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Marta Pereira Iglesias
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Microglia lover, soft spot for development
Posdoc at Morgane Thion Lab
PhD at Amanda Sierra Lab
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Last week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis Microglia Development: From Proliferative Progenitors to Functional Phagocytes, under the supervision of Amanda Sierra. I am deeply grateful to Amanda, my amazing labmates, and everyone in attendance for their incredible support! 🧠🔬
March 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Happy Friday cause we have a new PhD on town.
Congratulations Dr. Pereira-Iglesias, Zorionak Marta!!!
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March 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🚨New Perspective on microglia pruning 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest publication, where we propose a novel framework to distinguish between two potential mechanisms of synapse elimination: culling and scavenging. Check it out and let us know what you think! 🔬🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microglia as hunters or gatherers of brain synapses - Nature Neuroscience
How microglia sculpt brain circuits is not clear. Here, the authors propose that their contribution to synapse removal may occur by severing synapses (culling) or collecting synapses shed off by neuro...
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December 11, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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📢 We're now on Bluesky 📢 Follow us to stay updated on the upcoming season of microglia webinars!
microgliaseries.bsky.social European Microglia Webinar Series @microgliaseries.bsky.social · Dec 4
Welcome to the European Microglia Webinar Series! Here you will find the information and link to every webinar, so dont forget to follow us
December 5, 2024 at 8:26 AM