Jose P. López-Atalaya
@jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) @csic.es - Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC) @neuroalc.bsky.social || https://in.umh-csic.es/en/grupos/cellular-plasticity-and-neuropathology/ || Sapere aude
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This is one of the largest studies to link gestational diabetes to neurodevelopmental disorders in children
go.nature.com/4ntzL3I
go.nature.com/4ntzL3I
Gestational diabetes linked to autism in study: what scientists say
Nature - Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump says his administration has “found an answer to autism”.
go.nature.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is one of the largest studies to link gestational diabetes to neurodevelopmental disorders in children
go.nature.com/4ntzL3I
go.nature.com/4ntzL3I
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One for the careful reading list - heritability inside full sibs in @23andme.bsky.social - the whole business of moving towards within family designs is really powerful. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
One for the careful reading list - heritability inside full sibs in @23andme.bsky.social - the whole business of moving towards within family designs is really powerful. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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"Es mentira que baste el esfuerzo personal para conseguir la vida que se desea. Sin un grado suficiente de justicia social, la meritocracia es una farsa tan descarada como los privilegios de nacimiento que disfrutan muchos de quienes la defienden". Por Antonio Muñoz Molina social.elpais.com/2v2jr7
September 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Es mentira que baste el esfuerzo personal para conseguir la vida que se desea. Sin un grado suficiente de justicia social, la meritocracia es una farsa tan descarada como los privilegios de nacimiento que disfrutan muchos de quienes la defienden". Por Antonio Muñoz Molina social.elpais.com/2v2jr7
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Interesante entrevista a @evaalconuji.bsky.social Rectora de la @uji.es y presidenta de la @crueuniversidades.bsky.social en @elpais.com en defensa de una universidad de calidad, y reclamando más apoyo económico de las CCAA a las universidades públicas, que es insuficiente
elpais.com/educacion/20...
elpais.com/educacion/20...
La presidenta de los rectores: “El ascensor social se está perdiendo. Uno tiene beca y no puede seguir estudiando”
Eva Alcón achaca a la falta de recursos públicos que miles de brillantes bachilleres no puedan cumplir su sueño
elpais.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Interesante entrevista a @evaalconuji.bsky.social Rectora de la @uji.es y presidenta de la @crueuniversidades.bsky.social en @elpais.com en defensa de una universidad de calidad, y reclamando más apoyo económico de las CCAA a las universidades públicas, que es insuficiente
elpais.com/educacion/20...
elpais.com/educacion/20...
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🌟 New #EJN Editor!
#FENS is thrilled to welcome @eloisaherrera.bsky.social as Senior Editor at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!
Dr Herrera leads the Eloisa Herrera Laboratory, which focuses on generation and regeneration of bilateral #NeuralCircuits. 🔬
More about EJN 👉 https://loom.ly/tdta_WM
#FENS is thrilled to welcome @eloisaherrera.bsky.social as Senior Editor at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!
Dr Herrera leads the Eloisa Herrera Laboratory, which focuses on generation and regeneration of bilateral #NeuralCircuits. 🔬
More about EJN 👉 https://loom.ly/tdta_WM
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌟 New #EJN Editor!
#FENS is thrilled to welcome @eloisaherrera.bsky.social as Senior Editor at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!
Dr Herrera leads the Eloisa Herrera Laboratory, which focuses on generation and regeneration of bilateral #NeuralCircuits. 🔬
More about EJN 👉 https://loom.ly/tdta_WM
#FENS is thrilled to welcome @eloisaherrera.bsky.social as Senior Editor at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!
Dr Herrera leads the Eloisa Herrera Laboratory, which focuses on generation and regeneration of bilateral #NeuralCircuits. 🔬
More about EJN 👉 https://loom.ly/tdta_WM
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🧠 Are you an early-career brain science researcher interested to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona, Europe’s largest #neuroscience meeting? Apply for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards!
✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
September 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🧠 Are you an early-career brain science researcher interested to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona, Europe’s largest #neuroscience meeting? Apply for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards!
✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
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It’s an honour to join the editorial board of the EJN as Senior Editor — a journal committed to supporting solid, rigorous science and playing a key role within the FENS community. Grateful for the trust and excited to contribute to this mission! @fens.org @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
🌟 New #EJN Editor!
#FENS is thrilled to welcome @eloisaherrera.bsky.social as Senior Editor at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!
Dr Herrera leads the Eloisa Herrera Laboratory, which focuses on generation and regeneration of bilateral #NeuralCircuits. 🔬
More about EJN 👉 https://loom.ly/tdta_WM
#FENS is thrilled to welcome @eloisaherrera.bsky.social as Senior Editor at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!
