
Zainab Faik
@zainabfaik
PhD student in Neuroscience | University of Zürich @UZH_ch @UZH_IPT | Trying to unlock the mystery of oligodendrocyte metabolic function 🔬🧠✨
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29-01-2021 12:06:11
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Don't miss the opportunity to listen to Saab, Aiman S., one of our group leaders 😁 Save the date: 8th and 9th June 2023 🗓️




Very excited to present my first poster at my first European Glial Meeting 2025 in Berlin and chat about beautiful Oligos and their metabolism! 🧠✨ #oligodendrocytes #euroglia2023 #neuroscience Academic Chatter™


‘The melody of oligodendrocytes’ an art piece by my dearest friend and former lab mate Darshana Kalita ✨ Check out her Instagram page @sciencebyteswithliza to learn more about #neuroscience in an artsy way! PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™ SciArt




Michael Thornton turned dreams into reality in his PhD work that is now up on BioRxiv! Stay tuned for more details 🔬🐭🧠 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…




When brain cells are active, specialized cells supply the long nerve connections with energy – at lightning speed and on demand. If this communication is disabled in mice, the nerve fibers are severely damaged as the animals age. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology Saab, Aiman S.



congratulations to Genaro Olveda and Maryanne Barasa for their beautiful paper that investigates how microglia dynamically clear single-dying oligodendrocytes and myelin sheaths. cell.com/cell-reports/f… Cell Reports Integrative Neuroscience at Dartmouth (IND) Dartmouth 🌲


My personal highlight of ICBEM 2024 🥳 Academic Chatter™ PhD Voice - Independently Run #ICBEM #Neuroscience

You knock out #GLUT1 to impair astrocytic glucose uptake - only to find out that #astrocytes ramp up glycolysis and keep going. Metabolically resilient, and even neuroprotective. Our study in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…