Our review on glial orchestration of neurodevelopment is online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social! Great fun working with Krissy Sakers and Pat Sheehan from the Eroglu and Schafer labs, and special thanks to first author Krissy for her tremendous work bringing this to fruition! www.cell.com/developmenta...

Ready for an exciting @fens.org Forum in #Barcelona! Visit our posters to check the latest findings in our different projects on #astrocyte involvement in #cortico-#limbic #circuit function! #ptglia @icvs-uminho.bsky.social @uminho.bsky.social

Delighted to be at FENS in Barcelona, attending the Network Glia satellite symposium on Emerging roles of glial cells in brain function and disease! If you're around, come say hi at Booth #158 to learn more about the national glia networks, including the French Glial Cell Club! #FENS2026 #FENSGlia

FENSGlia – Building the International Glia Community We end today's series by bringing the community together! Join us for the #FENSGlia Social Evening on Wed, 8 July, 20:00 at Plaça d'Osca, Barcelona. Wear your GLIA sticker from Booth 158 to spot fellow gliologists. See you there! #FENS2026

Join us Glial friends! #ptglia

🧠 Special Issue @jneurochem.bsky.social now complete! #Astrocytes in #Cognition and #Behavior This special issue features reviews and research articles that explore how #astrocytes integrate #neural #circuits to understand #cognition and #behavior. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

New paper out in Glia! Male and female mice regulate their sleep-promoting VLPO astrocytes very differently across the day. 👉 pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/42252582/ #Sleep #Glia #Astrocytes #Neuroscience #VLPO #SexDifferences #CalciumImaging #Circadian @cirbcdf.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Already out! Don't miss the comprehensive analysis and discussion about astrocyte complexity. Great work led by Joao Oliveira and Christian Henneberger 👏 @cncajal-csic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @mujeresconciencia.com

🎉🔬 On June 1st, we celebrated Children's Day in a very special way at ICVS! We were delighted to welcome 5th-grade students from Teresiano School, got a closer insight into scientific research and take part in hands-on activities designed to spark their curiosity and interest in science.

It was great to deliver this Keynote at #AstrocyteCafe2026 . It was probably my longest discussion ever. I'm still impressed with the quality of the students and postdocs attending this meeting. The future of #astrocyte research is secured!

Call for Travel Grants for FENS Satellite Event – SENC Student Members A total of 750 EUR has been awarded by SENC to support student attendance at the FENS Satellite Event. Deadline for applications: June 8, 2026 Notification of results: June 12, 2026 Sent to: [email protected]

An inspiring meeting in Braga with fantastic people resulted in a review article reflecting on the functional units of astrocytes across scales: lnkd.in/d4_epPtY. Very grateful to be part of this scientific journey. Many thanks to all authors & @joaofoliveira.bsky.social & @chenneberger.bsky.social

Out today in @natneuro.nature.com What started as a great discussion at an amazing meeting organized by @joaofoliveira.bsky.social culminated in our new Perspective on how #astrocyte functions operate across multiple spatial scales. Read: rdcu.be/fk0B7 Full text: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great and comprehensive review by @joaofoliveira.bsky.social, @chenneberger.bsky.social and other leading experts in @natneuro.nature.com on the organisation and multiple functions of #astrocytes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're thrilled to share this #Perspective @natneuro.nature.com on #astrocytes as a multilayered system of #functional #units that operate across spatial scales. 👉Available for reading here: rdcu.be/fk0B7 👉Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 New preprint from our lab! #Hippocampal #astrocytes actively contribute to: 👉 the encoding of #context-specific #aversive stimuli 👉 predict #recall of #fear #behavior. @icvs-uminho.bsky.social @caixaresearch.bsky.social #PTglia

ICVS researcher Isabel Veiga was featured on Antena 1’s program 90 Seconds of Science, where she discussed her current project focused on identifying new therapeutic targets for malaria treatment 🦠🔬 👉 Listen to the interview here: www.rtp.pt/play/p2936/e...

The weekend is an excellent time for a GLIAL WALK! #PTGlia #MoveForYourGlia Check out how the first Kms-long #glial #cells ever recorded! redeglial.weebly.com/move-for-you...

Sharing the latest from the lab. Led by Yunlong Liu, this work explores how microglia and engram neurons interact during fear extinction in the hippocampus. rdcu.be/fgNH7

Interested in finding your own astrocyte networks? The plasmid is now available on Addgene! www.addgene.org/252501/ Check out how we implemented it in this paper, published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Need extra guidance? Watch this space for a more detailed protocol paper soon!

📢 ICVS Advanced Seminar! Today, 12 pm, room A0.02, UMinho School of Medicine. 🎤 Karen Duff 🧬 "Tauopathy in Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia" Join us for cutting-edge science. See you there! #ICVS #AdvancedSeminars

An exciting initiative! Go out and #Move for #your #GLIA! ... and share with us! All information here: redeglial.weebly.com/move-for-you...

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!

