🧬 Join us Wed, Nov 5 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries! Wenjie Luo, PhD, (Weill Cornell Medicine) presents: "How Microglial Lipid Shapes Tau pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease." 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Zoom available 👉bit.ly/4jjeaJw #Alzheimers

Join us Wed, Oct 29 @ 4pm CT for our Fall #BarshopSeminarSeries! Amina Qutub, PhD (UTSA), presents “Innovations in AI and Their Relevancy to Longevity and Aging.” 📍 Barshop Institute, Room 2.2005 💻 Virtual option available: Zoom 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #AI #agingresearch #longevity

🎉 Congrats to Ziying Xu on her first-authored paper in Nature Communications! “Microglia-specific regulation of lipid metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by microglial depletion in 5xFAD mice,” reveals how brain immune cells influence fat metabolism in #Alzheimer’s. 🧠🧬 👉 bit.ly/4o295Hf

📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Oct 15 🧬 Biology of Aging student presentations: Xin Li and Lidia Cervantes 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch #AlzheimersResearch #Microbiome

📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Oct 1 🧠 Erik Musiek, MD, PhD, presents: “Circadian clocks, glia, and Alzheimer’s Disease” 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries #AlzheimersResearch #AgingResearch

📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Sept 24 🧬 Da-Zhi Wang, PhD (USF) presents: “Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Development, Function and Regeneration” 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch

👏 Big news from @uthealthsa.bsky.social ! The Claude D. Pepper Center secured a $6.5M NIH grant to expand aging research—adding a new Molecular Phenotyping Core and strengthening efforts to help older adults maintain independence in South Texas. 🧬⏳ #AgingResearch #PepperCenter 👉 bit.ly/46kSHdj

📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Sept 17 🧬 Agustin Ruiz, MD, PhD presents: “#Proteogenomic Analysis of Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Across the #Alzheimer’s Disease Continuum” 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries

📢 Join us Sept 10 for the Barshop Institute Fall Seminar Series! 🧬 Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD (OHSU) presents: “Whac-a-mole or Occam’s Razor: Understanding muscle loss in cancer cachexia” 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries

🚨📣Registration and abstract submission closes today at 5pm. Don't delay and register now! 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging 📅 Oct 9–12 | 📍Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX Theme: "Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention" 🔗: bit.ly/3UG2bew

👏 The first cohort of the NIH-funded UT-MSTAR program is complete! 🎉 18 med students from across Texas spent the summer at @uthealthsa.bsky.social gaining hands-on research and clinical experience in aging & geriatrics. 🧬👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ #AgingResearch #FuturePhysicians bit.ly/45Zjrjp

📣🗓️Join us Wed, Sept 3 @ 4PM CT for our Fall Seminar Series! Jenny Hsieh, PhD, presents: "Stem cell approaches to understand acquired and genetic epilepsies." 🔗Details: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries

👏 Congrats to Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini on earning a Rising UT STAR Award! 🌟 The $150K grant will boost his research capacity at @uthealthsa.bsky.social's Barshop Institute, supporting advances in aging and longevity science. 🧬⏳ #AgingResearch #ResearchExcellence 🔗for more: bit.ly/3Vn2kmL

New study from Dr. David Gius shows the keto diet affects males and females differently. Males developed aging cell buildup and stress, while females were protected—effects in males were reversed with estrogen or antioxidants. 🧬 #Keto #AgingResearch #Healthspan 🔗Read more: bit.ly/4lIGsNn

👏 Congrats to Nisi Jiang, PhD, first author of the first national review of anti-aging compounds! The study identified 13 promising agents, with rapamycin showing the strongest effect—extending lifespan by up to 28%. 🧬⏳ #AgingResearch #Longevity #Rapamycin bit.ly/45Vlntg

🚨📢Registration and abstract submission closes on Sept 5th. Don't delay and register now! 🔗: bit.ly/3UG2bew

🎉 Celebrating 30 years of discovery! The San Antonio Nathan Shock Center at @uthealthsa.bsky.social has been a hub for aging research since 1995—has secured 5 more years of NIA funding! 🧬 Pioneering gerotherapeutics like rapamycin to boost lifespan & healthspan. 🔗 : bit.ly/4mqWn3T

🎉 Congrats to Laurence Maeyens for winning the AGE Poster Pitch Award at #AGE2025! This work shows midlife castration extends lifespan more than early intervention in UM-HET3 mice—highlighting timing’s role in aging. 🧬⏳ #AgingResearch #Longevity #UMHET3 bit.ly/4m88Wkr

Big step forward in targeting drug-resistant cancers. Dr. Daohong Zhou at UT Health San Antonio received a $2.4M CPRIT grant to expand core labs with advanced tools like CRISPR screening and small molecule degraders—aiming to tackle the toughest pediatric and adult cancers. 🔗Link: bit.ly/45zRAYJ

🎉 Excited to share UT Health San Antonio - Barshop Institute’s team is a Semifinalist in the $101M #XPRIZEHealthspan! Advancing low-frequency ultrasound to rejuvenate cells & boost healthspan. #HealthyAging #Geroscience 🔗Read more: bit.ly/43TWWvg

🎧 Listen to Dr. Lisa Kilpela, Pepper Center investigator, on Texas Public Radio as she discusses food insecurity and binge eating in older women. 🔗 tpr.org/podcast/petr... #AgingResearch #FoodInsecurity #BingeEating #HealthyAging

