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This event is open to visitors of all ages!

🗓️ Join us this Sunday, November 9 | 10 AM–3 PM
📍 Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park
🎟️ Regular museum admission required
🔗 scripps.edu/fleet or fleetscience.org/events/genius-house

In today's Front Row lecture, Assistant Professor Alejandra Mendoza will explore how neuro-immune circuits regulate pain, inflammation and immunity, revealing how the body decodes environmental signals to guide critical immune decisions.

📅 Today, 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET
🎟️ Free tickets: ow.ly/oaMm50Xnk58

These are just a few of the interactive activities visitors can explore this weekend!

🗓️ Join us this Sunday, Nov. 9, 10 AM - 3 PM
🎟️ Regular museum admission required
🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/zXl450XmQFQ
📺 Watch more below

Mendoza will dive into all of this in her upcoming Front Row lecture, exploring how neuro-immune circuits guide decisions around pain, inflammation and disease. Reserve your spot using the link below!

📅 Nov 5 | 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET
📍 In person: ow.ly/IHYo50XjUiN
💻 Virtual: ow.ly/nx8q50XjUiL

Turning to the gut, this image explores B cell diversity along the intestinal lining, where environmental cues shape immune responses that influence defense, tolerance, and autoimmunity.

Next, we see a dorsal root ganglion, where sensory neuron nuclei reside and whose axons extend to innervate peripheral tissues. Mendoza uses activation markers and gene expression analyses of dorsal root ganglia to reveal how the body’s natural opioid signals regulate neuro-immune communication.

This first image spotlights neuro-immune interactions, where diverse cell types—including sensory neurons—communicate to detect injury or infection and to coordinate inflammatory responses.