1 week left! Submit your abstract for FENS 2026 Satellite Event SE07 – Emerging Roles of Glial Cells in Brain Function and Disease (5 July, Barcelona). Join leading & early-career researchers. Deadline: 30 April 2026 https://www.networkglia.eu/activities/

I had an amazing time at the #International #Astrocyte #School with good old and new friends and a bright student team! What an inspiring place to discuss astrocyte physiology and research. The future of astrocyte research is bright! 🌟 #IAS2026

Feeling like learning about a secret astrocyte network in the brain? Check out the latest from @melcooperphd.bsky.social in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (take two because I'm out of action on the socials!)

We are doing it again!!!! Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)! We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️

I'm super proud of João Viana for his excellent PhD defense! João is a central and vital piece in my lab, and it felt like a walk in the park. I'm thankful to Richard Robitaille, Albino Oliveira-Maia, and Sandra Vaz for the terrific discussion! @icvs-uminho.bsky.social @champalimaudr.bsky.social

I had a great time at the #Glial #Symposium of the @warsawgliacomm.bsky.social in Warsaw. Awesome presentations and excellent discussions with this emerging #glial community. I'm looking forward to the next endeavors and collaborations! @szewczyklukasz.bsky.social

Meet our speakers at #WGC2025! João de Oliveira will explore how astrocytes shape behavior, and Prof. Bożena Kamińska will discuss their plasticity in brain tumors. Join us in Warsaw for cutting-edge brain science! 🧠 #Astrocyte #Hippocampus #NeuroOncology #GLIA #WGC @joaofoliveira.bsky.social

ICVS researcher @joaofoliveira.bsky.social joined the Health Research Meeting 2025 on October 2–3 at Cap Roig as a @caixaresearch.bsky.social grantee. His project explores how astrocytes could help treat depression, highlighting the importance of mental health research in Europe.

We're all set for the WGC Symposium 2025 — gear packed, excitement on! Are you ready? The countdown starts now... ⏳🎉 #WGC #symposium #Glia #glia2025

Network Glia is happy to announce two upcoming meetings from our national networks: Warsaw Glia Symposium (16–17 Oct, Warsaw) @warsawgliacomm.bsky.social Workshop, “Microglia: from gene to function" (3–7 Nov, Bordeaux) https://www.networkglia.eu/activities/

Thrilled to fight for a therapeutic solution for #depression in our lab research, thanks to @caixaresearch.bsky.social @icvs-uminho.bsky.social

Inspired by our beautiful image of #neuron-#astrocyte brain networks involved in #depression, which was chosen to celebrate #World #Mental #Health #Day @icvs-uminho.bsky.social

Developing Brains on!

This is happening tomorrow, see you all there!

What an outstanding meeting! I was thrilled to participate in the #Health #Research Meeting 2025. Meeting other grantees and discussing the future of research in the international context, we sought a bright #future for Europe, one fostered by research, in these challenging times. Thank you, CR!

Here is our constructive reflection on the announced Agency for Research and Innovation (AI2) for PT Science @publico.pt "there will be no quality science without budgetary reinforcement and explicit protection of fundamental science." @publico.pt www.publico.pt/2025/08/19/c...

New blog post, where I review some recent interesting papers on the role of cell organelles for neuronal calcium signaling: gcamp6f.com/2025/08/11/i... Featuring work by @lorenabenedetti.bsky.social, O'Hare et al. and Lin et al.!

It was an awesome year for my team, with exciting "ups" and also some painful "downs". Before a well-deserved vacation pause, we reflected and prepared for the future... together! @icvs-uminho.bsky.social

📢 Call for Social Media Ambassadors! Help us grow the #GLIA community online & get a free registration for GLIA 2027 in Bologna! We're looking for 5 voices from the field – content, updates, community vibes. ⏰ Apply by Aug 26! 👉 [email protected]

Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a new review out in TINS! A functional perspective on astrocyte heterogeneity www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

We are excited to share our latest work showing: 1 - the existence of robust #mGluR5-dependent #astrocytic Ca2+ signaling in the #adult #brain that 2 - is involved in processing of #emotional and #cognitive behaviors Fruitful collab with Gertru Perea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interesting approach to provide an alternative view on the understanding of #astrocyte #network connections #across (classically described) #brain #regions. Why does the brain need such alternative #highways?

This has been my first @gliameeting.bsky.social and it will definitely NOT be my last! Such a great conference on glia and an incredible opportunity to meet new people and old frieds with the same shared passion for glia biology. @institutocajal.bsky.social @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social

What an amazing #glia #meeting in Marseille. It was great to have a symposium with @inbalgoshen.bsky.social @julimrosa.bsky.social and Mattias Ollivier. It was also great to meet good old friend-shining scientists, and make some new too!

Fun to participate to the #GliaNetworks joint booth, see you next time!!🙌 Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re... #IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social

Network Glia! The French Glial Cell Club is present @Glia2025 as @italianglianetwork.bsky.social @ukglia.bsky.social @gliameeting.bsky.social @gliameeting.bsky.social @atglianet.bsky.social