5th to 7th order capillaries (red) dilating in the awake, in vivo mouse brain with whisker puff stim (white dot in top right). Just love the twinkling of #astrocyte Ca2+ activity (green), varied associations with the vasculature and robust response with running at the end!

Hyperoxia (95% O2) evokes #pericyte-mediated #capillary constriction compared to normoxia. Human #brain slice experiments take this paper from David Attwell's lab to the next level😅: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #vascularbiology Thomas Pfeiffer

Today I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! Feeling very grateful for all the wonderful people who helped me me get here.

Very excited to be starting on as a @BeckmanInst postdoc fellow this week! Glad the weather greeting me in Champaign is so beautiful too

If you are an early-career faculty, check out our updated database of funding opportunities specifically focused on you. We found 567 funding opportunities! (w/ description, deadline, amount, eligibility) Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Well if nothing else it’ll be interesting to see how this goes for eLife

Estimating the Prevalence of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in the US: The 2016 Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project. Check out this #NIAfunded study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

MBI Webinar – “Taking the pulse of ageing: the role of cerebrovascular risk factors in ageing and dementia” by Prof. Monica Fabiani 🗓 Weds 23 Nov ⏱ 12:30pm Register and more info – bit.ly/3Dn0Q2t

Look at this! Here is our updated massive database of postdoc fellowships. Provides description, amount, deadline, eligibility. 386 fellowships. Gives you a lot more freedom to pick where you want to go. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op… #postdoc #Fellowship

Next Week, Nov. 15, 1:00PM EST, Join us in a NAVBO Symposium: Pulmonary Vascular Diseases. Featuring speakers of #IVBM22 Drs. Akiko Hata, Hasina Outtz Reed, Marlene Rabinovitch. Organized by Mabruka Alfaidi, Associ. Director Trans. Res @CHVR and supported by #NAVBOOnline Register here bit.ly/3TQC2H7

I’ll be presenting at #SfN2022! Come by and say hi during the Energy Regulation poster session tomorrow at 8am

48,000 Academic Workers are on strike. Support our fight for a truly public higher education system by contributing whatever you can: givebutter.com/uc-uaw

Check out former labmate Yugaung Zhao is presenting her super cool work at #SfN2022 this afternoon at Neural Mechanisms of Aging II poster session. She is also open for postdocs!

It sure is a great day to be in San Diego

Models of human #pericytes at the Anatomy Institut in Bern built in 1914 by Zimmermann. Magnification 6000x 🤩.

WE HAVE WON OUR UNION WITH 97% VOTING YES!!! 🔥🔥🔥

#NIH is seeking input on challenges affecting retention in the postdoctoral trainee community. Better understanding of these challenges will help NIH support competitiveness & innovation within biomedical research & its workforce. RFI deadline is 4/14: bit.ly/3E8fRGz

Our recent study reveals a link between #stress #resilience and altered #neurovascular coupling. This may improve our understanding of why some individuals are capable of coping with stress: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… RT highly appreciated 🫶#MatchkovLab #Kv7 #vascularbiology