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Our lab’s new publication in Nature Communications by Jacob Stillmam UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Francisco Mendes Lopes. A great joint effort to show how lipofuscin-like autofluorescence can confound microglial engulfment analyses. nature.com/articles/s4146…

**PLEASE RT** Two sleeps until the glia social. Details below! Did you know CSHL Meetings Glia is the largest meeting at CSHL? Let's make the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) #SfN2023 Glia social the biggest social of the meeting!

Come to the UMass Chan Medical School Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences booth #56 Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Final version of this is out now Nature Communications! Quick recap: we used miRNA targeting to generate AAVs with improved astrocyte specificity nature.com/articles/s4146…

***Job Openings*** in the Hayes Lab at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center! OUHSC Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences 1. The Lab website is live! hayes-lab.github.io 2. Find the job postings here! ou.taleo.net/careersection/…

Congratulations to Schafer Lab postdoc, Rebecca Beiter, on receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship. umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… UMass Chan Medical School SchaferLabUMassChan

Congratulations to Patrick Sheehan Pat Sheehan in my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School for his Marian Kies award from AmSocietyNeurochem for his outstanding graduate work in Erik Musiek lab. Well deserved and many great things for Pat ahead! Also congrats to other awardees.

A proud day for the lab and UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology as Philip A Feinberg, MD PhD graduates with his MD/PhD and received the prestigious Provost’s award for his excellence as a physician scientist. I could not be happier and look forward to all Of Philip’s future successes UMass Chan Medical School!

My final paper from my PhD with Erik Musiek is now on biorxiv! We asked if microglia and astrocytes have the ability to change which genes are expressed in rhythmic manner during Alzheimer's pathology and during normal aging. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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…

Jacob Stillman killing it CSHL Meetings #cshlglia. Great talk Jacob!

The University of Notre Dame is hiring a cluster of 5 new Assistant Professors in Neuroscience starting this year, focused on cellular, molecular, or computational neurobiology. Come be a colleague! More information here: apply.interfolio.com/152596 Please share and retweet!

🚨 Neuroscience job alert!! UVA Biology is hiring multiple TT faculty in Neuroscience (circuitry, glia, behavioral genetics, etc.). If you're looking for a vibrant scientific community with wonderful colleagues then check it out! Please share/rt! apply.interfolio.com/153064

📢Glia trainees! Applications for the #GliaGRS are open! Please spread the word and submit your abstract early since it usually oversubscribes. Martina Chiacchiaretta and I are very excited to see you all there!

Going to Society for Neuroscience (SfN) #SfN2024 in Chicago? Come to our GLIA+NEUROIMMUNE social MON 10/07! beth stevens & I will be there, along with SchaferLabUMassChan, Klaus-Armin Nave, Harwell Lab, Asya Rolls, Jonathan Kipnis 💔🎗️, Michael Heneka, Erin Gibson. rumors of @Dr_Oligo's 2024 afterparty are true!

Please RT: We are hiring! Apply to join the exciting research going on Duke Department of Cell Biology! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/662805/fac…

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

Have you ever wondered how homeostasis is maintained in human synovial tissue? Read our paper describing how fat helps maintain homeostasis through the activation of cortisol! This circuit is disrupted in arthritis, leading to fibroblast dysfunction: rdcu.be/d0c26

Now available on YouTube: youtu.be/Gb22qhBVfOA?si…

Faust, Brenner et al. Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School show that type I IFN signaling contributes to #arthritis pathogenesis in obesity through activation and expansion of CD8 T cells in visceral adipose tissue and synovium. hubs.la/Q03w2B-S0 #Autoimmunity