Vanessa Coelho-Santos

🙌 #EuroBioImaging attended #SPAOM2025 this week with the 🇪🇸 + 🇵🇹 imaging communities. 🔬
Some key moments:
- Our FAIR #ImageData satellite event
- Meeting with our Scientific Ambassadors
- Workshop on Impact of Imaging Core Facilities
Thanks to the organisers for this amazing conference! 🎉

11 years after receiving a PhD student award at @ecnp.eu 2014, I return as an invited speaker to present the research of my own lab, the #VCoelhoSantosLab. A full-circle moment that makes perseverance worth it! 💫 #ECNP25 #newPI #cerebrovascular

Every year, researchers in Europe take time to share their passion for science with their communities. 👩‍🔬

We take you around Europe to discover #ERN25 events with our Nodes.

First stop, Coimbra 🇵🇹 with @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social & CIBIT!

Full story ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...

q.e.d Science Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
@qedscience.bsky.social

I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!

A privilege to chair symposium ‘Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan’ symposium today at @ecnp.eu
Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations.
#ECNP2025

Looking forward to chairing this exciting symposium at @ecnp.eu Congress Amsterdam: Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan. Join us to hear from these excellent speakers on how vascular health shapes cognitive function.
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1
#ECNP2025

@mariangelesmoro.bsky.social @blacoste.bsky.social

@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

Are you attending the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 2025 Congress?

Don’t miss our session:
🧠 S17 – Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan
👩‍🏫 Chaired by @maburto.bsky.social
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00
📍 Elicium 1

See you there 🙌 #ECNP2025

Want to learn about the imaging approaches that can support neuroscience? 🧠 🔬 Join the "NeuroImaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain" course organised by our Node in Brno. 🇨🇿
🗓️ November 19-21
Learn more & register🔽
www.ceitec.eu/educational-...

The next symposium on Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease will be organized by Brenda Kwak, Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat and Philippe Bijlenga in Geneva. June 18-19, 2026

Mind blowing mechanotherapy of aged embryo 🤯👹

This is the wrap-up of #VCoelhoSantosLab at #NEI25 ✨ European Researchers’ Night!
See you next year in Coimbra with more #science, #brains, #bloodvessels, games & fun! 🧠

@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

The #VCOELHOSANTOSLAB is recruiting a research fellow to join the project "BarriersReveal – Unveiling sex-specific patterns in the neonatal brain barriers".

More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363

Application deadline: October 13, 2025

@ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain

✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo

@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

Over the moon to say I’ve been awarded an #ERCstg from @erc.europa.eu !

#AngioArchitects will explore how blood vessels migrate & connect using 🔬 #liveimaging, with the hypothesis that #microglia are the “uber” driving them! 🧠🩸

Positions opening in 2026, stay tuned!

Astrocyte networks are much larger than previously thought, which “flips the way we think about astrocytes and what their networks may mean,” says @liddelowsa.bsky.social.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...

Cientista da UC ganha prestigiada bolsa do Conselho Europeu de Investigação de mais de dois milhões de euros Vanessa Coelho-Santos conquistou uma Starting Grant para desvendar, ao longo de cinco anos, novas informações sobre o desenvolvimento do cérebro de recém-nascidos, de forma a compreender que fenómenos...

A investigadora da @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Vanessa Coelho-Santos, conquistou uma Starting Grant do European Research Council, que ultrapassa os dois milhões de euros! 👏 👏 👏

#UCoimbra #InvestigaçãoUC #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

@ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

Three new @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants for vascular researchers: Congratulations to Vanessa Coelho-Santos (@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social) for "AngioArchitects“ (LS5], Leire Bejarano for "MetaVasc" (LS4], and Mahak Singhal for "Vascular Rhythm" (LS4). Great success!

@evborg.bsky.social mock interview was key on this achievement!! 🔬 Thanks so much for your support and hard questions!! 😅

I'm sure we all know someone (🙋🏻‍♀️) or have personally benefited from early detection cancer screening, like breast & colon cancer, that are increasingly seen in younger people. And mandated to be paid for by insurance, reducing out-of-pocket 💰. The benefit is huge, important 🧵 on USPSTF in jeopardy.

Glad to meet in person Alessandra Viale and Erika Cerutti! Was a lovely surprise…I had opportunity to show my lab and talk about our science. Amazing be part of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social as #scientificambassador 🔬🧠

🎓 Internship season wrapped! Huge congrats to Zoé Morgado (July 14) and Filipe Ponte (July 23) for defending their bachelor theses! Zoé (Biomed Eng) and Filipe (Biotech) explored #cerebrovascular and #neuroimaging at #VCoelhoSantosLab.

Amazing #2PM real-time morpho-dynamic responses of microglia to laser-induced parenchymal/vascular injury in🐭🧠

Age-dependent reaction speed
👉Parenchymal injury
Adult > Aged/Neonatal
👉Vascular injury
Adult/Aged > Neonatal

@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #CellRep 2025
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Some 🧠 of #VCoelhoSantosLab!! Here we study the #neurogliovascularunit using #liveimaging! We are 🧠 imaging experts!! 🔬#worldbrainday2025 #scientificambassador @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Frontiers | Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain The vasculature of the central nervous system (CNS) is a highly specialized structure that delivers oxygen and nutrients to energy-demanding neural cells whi...

🚨 Review Alert

*Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain*

Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳

Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊

www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Physiological and injury-induced microglial dynamics across the lifespan Tieu, T. et al. leveraged in vivo two-photon live imaging of microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, to reveal striking differences in their morphology, basal dynamics, and injury responses acro...

#NewResearch from the #VcoelhoSantosLab and #ShihLab used #two-photon live imaging to reveal how #microglia 🧠 evolve across across #lifespan.

Key findings:
👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy
🧍‍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp
👵 Aged: Quiet and slow

@ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social