We got our new lab T-shirts!! 😃🥳😜

I had a great time with Shan Meltzer at Georgetown today. Shan Meltzer is a fantastic scientist working on sensory system development and she is recruiting students postdocs and techs for her new lab at Vanderbilt University!

Our lab has two openings for postdoc positions. The first is supported by a new R01 grant focused on homeostatic signaling in autism. The second, supported by a T32 training grant, is dedicated to studying epigenetic regulation in Alzheimer's. Please RT to spread the word!

Big congratulations to Yimei Yimei Cai on receiving an F31 NRSA fellowship from NIH/NINDS!

Microglia serve as conduits for the export of toxic protein aggregates from neurons and the import of healthy organelles, keeping neurodegeneration at bay go.nature.com/4dXkIuh

Me: “I missed WB! Let’s run my first gel after summer holidays 😍”. The gel 😑:

📢📢My lab has a postdoctoral fellow position open immediately to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms of mammalian somatosensation development and injury!! Please apply and join us if you're interested!!

“Twisting dendrites” by Dale Chihuly. Of course I had to go see it. Made my neurobiology nerd + art nerd heart happy. #cshlneurocon at Cold Spring Harbor Labs

imagine, you're a kid working out your maths, you make a mistake, and 4000 years later, it's in a museum 🙁.

We're excited for our latest work published in @Neuron! We explored the impact of Alzheimer's risk factors APOE4 and TREM2-R47H in a tauopathy mouse model, revealing elevated microglial cGAS-STING signaling and senescence in females with both risk factors. cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Honored to be acknowledged by nature for our many contributions to Alzheimer's research: 1987-discovery of first Alzheimer's gene, APP, 1995-discovery of 2 more Alzheimer's genes, PSEN1&2, 2008-discovery of the first microglial Alzheimer's gene, CD33. nature.com/immersive/alzh….

We are pleased to announce the newest recipients of our Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN). These 75 talented undergrads will gain hands-on experience as they contribute to #neuroscience research. simonsfoundation.org/2024/09/30/sim… #science

Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today

“The surprises are what keep you young in science.” -Dr. Ruvkun

We're very excited to announce our latest multivalent optogenetic tool, OptoTrap! Congratulations to Yingeng, Kathy, and Inle from our lab, and to the Wildonger lab for the great work! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Grace, our undergrad, is so excited about her fly behavior experiments!😎

New paper: A collection of split-Gal4 drivers targeting conserved signaling ligands in Drosophila Ben Ewen-Campen, Neha Joshi, Ashley Suraj Herman, Tanuj Thakkar, Jonathan Zirin, Norbert Perrimon doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Congratulations to Yimei Yimei Cai! Our review on homeostatic plasticity and Alzheimer's disease is published in Journal of Physiology physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

New paper cuitao42 on animal behavior analysis using fractal dimension in Results in Engineering sciencedirect.com/science/articl…