This is a wonderful piece on a brilliant scientist and mentor Carrie Partch - my absolute favorite undergrad professor who inspired me to pursue research and supported my journey to a PhD

Thrilled to see our map of the aging mouse brain published in Cell. We find that white matter tracts are hotspots of brain aging, where (micro)glia appear to age faster. Thanks to Tony Wyss-Coray and an incredible team for getting this done!
tinyurl.com/3hnwvd8j

Platelets are a signal for klotho!!! Incredible body of work led by Cana Park. We found that longevity factor #klotho increases multiple platelet factors including PF4. PF4 permeates the brain and enhances cognition in young and old mice. Nature Aging nature.com/articles/s4358…

Work from Cayce Shaw, Samira Abdulai-Saiku, Dena Dubal, and colleagues shows that acute overexpression of Kdm6a in aged male (XY) hippocampus improves learning and memory Oxford Journals Gerontological Society of America (GSA) bit.ly/3HniuoX

A belated happy new year from my lab. ⁦Samira Abdulai-Saiku⁩ Cayce Shaw ⁦Cana Park⁩ ⁦Nilla Sivakumar⁩

X chromosome factor Kdm6a enhances memory independent of its demethylase function in the aging XY male brain

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cayce Shaw, Samira Abdulai-Saiku and colleagues from the Dena Dubal lab

X chromosome factor Kdm6a enhances memory independent of its demethylase function in the aging XY male brain biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Success at #BAAM2022 ! Dena Dubal Cana Park Samira Abdulai-Saiku

Lovely to be at the Bay Area #Aging Meeting! Amazing discoveries presented by trainees. #BAAM2022 ⁦Samira Abdulai-Saiku⁩ ⁦Cana Park⁩ ⁦Cayce Shaw⁩ ⁦UC Berkeley⁩

A great day out as UC Santa Cruz Women's Soccer closed Spring practice with the annual Alumnae Game
Thanks to everyone who came to have some fun
#goslugs #AlumniWeek

a quick trip to nyc!

#MeetOurTrainee and Travel awardee 🏅Cayce Shaw. She is doing graduate training UC San Francisco in the lab of Dena Dubal examining sex differences, specifically the role of the X chromosome, in aging and cognitive decline #sabv #aging #neuroscience #OSSDawardee

Thank you Dena Dubal I’m so excited to share this work!

Our latest, here by preprint. We found that the maternal X chromosome (Xm) impairs #cognition , accelerates brain #aging , and silences genes in #hippocampal neurons. Work led by the amazing Samira Samira Abdulai-Saiku with other labs UCSF School of Medicine Gladstone Institutes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy belated new year from my lab to you. Wishing for peace, good health, and many moments of joy. And lots of new discovery!!!