Chelsey Derderian-LeBlang, PhD

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.

“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

They didn’t wait until Monday, nice! More of this! Including in defense of our trainees!

HOW COOL IS THIS?! Scientists have discovered a new way to destroy cancer cells. By stimulating aminocyanine molecules with near-infrared light, cancer cells vibrate in sync, enough to break apart their membranes! These “molecular jackhammers” DESTROYED 99% of cancer cells! 🧪🧵⬇️

🥹🥹 thank you 💕

Increased keratinocyte activity and PIEZO1 signaling contribute to paclitaxel-induced mechanical hypersensitivity Sensitization of the keratinocyte mechanotransducer PIEZO1 contributes to paclitaxel-induced touch pain.

Lots of exciting stuff in the #painresearch field yesterday. 4 papers and 1 news piece, but let's start with a...
BOOM! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... big breakthrough on CIPN from Cheryl Stucky's lab led by @amikesell.bsky.social with @katesadlerphd.bsky.social

@aliibarry.bsky.social ‘s excellent work on human DRG proteomics is now online. Collaboration between our lab and Manuela Schmidt’s lab in Austria. Ali’s multiomic integration analysis leads to some unique new insight into pain mechanisms with strong proteomic support.

A complement to @peiferlabunc.bsky.social reposting this image – it was the cover of the 40th anniversary issue of J Neuroscience back in 2021, together with an historical review on imaging the neuronal cytoskeleton with lots of cool pictures: www.jneurosci.org/content/41/1...

First #FluorescenceFriday: two cute #iPSC derived pseudounipolar #sensory #neurons. Still in awe every time I generate these cells. For more information about this protocol see my pre-print on biorxiv, and stay tuned for a revised manuscript soon!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Update for #RNA science fans:
I checked on #Bsky registry, and here is a 'condensate' (😆) of all #RNA #RNAsky starter packs so far:
1. General RNA biology #1
go.bsky.app/RN6HnZp

Sex-dependent effects of the targeted nerve growth factor... : PAIN inflammation-induced pain-related behaviors and bone loss. The hNGF-R100E mutation did not alter the nerve fiber density in the sciatic nerve, ankle joint synovium, and skin of naïve mice. Withdrawal ...

Cool new paper from Camilla Svensson’s team and a reminder to not give up understanding NGF signsling for pain treatment! journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Axon degeneration Join the conversation

By popular demand: the Axon Degeneration starter pack. Definitely incomplete so let me know who I missed.

go.bsky.app/5BH6mBE

Thank you for creating this pack! Could you add me ?

I started (at @katesadlerphd.bsky.social's suggestion, thanks Kate for pushing me) a pain neuroscience and pain research starter pack. I am sure I have missed many people so if I missed you, I am sorry, but please just ask me to add you in the thread below and I will do that. go.bsky.app/KboKNhg

🧡🤍🩷

some great starter packs for the #glia, #astrocyte, #oligodendrocyte, #microglia, #neuro researcher: gliasky, astrocytesky, microglia
But if you also like interactions between celltypes, please help this starter pack get started. Maybe someone can connect all of us in a feed?

go.bsky.app/MHtJzeC

Microglia community, let’s start the discussion 🧠 follow the Microglia Starter Pack and ask @mancusorenzo.bsky.social to add your colleagues as they join Bluesky 🦋

go.bsky.app/DT3Cp4A

Please add me here !

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS.

For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

There is a glia starter pack that I shared! I would be interested in a glia-neuron interaction pack!

Intro post 👋🏻

Current postdoc in the Segal Lab at DFCI/ HMS using iPSC models to study axonal degeneration in the CNS and PNS👩🏼‍🔬

Interests include
⚡️pain and neuropathy
🔥neuroinflammation
🧠ADRD
💧biomolecular condensates
🔬 high resolution imaging
🐈‍⬛ cats

go.bsky.app/Lyzro3M

!WELCOME!

thought we might need a starter pack for all those coming over from the birdhouse - here's a GliaSky list.

apologies for missing many of you - please do reply to get added

and remember to repost so the newbies can find us!