Stanford professor Aaron Gitler is excited to host next week’s neuro zoom speakers Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD and Daniel Colón Ramos.

Poor #Beirut! The city I grew up in never catches a break... A 10-mile radius sustains immense damage

Congratulations to PhD student Jerry Fan who (very independently) published the first review from our lab "Ion Channels in Cancer: Orchestrators of Electrical Signaling and Cellular Crosstalk". Great job, Jerry! link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

The very talented Ali Momin, @BahrampourSh, Nick Min, Xin Chen have co-led this review in which we discussed brain mechanics and the roles of mechanosensitive ion channels in brain cancer. This area is so intriguing and there are so many discoveries remain to be made!

A SickKids team led by Dr. Xi Huang has uncovered the mechanics of the blood-tumour barrier, laying the foundation for more effectively treating medulloblastoma, the most common malignant paediatric brain tumour. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3fwHHmK #SKResearch

Excited to share our paper “Mechanosensitive brain tumor cells construct blood-tumor barrier to mask chemosensitivity” just published Neuron. This is a product of 7-years of work led by the very talented Xin Chen, Ali Momin, and @zokygwong.

Beyond pleasure to present our work at #SNO2022, what a wonderful experience

Congratulations to Weifan Dong for his successful PhD defense! Weifan has been a truly outstanding student who made remarkable discoveries. Here is to more great things that Weifan will achieve in the future!

Congratulations to Jerry Fan for his successful PhD defense! Thank you for joining our lab, taking on a challenging and rewarding project, and discovering very interesting biology regarding the role of potassium channel in regulating cell mechanics and brain tumor growth!

My first first-author manuscript is now on bioRxiv, thanks to everyone that helped put this together!

First 2023 issue is out! cell.com/neuron/current Cover art by Siqi Ou illustrates Chen & coll. findings on mechanosensitive brain tumor cells that form the blood-tumor barrier to mask chemosensitivity Paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 1/2

Also read a Preview of the paper by Samuel A. Sprowls, PhD & Justin Lathia, PhD 🧠🕺🏽 cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 2/2

Thanks for the opportunity to write the preview for this exceptional paper! congrats Xi Huang and colleagues - The Sontag Foundation

We are thrilled that our blood-tumor barrier (BTB) paper is featured on the cover of Neuron! In this paper shorturl.at/kwMW6, we show that tumor cells project cellular processes to ensheathe blood vessels to form the BTB in medulloblastoma.

Amazing work from my friend Biren Dave !!!

Excited to share our paper "Mechanical nanosurgery of chemoresistant glioblastoma using magnetically controlled carbon nanotubes" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…, led by our extremely talented postdoctoral fellow Xian Wang.

Congratulations Xian for starting your own lab at Queen's University! me.queensu.ca/People/Wang/in… Thank you for having coming through our lab. All the best to your independent research and look forward to working together in the future!