ @UQHealth buff.ly/30tKea1
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Poor #sleep in the over 50s is linked to more negative perceptions of #ageing, which in turn can impact physical, mental and cognitive #health, a new study has revealed. The researchers surveyed 4,482 ppl aged 50 and over who are part of @ProtectStudy. 👉medicine.exeter.ac.uk/news/a…
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Great to have been a part of this reliability work published in @ExpPhysiol and funded by @physoc 🧠 check it out below 👇 @CHERC_UoE @ExeterSHS
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Very pleased to share my first PhD paper in @ExpPhysiol Our findings highlight important considerations for standardisation of CVR analysis methods given the non steady-state response with CO2 breathing. @tombailey86 @maxeweston @CHERC_UoE @pulse_UQ physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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Jodie Koep@jodiekoep22 Nov 2021
Very pleased to share my first PhD paper in @ExpPhysiol Our findings highlight important considerations for standardisation of CVR analysis methods given the non steady-state response with CO2 breathing. @tombailey86 @maxeweston @CHERC_UoE @pulse_UQ physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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Eric Topol
@EricTopol28 Oct 2021
The science of sleep @ScienceMagazine We typically don't get enough yet our health depends on it. science.org/toc/science/curr… w/ @ScienceVisuals
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CLESCon@ClesCon26 Oct 2021
So great to see people networking, meeting meeting new and old friends again here at #clescon! And so many amazing posters from our poster presenters! @UniofExeter @ExeterDoctoral @CLESUniofExeter
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Our 17th (and final!) ‘ECR Profile’ was Alice Lester. The following thread provides an overview of her research focus, pathway through Higher Education, and where to find out more information. #research #exercisescience
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The final instalment (for now!) in our ECR series, is @AliceBLester Alice is in her first year of an Masters by Research degree, and will be researching the associations between sleep, brain blood flow, and blood makers for #Alzheimers 😴🧠 #research #exercisescience
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