Final meeting of the organising committee! We are so excited to see you all 😆 @drmyelin.bsky.social @philiphasel.bsky.social @izzynchristie.bsky.social @dr-vmosienko.bsky.social @lucywheatley.bsky.social Safe travels - see you in Bristol

Wills Memorial Building is the tall grand building at the top of Park Street. See you there Monday morning 😆 #excited #can'twait #7moresleeps #sciencefriends #sciencefun

Astrocytes transform the transcriptomic and epigenetic landscape of developing cortical neurons to promote activity via intrinsic excitability control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.17.725732v1

LAST DAY TO REGISTER www.physoc.org/events/uk-gl... please repost

🚨 New preprint on bioRxiv! Pericyte loss triggers hypoperfusion, BBB dysfunction, endothelial VCAM-1/type I IFN activation, venular-like transitions & delayed white matter injury linked to human SVD signatures. Congrats Dr. Dorota Stefancova & team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

UK Glia 2026 in Bristol unites researchers across career stages to explore glial biology, brain physiology, neurodegeneration and neuropsychiatric disorders. Date - Mon 08 - Tue 09 Jun 2026 Location - University of Bristol, UK www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/event/uk-gli...

📢 The final programme is live! 📢 Check it out 👀 www.physoc.org/events/uk-gl...

Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!

New work from our team, led by the incredible @emily-hill.bsky.social out today @cp-neuron.bsky.social. Including some exciting additions from our prepint. Thread below! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ms0u3BtfH...

Incredibly proud of this paper led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social and @mathiasgua.bsky.social titled Basolateral 'Amygdala Astrocytes Encode Anxiety States'. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧵 below

🚨 PhD Programme – Vascular Dementia Research New 4-year PhD funded by BHF & UK DRI on vascular mechanisms in dementia. Training across UCL, Oxford, Leicester & Edinburgh with lab rotations. 📅 Deadline: 14 April 🎓 Start: Sept 2026 Apply: CV + statement + 2 refs → [email protected] Please share!

The first event of 2026 in our seminar series is on Weds 21st January at 2pm. Presented by @philiphasel.bsky.social of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, hosted by Dr Ingo Schiessl. Details on poster - all welcome! 🧠 #neuroscienceseminar #neuroscience #manchesterneuroscience

Thrilled to wrap up the year and my postdoc work in the Nester lab with this publication 🥳! We show that astrocytic CREB regulates astrocyte calcium and D1-MSN activity to drive behavioral response to cocaine. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41406210/

"Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in vertebrates" http://dlvr.it/TPKJSH @liddelowsa.bsky.social @philiphasel.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cellreports.bsky.social #SfN2025

Check out our new review article from my lab: doi.org/10.1111/jnc....

Finally it’s here! 🌟⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer 1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes? 2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body. 3- Is it relevant to human diseases?

Really excited to announce that the Holt lab will be starting in January 2026 in the Center for Substance Use Research at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Interested in the role of gene regulation, astrocytes, and addiction? I'm hiring at all positions-DM or email me! l-holt-lab.com

📢 June 8th-9th 2026 Bristol University 📢 We have partnered with @physoc.bsky.social to organise the 2nd meeting Bristol. It is a privilege to announce Professor Baljit Khakh, FRS will join us in the UK. Check out the exciting programme here: www.physoc.org/events/uk-gl... #neuroskyence #glia

Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social: “Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.” This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Faust et al., Cell 2025

Hello world! We just released a thing! In this preprint we provide evidence questioning the ability of the axon initial segment to undergo rapid structural plasticity in intact neurons from mouse, rat, and human cortex.

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic gap junctional networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665573v1

Excited to share the preprint for one of my postdoctoral projects in the Nestler lab 🥳

So grateful to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for investing in me... believing in me. It's hard to believe in yourself sometimes. Science is going really well and I am thrilled to be back in the lab wellcome.org/research-fun...

Amyloid-β induces lipid droplet-mediated microglial dysfunction via the enzyme DGAT2 in Alzheimer’s disease: @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear immune/glia lovers of brain, gut and beyond… We’re looking for a lab tech/manager to join our team! Pls see details for application here ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social - pls help circulate among networks who’d be of interest, thank you!

