Carmen Falcone
@carmenfalcone.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Towson University •
Neurobiologist in love w/ astrocytes, evolution & development •
co-founder #AstrocyteCafe and #ItalianGliaNewtork •
I look at glial cells in unconventional species •
https://carmenfalconelab.com/
Neurobiologist in love w/ astrocytes, evolution & development •
co-founder #AstrocyteCafe and #ItalianGliaNewtork •
I look at glial cells in unconventional species •
https://carmenfalconelab.com/
Didn’t have enough of neuroscience conferences lately so I decided to go to another one 😉
It’s great to be part of the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter, today at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 😌
#GBSfN2025
It’s great to be part of the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter, today at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 😌
#GBSfN2025
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Didn’t have enough of neuroscience conferences lately so I decided to go to another one 😉
It’s great to be part of the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter, today at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 😌
#GBSfN2025
It’s great to be part of the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter, today at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 😌
#GBSfN2025
Oh well, we forgot to take a picture altogether at the end of our talks #SfN2025…but we did make sure we had good food to celebrate our love for #radialglia and #astrocytes 😌
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Oh well, we forgot to take a picture altogether at the end of our talks #SfN2025…but we did make sure we had good food to celebrate our love for #radialglia and #astrocytes 😌
If you missed our Minisymposium at #SfN2025, you can still catch up with some of the topics by reading our new review:
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you missed our Minisymposium at #SfN2025, you can still catch up with some of the topics by reading our new review:
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org
@wronski.bsky.social Bruno Mota and I celebrating 7 years since we first met at this very same convention center 🫶
7 years of wonderful collaboration and friendship, but also 7 years of home bearing with me asking for selfies at @sfn.org 😬
7 years of wonderful collaboration and friendship, but also 7 years of home bearing with me asking for selfies at @sfn.org 😬
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
@wronski.bsky.social Bruno Mota and I celebrating 7 years since we first met at this very same convention center 🫶
7 years of wonderful collaboration and friendship, but also 7 years of home bearing with me asking for selfies at @sfn.org 😬
7 years of wonderful collaboration and friendship, but also 7 years of home bearing with me asking for selfies at @sfn.org 😬
Guess we booked the hotel in the right spot for #SfN2025 😉
Rocking the start of day 2 with some exciting brainstorming on #glia networks with my dear friend and collaborator @dibenedetto-lab.bsky.social 🙌
Rocking the start of day 2 with some exciting brainstorming on #glia networks with my dear friend and collaborator @dibenedetto-lab.bsky.social 🙌
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Guess we booked the hotel in the right spot for #SfN2025 😉
Rocking the start of day 2 with some exciting brainstorming on #glia networks with my dear friend and collaborator @dibenedetto-lab.bsky.social 🙌
Rocking the start of day 2 with some exciting brainstorming on #glia networks with my dear friend and collaborator @dibenedetto-lab.bsky.social 🙌
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
#SfN2025 starting now, wonderful spending the whole morning with a new friend @fedezampa.bsky.social discussing science..and really much more than just that 🤩
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#SfN2025 starting now, wonderful spending the whole morning with a new friend @fedezampa.bsky.social discussing science..and really much more than just that 🤩
Revamping the annual tradition of bringing #glia to the amazing #JBJohnstonClub meeting 🫣😉
Thanks for having me, it was a blast to speak and chair this morning session!!!
#JBJC2025 #EvolutionaryGlialBiology
Also, my face while saying “I hope you like astrocytes”:
Thanks for having me, it was a blast to speak and chair this morning session!!!
#JBJC2025 #EvolutionaryGlialBiology
Also, my face while saying “I hope you like astrocytes”:
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Revamping the annual tradition of bringing #glia to the amazing #JBJohnstonClub meeting 🫣😉
Thanks for having me, it was a blast to speak and chair this morning session!!!
#JBJC2025 #EvolutionaryGlialBiology
Also, my face while saying “I hope you like astrocytes”:
Thanks for having me, it was a blast to speak and chair this morning session!!!
