The social event of the European Glial Cells Network was a fantastic opportunity to meet, connect, and exchange ideas with fellow glial cell researchers over delicious tapas 🥘, refreshing beers 🍻, and authentic sangria 🍷. Great conversations, new connections, and a wonderful atmosphere! 🧠✨ #FENSGlia

Primate Astrocyte Evolution Controls the Tempo of Neuronal Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.08.736743v1

Efficient targeting of human glial progenitor cells in vivo with engineered AAV vectors and glymphatic delivery - @urmed.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Julia Schulze-Hentrich was on the Today programme on the BBC this morning.. I am privileged to hear about her research in person at #FENS2026 "The other half - sex differences in Neuroscience" has been an excellent session, well done Kerstin Lenk, @murphyroyallab.org, Barbara Di Benedetto #glia

FENSGlia – Building the International Glia Community A great start to #FENS2026! Thanks to everyone who joined our joint FENS satellite meeting. Next: visit us at Booth 158, enter the raffle (Wed, 14:00 deadline), and join the #FENSGlia Social on Wednesday at 20:00.

For more information check here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA25...

Exciting news! We are thrilled to announce that our proposal EU-GLIA has been selected for COST funding. EU-GLIA will build a pan-European network to advance nervous system health through glial cell research. #COST #EUGLIA #Neuroscience #GlialCells #EuropeanResearch

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

Astrocyte-to-microglia purinergic signaling mediates synaptic shielding and promotes neuronal activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.05.735345v1

Neonatal oxytocin prevents sex-specific spatial memory deficits induced by maternal separation through restoration of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in males https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.04.736473v1

Astrocytic morphology in the Medial Habenula: sex differences and modulatory factors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735177v1

🧠 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...

Last week we highlighted the 42 glia-focused talks at #FENS2026. But that's only part of the story! More than 400 posters showcase the breadth of glia research. Thanks to Isabelle Arnoux, we've compiled them into one slideshow. #FENSGlia #NetworkGlia #GliologistsTogether

FENSGlia – Building the International Glia Community Only 3 days to go until our joint FENS satellite meeting! Keynotes by Gertrudis Perea, Amit Agarwal & Andrea Volterra, plus outstanding talks by Early Career Researchers. www.networkglia.eu/activities/ #FENS2026 #FENSGlia #GliologistsTogether

FENSGlia – Building the International Glia Community Visit the Network Glia | Joint Booth (158) at #FENS2026 and meet our growing glia network community. Learn about us, connect with colleagues, and enter our raffle! Closes Wed 14:00; prizes awarded at the booth (attendance required). #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

Happy to share that our paper is now out as a reviewed preprint : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Glial cells are increasingly taking centre stage in neuroscience. At #FENS2026, 42 talks focus on astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, and their roles in brain function and disease. Thanks to Isabelle Arnoux for compiling all glia-related sessions. #FENSGlia

Spreading α-synuclein rewires organelle communication and impairs neuron-astrocyte mitochondrial quality control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.19.733342v1

Our new paper on a rapid, reliable way to make induced astrocytes for co-culture with neurons is out on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope this system will be a useful tool for illuminating the pathways underlying neuron-astrocyte interactions. More to be shared soon!

NPAS3-regulated #astrocyte #mitochondrial #bioenergetics is required for #cognition | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Focal astrocyte Kir4.1 loss drives seizures, spreading depolarizations and postictal impairments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.15.732359v1

A glial source of noradrenaline shapes synaptic integration and motor adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.15.732457v1

Auszug aus unserer Stellungnahme zum Referentenentwurf des #WissZeitVG: „Die vorgeschlagenen Neuregelungen haben das Potenzial, die Attraktivität des Wissenschaftsstandorts Deutschland nachhaltig zu beschädigen.“ Zur Stellungnahme: www.netzwerk-mawi.de/fileadmin/me... #IchbinHanna #TVStud

Lectureship being advertised at @ccmnlondon.bsky.social, @uclnpp.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk Don't miss this unusual opportunity to bag a job at a world leading institution! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Profs. Alexander Gourine and Stefan Trapp have an incredible research agenda 👀 #neuroskyence

A microcircuit model of astrocytic potassium buffering and neural synchronization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.15.732376v1

The programme for our FENS 2026 Satellite Event (5 July, Barcelona) is now complete. Keynotes by Gertrudis Perea, Amit Agarwal & Andrea Volterra, plus 11 talks by Early Career Researchers. Programme & registration: https://www.networkglia.eu/activities/

Together with Franziska Müller und Andre Zeug, we have published our review paper "Calcium Buffering in Astrocytes and Its Relevance for Experimental Data Interpretation and Computational Modeling". We hope it is helpful when studying calcium buffering. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

PINK1 loss in astrocytes triggers inflammatory dysfunction and neuronal death https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.04.729996v1

iAstrocytes model cytokine influences on complement expression and neuronal network synchronization. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.04.730242v1

#AstrocyteCafe2026 has been awesome! See you all in Warsaw in 2028 😉🤩

More friends at #AstrocyteCafe2026 ❤️

#Throwback 🧪 REVIEW | The neuron–astrocyte metabolic unit as a cornerstone of brain energy metabolism in health and disease JP Bolaños & PJ Magistretti

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...

Nature research paper: Astrocyte glucocorticoid receptor signalling restricts neuronal plasticity go.nature.com/42M9rJq

The effects of Natalizumab Treatment on Astrocyte Metabolism in Multiple Sclerosis: A Longitudinal 11C-acetate PET study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.22.26353552v1

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]

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...

📣 Registration is now open for the 28th Meeting of the French Glial Cell Club! 📍 Sète, France | 📅 November 17–20, 2026 Abstract submission deadline: July 15th, 2026 Don't miss it, register and explore the full program at 👉 frenchglialcellclub.fr @gliameeting.bsky.social @atglianet.bsky.social

🧠 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

As the main proposer, I am happy and proud to announce that we received the COST Action grant for our project EU-GLIA: European network for advancing nervous system health through glia integration and innovation. First try, full points! Thank you to all who supported us on the way!

What if neurons are not the only cells shaping cognition? This May, Mario Martín-Fernández starts AstroCode, a new @erc.europa.eu project at the CNC exploring whether astrocytes actively participate in how the brain stores and processes information. Rethinking cognition, one cell at a time.

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

Computational modeling of neurovascular coupling at the gliovascular interface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.15.725343v1

Astrocytic D1 Dopamine-Signaling Regulates Synaptic Remodeling and Cocaine Seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.724947v1

Come to Bristol, come to Bristol, come to Bristol.... Register by Monday: www.physoc.org/events/uk-gl... Make new friends and find new collaborators, glia people are nicer than those neuro folk, must less ego 🫶🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿

Remodeling synaptic connections via engineered neuron-astrocyte interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper alert ! Escartin’s team show that #STAT3 and #NF-kB pathways shape cortical astrocyte heterogeneity in WT and #Alzheimer’s mice. These cascades define astrocyte subpopulations with specific morphology, transcriptional signature, functional features, and impact on disease. @bosremi.bsky.social

🧪 1/ New preprint from the lab: L5 pyramidal cell tLTD requires astrocyte Ca2+ and CB1 signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We revisit a classic STDP result in visual cortex