Dr Herrera leads the Eloisa Herrera Laboratory, which focuses on generation and regeneration of bilateral #NeuralCircuits. 🔬
More about EJN 👉 https://loom.ly/tdta_WM
July 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s an honour to join the editorial board of the EJN as Senior Editor — a journal committed to supporting solid, rigorous science and playing a key role within the FENS community. Grateful for the trust and excited to contribute to this mission! @fens.org @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
PhD students and postdocs in single-cell and spatial omics in neuroscience - don’t miss this opportunity. Apply now! @fens.org @neuroalc.bsky.social
🌟 Registration is now OPEN! 🌟
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
September 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
PhD students and postdocs in single-cell and spatial omics in neuroscience - don’t miss this opportunity. Apply now! @fens.org @neuroalc.bsky.social
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🔔 Registration OPEN! 🔔
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool in Alicante!
👉 loom.ly/RM55lFQ
🎥 Watch the video below ⬇️ to hear from #FENS CHET Committee Chair Dr @schubertneuro.bsky.social about what awaits you at the next Winter School.
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool in Alicante!
👉 loom.ly/RM55lFQ
🎥 Watch the video below ⬇️ to hear from #FENS CHET Committee Chair Dr @schubertneuro.bsky.social about what awaits you at the next Winter School.
August 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🔔 Registration OPEN! 🔔
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool in Alicante!
👉 loom.ly/RM55lFQ
🎥 Watch the video below ⬇️ to hear from #FENS CHET Committee Chair Dr @schubertneuro.bsky.social about what awaits you at the next Winter School.
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool in Alicante!
👉 loom.ly/RM55lFQ
🎥 Watch the video below ⬇️ to hear from #FENS CHET Committee Chair Dr @schubertneuro.bsky.social about what awaits you at the next Winter School.
It was great to share our data at #SENC2025. Thank you, @silviadesantis.bsky.social! I truly enjoyed the symposium and meeting you all! @neuroalc.bsky.social
It was a true honor to organize a #SENC2025 simposium for this year’s meeting on the role of #microglia in #Alzheimers. An impressive line up of speakers and great scientific interactions! @neuroalc.bsky.social @desantislab.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It was great to share our data at #SENC2025. Thank you, @silviadesantis.bsky.social! I truly enjoyed the symposium and meeting you all! @neuroalc.bsky.social
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It was a true honor to organize a #SENC2025 simposium for this year’s meeting on the role of #microglia in #Alzheimers. An impressive line up of speakers and great scientific interactions! @neuroalc.bsky.social @desantislab.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It was a true honor to organize a #SENC2025 simposium for this year’s meeting on the role of #microglia in #Alzheimers. An impressive line up of speakers and great scientific interactions! @neuroalc.bsky.social @desantislab.bsky.social
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🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨
First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️
Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA
🔔 Stay tuned!
First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️
Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA
🔔 Stay tuned!
August 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨
First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️
Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA
🔔 Stay tuned!
First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️
Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA
🔔 Stay tuned!
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Excellent opportunity to get a grant to attend the FENS Forum in Barcelona! @fens.org - APPLY!
🧠 Are you an early-career brain science researcher interested to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona, Europe’s largest #neuroscience meeting? Apply for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards!
✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
September 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Excellent opportunity to get a grant to attend the FENS Forum in Barcelona! @fens.org - APPLY!
🤩🤩🙌🙌 Verónica and Marina presenting their projects at #SENC2025 @neuroalc.bsky.social Bravo! 👏👏👏👏
September 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🤩🤩🙌🙌 Verónica and Marina presenting their projects at #SENC2025 @neuroalc.bsky.social Bravo! 👏👏👏👏
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🗓️El próximo 16 de septiembre a las 16h "Webinar Grupo Neurobiología Molecular" coordinado por @pgonzalezrodriguez.bsky.social
🗣️ @sierralab.bsky.social “Brain scavengers: microglial phagocytosis in health and disease
✍️ https://f.mtr.cool/wvhwttlbmy
🗣️ @sierralab.bsky.social “Brain scavengers: microglial phagocytosis in health and disease
✍️ https://f.mtr.cool/wvhwttlbmy
September 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🗓️El próximo 16 de septiembre a las 16h "Webinar Grupo Neurobiología Molecular" coordinado por @pgonzalezrodriguez.bsky.social
🗣️ @sierralab.bsky.social “Brain scavengers: microglial phagocytosis in health and disease
✍️ https://f.mtr.cool/wvhwttlbmy
🗣️ @sierralab.bsky.social “Brain scavengers: microglial phagocytosis in health and disease
✍️ https://f.mtr.cool/wvhwttlbmy
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Shortcomings of silhouette in single-cell integration benchmarking - @uweohler.bsky.social @prauten.bsky.social @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social go.nature.com/4fcQzZr
Shortcomings of silhouette in single-cell integration benchmarking - Nature Biotechnology
Silhouette score is unsuitable as a metric for single-cell data integration.
go.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Shortcomings of silhouette in single-cell integration benchmarking - @uweohler.bsky.social @prauten.bsky.social @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social go.nature.com/4fcQzZr
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This therapy builds on research from Carlos Belmonte, @neuroviana.bsky.social and colleagues, who showed how corneal cold receptors drive tear production and identified TRPM8 as a target. Once again showcasing the international nature of scientific progress.
