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UVA represents at #BIGSymposium22!! 🧡💙 So thankful for this wonderful community! 🧠🙌 BIG_UVA Neuroscience Graduate Program at UVA UVA_BIMS 🔬🥽🎓

BIG x 2. #BIGSymposium22 ⁦BIG Center @WashU⁩ ⁦BIG_UVA⁩

Congratulations to grad student Ana Royo Marco Ana Royo Marco of the Lukens Lab John Lukens for passing her qualifying exam!

Thanks to Daniel Shapiro, a very talented undergraduate student, now starting at Penn Medicine, for carrying this project as I returned to med school. And of course to John Lukens, and other colleagues/collaborators Wei Feng Ma, PhD Ana Royo Marco😊

Congrats to MIC Grad students- Nicole Kirk, Kathy Nowak, Abby Whitford, Casey Bauchle, Yadeliz Serrano Matos, Nadia Holness, Samantha D’Spain, Emily Byrd, Ana Royo Marco, Carly Van Wagoner, Harish Narasimhan, Audrey Putelo who passed their Qualifying exams UVA_BIMS 🔬🥽🎓, UVAimmunology

Happy to share our work describing microglial SYK in models of AD and MS. Thanks to all of the amazing coauthors! ⁦ cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Sharing the power of the placenta! Check out our study looking at how the maternal-immune interface responds to inflammation and SSRI exposure and how this impacts neurodevelopment. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to Ashley Bolte on her 1st of many to come corresponding author papers. Congrats also to Daniel Shapiro (1st yr MSTP at UPENN Penn MSTP) on his 1st of many papers.🤕👴 The meningeal transcriptional response to traumatic brain injury and aging doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

We wrote review on new method for microglia replacement in the brain! Replacing these faulty cells in disease could be a future therapy for neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. Check out both my review and the primary research paper in the links below!

UVa BIG trainees at the 2023 GRC Neuroimmune meeting. Continue to expect BIG things from this crew in the coming years Lexi Johnson Ryan Brown Sydney Labuzan 👩‍🔬🧠 Kristine Zengeler Addie Walsh Ana Royo Marco UVA_BIMS 🔬🥽🎓 BIG Center at UVA Neuroscience Graduate Program at UVA

Congratulations to J. Iker Etchegaray (and many co-authors) for detailing an unexpected role for phagocytosis by the RPE in inducing a local insulin source in the eye, how it is distinct from systemic insulin, and its impact on retinal physiology. rdcu.be/c4JeH

Lukens lab Thesis Defense announcement: Our lab "glue" Kristine Zengeler (the one that keeps the lab together and functioning optimally as a whole) is defending her thesis next Thurs April 6 at noon. Hit me up by DM if you want to attend by Zoom

Congrats to Dr. Kristine Zengeler (aka Dr. Glue) Kristine Zengeler on a beautiful thesis defense. UVA_BIMS 🔬🥽🎓 Neuroscience Graduate Program at UVA Our new lab tradition is to dress up in a theme for thesis defenses. A Twilight theme was selected for Dr. Zengeler THE TWILIGHT SAGA 🍎 🍎.

Had an amazing week in Amsterdam attending Alzheimer's Association conference #AAIC2023 I met new researchers but also reconnected with some familiar ones!!

We are thankful for the more than 11,000 dementia researchers who joined us in Amsterdam and online for #AAIC23 this past week. The passion of these bright minds, combined with the generosity of our community, continues to usher us into a new era of dementia science. #ENDALZ

1st annual Glassys 🤩🏆 Kristine Zengeler Aman Mangalmurti Ana Royo Marco Lexi Johnson

The science, NM experience (+food!), and friends were equally phenomenal at the neuroimmune Keystone Symposia meeting! Thank you to organizers Fran Quintana Lab Anna Molofsky and Nicola Allen for the opportunity to share our work with this great community.

Had an amazing time at the neuroimmune Keystone Symposia which was made even better by a reunion with BIG_UVA friends. Loved seeing you all present some stellar science!

Fantastic meeting and people. Kristine Zengeler Ana Royo Marco Lexi Johnson Addie Walsh #RethinkNeuroimmunology.

I’ve been thrilled to be part of this fantastic conference #ReThinkNeuroimmunology hearing and meeting so many great scientists, as part of @Da_Mesquita_S lab!:) Thank you Jonathan Kipnis 💔🎗️ for making it happen! Amazing crew!!:)