Next week I’ll be hosting my dear friend Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) for a seminar visit at UCSD BioSciences! Please stop by to hear Hinton Laboratory at Vanderbilt lab’s amazing research on the role of MICOS in mitochondrial integrity!

Check out our 2024 OPEN Spotlights highlighting Dr. Nathan A. Smith, @Cocaslab, and @DrXilma. Read about how their research accomplishments, resilience, and mentorship shaped their successful careers. We’ll be highlighting a profile every week – stay tuned! #OPENSpotlight #NIHFunding

A study published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation suggests that fibrinogen is a regulator of innate immune activation and neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury.
jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Excited to share our paper rdcu.be/dEUQ3 on the impact of fibrin on innate immune cell activation & neuronal loss after traumatic brain injury! One of the last first-authored papers from my amazing time as a postdoc Katerina Akassoglou! Congrats & thanks to the team!

Please share! Here's our latest preprint on the university-wide mentorship program BUMMP, highlighting its profound impact on biology students from all backgrounds. In 4 years, this pioneering initiative has served over 1,350 mentees!!!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Proud to be in the Pharm Dept learning from the best like JoAnn Trejo - Unity, Decency, Science & Yes, Truth !!

Is forgetting a bug or a feature? Can you delay it and remember longer? Our 🥶COOLEST paper to date (and our most poetic abstract…) Show LOVE ❤️and please SHARE! Thread (1/N)👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Opening weekend! SFGiants fans in San Diego, but tbh, San Diego Padres petco park is fantastic! Happy Easter!

Here we report the first MS patients treated with CD19-targeted CAR T cells. Acceptable safety with reduction in oligoclonal bands. Clinical trials will follow! UKE Hamburg INIMS Lena Kristina Pfeffer

cell.com/med/fulltext/S…

Congrats Gayathri on your impressive phd work published in Molecular Cell !

Happy #InternationalWomensDay !!

The new Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology (CNG) UTHealth Houston has multiple tenure-track faculty openings. Join us for this exciting new adventure! Please apply online or email me directly. careers.uth.tmc.edu/us/en/job/2300…

Let’s celebrate all Women in Neuroimmunology during Women’s History Month! Have a read at the articles by Dr. Jen Gommerman Dr. Irene Salinas Remiro Robyn Klein Lab Fabienne Brilot & Noriko Isobe in Nature Immunology.

nature.com/ni/

Join the Jinich Lab UC San Diego:

Looking for *postdocs* at the nexus of enzymes, metabolism, & AI/machine learning, passionate about computational & experimental research. Develop expertise in Protein Language Models, high-throughput enzymology.

CV directly to me through DM or email

Grateful to the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center UC San Diego Neurosciences UC San Diego School of Medicine for funding the labs pilot grant to study mechanisms of microglia dysfunction in AD!!! Looking forward to working with the ADRC community. #newPI

Very nice work from Yao Yao's Lab!

Thanks Cell Signaling San Diego for highlighting our lab in this months newsletter. Fun Q&A with Alexandra Newton Newton Lab on setting up new lab Department of Pharmacology, UCSD UC San Diego School of Medicine and the importance of strong mentorship!