Dr Teresa Niccoli, Associate Professor at UCL’s Institute of Healthy Ageing, recently delivered a Lunch Hour Lecture titled “Unravelling Dementia: What Can a Tiny Fly Teach Us About Our Brains?” . The session was introduced and hosted by Dr Kerri Kinghorn. In the lecture, Dr Niccoli explored how fruit flies can help researchers understand why some brain cells die in dementia while others remain resilient. She highlighted her team’s work on selective vulnerability and the pot
