Vanessa Coelho-Santos
@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social
Junior Leader | CIBIT-University of Coimbra.
Neuroscientist w/a crush on blood vessels!
#firstgeneration #liveimaging #neurovascular #neurodevelopment #gliovascular #microglia #angiogenesis 🧠
https://www.vcoelhosantoslab.com
Neuroscientist w/a crush on blood vessels!
#firstgeneration #liveimaging #neurovascular #neurodevelopment #gliovascular #microglia #angiogenesis 🧠
https://www.vcoelhosantoslab.com
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🙌 #EuroBioImaging attended #SPAOM2025 this week with the 🇪🇸 + 🇵🇹 imaging communities. 🔬
Some key moments:
- Our FAIR #ImageData satellite event
- Meeting with our Scientific Ambassadors
- Workshop on Impact of Imaging Core Facilities
Thanks to the organisers for this amazing conference! 🎉
Some key moments:
- Our FAIR #ImageData satellite event
- Meeting with our Scientific Ambassadors
- Workshop on Impact of Imaging Core Facilities
Thanks to the organisers for this amazing conference! 🎉
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🙌 #EuroBioImaging attended #SPAOM2025 this week with the 🇪🇸 + 🇵🇹 imaging communities. 🔬
Some key moments:
- Our FAIR #ImageData satellite event
- Meeting with our Scientific Ambassadors
- Workshop on Impact of Imaging Core Facilities
Thanks to the organisers for this amazing conference! 🎉
Some key moments:
- Our FAIR #ImageData satellite event
- Meeting with our Scientific Ambassadors
- Workshop on Impact of Imaging Core Facilities
Thanks to the organisers for this amazing conference! 🎉
11 years after receiving a PhD student award at @ecnp.eu 2014, I return as an invited speaker to present the research of my own lab, the #VCoelhoSantosLab. A full-circle moment that makes perseverance worth it! 💫 #ECNP25 #newPI #cerebrovascular
November 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
11 years after receiving a PhD student award at @ecnp.eu 2014, I return as an invited speaker to present the research of my own lab, the #VCoelhoSantosLab. A full-circle moment that makes perseverance worth it! 💫 #ECNP25 #newPI #cerebrovascular
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Every year, researchers in Europe take time to share their passion for science with their communities. 👩🔬
We take you around Europe to discover #ERN25 events with our Nodes.
First stop, Coimbra 🇵🇹 with @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social & CIBIT!
Full story ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...
We take you around Europe to discover #ERN25 events with our Nodes.
First stop, Coimbra 🇵🇹 with @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social & CIBIT!
Full story ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Every year, researchers in Europe take time to share their passion for science with their communities. 👩🔬
We take you around Europe to discover #ERN25 events with our Nodes.
First stop, Coimbra 🇵🇹 with @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social & CIBIT!
Full story ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...
We take you around Europe to discover #ERN25 events with our Nodes.
First stop, Coimbra 🇵🇹 with @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social & CIBIT!
Full story ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...
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Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
qedscience.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!
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A privilege to chair symposium ‘Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan’ symposium today at @ecnp.eu
Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations.
#ECNP2025
Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations.
#ECNP2025
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A privilege to chair symposium ‘Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan’ symposium today at @ecnp.eu
Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations.
#ECNP2025
Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations.
#ECNP2025
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Looking forward to chairing this exciting symposium at @ecnp.eu Congress Amsterdam: Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan. Join us to hear from these excellent speakers on how vascular health shapes cognitive function.
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
#ECNP2025
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
#ECNP2025
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Are you attending the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 2025 Congress?
Don’t miss our session:
🧠 S17 – Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan
👩🏫 Chaired by @maburto.bsky.social
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
See you there 🙌 #ECNP2025
Don’t miss our session:
🧠 S17 – Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan
👩🏫 Chaired by @maburto.bsky.social
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
See you there 🙌 #ECNP2025
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Are you attending the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 2025 Congress?
Don’t miss our session:
🧠 S17 – Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan
👩🏫 Chaired by @maburto.bsky.social
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
See you there 🙌 #ECNP2025
Don’t miss our session:
🧠 S17 – Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan
👩🏫 Chaired by @maburto.bsky.social
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
See you there 🙌 #ECNP2025
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Want to learn about the imaging approaches that can support neuroscience? 🧠 🔬 Join the "NeuroImaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain" course organised by our Node in Brno. 🇨🇿
🗓️ November 19-21
Learn more & register🔽
www.ceitec.eu/educational-...
🗓️ November 19-21
Learn more & register🔽
www.ceitec.eu/educational-...
October 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Want to learn about the imaging approaches that can support neuroscience? 🧠 🔬 Join the "NeuroImaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain" course organised by our Node in Brno. 🇨🇿
🗓️ November 19-21
Learn more & register🔽
www.ceitec.eu/educational-...
🗓️ November 19-21
Learn more & register🔽
www.ceitec.eu/educational-...
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The next symposium on Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease will be organized by Brenda Kwak, Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat and Philippe Bijlenga in Geneva. June 18-19, 2026
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The next symposium on Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease will be organized by Brenda Kwak, Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat and Philippe Bijlenga in Geneva. June 18-19, 2026
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Mind blowing mechanotherapy of aged embryo 🤯👹
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
October 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Mind blowing mechanotherapy of aged embryo 🤯👹
This is the wrap-up of #VCoelhoSantosLab at #NEI25 ✨ European Researchers’ Night!
See you next year in Coimbra with more #science, #brains, #bloodvessels, games & fun! 🧠
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
See you next year in Coimbra with more #science, #brains, #bloodvessels, games & fun! 🧠
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is the wrap-up of #VCoelhoSantosLab at #NEI25 ✨ European Researchers’ Night!
See you next year in Coimbra with more #science, #brains, #bloodvessels, games & fun! 🧠
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
See you next year in Coimbra with more #science, #brains, #bloodvessels, games & fun! 🧠
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
The #VCOELHOSANTOSLAB is recruiting a research fellow to join the project "BarriersReveal – Unveiling sex-specific patterns in the neonatal brain barriers".
More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363
Application deadline: October 13, 2025
@ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain
More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363
Application deadline: October 13, 2025
@ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The #VCOELHOSANTOSLAB is recruiting a research fellow to join the project "BarriersReveal – Unveiling sex-specific patterns in the neonatal brain barriers".
More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363
Application deadline: October 13, 2025
@ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain
More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363
Application deadline: October 13, 2025
@ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain
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✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo
Over the moon to say I’ve been awarded an #ERCstg from @erc.europa.eu !
#AngioArchitects will explore how blood vessels migrate & connect using 🔬 #liveimaging, with the hypothesis that #microglia are the “uber” driving them! 🧠🩸
Positions opening in 2026, stay tuned!
#AngioArchitects will explore how blood vessels migrate & connect using 🔬 #liveimaging, with the hypothesis that #microglia are the “uber” driving them! 🧠🩸
Positions opening in 2026, stay tuned!
In 2025, successful ERC Starting Grant applicants have 51 different nationalities and will carry out their projects in 25 countries. This round of grants is estimated to create some 3,000 jobs within the teams of the new grantees.
More facts and figures 👉 buff.ly/ixs2NRf
More facts and figures 👉 buff.ly/ixs2NRf
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Over the moon to say I’ve been awarded an #ERCstg from @erc.europa.eu !
#AngioArchitects will explore how blood vessels migrate & connect using 🔬 #liveimaging, with the hypothesis that #microglia are the “uber” driving them! 🧠🩸
Positions opening in 2026, stay tuned!
#AngioArchitects will explore how blood vessels migrate & connect using 🔬 #liveimaging, with the hypothesis that #microglia are the “uber” driving them! 🧠🩸
Positions opening in 2026, stay tuned!
Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos
Astrocyte networks are much larger than previously thought, which “flips the way we think about astrocytes and what their networks may mean,” says @liddelowsa.bsky.social.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
September 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Astrocyte networks are much larger than previously thought, which “flips the way we think about astrocytes and what their networks may mean,” says @liddelowsa.bsky.social.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
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A investigadora da @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Vanessa Coelho-Santos, conquistou uma Starting Grant do European Research Council, que ultrapassa os dois milhões de euros! 👏 👏 👏
#UCoimbra #InvestigaçãoUC #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
#UCoimbra #InvestigaçãoUC #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
Cientista da UC ganha prestigiada bolsa do Conselho Europeu de Investigação de mais de dois milhões de euros
Vanessa Coelho-Santos conquistou uma Starting Grant para desvendar, ao longo de cinco anos, novas informações sobre o desenvolvimento do cérebro de recém-nascidos, de forma a compreender que fenómenos...
noticias.uc.pt
September 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A investigadora da @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Vanessa Coelho-Santos, conquistou uma Starting Grant do European Research Council, que ultrapassa os dois milhões de euros! 👏 👏 👏
#UCoimbra #InvestigaçãoUC #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
#UCoimbra #InvestigaçãoUC #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
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Three new @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants for vascular researchers: Congratulations to Vanessa Coelho-Santos (@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social) for "AngioArchitects“ (LS5], Leire Bejarano for "MetaVasc" (LS4], and Mahak Singhal for "Vascular Rhythm" (LS4). Great success!
September 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Three new @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants for vascular researchers: Congratulations to Vanessa Coelho-Santos (@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social) for "AngioArchitects“ (LS5], Leire Bejarano for "MetaVasc" (LS4], and Mahak Singhal for "Vascular Rhythm" (LS4). Great success!
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I'm sure we all know someone (🙋🏻♀️) or have personally benefited from early detection cancer screening, like breast & colon cancer, that are increasingly seen in younger people. And mandated to be paid for by insurance, reducing out-of-pocket 💰. The benefit is huge, important 🧵 on USPSTF in jeopardy.
1/ This is a long 🧵, so buckle up & I hope you read till the end.
The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
July 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm sure we all know someone (🙋🏻♀️) or have personally benefited from early detection cancer screening, like breast & colon cancer, that are increasingly seen in younger people. And mandated to be paid for by insurance, reducing out-of-pocket 💰. The benefit is huge, important 🧵 on USPSTF in jeopardy.
Glad to meet in person Alessandra Viale and Erika Cerutti! Was a lovely surprise…I had opportunity to show my lab and talk about our science. Amazing be part of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social as #scientificambassador 🔬🧠
Our Med-Hub colleagues got to visit the Portuguese Brain Imaging Network (BIN) Node in Coimbra. 🇵🇹 It offers open access to PET & MRI for a variety of preclinical and human imaging applications. 🧠🫀 Thanks to the CIBIT team for this visit!
Learn more ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/visitin...
Learn more ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/visitin...
July 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Glad to meet in person Alessandra Viale and Erika Cerutti! Was a lovely surprise…I had opportunity to show my lab and talk about our science. Amazing be part of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social as #scientificambassador 🔬🧠
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Amazing #2PM real-time morpho-dynamic responses of microglia to laser-induced parenchymal/vascular injury in🐭🧠
Age-dependent reaction speed
👉Parenchymal injury
Adult > Aged/Neonatal
👉Vascular injury
Adult/Aged > Neonatal
@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #CellRep 2025
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Age-dependent reaction speed
👉Parenchymal injury
Adult > Aged/Neonatal
👉Vascular injury
Adult/Aged > Neonatal
@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #CellRep 2025
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
July 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Amazing #2PM real-time morpho-dynamic responses of microglia to laser-induced parenchymal/vascular injury in🐭🧠
Age-dependent reaction speed
👉Parenchymal injury
Adult > Aged/Neonatal
👉Vascular injury
Adult/Aged > Neonatal
@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #CellRep 2025
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Age-dependent reaction speed
👉Parenchymal injury
Adult > Aged/Neonatal
👉Vascular injury
Adult/Aged > Neonatal
@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #CellRep 2025
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Some 🧠 of #VCoelhoSantosLab!! Here we study the #neurogliovascularunit using #liveimaging! We are 🧠 imaging experts!! 🔬#worldbrainday2025 #scientificambassador @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Some 🧠 of #VCoelhoSantosLab!! Here we study the #neurogliovascularunit using #liveimaging! We are 🧠 imaging experts!! 🔬#worldbrainday2025 #scientificambassador @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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🚨 Review Alert
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
Frontiers | Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain
The vasculature of the central nervous system (CNS) is a highly specialized structure that delivers oxygen and nutrients to energy-demanding neural cells whi...
www.frontiersin.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🚨 Review Alert
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*
Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳
Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
#NewResearch from the #VcoelhoSantosLab and #ShihLab used #two-photon live imaging to reveal how #microglia 🧠 evolve across across #lifespan.
Key findings:
👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy
🧍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp
👵 Aged: Quiet and slow
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
Key findings:
👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy
🧍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp
👵 Aged: Quiet and slow
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
Physiological and injury-induced microglial dynamics across the lifespan
Tieu, T. et al. leveraged in vivo two-photon live imaging of microglia, the brain’s
resident immune cells, to reveal striking differences in their morphology, basal dynamics,
and injury responses acro...
www.cell.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#NewResearch from the #VcoelhoSantosLab and #ShihLab used #two-photon live imaging to reveal how #microglia 🧠 evolve across across #lifespan.
Key findings:
👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy
🧍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp
👵 Aged: Quiet and slow
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
Key findings:
👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy
🧍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp
👵 Aged: Quiet and slow
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
#VCoelhoSantosLab at @gliameeting.bsky.social represented by the Magda Rodrigues! 🧠🔬
#glia2025
#gliovascular
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
#glia2025
#gliovascular
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#VCoelhoSantosLab at @gliameeting.bsky.social represented by the Magda Rodrigues! 🧠🔬
#glia2025
#gliovascular
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
#glia2025
#gliovascular
@ucoimbra.bsky.social