RT @UCIrvineGD: Huge congratulations to our 2025 Grad Slam Finalists! Thank you to everyone who participated in today’s competition. Your h….

Happy Halloween!

So excited to see this announcement. Gary’s lab was right next door to my grad lab, and he chaired all my advisory committees throughout grad school.

Delighted to share that Sydney's (@sciencey_syd) paper has been accepted! Celebrating as a lab.

RT @AnatomyNeurobio: The Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine @UCIMedSchool invites applications for a tenure track/tenured….

“Twisting dendrites” by Dale Chihuly. Of course I had to go see it. Made my neurobiology nerd + art nerd heart happy. #cshlneurocon at Cold Spring Harbor Labs

Delighted to be here. #cshlneurocon

Now introducing Dr Duarte!. I could not be more proud.

RT @manuellayassa: Huge congratulations to Dr. Vini Duarte who successfully defended his PhD dissertation today and to his advisor Dr. Kati….

Cannot wait for Vini's PhD thesis defense tomorrow!

RT @drosophilosophy: from the university of california, irvine . ROSTY BRICHKO !! #cshldros24

My lab threw me a surprise belated birthday celebration today! They're all the bestest.

RT @XiaoyuShi2: Check out our surprising finding in nuclear invagination's function: regulating ribosome biogenesis. Nuclear tunnels = more….

RT @leebardwell: Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detecti. New paper from @Thompson….

And @NIH_NINDS.

Big thanks to our home @UCIrvine in the School of BioSci @UCIBioSci, and the support we've received from @NINDSfunding, the @ucicnlm, the @obc_uci, @ucleads, and @UciUrop .

Here they are back in March 2022

Throughout this whole project, Vini was assisted by wonderful undergraduates Vicky Lam and Dario Rimicci, who have both just graduated from UCI.

Finally, Vini implicated downstream calcium signaling steps, including voltage-gated calcium channels, IP3 receptors, and protein kinase D, as important for telling the neuron to initiate dendrite regeneration.

So these KiR2.1/KCNJ2 neurons don't regenerate after injury, because they can't sense that they've been injured.