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Emma Wilson
@toxobrains.bsky.social
Parasite immunologist with a neuro twist. A Scot in SoCal. UCR Prof, s/mum of 2+2. New to 🦋 and hopeful.
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GRiP-ing seminars continue this Friday! Our next speaker is Emma Wilson @toxobrains.bsky.social from @ucriverside.bsky.social. Come, join us!

Link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8640933246...
Passcode: 719067
February 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sorry we got blown off by the storm last time but looking forward to going back to Glasgow and talking parasites and brains with an inspiring set of scientists @abhinay.bsky.social @clarehardinglab.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @sheinerlab.bsky.social
GRiP-ing seminars continue this Friday! Our next speaker is Emma Wilson @toxobrains.bsky.social from @ucriverside.bsky.social. Come, join us!

Link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8640933246...
Passcode: 719067
February 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/
December 9, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Have you ever wondered whether pyroptotic corpses have functions beyond the grave? We made the surprising discovery that pyroptotic corpses are flagged by #filopodia to alert #DendriticCells they need autopsy. A short Bluetorial (1/13)👇with movies!
Link: rdcu.be/d2mjm
Pyroptotic cell corpses are crowned with F-actin-rich filopodia that engage CLEC9A signaling in incoming dendritic cells
Nature Immunology - Pyroptotic cell death results in inflammation. Here the authors find that F-actin-rich structures formed during macrophage pyroptosis persist after cell death to activate...
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December 9, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Assistant Prof job in Behavioral Neuroscience at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02011
Assistant Professor-Behavioral Neuroscience
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.ucr.edu
December 7, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Exciting new discovery from colleagues @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, astrocyte metabolism compromised by amyloid and tau oligomers leading to insufficient support for neurons. Possible new target for treating AD.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Restoring hippocampal glucose metabolism rescues cognition across Alzheimer’s disease pathologies
Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a pathologic feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with recent proteomic studies highlighting disrupted glial metabolism in AD. We report that inhibition of indo...
www.science.org
November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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I started a list of School of Biological Sciences Edinburgh folks / centres on bluesky. Please amplify and connect!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 22, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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My lab in Aberdeen, in the stunning North East of Scotland, will soon be recruiting for a post-doc to studying immune-ECM interactions in the lung. If you love IL-13, Hyaluronan, ECM biology, pulmonary immune responses....Get in touch and keep an eye out for the position.
November 13, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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A repertoire of immunologists

by @rodrahimi.bsky.social

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A repertoire of immunologists
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November 12, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Woo hoo! 1K new followers, welcome to 💙🦋!

For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀…

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Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙🎊
November 12, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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let's do this!! I am excited to reconnect with scientists here. thx @oneyrolles.bsky.social for the push 😀

#Immunology announcement:
SAVE THE DATE: 26-29 August in Basel 🇨🇭

Mauro Gaya (CIML) and I are organizing an #EMBO workshop on Adaptive #immunity in barrier tissues; details coming soon!
November 13, 2024 at 6:58 AM