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As we approach the conclusion of 2023, we wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the authors, reviewers, and readers whose unwavering support has enriched our journal throughout the year. We cordially invite you to peruse the covers of our 12 issues... cell.com/trends/parasit…

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Check out my recent paper in collaboration with the @tajieharris lab on the role of CCL2 in neuroinflammation during 𝘛𝘰𝘹𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘪 infection! 🧠🐭 journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

What did I get for Valentine’s Day? Our article online in the Journal of Chemical Education! Read how Nick Orchanian 🏳️‍🌈 and I use TikTok as a science communication tool, reaching millions of students across the globe. Send to your sweetie! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Ever wonder how gut microbial food preferences influence host food preferences? Us too! Delighted to share work by Kristie Yu, Celine Son & co on how gut bacterial metabolism of specific fibers influences host preference for diets containing those fibers biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My PhD defense UCI Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences has finally arrived!!! Be sure to attend if you’re interesting in learning more about the importance of chemokine production and mechanosensation in innate immunology!

When you and your PI wear the same outfit at your PhD defense you know you’re ready to be a doctor!

Excited to share new research by Elena Coley-O'Rourke and colleagues showing that the microbiome modifies adverse effects of maternal protein undernutrition on offspring brain development and behavior! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I couldn’t call myself a microbiologist if I went to Amsterdam and DIDN’T stop at #Micropia. Although I couldn’t find 𝑇. 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑖, I did find another Apicomplexan parasite! Can you tell which one? 👩🏻‍🔬🧫🔬

For the AAI attendees interested in #neuroimmunology and #neurodegeneration, come stop by my poster to talk about microglial SYK signaling in tauopathies! I am poster number B621 on May 5th 🧠🦠

Excited to share this paper in final form, now with more supporting experiments in supplement and main figs! rdcu.be/dH1m5 Many thanks to Ping Fang and colleagues for their hard work and dedication through this journey.

Excited to announce that I was selected by the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and, starting today, am ~officially~ a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow!🥳Thank you to everyone who supported me in this especially #UCLARiseToTheChallenge and my PI Elaine Hsiao! 🙌🏼

Grad students and postdocs- Registration for the 2025 GRS: Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease in Lucca, Italy is officially open! Spots are limited so sign up soon at tinyurl.com/GRSNeuroimmune! Zhaoqi Yan and I look forward to seeing you there! Please RT!

The MinD-Gut lab will open in Jan 2025 at the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences of LSU AgCenter to investigate the science of microbe and diet interactions in gut-brain connection. Motivated humans to study nutrition-gut-brain communication in the heart of LA come this way

Grad students and postdocs, the 2025 GRS: Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease in Lucca, Italy, has reached over 70% acceptance capacity! If you're interested in attending, sign up soon at tinyurl.com/GRSNeuroimmune. Zhaoqi Yan and I look forward to seeing you there! 🧠

Excited to announce that the MinD-Gut Lab is kicking off in 2025, and we’re already looking for PhD students to join our research team LSU AgCenter!! Please contact us! Check out the Nutrition and Food Science PhD program at LSU!

Curious about how the gut microbiome modulates the neurological health of pregnant women and their offspring? Check out my recent review with Elaine Hsiao out now Journal of Clinical Investigation! 🦠🤰👶🧠 jci.org/articles/view/…

Maternal microbiome is a cornerstone of maternal and fetal health. Stephanie Orchanian & Elaine Hsiao UCLA highlight gut microbiome x environmental interactions at the maternal-fetal interface that influence the brains of pregnant people & developing offspring: jci.org/articles/view/…

Thrilled to share this collaborative work by Kristie Yu, Francis Chandra, Amina Schartup and teams Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA showing that an engineered gut bacterium can reduce the neurotoxic effects of dietary methylmercury cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Happy to share our work on hippocampal inflammasome signaling. Thank you to members of the lab for critical experimental support, BIG_UVA colleagues for input, and John Lukens for baller mentorship - it's been an honor working with you all! cell.com/immunity/fullt…

Excited to share our recent publication in this month's issue of mBio, based on my PhD research. We show that replication of 𝘛. 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘪 is required to trigger a localized immune response in the brain! 🧠 bit.ly/3TA9ALj