📢 Registration is open for the 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging! 🗓️ Oct 9–12 | 📍 Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX Theme: “Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention” 🔗 More info: bit.ly/3UG2bew #Geroscience #AgingResearch #BarshopConference

Join us on Wed, May 28 at 4 PM CT for our Spring Seminar Series! Stephen Harridge, PhD, will present: “The Biology of Human Aging: Differentiating Ageing from Inactivity” 📍 Don’t miss this insight into aging science. 🔗 More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries

We’re proud to be a Semifinalist team of #XPRIZEHealthspan, a 7-year, $101 million global competition that aims to revolutionize the way we approach human aging. We look forward to this next chapter of the competition as we continue to develop our therapeutic to extend healthspan. @xprize.org

Join us Wednesday, May 7th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Kevin Bieniek, PhD, presents: "3D brain modeling and #neuropathology: tools for brain aging and #neurodegenerative disease research." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Scientists from UT Health San Antonio, Duke, and UAMS — led by Drs. Hong-yu Li, Zhengyu Wang, Hui-kuan Lin, and Zhiqiang Qin — uncovered how cells absorb large and polar drugs and devised a novel strategy to optimize the capacity of drug delivery into these cells. 🧪🔬 bit.ly/3Gp682J

Join us Wed. April 30th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Rebeca Wong, PhD, presents: "Insights and remaining gaps from a 23-year longitudinal population study on Mexican aging." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Join us Wed. April 23rd at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Robert Williams, PhD, presents: "Genetic Modulation of Life Span: Dynamic Effects, Sex Differences, and Body Weight Trade-offs in UM-HET3 Mice." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Join us Wed. April 16th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. David Cohen, MD, PhD presents: "Leveraging Energy Expenditure in the Management of #Obesity-Associated Disorders." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Very excited to announce my PhD Defense! ⏰ Wednesday April 16th, 2025 | 9am CST Tune in to learn more about the role of sugar in the brain and microglial interactions with Alzheimer's Disease Pathology!🧠 @uthealthbarshop.bsky.social @uthealthsa.bsky.social Almost #PhDone

Join us Wed. April 9th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Perry Bickel, MD presents: "#Perilipin 5 keeps #mitochondria in shape." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

A new publication from Daniel Adekunbi, PhD, shows that aging is associated with a significant decline in mitochondrial bioenergetics in the brain in a non-human primate model of aging. bit.ly/4iROgMm

Join us Wed. April 2nd at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Roger Shi, PhD presents: "In Search of the Holy Grail: #ALCAT1 Controls the #Mitochondrial Free Radical Aging Clock." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

A new study from the lab of Kevin Koronowski, PhD, looks at the effect of chronic jet lag in mice on their behavior and metabolism dysfunction in the liver. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations to Kevin Koronowski, PhD on his award from the American Heart Association! He is the recipient of a three-year American Heart Association Career Development Award for his project titled “Lifting the Circadian Brake on PPAR Alpha.” bit.ly/425OQih

Join us Wednesday, March 26th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Our Biology of Aging students will be presenting. More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Congratulations to Erik Marchant on being named the 2025 UT Health SA GSBS Presidential Ambassador! bit.ly/4iu15fy

📢🗓️Save the Date! The 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging will take place Oct 9-12, 2025 in Bandera, Texas. bit.ly/3UG2bew

A new paper from the lab of David Gius, MD, PhD, and supported by the Shock Center GeroMetabolism Core uses a novel mouse model targeting #mitochondrial #acetylation to identify potential functional mechanisms of ketogenic diets on lipid metabolism. bit.ly/3FPl49W

Congrats to Pepper Center Core Leader Tiffany Cortes, MD, on her new paper outlining the importance of addressing lifestyle-based approaches to preserving bone and muscle with weight loss in older patients and identify best practices for doing so. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new study from Barshop investigators Sijia He, Shangang Zhao and Xianlin Han outlines the importance of innate immunity in the brain in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to Barshop investigators Masahiro Morita, PhD and David Gius, MD, PhD, who received #CPRIT awards to accelerate cancer research and launch a novel clinical trial.

Join us Wed. March 12th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Stacey J. Sukoff Rizzo, PhD presents: "#Marmosets as Research Models for Interrogating Primate-Specific #Mechanisms of #Alzheimer’s Disease." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Dr. Xianlin Han spoke recently on ASBMB Breakthroughs, a monthly webinar series highlighting research from ASBMB journals. Unsheathing the role of myelin lipids in Alzheimer’s disease www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

Is there an alternative to senolytics to remove senescent cells? Take a look at our new publication in Aging Cell where we collaborated with the late Mike Sheetz lab to Rejuvenate Senescent Cells with low frequency ultrasound. t.co/Ts704MWIqZ

New publication from the lab in GeroScience. Resistance exercise does some nice things to muscle in older men including reducing markers of stress, inflammation and cellular senescence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us Wed. Feb 26th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. William J. Evans, PhD presents: "#Sarcopenia: New Insights for a Unified Definition." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Congratulations to Daohong Zhou, MD and his team on their publication in Nature Aging! bit.ly/4aWOONT

Join us Wed. Feb 19th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD presents: "#Organoid-guided Precision #Hepatology." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Join us Wed. Feb 12th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Kimberley Bruce, PhD presents: "Targeting #Microglial #Metabolism in #Neurodegenerative Disease." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries