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Aging lab @Stanford. Our interests include mechanisms of aging, brain aging and rejuvenation, neural stem cell aging, genetics of lifespan and suspended animation in killifish
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Thrilled to see this paper out!! 🧪

Spatial transcriptomics of brain aging and 'spatial aging clocks' identify cells that have pro-aging or pro-rejuvenating effects on their neighbors!

Huge CONGRATS to Eric Sun and all authors! Fantastic collaboration with @jameszou.bsky.social!

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Spatial transcriptomic clocks reveal cell proximity effects in brain ageing
Nature - A spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics map of the mouse brain at different ages reveals signatures of ageing, rejuvenation and disease, including ageing effects associated with T...
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Science brings us new miracles every day. Update from a mother whose son was the first patient dosed with Grace Science's gene therapy for NGly1 deficiency (GS-100). Video can be seen on YouTube. #glycotime

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October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Thank you Alzforum for featuring our new preprint identifying regulators of disease states of #microglia.

Project led by Amanda McQuade, computation by Reet Mishra, collaboration with the Nunez and De Jager labs.

Alzforum
www.alzforum.org/news/researc...

Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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For obvious reasons, I've become fascinated with retrotransposons. So we ( @alexwhiteley.bsky.social and I) wrote an article now out in Neuron @cellpress.bsky.social on how we think retrotransposons influence brain function and health! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!

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October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
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October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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✨ It's happening again! 🚀 Registration for Stem Cells in Neuroscience 2026 has officially opened! 🧠 Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event with great keynote speakers, thought-provoking workshops and ample networking opportunities 👉🏼 www.stemcelltuebingen.com #neuroscience #stemcells
October 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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It should be great!
embo.org EMBO @embo.org · Sep 23
Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026.

Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025

meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM
This EMBO Workshop on C. elegans Biology is t he IV Latin American Worm Meeting. It will convene in Mérida, Mexico. The overall mission of this meeting is to create an inclusive environment that pro…
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September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Interesting in aging, immune function, and organ health?

Join us for a super exciting joint Keystone Symposia in Banff, Canada in March 2026!!

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September 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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New preprint from our lab!

What can we learn about the properties of gene regulatory elements by CRISPR’ing a random set of accessible sites in human cells?

Find out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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September 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Exciting meeting in beautiful Ascona, Switzerland!!
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🚨 New from our lab: Here we explored how aging contributes to harmful protein aggregation in diseases like Huntington’s & ALS.
The culprit? An overlooked aging factor — EPS8 and RAC signaling. #Aging #Longevity #Proteostasis #ALSResearch
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The aging factor EPS8 induces disease-related protein aggregation through RAC signaling hyperactivation - Nature Aging
Aging is a risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein aggregation. Here the authors identify age-related hyperactivation of EPS8/RAC signaling in C. elegans as a driver of path...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Save the date and apply! We are organising another edition of the Monte Verità meeting “Neurogenesis from development to adulthood in health and disease”, March 30th to April 2nd 2026. Fantastic line up of speakers and beautiful setting! More details can be found here: neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
August 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Excited that the paper presenting our mouse brain in vivo CRISPR screening platform is out today in @natneuro.nature.com!

Great team effort, led by Biswa Ramani and @ivlrose.bsky.social in the Kampmann lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes - Nature Neuroscience
The authors developed an adeno-associated virus-based high-throughput in vivo CRISPR screening platform for endogenous mouse brain cell types. Using this platform, they define genes and pathways essen...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.
July 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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🧬June's most-read Genetics paper independently validates previous research showing that #CElegans can inherit learned pathogen avoidance: buff.ly/IFNoPF3

Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/WiP1juL
July 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Happy to share our review at Cell Stem Cell as part of their Hallmarks series. As always, a pleasure to work with friends and colleagues Anne Brunet (@brunetlab.bsky.social) and Peggy Goodell(@goodell-lab.bsky.social).

Hallmarks of stem cell aging: Cell Stem Cell www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
Hallmarks of stem cell aging
Aging disrupts core functions of somatic stem cells throughout the body, leading to impaired tissue maintenance and repair. We identify five key features of aged stem cells, highlighting how their dys...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Excited to share our review on Hallmark of Stem Cell Aging! With Tom Rando and Peggy Goodell @goodell-lab.bsky.social!!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hallmarks of stem cell aging
As organisms age, somatic stem cells progressively lose their ability to sustain tissue homeostasis and support regeneration. Although stem cells are …
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June 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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New collaborative study out with Mark Wu’s group identifies a thalamic reuniens-zona incerta circuit as both responsive to induced sleep deprivation and essential for mediating recovery sleep. Further perspective on this work follows./1
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Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep
Prolonged wakefulness leads to persistent, deep recovery sleep (RS). However, the neuronal circuits that mediate this process remain elusive. From a circuit screen in mice, we identified a group of th...
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June 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness.
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Nobel laureate on how Trump's cuts are hurting science
Neuroscientist, biologist and 2021 Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapoutian joined Midday Edition to talk about how the Trump administration's effort to cut back on science spending is impacting researche...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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1/n Fellow C elegans enthusiasts!

For those of you using WormCat for RNA seq pathway analysis, we are working on the 3.0 version. Comments on annotations/website welcome. Either PM here or let's talk at the Worm meeting in Davis. #Worm25 #celegans
May 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Highlighting this new paper NOT by my lab, but by Andres Vidal-Gadea's lab: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#Celegans - more to say on this later 🧪
Independent Validation of Transgenerational Inheritance of Learned Pathogen Avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans
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June 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM