Neuroscience Initiative at the CUNY ASRC
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The Neuroscience Initiative at the CUNY ASRC @asrc-gc.bsky.social is dedicated to advancing our understanding of the brain and addressing urgent challenges such as the ongoing mental health crisis.
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Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx
Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function - Nature
PU.1low CD28-expressing microglia may act as suppressive cells in Alzheimer’s disease, mitigating its progression by reducing neuroinflammation and amyloid plaque load, indicating potential immunother...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx
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Congratulating our Biology September graduates! Best wishes for your future endeavors. 🎓🔥 #PhDone #DoctorateLife
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Congratulating our Biology September graduates! Best wishes for your future endeavors. 🎓🔥 #PhDone #DoctorateLife
📢Join us this Thursday, October 16th, for our next special seminar with Dr. J. Wren Kim from UC Berkeley!
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
📢Join us this Thursday, October 16th, for our next special seminar with Dr. J. Wren Kim from UC Berkeley!
🎉🎉🎉Please join us to congratulate @rebeccalopez.bsky.social on receiving @asrc-gc.bsky.social 2025 Epigenetics Core Pilot Award, co-sponsored by @10xgenomics.bsky.social @genewiz.bsky.social!
October 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🎉🎉🎉Please join us to congratulate @rebeccalopez.bsky.social on receiving @asrc-gc.bsky.social 2025 Epigenetics Core Pilot Award, co-sponsored by @10xgenomics.bsky.social @genewiz.bsky.social!
📢Join us this Thursday, October 9th, for our next Seminar! Featuring Dr. Antonio Aubry, Instructor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
October 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
📢Join us this Thursday, October 9th, for our next Seminar! Featuring Dr. Antonio Aubry, Instructor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
📢Join our next Neuroscience seminar of the Fall 2025 series with Dr. Ella Doron-Mandel from Columbia University, on Thursday, September 25!
September 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📢Join our next Neuroscience seminar of the Fall 2025 series with Dr. Ella Doron-Mandel from Columbia University, on Thursday, September 25!
📣📣Please join us for our first Neuroscience Seminar in Fall 2025 featuring Dr. Ioana Carcea, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!
September 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📣📣Please join us for our first Neuroscience Seminar in Fall 2025 featuring Dr. Ioana Carcea, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!
📣Defense Alert! Join us on Monday, August 4th for Anfal Abuhilal’s Dissertation Defense Seminar! Come and support Anfal!
July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
📣Defense Alert! Join us on Monday, August 4th for Anfal Abuhilal’s Dissertation Defense Seminar! Come and support Anfal!
Music has power! Join us this Tuesday 7/15 for a special talk featuring Dr. Concetta Tomaino, Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, on Music🎵& Neurologic Function🧠!
Details: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/music-...
Details: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/music-...
Music & Neurologic Function – The Advanced Science Research Center
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July 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Music has power! Join us this Tuesday 7/15 for a special talk featuring Dr. Concetta Tomaino, Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, on Music🎵& Neurologic Function🧠!
Details: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/music-...
Details: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/music-...
Join us on June 10 for a one-day event designed for ASRC Epigenetics Core Facility users, featuring single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and presentations from 10x Genomics, Genewiz and active users conducting cutting-edge research! Registration & more info: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/epigen...
June 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Join us on June 10 for a one-day event designed for ASRC Epigenetics Core Facility users, featuring single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and presentations from 10x Genomics, Genewiz and active users conducting cutting-edge research! Registration & more info: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/epigen...
🚨It will be a BIG day this Wednesday, June 4th for our PhD candidate Ipek Selcen who will defend her thesis titled "Characterization of epigenetic changes in adult OPCs identifies TET2 as a key regulator of their epitranscriptome". Come and support Ipek!
June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚨It will be a BIG day this Wednesday, June 4th for our PhD candidate Ipek Selcen who will defend her thesis titled "Characterization of epigenetic changes in adult OPCs identifies TET2 as a key regulator of their epitranscriptome". Come and support Ipek!
Join us on Thursday, June 5th!
Mark your calendars! Professor @susanamingote.bsky.social is hosting a talk with Professor Rene Hen on Thursday, June 5. The talk, a part of @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social's Spring seminar series, is titled “The neural circuits underlying overgeneralization.” bit.ly/3Zo029p
May 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Join us on Thursday, June 5th!
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Congrats! @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social wins 2025 Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems grant for her Scialog team project, "Understanding Nanoplastic-Nervous System Interactions within Organisms: A Multipronged Approach." bit.ly/43uX9VA
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Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems
Scialog / 2025-2027 Neural systems, shaped by millions of years of evolution, enable living things to perceive and react to their surroundings. But how does the nervous system adapt to today’s unpr…
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May 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Congrats! @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social wins 2025 Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems grant for her Scialog team project, "Understanding Nanoplastic-Nervous System Interactions within Organisms: A Multipronged Approach." bit.ly/43uX9VA
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Congrats to all ASRC Student Travel Grant recipients, especially our own Jackie Tomaio from @susanamingote.bsky.social Lab, who will be presenting her work at the Gordon Research Conference this summer!
May 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Congrats to all ASRC Student Travel Grant recipients, especially our own Jackie Tomaio from @susanamingote.bsky.social Lab, who will be presenting her work at the Gordon Research Conference this summer!
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Mark your calendars! Professor @susanamingote.bsky.social is hosting a talk with Professor Rene Hen on Thursday, June 5. The talk, a part of @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social's Spring seminar series, is titled “The neural circuits underlying overgeneralization.” bit.ly/3Zo029p
May 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Mark your calendars! Professor @susanamingote.bsky.social is hosting a talk with Professor Rene Hen on Thursday, June 5. The talk, a part of @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social's Spring seminar series, is titled “The neural circuits underlying overgeneralization.” bit.ly/3Zo029p
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Asian American and Pacific Islanders continue to play a pivotal role in the CUNY experience by enriching our campuses with their stories and historical and cultural contributions. Happy AAPI Heritage Month!
May 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Asian American and Pacific Islanders continue to play a pivotal role in the CUNY experience by enriching our campuses with their stories and historical and cultural contributions. Happy AAPI Heritage Month!
Join us tomorrow for our next Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar! Featuring Dr. Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
April 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Join us tomorrow for our next Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar! Featuring Dr. Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
📢We're hiring a tenure-track assistant/associate/full professor, with a start of January 2026! Please follow the link below to apply!
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City University of New York, Advanced Science Research Center
Job #AJO29938, 30162 Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Neuroscience Initiative - CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York,...
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April 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
📢We're hiring a tenure-track assistant/associate/full professor, with a start of January 2026! Please follow the link below to apply!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29938
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29938
📢Join us on Thursday, May 1, at our Spring 2025 Seminar Series with Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia!
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📢Join us on Thursday, May 1, at our Spring 2025 Seminar Series with Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia!
🎉Congrats to @pinar-ayata.bsky.social lab's Leen Aljayousi and Jack Mechler, who each received a Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG), and to Anna Flury who received a Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship in the Sciences from the Graduate Center. 👏Way to go!
April 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🎉Congrats to @pinar-ayata.bsky.social lab's Leen Aljayousi and Jack Mechler, who each received a Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG), and to Anna Flury who received a Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship in the Sciences from the Graduate Center. 👏Way to go!
Check out Casaccia Lab's newly published paper in Glia, on the molecular mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of electrical stimulation on brain repair! Congratulations to the authors: Mathilde Pruvost, Hye-Jin Park and Jia Liu.🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/glia.70014
The Histone Methyltransferases EHMT1 and EHMT2 Repress the Expression of Genes Related to Excitability and Cell Death in Oligodendrocyte Progenitors
H3K9me2, the euchromatic repressive mark deposited by EHMT1 and EHMT2, is enriched in proliferating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). H3K9me2 levels are increased in OPCs after neuronal stimul...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Check out Casaccia Lab's newly published paper in Glia, on the molecular mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of electrical stimulation on brain repair! Congratulations to the authors: Mathilde Pruvost, Hye-Jin Park and Jia Liu.🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/glia.70014
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ICYMI: We now have a website where you can find fellowship opportunities to apply for. Highly recommend bookmarking it. New opportunities will be added as they become available. www.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships-...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
ICYMI: We now have a website where you can find fellowship opportunities to apply for. Highly recommend bookmarking it. New opportunities will be added as they become available. www.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships-...
From the #brainawarenessweek! Students from a local school got to learn about the brains and mental health, engage with our neuroscientists, and explore & experience the science with their own hands! #BrainWeek
March 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From the #brainawarenessweek! Students from a local school got to learn about the brains and mental health, engage with our neuroscientists, and explore & experience the science with their own hands! #BrainWeek
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Register for Grad Week: Attend our virtual information sessions from March 24th to 28th, meet our admissions officers, explore our diverse programs, and gain key insights on masters and doctoral admissions, career pathways, and financial aid.
Register today: cuny.edu/gradweek
Register today: cuny.edu/gradweek
March 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Register for Grad Week: Attend our virtual information sessions from March 24th to 28th, meet our admissions officers, explore our diverse programs, and gain key insights on masters and doctoral admissions, career pathways, and financial aid.
Register today: cuny.edu/gradweek
Register today: cuny.edu/gradweek
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Join Us on April 3rd at Our Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series!
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Join Us on April 3rd at Our Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series!