Constitutive DREADD signalling modulates oligodendrocyte precursor cell bioelectrical membrane properties and fate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

My very best wishes for the festive period and the new year to come!!!

“The bad review will come from your list of suggested reviewers”

Thanking the reviewers

Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why

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Exciting!!! (Pun very much intended 😂)

History of Glia social starts with a blast! #Glia2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social

Full house at #Glia2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social !!! Let the fun begin!

Happy to meet people in Marseille next week!!!

I just wanted to share that everyone here in CCMR is deeply saddened by the passing of @cam.ac.uk Professor Bill Blakemore. He was instrumental for training an entire generation of glia biologists. His work on remyelination and MS research created the models we all use today! He will sorely missed.

Astrocytic GLUT1 deletion in adult mice enhances glucose metabolism and resilience to stroke - Nature Communications Glucose uptake in astrocytes is thought to rely on GLUT1. Here, the authors show that adult mice tolerate astrocyte-specific GLUT1 deletion, which increases astrocytic glucose metabolism and confers n...

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Wow! Congratulations!!

Ready for #CamNeuro2025 with @camneuro.bsky.social! And such a wonderful day!

Huge thanks to the one & only Cagla Eroglu (sharla)
The meeting was so friendly, well-organised & featured the GLIA royalty from around the world. #GRCGlia2025
@caglaeroglu.bsky.social you rock! Hope you get some rest now you have passed the baton to Ethan & Nicola
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Motion artefacts do not only ruin experiments, so sorry this photo is imperfect! @ludovicaguetta.bsky.social is working at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social in the lab of Andrea Serio. Ludovica has generated human iPSC astrocytes to study morphology /function relationships in health & reactivity #glia

@amyxguo.bsky.social from New York, @liddelowsa.bsky.social lab, has characterized the LCN2 tdTomato mice that label reactive #astrocytes & reactive #endothelial cells. First timer at the #GRCGlia2025, she's done great asking good questions. Definitely one to follow 🔬🧬🍅✨ med.nyu.edu/faculty/shan...

@bdiazcastro.bsky.social from Edinburgh, Dementia Research Institute brings the glamour to #GRCGlia2025

She is speaking this evening alongside the likes of Rune Enger and Maiken Nedergaard. What a superstar and what a night ahead ✨

Astrocyte heterogeneity reveals region-specific astrogenesis in the white matter - Nature Neuroscience White matter (WM) astrocytes differ significantly from gray matter astrocytes, with WM astrocytes in the forebrain exhibiting unique proliferation capacity, which is absent in cerebellar WM, suggestin...

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@dr-vmosienko.bsky.social, co-founder of the UK Glia Network has been presenting her work on #serotonin & #lactate at the #GRCGordon2025. First time in attendance, Valentina has hiked, stayed up late & made lots of friends. Welcome to the GRC family, make you sure you return!

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Introducing Nicola Allen, co-chair of GRCGlia2027! Nicola trained with David Attwell at UCL and then worked with Ben Barres before starting her on lab at the Salk Institute. She is glia veteran and best of all British! I'm sure she will visit the UK for a talk soon, watch this space! #idol #legend

Bringing the #GRCGlia2025 to a close:

Martina Chiacchiareta
Rune Enger
Maiken Nedergaard
Blanca Diaz-Castro
William (Tre) Mills

Saving the best for last, we have sleep, brain blood flow and blood brain barrier. #science #neuroscience #rolemodels #legends

Are you joining the @britishneuropsych.bsky.social annual meeting? Don't miss the chance to catch up with your @ukglia.bsky.social pals!! Join our social on Monday,April 28th at 7pm! The vibe is après-ski at this Alpine bar and restaurant: albertsschloss.com/location/liv...
#Liverpool #Neuroscience

Haley Fritch (computational) from the McCarroll lab, Harvard. Steve explained their use of postmortem tissue, to study #gene expression in 2.3m cells! Classifying #glia by gene expression, & looking for common patterns on expression glia across #schizophrenia, #bipolardisorder & major #depression

Sometimes you have to travel to find the cutting edge of glial biology... This meeting would definitely be worth the trip 👀

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Hello to Nicola Schmid, a neurobiologist in Switzerland working with Bruno Weber and Marina Herwerth. Neurones transiently decrease their calcium activity when astrocytes are ablated with AQP4 antibody - but to everyone's surprise, they recover! #GRCGlia2025 #neuroscience #astrocytes #science

My best wishes for a prosperous and happy 2025!!

Glad to be part of this community!!!

Let's all meet on the Mediterranean coast for an absolute blast of a meeting!!

Best advent calendar ever!

Everytime I give a lecture in the PDN building on the Downing site I find another view worth photographing #physiology #cambridgeuni