Excited for the opportunity to share our work alongside the incredible Dr. Jessica L. Bolton and Annie Vogel Ciernia!

Wish there was a way to attend both sessions at once though - you can never get enough neuroimmunology

Super excited about this!!

A series of big achievements for the lab: 2 CGS-M awards, 2 CIHR Postdoc Awards, 2 UBC Medicine @UBC summer undergraduate fellowships and a CIHR graduate Vanier award!! So proud of all my trainees for their amazing work and excited for the new science to come!

cell.com/trends/immunol…
thanks to Prof. Akiko Iwasaki for this lovely spotlight of our work on Type I interferons in brain development, including implications for future studies of how viruses may impact the brain.

Happy to share this ⁦Trends in Immunology⁩ Spotlight piece on this fascinating paper by Sonia Garel lab by Dr. Yvanka de Soysa and Anushree Gupte !

Embryonic microglia maintain the brain's cortical fault lines - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What causes #brainfog in #COVID_19 ? Our new study Brain shows that mild SARS-CoV-2 infection suppresses #cerebrovascular Wnt/beta-catenin activity, opening the #blood_brain_barrier . BBB-targeted Wnt ligands mitigate cognitive impairment in mice. A brief tweetorial!

Proud to announce Caroline Ménard wins the 2024 CAN New Investigator Award for groundbreaking research on stress vulnerability and resilience. 🎉🎉🎉🏆
can-acn.org/awards/new-inv… @cervo_ulaval Université Laval Caroline Menard

Thrilled for another great day at #ASN2024 Lots of amazing glia talks and Portland is always lovely.

I am thrilled to share our lab's latest work documenting sex-differences (SD) in P2RY12's regulation of microglial morphology, synapse density and locomotory behavior. This work is our lab's first dive (of hopefully many)into microglial SD led by Uweru Joseph jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

A big step forward for Canadian science!

Happy to share this review article on microglial phagocytosis mechanisms in development informing disease. Great collaborative effort between Becca Beiter and Pat Sheehan in the lab.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super excited to share some new work from my lab! Terrific work led by grad student Jenn Kim. Repeated LPS induces training and tolerance of microglial responses across brain regions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just saw that this story is now published in the April issue of Genetics Society of America! Super creative and insightful work! Congrats to Ellia, Josh, Stephanie, and LeAnn!! doi.org/10.1093/geneti…

Blood borne #cytokines like #IL -10 are often elevated in chronic conditions associated with cognitive impairment (eg. #longCOVID ). Protective or pathogenic? Here’s ⁦Sorabh Sharma⁩ unexpected findings in a mouse model of #diabetes . biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is a great reminder for all of us in science - from PI to trainee.

Research belongs to everyone.

It holds real promise for:

people and our planet

improving health, tackling the climate emergency, responding to natural disasters

new technologies and jump-starting economic growth.

Time to invest in researchers for a better future for all.

Trying this again:
I’m a terrible PI for not posting this sooner. A recent review published from my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School from the fabulous Violeta Durán on activity-dependent regulation of microglia within neural circuits:

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ny…

I had such an amazing visit with Dr. Swayne Craig E Brown Tremblay Lab and others. The trainee lunch was definitely a highlight of my day! A terrific neuroscience community!

Looking forward to this!

Neurons (🟠) and microglia (🔵), brain's immune cells! Check the number of microglia available for each neuron. That's because this photo was taken in the cerebral cortex 🧠🔬.
In humans, the glia-to-neuron ratio in the cerebral cortex is 3.72 (72% glia), while that in the…