Ileana Soto
@ilesoto.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Providence College studying the effects of impaired metabolic signaling in developmental cerebellar glia and neurons🐭🧠
🎉Thrilled to share that our second paper of the summer has just been published in PLOS ONE! 😃 Six Providence College students are co-authors on this study, where we investigated the role of the mTORC1 pathway in the development of microglia in a mouse model of NPC
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Role of mTORC1 signaling in postnatal microglia activation preceding neurodegeneration in a mouse model for Niemann-Pick disease Type C
In Npc1 deficient mice, postnatal developmental alterations in cerebellar microglia and Purkinje cells (PCs) are followed by early-onset neurodegeneration. Even in the absence of PC loss, microglia in...
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September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🎉Thrilled to share that our second paper of the summer has just been published in PLOS ONE! 😃 Six Providence College students are co-authors on this study, where we investigated the role of the mTORC1 pathway in the development of microglia in a mouse model of NPC
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🎉 Exciting new findings from our lab at Providence College are published in Scientific Reports! We show how PTEN deficiency in Purkinje cells disrupts dendritic development and behavior. A huge thanks to Lindsay and our outstanding students for their contributions! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
PTEN deficiency in postnatally developing Purkinje cells disrupts metabolic signaling, leading to dendritic abnormalities and sex-specific behavioral deficits - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - PTEN deficiency in postnatally developing Purkinje cells disrupts metabolic signaling, leading to dendritic abnormalities and sex-specific behavioral deficits
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🎉 Exciting new findings from our lab at Providence College are published in Scientific Reports! We show how PTEN deficiency in Purkinje cells disrupts dendritic development and behavior. A huge thanks to Lindsay and our outstanding students for their contributions! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Grateful for my enthusiastic and productive lab students at Providence College. This past academic year, we moved Science forward by working on 4 primary projects, presenting at conferences, participating in an outreach event, and submitting 2 manuscripts. Plus a bonus visit from Dr. Beth Stevens! ☺️
May 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Grateful for my enthusiastic and productive lab students at Providence College. This past academic year, we moved Science forward by working on 4 primary projects, presenting at conferences, participating in an outreach event, and submitting 2 manuscripts. Plus a bonus visit from Dr. Beth Stevens! ☺️
Today, Providence College's students Kathryn Ditrano '26, Siena Brazier '26, Reagan Dennett '26, and Carly Immerman '26, had the opportunity to talk to the public about our neuroscience research at the Pawtucket Brain Fair. It was a great experience and a lovely day! 😃🤩 @friarbiology.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Today, Providence College's students Kathryn Ditrano '26, Siena Brazier '26, Reagan Dennett '26, and Carly Immerman '26, had the opportunity to talk to the public about our neuroscience research at the Pawtucket Brain Fair. It was a great experience and a lovely day! 😃🤩 @friarbiology.bsky.social
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Congrats to the five @provcollege.bsky.social students who will be presenting at the @bigeastmbb.bsky.social Undergrad Research Symposium next month! engaged-learning.providence.edu/big-east-und...
Big East Undergraduate Research Symposium – Engaged Learning
Join the Undergraduate Research Committee in congratulating these students representing Providence College in the fourth Annual Big East Undergraduate Research
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February 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Congrats to the five @provcollege.bsky.social students who will be presenting at the @bigeastmbb.bsky.social Undergrad Research Symposium next month! engaged-learning.providence.edu/big-east-und...
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🌟 Join Institut Pasteur as a Junior Research Group Leader 🌟
Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health.
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!)
Apply now ⬇️
Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health.
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!)
Apply now ⬇️
Call for applications 2025 - Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research
The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🌟 Join Institut Pasteur as a Junior Research Group Leader 🌟
Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health.
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!)
Apply now ⬇️
Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health.
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!)
Apply now ⬇️
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A true highlight of last week was chatting with @markowenmartin.bsky.social on Matters Microbial. Come for bacteria eating other bacteria, stay for my earnest take on why undergraduate research is important and how higher ed administrators can & should support faculty
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Matters Microbial #77: It’s a Germ-Eat-Germ World!
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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February 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A true highlight of last week was chatting with @markowenmartin.bsky.social on Matters Microbial. Come for bacteria eating other bacteria, stay for my earnest take on why undergraduate research is important and how higher ed administrators can & should support faculty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3v...
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This is the thing:
People PAY for healthcare through health insurance. But health insurance companies are not in the business of providing healthcare. They are in the business of making money.
And they are making money with a trapped economy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for them.
People PAY for healthcare through health insurance. But health insurance companies are not in the business of providing healthcare. They are in the business of making money.
And they are making money with a trapped economy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for them.
All those record profits, every single year, by the Unitedhealth group are taken from people who paid for healthcare and didn't get it.
December 6, 2024 at 3:17 PM
This is the thing:
People PAY for healthcare through health insurance. But health insurance companies are not in the business of providing healthcare. They are in the business of making money.
And they are making money with a trapped economy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for them.
People PAY for healthcare through health insurance. But health insurance companies are not in the business of providing healthcare. They are in the business of making money.
And they are making money with a trapped economy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for them.
Interesting paper about #microglia in NPC disease! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Myeloid cell–specific loss of NPC1 in mice recapitulates microgliosis and neurodegeneration in patients with Niemann-Pick type C disease
Loss of NPC1 in microglia increases TSPO and triggers astrogliosis and neurodegeneration.
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December 5, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Interesting paper about #microglia in NPC disease! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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In Rhode Island? Interested in plants and insects? Check out the Lisa Lofland Gould Program this Saturday, Nov 23, 2:30 - 5:00 pm. Registration (free!) and more details online. 🦋🌻🐝 riwps.org/event/lisa-l...
Lisa Lofland Gould Progam: Introducing the Rhode Island Plant Insect Community Network - Rhode Island Wild Plant Society
Plant Insect Community Network supports the diverse projects in Rhode Island to study and protect plant and insects communities and create a community of mutual support Learn about some of these proje...
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November 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
In Rhode Island? Interested in plants and insects? Check out the Lisa Lofland Gould Program this Saturday, Nov 23, 2:30 - 5:00 pm. Registration (free!) and more details online. 🦋🌻🐝 riwps.org/event/lisa-l...
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Research funding thru is an economic multiplier. What does that mean? In 2023, for every dollar resulted in 2.46$ to the economy. www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
Scientific research is not just about discoveries that better lives and the world, they are important for the economy and education
Scientific research is not just about discoveries that better lives and the world, they are important for the economy and education
Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Research funding thru is an economic multiplier. What does that mean? In 2023, for every dollar resulted in 2.46$ to the economy. www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
Scientific research is not just about discoveries that better lives and the world, they are important for the economy and education
Scientific research is not just about discoveries that better lives and the world, they are important for the economy and education
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
November 16, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease
CAR-T therapy is generating excitement for lupus, scleroderma, and other conditions as clinical trials expand
www.science.org
November 15, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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I had a great sign to join today - hello from PC! And with gentle insistence from @jeffreymphd.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
I had a great sign to join today - hello from PC! And with gentle insistence from @jeffreymphd.bsky.social