#JBJC2025 #EvolutionaryGlialBiology
Also, my face while saying “I hope you like astrocytes”:
Aaaand we are starting with one of my fav meetings 🤩
#KargerWorkshop
#JBJCEvolutionaryNeuroscience
#JBJC2025
#KargerWorkshop
#JBJCEvolutionaryNeuroscience
#JBJC2025
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Aaaand we are starting with one of my fav meetings 🤩
#KargerWorkshop
#JBJCEvolutionaryNeuroscience
#JBJC2025
#KargerWorkshop
#JBJCEvolutionaryNeuroscience
#JBJC2025
Who is coming to #SfN2025?
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Who is coming to #SfN2025?
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
Congrats to my students Kyle Hastings & Elena Christou for winning the FCSM Undergraduate Research Grant! 🎉
But I want to thank all of new members of the lab. For your enthusiasm, curiosity, and for choosing a #newPI: you’ve faced every challenge with patience & teamwork!🙌🤩
@towsonu.bsky.social
But I want to thank all of new members of the lab. For your enthusiasm, curiosity, and for choosing a #newPI: you’ve faced every challenge with patience & teamwork!🙌🤩
@towsonu.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Congrats to my students Kyle Hastings & Elena Christou for winning the FCSM Undergraduate Research Grant! 🎉
But I want to thank all of new members of the lab. For your enthusiasm, curiosity, and for choosing a #newPI: you’ve faced every challenge with patience & teamwork!🙌🤩
@towsonu.bsky.social
But I want to thank all of new members of the lab. For your enthusiasm, curiosity, and for choosing a #newPI: you’ve faced every challenge with patience & teamwork!🙌🤩
@towsonu.bsky.social
We are doing it again!!!!
Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)!
We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️
Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)!
We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️
November 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We are doing it again!!!!
Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)!
We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️
Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)!
We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️
Can't wait to share more about our research with my new colleagues and students at @towsonu.bsky.social.
If you are around, pass by to say hi...and to talk about #astrocytes of course!
#ASBMB
If you are around, pass by to say hi...and to talk about #astrocytes of course!
#ASBMB
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Can't wait to share more about our research with my new colleagues and students at @towsonu.bsky.social.
If you are around, pass by to say hi...and to talk about #astrocytes of course!
#ASBMB
If you are around, pass by to say hi...and to talk about #astrocytes of course!
#ASBMB
Submit an abstract for our 2nd @italianglianetwork.bsky.social
Symposium by Oct 10.
We want to see your cool #glial research!!!
The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9
Symposium by Oct 10.
We want to see your cool #glial research!!!
The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Submit an abstract for our 2nd @italianglianetwork.bsky.social
Symposium by Oct 10.
We want to see your cool #glial research!!!
The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9
Symposium by Oct 10.
We want to see your cool #glial research!!!
The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9
What a powerful way to end the week with a seminar by Sonia Shah on human and other animal migrations (and well, much more than that) 👏
@towsonu.bsky.social
@towsonu.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
What a powerful way to end the week with a seminar by Sonia Shah on human and other animal migrations (and well, much more than that) 👏
@towsonu.bsky.social
@towsonu.bsky.social
This guy and I are ready to start teaching some human anatomy and physiology this semester 😉
@towsonu.bsky.social
@towsonu.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This guy and I are ready to start teaching some human anatomy and physiology this semester 😉
@towsonu.bsky.social
@towsonu.bsky.social
Starting this new adventure at @towsonu.bsky.social with three pretty amazing new women faculty 🤩
also, finally got to meet @crystaluminski.bsky.social in person!
also, finally got to meet @crystaluminski.bsky.social in person!
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Starting this new adventure at @towsonu.bsky.social with three pretty amazing new women faculty 🤩
also, finally got to meet @crystaluminski.bsky.social in person!
also, finally got to meet @crystaluminski.bsky.social in person!
Vacation mode? 🙅♀️nope!