Our perspective in @natrevimmunol.nature.com on new concepts in neuroimmune interactions that have challenged the old dogma that immune privilege is a result of the isolation of the nervous and immune systems. @jonykipnis.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to announce that my lab is now open at Ohio State! We study astrocytes as gene therapy targets for brain repair after ischemic stroke and in vascular dementia, developing new viral tools along the way. If you're interesting in joining or collaborating, please reach out! gleichmanlab.com

So excited to see our work finally out today in Nature Communications! Brilliant summary by co-first author @sorayam.bsky.social below!

We used microglia replacement to understand the therapeutic and pathologic roles of macrophages in a genetic brain disease 🧠 A 🧵 on my first author work from the Bennett Lab (+ the paper) below! ⬇️ www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

How does the brain repair myelin after injury? We mapped the full cellular choreography of white matter repair using snRNA-seq + Slide-seqv2, uncovering a type I interferon-driven glial program that recruits lymphocytes to promote remyelination. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Details below 👇

A new study led by @philiphasel.bsky.social reveals the unique genetic profile of astrocytes that form the glia limitans superficialis (GLS), the thin layer of cells that covers the brain and spinal cord 🧠 Dr Hasel spoke to @thetransmitter.bsky.social about his work⬇️

Master class in single cell genomics analysis from @mrodea.bsky.social

I am #hiring an #MRI #physicist, please consider making an application. The job is based in #Sheffield, with extensive collaboration with #UCL. Opportunity to work at 7T & 9.4T, & undertake human imaging at 3T in parallel with the core preclinincal work. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

The cell bodies of astrocytes, not their end-feet, make up the brain’s last line of defense, a new paper in Cell Reports confirms. The findings flip the standard picture of these “stalwart sentinels” of the brain. By Lauren Schenkman www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/u...

Great story covering our description of the superficial glia limitans! @thetransmitter.bsky.social : www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/u...

Have you seen our website: Built and maintained by @drmyelin.bsky.social Check it out 👀 www.glianetwork.org.uk

Highly recommend Aida and her lab! Apply for this amazing opportunity:

🚨The first #preprint of the #FalconeLab is OUT!🥹🚨 We found that varicose-projection astrocytes are not a physiological type of #astrocytes but they are rather associated with neuropathology. Read more here, feedback is welcome!! More details👇👇 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Multiregional blood-brain barrier phenotyping identifies the prefrontal cortex as the most vulnerable region to ageing in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642233v1

Fresh off the press! We found that degeneration in one retina causes astrocytes to respond retinotopically across *both* hemispheres of the brain. Perhaps astrocytes across the CNS are able to coordinate their responses more than we anticipated... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our new work on astrocyte responses in glaucoma is out today! A tour de force of tissue clearing and analysis by @melcooperphd.bsky.social. It's one of those stories that leads to even more great questions, so stay tuned!

Our paper on the superficial glia limitans is now published - huge thank you to all co-authors that helped getting this work across the finish line! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Excited to share our review on astrocyte aging, out today! Hopefully the only Friday surprises this week are Liddelow lab publications! 🧪 #neuroskyence @liddelowsa.bsky.social

#GliaPapers #GliaSpecial2025 REVIEW @mrodea.bsky.social, @philiphasel.bsky.social Are we there yet? Exploring astrocyte heterogeneity one cell at a time onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are excited to start the third edition of #AstrocyteCafe on February 6th with a lineup of amazing speakers 🤩 Join us for this monthly seminar series on #astrocyte research, it's online and it's free! To register for the mailing list and receive announcements, click the link in the bio!

Hello, everyone! Please enjoy one of my favorite micrographs while I finally get set up over here. Vasculature (magenta, perfused lectin), GFAP (cyan), and cx43 (green) in a conditional astrocyte cx43 knockout mouse, demonstrating that cx43 is lost from astrocytes but not pericytes after tamoxifen.

First post at this side. Latest axon diameter action led by Jenea Bin, in collaboration with Nolan, Mobius, Monk, Werner, and Emery labs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...