Where/How the CNS and immune system meet! Get up to date in a single paper!

Seems like fibroblasts are major players in brain barriers! 🧐 Very interesting!

Thanks for the opportunity to present Jonathan Kipnis 💔🎗️ IdoAmitLab ! Amazing conference, highly recommend!

My fantastic partner in crime just received her FWO FR fellowship! Amazing news 🥳

Today I performed my last choroid plexus sampling in the Vandenbroucke lab to close out an amazing PhD experience 🤗 Soon we'll share our stories covering new fundamental insights on choroid plexus biology!!

Officially PhDone! Very grateful for a wonderful experience and training at the Vandenbroucke lab IRC - VIB/UGent. Final months in 🇧🇪 before our big move to the 🇺🇲 to continue my training in the Kipnis Lab 🥳

PhD-mania last week with two outstanding defenses by Marlies Burgelman and Daan Verhaege 🎓🎓. Wishing them all the best with their future endeavors, they will be dearly missed in and by the lab 🫶.

#PBIC2023 was an amazing conference! Our lab was well represented, have a look at my short(est ever?) Poster presentation :D Vandenbroucke lab

Fantastic work showing how CSF is able to enter the dura! Kipnis Lab

Excited to share our group's first manuscript describing new anatomical connections that allow the eyes to act as an "immunological window to the brain" 👁️🧠 (1/) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to co-host another amazing conference #ReThinkNeuroimmunology together with IdoAmitLab. This time we are hosting Test Account WashU. Registration site is now open. Please register asap. Number of seats is limited. brainimmunologygliacenter.wustl.edu/items/2024-ret…

If you are convinced that microbes are causal of infectious diseases, please take a breath, and consider the alternative possibility that infection with a trigger microbe reveals a preexisting cause of disease in the host: annualreviews.org/content/journa…

I poured my soul into it… || The anatomy of brainwashing | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Out in Cell now with added data and analysis! Huixin and colleagues report that the choroid plexus has specialized epithelial-immune synergy that modulates epithelial barrier plasticity during brain inflammation. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

‼️We are hiring BIG Center @WashU! If you are a neuroimmunologist or a glia biologist - this is the best place to develop your career! Please apply and/or repost. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/660256/ten…

Why sleep is important! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…