8 am: Early morning coffee, kids already dropped off at daycare, and ready to tackle a Monday of intense #grant writing today. 💪
8 am: Early morning coffee, kids already dropped off at daycare, and ready to tackle a Monday of intense #grant writing today. 💪
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Vacation mode? 🙅♀️nope!
8 am: Early morning coffee, kids already dropped off at daycare, and ready to tackle a Monday of intense #grant writing today. 💪
8 am: Early morning coffee, kids already dropped off at daycare, and ready to tackle a Monday of intense #grant writing today. 💪
Official start date at
@towsonu.bsky.social is getting closer and closer..in the meantime, I spotted this already 😉
@towsonu.bsky.social is getting closer and closer..in the meantime, I spotted this already 😉
August 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Official start date at
@towsonu.bsky.social is getting closer and closer..in the meantime, I spotted this already 😉
@towsonu.bsky.social is getting closer and closer..in the meantime, I spotted this already 😉
This might have been my shortest European Glia Meeting (could only come for two days🥲), but @gliameeting.bsky.social is ALWAYS worth it.
Great to catch up with a few glia friends in Marseille 👇🤩
#GLIA2025
Great to catch up with a few glia friends in Marseille 👇🤩
#GLIA2025
July 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This might have been my shortest European Glia Meeting (could only come for two days🥲), but @gliameeting.bsky.social is ALWAYS worth it.
Great to catch up with a few glia friends in Marseille 👇🤩
#GLIA2025
Great to catch up with a few glia friends in Marseille 👇🤩
#GLIA2025
Fun to participate to the #GliaNetworks joint booth, see you next time!!🙌
Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re...
#IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social
Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re...
#IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Fun to participate to the #GliaNetworks joint booth, see you next time!!🙌
Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re...
#IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social
Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re...
#IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social
Intrigued about glial cell diversity across #evolution? ✨🪱🐟🐀🐒🐅🦍
Come to our symposium #S23 at 4 pm today at #GLIA2025 ! 🤩
Aleksandra Pekowska and I are honored to co-chair this session! Thanks to our speakers Carlos Diaz-Salazar and Shai Shaham👏👇👇👇
Come to our symposium #S23 at 4 pm today at #GLIA2025 ! 🤩
Aleksandra Pekowska and I are honored to co-chair this session! Thanks to our speakers Carlos Diaz-Salazar and Shai Shaham👏👇👇👇
July 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Intrigued about glial cell diversity across #evolution? ✨🪱🐟🐀🐒🐅🦍
Come to our symposium #S23 at 4 pm today at #GLIA2025 ! 🤩
Aleksandra Pekowska and I are honored to co-chair this session! Thanks to our speakers Carlos Diaz-Salazar and Shai Shaham👏👇👇👇
Come to our symposium #S23 at 4 pm today at #GLIA2025 ! 🤩
Aleksandra Pekowska and I are honored to co-chair this session! Thanks to our speakers Carlos Diaz-Salazar and Shai Shaham👏👇👇👇
Starting now!!! :)
May 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Starting now!!! :)
It’s a wrap for #ECCN2025, many new ideas, collaborations, but -above all- new interesting people to hopefully meet at other meetings in the future!!!
Grateful to be part of this community!
#ComparativeNeurobiology #EvolutionaryNeuroscience
#EvolutionaryGliaBiology
Grateful to be part of this community!
#ComparativeNeurobiology #EvolutionaryNeuroscience
#EvolutionaryGliaBiology
May 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s a wrap for #ECCN2025, many new ideas, collaborations, but -above all- new interesting people to hopefully meet at other meetings in the future!!!
Grateful to be part of this community!
#ComparativeNeurobiology #EvolutionaryNeuroscience
#EvolutionaryGliaBiology
Grateful to be part of this community!
#ComparativeNeurobiology #EvolutionaryNeuroscience
#EvolutionaryGliaBiology
Brought a bit of #glia to this great evolutionary meeting.
It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩
Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation!
#ECCN2025
It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩
Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation!
#ECCN2025
May 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Brought a bit of #glia to this great evolutionary meeting.
It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩
Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation!
#ECCN2025
It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩
Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation!
#ECCN2025