August 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This therapy builds on research from Carlos Belmonte, @neuroviana.bsky.social and colleagues, who showed how corneal cold receptors drive tear production and identified TRPM8 as a target. Once again showcasing the international nature of scientific progress.
Reposted by Jose P. López-Atalaya
Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US
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tryptyr.myalcon.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
Reposted by Jose P. López-Atalaya
It is also a vivid reminder of how difficult it is to translate a basic discovery into a useful therapy.
2002 cloning of TRPM8
2010 demonstration that TRPM8 sustains basal tearing
2024 COMET-2 and COMET-3 trials showed that M8 agonist significantly increased tear production
2025 FDA approves drug
2002 cloning of TRPM8
2010 demonstration that TRPM8 sustains basal tearing
2024 COMET-2 and COMET-3 trials showed that M8 agonist significantly increased tear production
2025 FDA approves drug
August 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It is also a vivid reminder of how difficult it is to translate a basic discovery into a useful therapy.
2002 cloning of TRPM8
2010 demonstration that TRPM8 sustains basal tearing
2024 COMET-2 and COMET-3 trials showed that M8 agonist significantly increased tear production
2025 FDA approves drug
2002 cloning of TRPM8
2010 demonstration that TRPM8 sustains basal tearing
2024 COMET-2 and COMET-3 trials showed that M8 agonist significantly increased tear production
2025 FDA approves drug
Reposted by Jose P. López-Atalaya
"Using multi-unit recording we found that inner speech is robustly represented in motor cortex, & decoded imagined sentences in real time. We demonstrate strategies to prevent brain-computer interfaces from unintentionally decoding private inner speech." Fascinating new @cp-cell.bsky.social paper:👇🧪
Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses
Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real
time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of
private inner speech can be preven...
www.cell.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Using multi-unit recording we found that inner speech is robustly represented in motor cortex, & decoded imagined sentences in real time. We demonstrate strategies to prevent brain-computer interfaces from unintentionally decoding private inner speech." Fascinating new @cp-cell.bsky.social paper:👇🧪
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🌟 Registration is now OPEN! 🌟
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
August 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🌟 Registration is now OPEN! 🌟
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
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Join us at the FENS Single-Cell & Spatial Omics Winter School with:
@sarabiz86.bsky.social
@rongfan8.bsky.social
@gokcegroup.bsky.social
@gioelelamanno.bsky.social
@sj-marzi.bsky.social
@jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social
Ana Falcão
Florian Rosenberger
Gabriel Baró
Bosiljka Tasic
Barbara Treutlein
@sarabiz86.bsky.social
@rongfan8.bsky.social
@gokcegroup.bsky.social
@gioelelamanno.bsky.social
@sj-marzi.bsky.social
@jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social
Ana Falcão
Florian Rosenberger
Gabriel Baró
Bosiljka Tasic
Barbara Treutlein
🌟 Registration is now OPEN! 🌟
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
Join the 2025-2026 #FENS-Hertie #WinterSchool and explore this year's topic – Single-cell and Spatial Omics to Understand Brain Heterogeneity! 🔬
📍 Alicante, Spain
🗓️ 11-17 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/RM55lFQ
August 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Join us at the FENS Single-Cell & Spatial Omics Winter School with:
@sarabiz86.bsky.social
@rongfan8.bsky.social
@gokcegroup.bsky.social
@gioelelamanno.bsky.social
@sj-marzi.bsky.social
@jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social
Ana Falcão
Florian Rosenberger
Gabriel Baró
Bosiljka Tasic
Barbara Treutlein
@sarabiz86.bsky.social
@rongfan8.bsky.social
@gokcegroup.bsky.social
@gioelelamanno.bsky.social
@sj-marzi.bsky.social
@jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social
Ana Falcão
Florian Rosenberger
Gabriel Baró
Bosiljka Tasic
Barbara Treutlein
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An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas of the human hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
The topographical organization of cells in the hippocampus reflects its ability to regulate mood and cognition. Here the authors generate a spatially resolved gene expression map in the human hippocam...
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas of the human hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jose P. López-Atalaya
🚨New Review! We explore how thalamocortical circuits wire up by sensory modality — from genes to spontaneous activity and plasticity. @NatureReviewsNeuroscience @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🚨New Review! We explore how thalamocortical circuits wire up by sensory modality — from genes to spontaneous activity and plasticity. @NatureReviewsNeuroscience @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
Reposted by Jose P. López-Atalaya
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.