Excited to announce our lab's recent publication to @CellReports comparing different microglia cre lines. Congratulations to recent graduate @AliciaMBedolla and other authors.

Congratulations to our newly graduated Dr. Kierra Ware @Kiwee118 who will be joining the amazing Inventor Postdoc Program at Seattle Children’s Hospital @seattlechildren we are so proud of you and best luck in your new position!

RT @LongJun_Wu: The program is now finalized for the 2nd annual Hans J. Müller-Eberhard Symposium on Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology! The….

Specially thanks to Surf Neuro/ RISE UP for being a fantastic summer research program ( 🙏 Dr. Matia Solomon, Dr. Teresa Reyes @TReyeslab and Joanna Abrams) And to UC NGP @UCNeurosci for all the scientific and community support!.

This is the second year our SURF-Neuro fellow won 1st prize, very proud of our fellows and our group. Congratulations to graduate student mentor Elliot Wegman too!.

Congrats to our undergraduate student Kirsten Voice on winning 1st place in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURF-N) Capstone presentation🥳! We are very proud of her accomplishments. Great job, Kirsten!

Graduate student Kierra Ware giving her oral presentation at the FASEB TGF-Beta SRC conference along with our proud PI giving a talk as well! Thank you to the Anita Roberts Travel award for making this trip possible!#TGFSRC #FASEBorg

Thanks for including me in this. It is such an honor to be part of this great course. I learned so much from the other excellent lectures as well and our trainees are so awesome! 👏 Great job👍.

This interesting paper by @NathalieJuYa also shows a similar phenotype in zebrafish, confirming a highly evolutionarily conserved role of the choroid plexus as the main contributor to CSF production

@PNASNews @BurkeNeuroSci And congrats to first author graduate student Aleksandr Taranov 🥳!.

@PNASNews Also, many thanks to Rajiv R. Ratan at @BurkeNeuroSci for illuminating discussion. Find out more about this study at UC News

@PNASNews All Cre-dependent cell ablation studies using this allele should be carefully interpreted given these unexpected findings. Thank you to @June_Goto and Steve Crone of @CincyChildrens for a great collaboration, and believing us and validating the loss of ventricles in your labs😂.

@PNASNews The CSF loss was irreversible up to 20 months post-ablation, and ChP-ablated mice showed a marked reduction in SVZ doublecortin+ neuroblasts, both under normal conditions and after ischemic stroke. This model would be very useful to study ChP and CSF function in the adult brain

Excited to share our paper in @PNASNews To our surprise, the ROSA26iDTR line showed diphtheria toxin-induced choroid plexus ablation in the adult brain 😱, we show an unexpected role of the ChP in retaining the pool of neuroblasts in the adult SVZ

Find out more on this story at UC News! Congratulations to graduate students @AliciaMBedolla and Elliot Wegman who led this study!

Finally out! Check out our new paper in Nature Communication 10.1038/s41467-024-49596-0. In this new study, we established that microglia make their own TGF-β1 ligand to maintain brain homeostasis and cognitive function via autocrine signaling mechanism at a single-cell level!

Check out our graduate student Kierra at the 19th Annual Harold B. Amos Symposium of Ryan Fellows in the White Mountains of North Conway, New Hampshire! Great discussions on science with all fellows from UC, Harvard, and Dartmouth.

It was great to host Dr. Dori Schafer for the Neuroscience Research Center Seminar at CCHMC/UC. Thank you Dori @SchaferLabUMass for a fantastic seminar and spending such a fun time with the Luo lab at 🍺 hour!!!

Congrats to our graduate student Kierra Ware on being accepted into the CSHL summer workshop for "Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data"@CSHL. Special thanks to the scholarship support she received to attend! We are excited for her to further advance her knowledge and skills!

RT @LongJun_Wu: The new Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology (CNG) @UTHealthHouston has multiple tenure-track faculty openings. Joi….

A warm welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Nicolas Hugues, who joined us from Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée and the Cerimed in France. 🇫🇷. We are very excited to have him on our team to work on neuroinflammation in stroke and aging.