🧠 Glia researchers — this is for you!
FENS 2026 is recruiting Social Media Ambassadors to put glial science in the spotlight.
📅 Deadline: April 30
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#Glia #FENS2026 #SciComm #Neuroscience
The absolute dream paper for any #cerebrovascular developmental biologist !! Congrats to @nicolasrenier.bsky.social, @alexdubrac.bsky.social and their teams !
Congratulations to these excellent CNRS PIs 🤩 for their promotion (pending a lot of bureaucracy🥲)! Full details in the link
c3n-cn.fr/2025/12/12/c...
Ce lundi commence la @semaineducerveau.bsky.social . Jeudi 19 mars de 17h à 19h30, venez à « cerveau en boutique » @psl-univ.bsky.social découvrir les neurosciences auprès de commerçants de la rue Mouffetard! Plus d’infos ici 👉 psl.eu/agenda/cerve...
C’est ce soir à 19h, en direct !
Des vidéos pour une immersion dans les labos, une table ronde et des expertes…
Plongez au cœur de la recherche sur la maladie d’#Alzheimer.
#SdC2026
📣 Registrations are open for the next European Synapse Meeting, taking place in Leuven from 21–23 October 2026!
With @synapse-lab.bsky.social, @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social, LynetteLim and MarinkaBrouwer, we’ve put together an exciting program—take a look here: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...
Join us for #isdn2027 🇮🇳 @isdnsociety.org where the latest work in neurodevelopment will be presented by its outstanding authors ⬇️ Thank you Shubha Tole @shubhatole.bsky.social @tifr.res.in 🇮🇳 for agreeing to give a plenary lecture 🙏🏼
👉 Microglia colonization exhibits temporally distinct waves of proliferation.
👉 Neuronal activity is not a major driver of early microglial colonization.
👉 Neural 𝘊𝘴𝘧𝟣, mainly derived from neural progenitors, drives cortical embryonic microglia.
👉 In transient hotspots where microglia adopt an ATM-like state, their intrinsic 𝘊𝘴𝘧𝟣 expression sustains their proliferation.
🙏🙏🙏 Sonia Garel, Cécile Bridlance, Sarah Viguier, @nicolas-olivie.bsky.social, Edmond Dupont, Dorine Thobois, Benjamin Mathieu & our precious collaborators @estherkli.bsky.social, @aymericsilvin.bsky.social, Florent Ginhoux, Melanie Greter, Brukhard Becher, @guillelbendito.bsky.social & JeanX Jiang.
🧠 Check out our new study!
Cécile Bridlance et al. reveal how distinct, local, and cell-type–specific sources of CSF-1 orchestrate microglial colonization during early brain development.
🙏🙏🙏 A big thank you to everyone involved!
👉 Neural 𝘊𝘴𝘧𝟣, mainly derived from neural progenitors, drives cortical embryonic microglia.
👉 In transient hotspots where microglia adopt an ATM-like state, their intrinsic 𝘊𝘴𝘧𝟣 expression sustains their proliferation.
🙏🙏🙏 Sonia Garel, Cécile Bridlance, Sarah Viguier, @nicolas-olivie.bsky.social, Edmond Dupont, Dorine Thobois, Benjamin Mathieu and our precious collaborators @estherkli.bsky.social, @aymericsilvin.bsky.social, Florent Ginhoux, Melanie Greter, Brukhard Becher, @guillelbendito.bsky.social & JX Jiang.
Mark your calendars!
The 28th Meeting of the French Glial Cell Club will take place Nov 17–20, 2026, in Sète.
🔹 Plenary lectures by Fiona Doetsch & Leda Dimou
🔹 5 symposia on glial diversity, astrocytes, human glia, EVs & modeling
👉 Full program available on our website: frenchglialcellclub.fr
Interested in the heterogeneity of blood vessels in the CNS? Here we review the unique features of the spinal cord vasculature, its barrier properties and neurovascular interactions, highlighting unknown aspects and future research directions.
@CRC1366
@erc.europa.eu @immunosens.bsky.social
1/ 💡We are excited to share our latest paper, continuing our exploration of how maternal obesity programs offspring health via #macrophages - this time using #Drosophila as a model: shorturl.at/28tFo
#MaternalObesity #Drosophila #Neurodegeneration #DOHaD #FlyResearch #MacrophageBiology
🧠 New book chapter out!
We review the developmental origin and functional diversity of #microglia - key players at the crossroads of #immunity and #neurodevelopment.
🔹 Ontogeny & specialization
🔹 Transcriptional & metabolic shifts
🔹 Roles in disease & repair
👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lKxcErwXf...
We are SO EXCITED to share our story @nature.com:
🧵1/
Maternal obesity reprograms fetal liver macrophages, triggering adult fatty liver disease in the offspring.
This study uncovers how Kupffer cells act as intergenerational messengers in metabolic disease.
👉 Read here: rdcu.be/erD3b
#NewResearch from the #VcoelhoSantosLab and #ShihLab used #two-photon live imaging to reveal how #microglia 🧠 evolve across across #lifespan.
Key findings:
👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy
🧍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp
👵 Aged: Quiet and slow
@ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
Still openings, check it out!
Our special issue on #neuroimmunology is online! Check out the collection, with reviews from @jonykipnis.bsky.social @michellemonje.bsky.social @ugolinis.bsky.social @bethstevenslab.bsky.social @movahedilab.bsky.social Matteoli, Butovsky, Kim, Artis, & Prinz! www.cell.com/immunity/col... #AAI2025
Online now: Interleukin-34-dependent perivascular macrophages promote vascular function in the brain
🎉 Excited to share that our paper on FCDII is out today! 🙌🏻 Huge thanks to @sbaulac.bsky.social and @sara baldassari for bringing me on board and introducing me to the complexity of somatic mutations. Hope our work helps advance understanding of the disease mechanisms.
#Communiqué | L'Université PSL et ses établissements s’associent au mouvement @standupforscience.bsky.social et invitent toutes leurs communautés académiques, scientifiques, étudiantes et administratives à participer à la journée du jeudi 3 avril 2025.
Infos 👉 psl.eu/actualites/d...
📢New webinar coming soon📢
Prof. Steffen Jung from Weizmann Institute of Science will be our next speaker on April 1st. Check all the information in the flyer and add it to your calendar! 🧠🔬
We are pleased to announce that the registration for the 2nd Young Glial Cell Day which will take place in Montpellier on May 13, 2025!
👉 club-de-cellules-gliales.assoconnect.com/collect/desc...
Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations will close on March 28, 2025.
See you soon!
#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!
We stand in solidarity with the #StandUpForScience movement and with all researchers working in the United States, where academic freedom is currently being challenged.
✨ We tend to think of species-specific differences as resulting from the presence of species-specific genes. In our latest work with @djabaudon.bsky.social, we show that building brains is not only about which genes you use, but also about when and where you do.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...