In recognition of his contributions to Drosophila genetics, Hugo Bellen of BCMHouston is being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Watch the #NAS159 livestream: ow.ly/cnLO50IVvOt

#MDPIMetabolites📗"TDP-43 #Proteinopathy Causes Broad Metabolic Alterations including #TCA Cycle Intermediates and #Dopamine Levels in #Drosophila Models of ALS" by Suvithanandhini Loganathan team at the link: mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/2…

Anyone interested in studying patient-derived iPSC microglia in the context of C9orf72 ALS/FTD? We have a NIH/R01-funded postdoctoral position available. Bonus - you get to live in the most beautiful part of the USA and get to join a fun lab. BarrowNeurological

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program applications are OPEN! This program is intended to expand the number of investigators conducting innovative neurodegenerative disease research aimed at finding treatments for #ALS. Learn more: phide.lt/postdoctoralfe…

The Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Day on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21 at Penn State College of Medicine will showcase the variety of career options and experiences available to doctoral and master’s graduates in the life sciences and public health. Learn more and register here:

Alison Smolinski (right), MD/PhD Program administrator at the Penn State College of Medicine speaking about accommodations for students with disabilities at the GREAT conference in Atlanta. Terrific session!

Penn State is hiring a senior cryo-EM faculty member. Single Particle or Tomography. The campus is beautiful and the cryo-EM facility is full of amazing instrumentation. Think about it. Or mention it to a friend. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Acad…

The Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Day on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21 at Penn State College of Medicine will showcase the variety of career options and experiences available to doctoral and master’s graduates in the life sciences and public health. Learn more and register here:

Very excited to share our latest publication on modeling ALS and FTD in Drosophila that includes target validation in patients led by talented R Keating Godfrey with wonderful collaborator Rita Sattler nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Fantastic talk this morning by Keating Godfrey from the Daniela Zarnescu lab on modeling frontotemporal dementia 🪰🧠#TAGC24

Congratulations to Mason Breitzig, recent PhD in Epidemiology and PhD candidate Mayura Dhamdhere at Penn State College of Medicine for receiving the Penn State Alumni Association dissertation award. Penn State Health @GradSchoolPSU

Today, I announced bipartisan legislation that would create a Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program. It would make $10 million in grant funding available for research on neurological diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's. youtu.be/Rf41mFlevM0

I was fortunate to be part of the NIH postbac intramural program after undergrad - a transformative experience that catalyzed my career and led me to where I am today. There is no world where we should we diminish investment in the next generation of our scientific researchers.

NIH scientists are banned from travel and face unprecedented uncertainty. Their research programs are on edge. Their emails are being monitored. Read that again. We are witnessing the obliteration of US research (and US democracy) that will have reverberate around the world.

If you are an undergraduate student looking for a graduate program come to our table at the Career and Education fair #bps2025 to learn about the wide range of career opportunities and graduate programs Penn State College of Medicine offers!

Every year, approximately 5,600 individuals are diagnosed with ALS. ALS Network, along with 40 patient advocacy organizations, is urging NIH to reverse significant cuts in grant funding, threatening vital research for neuromuscular diseases like ALS. Read the letter sent to

A call for the U.S. to continue investing in science: #ASMJournals Editors in Chief discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments the ASM community can use to advocate for science. Read the editorial: asm.social/2iO

Excited to present Keynote at the 23rd Annual Data and Dine Postdoctoral Research Symposium Penn State Health Penn State Penn State Hershey Postdoc Society tomorrow! Thanks to Franklin Back Franklin Back for hosting! sites.psu.edu/postdocs/23rd-…

Too many families have watched loved ones suffer from neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s. But with some of the top research institutions in the world calling our Commonwealth home, it’s past time we put them to work conducting groundbreaking

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