Urgent call to the American public and neuroscience advocates to lobby hard against the 40% cut in NIH Brain Initiative Funding. Spread the word and get active! Parkinson and Alzheimer’s as well as neurodegeneration diseases will be dramatically affected.
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Perspectives of People At-Risk on Parkinson's Prevention Research Preprints.org preprints.org/manuscript/202…
#Parkinsons #LRRK2 #GBA #RBD John P Grace Crotty MD MPH Virginia Gao Sergio Castillo Torres Soania Mathur, MD Karlin Schroeder michaeljfox.org Parkinson's Foundation

Coming in at #6 is “Functional and Pathological Effects of α-Synuclein on Synaptic SNARE Complexes” by Virginia Gao, Juan A. Briano, Lauren E. Komer, Jacqueline Burré Virginia Gao @lauren_komer bit.ly/4aC46Hh

Details of House-proposed cuts for 2024 fiscal yr:
NIH 6.2% ⬇️
Including:
NIGMS 2.6% ⬇️
NCI 2.9% ⬇️
NIAID 22.9% !!⬇️
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Worried? Call/email your House rep to let them know! The Senate budget included 2.4% ⬆️ for NIH, far preferable.

Congratulations to Virginia Gao, MD, PhD, of Weill Cornell and Columbia on receiving one of the #ANA2023 Emerging Scholars Awards! myana.org/about-awards/e… Weill Cornell Medicine Weill Cornell Neurology Columbia Neurology Residency

ICYMI: Virginia Gao, a movement disorders fellow at
Weill Cornell Neurology, discussed several topics related to the use of biomarkers in the prodromal stages of neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's.

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In opening her lecture, “Early Changes in α-Synuclein Membrane-Binding in the Central and Enteric Nervous System in Parkinson’s Disease,” Emerging Scholar Speaker Virginia Gao, MD, PhD cites James Parkinson, who articulated a connection between the brain and stomach. #ANA2023

Columbia University Weill Cornell Medicine fellow Virginia Gao presenting her emerging scholar research in American Neurological Association #prodromal biomarker session: decreased alpha- #synuclein membrane binding in the gut as early pathological change for #Parkinsons 👏🏼

✨CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Matthew Perkins Matthew Perkins on his appointment to Instructor! Dr Perkins investigates how the brain constructs neural representations of the internal body w/ specific interest in how distinct motivational states emerge from internal organ function.👏

What the heck is all that extranuclear TDP-43 aggregation doing in LRRK2. Greater frequency in LRRK2 G2019S autopsies compared to PD cases without a LRRK2 mutation. Other papers show TDP-43 in nigra w/o Lewy bodies may be levodopa responsive. …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…

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we made the cover!
huge thanks to the team NatureStructMolBiol Sara Osman for highlighting our work!
nature.com/nsmb/volumes/2…

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feelin' all the feels
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#Cerebellum and #reinforcement learning - what’s your take? Proud to see Dr. Christian Amlang presented our work in #MDS2022 !

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Come work with me! The Dept of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Guelph is hiring a neuroscientist! We are an awesome group, with lots of exciting neuroscience research!! Please RT. #QueerInNeuro #BlackInNeuro #WomenInSTEM Details can be found here: uoguelph.ca/facultyjobs/po…

Always been puzzled by the [popular] view that pathologic events have nothing to do with normal protein functions. No system works like that. We will have something to say on this topic soon...

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New work from the Sharma and Burré labs ⁦WCM Brain and Mind Research Institute⁩ ⁦Ying Xie⁩ shows lysosomal exocytosis of alpha-synuclein aggregates from neurons #Parkinsonsdisease nature.com/articles/s4146…

📣 Apply to join us in the Burré lab in NYC for exciting bench-to-bedside work on the synapse in neurological disease WCM Brain and Mind Research Institute WCMPostdocs

CarceaLab is hiring! We’re looking for two talented postdocs to join our team working on rodent social behavior and oxytocin neuromodulation! Electrophysiology experience would be awesome. Please RT.

We are excited to announce our #Neurology Residency Virtual Open House! Please join our program team and residents at 7PM EST on Wednesday, August 31.

Registration: weillcornell.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eL…

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@NMatch2023 #Match2023

Congress introduced historic legislation for a national plan to end Parkinson’s disease and we fully support it. Read more here: Parkinson.org/blog/awareness… #Parkinsons #Act4PD

Is alpha-synuclein pathology due to a loss-of-function or toxic gain-of-function? We review some important physiological functions of alpha-synuclein @lauren_komer Weill Cornell Neurology WCM Brain and Mind Research Institute sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (free full text and pdf)