Thank you Yannick & Sophie!

Thank you for being such great collaborators!

Thank you Yakeel!

Thank you Silvia!!

Thanks Rachel!!

Thank you Shannon!!! I’m coming back to UKy in visit in Oct! Hope to see you then! :)

Happy news! I was promoted to Full Professor last month! 🎉

Thank you so much to my letter writers, my former mentors, my colleagues who make going to work everyday fun, my collaborators (including my amazing husband Damian Zuloaga), and of course my rockstar lab members (past and present)! ❤️

Interactions between menopause and high‐fat diet on cognition and pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease INTRODUCTION Post-menopausal women constitute about two-thirds of those with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Menopause increases dementia risk by heightening the likelihood of metabolic disease, a well-kn...

Check out our new paper led by Charly Abi Ghanem showing interactions between menopause & high fat diet in AD👇
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thx to @alzassociation.bsky.social @brightfocus.bsky.social & NINDS for funding!

Thx to collaborators Damian Zuloaga & Sally Temple

Stand Up for Science flier with a map of the walk from SUNY Albany Downstate Campus to the Albany Capitol at noon Friday MArch 7th. March from UAlbany downtown campus starts at 12 pm. We will assemble at West Capitol Park at 12:30 for a peaceful protest with talks from local politicians. Please carpool or take public transportation. All are welcome!

We’re Standing Up for Science – because science is for everyone. Thank you Rep Paul Tonko @reppaultonko.bsky.social for joining us at the NY State Capitol at Albany!
#standupforscience2025 ・ #sciencenotsilence ・ #scienceforall #AcademicSky #science #ScienceSky 🧪

Congrats!!!! 🎉🤩

ATP-sensitive potassium channels alter glycolytic flux to modulate cortical activity and sleep | PNAS Metabolism plays a key role in the maintenance of sleep/wake states. Brain lactate fluctuations are a biomarker of sleep/wake transitions, where in...

Our latest in PNAS! 🎉

ATP-sensitive potassium channels alter glycolytic flux to modulate cortical activity and sleep

Take home message?

KATP channels are metabolic sensors under circadian control that gate glycolytic flux, arousal, & sleep/wake transitions.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sex-specific influences of APOEε4 genotype on hippocampal neurogenesis and progenitor cells in middle-aged rats - Biology of Sex Differences Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately and uniquely affects females, and these sex differences are further exacerbated by the presence of Apolipoprotein (APOE) ε4 alleles, the top gene...

New publication from my PhD research looking at influences of sex on brain health outcomes in a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk 🎉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏

Albany researchers explore menopause-dementia link with $4M NIH grant Researchers at Albany Medical Center are investigating a potential link between menopause and dementia, a study driven by personal connections to the disease.

Thank you so much to our local news CBS6 for featuring our lab’s research this week! The interview was so fun! 👇

cbs6albany.com/news/wellnes...

Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease - Nature Reviews Immunology This Review provides an in-depth examination of how inflammation contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease. The authors explore the impact of extrinsic factors, such as brain trauma, diet ...

it's big, and it's a review of 601 papers on the topic - but here's an update on Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

led by Michael Heneka, published in @natrevimmunol.bsky.social today

(MANY more authors listed and linked below)

Thank you so much to @americanheart.bsky.social for funding my PhD student Emily Groom’s fellowship!! 🎉

So proud of Emily! Her project focuses on effects of adolescent stress on vascular contributions to ADRD

Thx to our collaborators @gabbyfredman.bsky.social, Damian Zuloaga, & Kevin Pumiglia.

Hello Bluesky Fam! Come join the monthly Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative Seminar Series for the latest science pairing women’s health + data science. With a global audience of 500 registrants from 35+ countries it’s become an amazing watering hole for the exchange of ideas. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🧠 barriers & neurovasculature starter pack - please reply here if you are not on it yet & would like to be added 😊 go.bsky.app/RB6RXKy

This is great! I’d love to be added.

Hi Bryan, I’d love to be added to the ADRD one too. Thanks!

Congrats!! And thank you for writing cool pieces like this we can give to new trainees as part of orientation to sex differences field!

Leveraging research into sex differences and steroid hormones to improve brain health - Nature Reviews Endocrinology This Review outlines how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid h...

Our latest review-with @bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we pour our ❤️🧠 & soul to outline our position on why we are so passionate about harnessing the power of sex differences & within sex diff to propel precision medicine forward let us know if we convince you www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Someone had to do it! I created a starter pack for #Alzheimer’s #dementia #ADRD researchers on Bluesky. Please let me know who I left out! Hoping more and more of us will join Bluesky

go.bsky.app/22DpUEy

Sharing again as I have added a at least 20 newbies and people how I just found out were here. Just need to get that Giles Yeo over here now go.bsky.app/NRoqMvp

Hi Kate, I would love to be added, thanks!

Congrats Debbie!!! 🎉

Awesome work! The sex difference is a super exciting finding!

The R1441C-Lrrk2 mutation induces myeloid immune cell exhaustion in an age- and sex-dependent manner in mice The R1441C-Lrrk2 mutation causes age-acquired immune exhaustion in mouse macrophages in a sex-dependent manner.

Extremely proud of Rebecca Wallings & Team in #TanseyLab3.0 for these high-impact findings in @sciencetranslationalmedicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aging starter pack!

go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

Welcome to Bluesky @mikelehman.bsky.social

70+ people in the starter pack now so worth checking out again as lots of newbies added 😀

go.bsky.app/T3VKPCw

Thank you Rachel!