Congratulations Pablo Gimenez his Young Investigator Educational Enhancement award from AmSocietyNeurochem. UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School is well represented!

Congratulations to Becca Beiter Becca Beiter and Pablo Gimenez Gomez Pablo Gimenez from UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology for being awarded the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences postdoc mentoring award! So well deserved! We are so lucky to have you.

Block your agendas for October 7th and 8th. We will have our 1st International Conference of the Spanish Society of Cell Senescence in Santiago de Compostela. Stay tuned for more info and become a member. Write to: [email protected] to register as an official member

Congratulations Jacob Stillman in the Schafer lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences for receiving the official NOA for his F31 from NINDSfunding. His work on endosomal TLRs in microglia is 🤯

Happy to share our lab’s recent review in Current Opinion Neurobiology on “Microglial phagocytic mechanisms: Development informing disease”. Special Thanks to Becca Beiter and Pat Sheehan in the lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology for their hard work on this piece: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

PhD candidate Jacob Stillman has won a NINDS-funded Ruth L. Kirschstein Award to further his research on remyelination. Discover how he’s working to target diseases such as multiple sclerosis: direc.to/kC5f 🧬 🧠 Jacob Stillman SchaferLabUMassChan UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology

💥Glia trainees!! Registration is open for #GliaGRS! Don't miss the opportunity to present your research, connect with peers and get feedback from leaders in glial biology in a friendly and supportive environment! Violeta Durán and I are looking forward to meeting all of you!

We are so proud of, and excited for, our own SchaferLabUMassChan ! Such a star and so well deserved!

nature.com/articles/s4159… I hope this is a helpful review! Appreciate the opportunity to co-write this review in Nature Immunology with my mentor Kate Fitzgerald. Thanks to all the reviewers' comments which significantly elevated our work and thanks to the unsung artists for their art!

#JustIn: UMass Chan Medical School researcher Victor R. Ambros, PhD, the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, has received the 2024 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA. #NobelPrize #medicine #BreakingNews #Worcester UMass Molecular Medicine

⏰Glia Trainees! Submit your abstract by Dec 1st for a chance to be selected for oral presentation at GRS 2025 Glial Biology!!💥Funds available for childcare support, upon request!Reach out Violeta Durán and me with any questions! #GLIA #astrocytes #microglia #oligodendrocytes

Come join us this Thursday for a virtual Science Cafe! Open to everyone - no science background required. Pat Sheehan and I will discuss how glial cells ⭐️💥 shape our brains 🧠 - research taking place in the Schafer Lab SchaferLabUMassChan at UMass Chan UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School

Our XXI Christmas Meeting is almost here! 🎄✨ Check out the full program and get ready👀🎁 #ChristmasMeeting_IN

Our last speaker before the coffee break is Pablo Giménez UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology speaking about the neural circuits that suppress binge alcohol drinking #ChristmasMeeting_IN

The last short talk in our #ChristmasMeeting_IN is by Violeta Duran Violeta Durán UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology about senescence across aging and neurodegeneration

🚨Glia trainees! We received over 100 applications for #GRS2025 Glial Biology. 🤩🤩 There are limited seats available for this conference. If you have been waitlisted, this is not a reflection of your science, we have reached capacity! Violeta Durán

Excited to finally have this published! Out today in Nature Communications, we show that following demyelination in a mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis, treatment of senescent microglia with senolytics leads to improved remyelination. nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/3

A big thank you to my mentor Jeffrey Huang and members of the lab Zeeba Manavi George Melchor and all of our collaborators who were amazing to work with SchaferLabUMassChan Violeta Durán Meng-meng Fu Jason Plemel Sameera Zia 3/3