New The Nobel Prize winner David Julius, PhD, has had an incredible career. Here’s everything you need to know. #UCSFProud ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/4…

#Cancer brain #metastasis manuscript in press Cell! Special moment UC San Francisco SAMALETI GOVARDHAN around the holidays. Gift to Zena (1945-2020) ❤️. Honored to mentor Hugo, Zena's trainee now in Roose lab. Super job Hugo! Thx The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research. Please RT 🙏. Zena Werb nature.com/articles/s4301…

Ever wondered why #exercise is so beneficial for #healthyliving? Looking for your next position? JonesLabUCSF and Villeda Lab looking for a joint #postdoc to help unlock the secrets🏃🏃! DM me for more info/ Please R/T! UC San Francisco UCSF Bakar Aging Research Institute 🌉

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Excited to share our new work out today in Science Magazine, led by stellar postdoc Regina @hijaishin! We report the discovery of LYCHOS, a candidate cholesterol sensor for the mTORC1 kinase. Below is a brief summary of the story.

Laura Remesal-Gomez from the Villeda Lab presenting her work identifying FTL1 as a neuronal pro-aging factor that promotes cognitive decline. #BAAM

An impressive trio of papers makes a strong case for platelet factor 4 (PF4) as the key to reducing inflammation and improving cognition in the aged brain model nature.com/articles/s4158… nature Villeda Lab UCSF School of Medicine @justsaysinmice

This is a super cool convergence of work coming out of the labs of Dena Dubal UC San Francisco and Tara Walker Queensland Brain Institute, UQ demonstrating that the same plate factor – PF4 – can rejuvenate cognition in the context of klotho, exercise and young blood! Nature Aging Nature Communications

A protein involved in wound healing can improve learning and memory in ageing mice go.nature.com/47xwitb

About time to officially announce that our lab recently moved to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai! We are so delighted to join the wonderful community here, and we are looking for postdocs. Come join our team! labs.icahn.mssm.edu/panagiotakosla… Apply here: careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3003926?l…

Have you ever felt stressed about asking questions after a scientific talk? Here I share a few thoughts and tricks that might help you become comfortable in asking questions: valenzano-lab.github.io/docs/questions/

It's (almost) here!

🌟 Exciting Job Opportunity Alert! 🌟 We are recruiting multiple faculty members Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF this year and want to hear from you!

New work from the lab Nature Aging! 🌱🌱 We asked whether the ability of plants to suppress pathological protein aggregation can be applied into human cell and animal models to delay or even prevent neurodegenerative diseases nature.com/articles/s4358…

We're proud to announce that Param P Singh and @DrRohitBose are recipients of the @NIHDirector's New Innovator Award! This award is given to exceptionally innovative early-stage investigators. bit.ly/3rEDpzT #NIHHighRisk

Neuronal activation of Gαq EGL-30/GNAQ late in life rejuvenates cognition across species ctmurphy1.bsky.social UCSF Bakar Aging Research Institute Villeda Lab cell.com/cell-reports/f… | Cell Reports

Amazing meeting, best science and wonderful friends ⁦Simons Foundation⁩ ⁦@SCAgingBrain. Thx for the pic Saul ⁦Villeda Lab⁩!! ⁦Brunet Lab⁩ ⁦ctmurphy1.bsky.social⁩ ⁦Jason Shepherd⁩ ⁦Tony Wyss-Coray⁩

Are you a highly independent senior graduate student ready to start your own lab in a supportive environment? Check out the UC San Francisco Sandler fellows program! Announcement below, and see fellows.ucsf.edu for more details. Nomination deadline: 1/12/2024

Interested in having your own independent lab immediately after graduate school? The UCSF Sandler Fellow Program is now open for applications. Deadline 1/12/24. Please spread words.

Wonderful to be able to share this fantastic new work in bioRxiv led by Charlotte Herber (and in collaboration with Villeda Lab) on how aging impacts spatial coding and memory!