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Carmen Falcone

@carmenfalcone.bsky.social

Incoming Asst Prof at Towson University • Neurobiologist in love w/ astrocytes, evolution & development • co-founder #AstrocyteCafe and #ItalianGliaNewtork • I look at glial cells in unconventional species • https://carmenfalconelab.com/

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Omg @meikeesther.bsky.social I didn’t realize we would be so close! Absolutely we have to meet! Going to text you in DM right now 🤩

02.08.2025 02:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Official start date at
@towsonu.bsky.social is getting closer and closer..in the meantime, I spotted this already 😉

01.08.2025 18:05 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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What an amazing #glia #meeting in Marseille.
It was great to have a symposium with @inbalgoshen.bsky.social @julimrosa.bsky.social and Mattias Ollivier.
It was also great to meet good old friend-shining scientists, and make some new too!

11.07.2025 13:36 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

It was wonderful to see the representatives of the Glia Network in Europe, Canada, and China in one place 🤩

11.07.2025 12:39 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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This might have been my shortest European Glia Meeting (could only come for two days🥲), but @gliameeting.bsky.social is ALWAYS worth it.

Great to catch up with a few glia friends in Marseille 👇🤩

#GLIA2025

11.07.2025 08:04 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a real blast to see all the posters of a growing community of #GliaNetworks at #GLIA2025 🤩

Thanks @astrocytenet.bsky.social (aka Kerstin Lenk) for your efforts to put us together 👏

See you all around the world 😊

11.07.2025 07:43 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Fun to participate to the #GliaNetworks joint booth, see you next time!!🙌

Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re...

#IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social

11.07.2025 07:26 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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Intrigued about glial cell diversity across #evolution? ✨🪱🐟🐀🐒🐅🦍

Come to our symposium #S23 at 4 pm today at #GLIA2025 ! 🤩

Aleksandra Pekowska and I are honored to co-chair this session! Thanks to our speakers Carlos Diaz-Salazar and Shai Shaham👏👇👇👇

10.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Two weeks until #GLIA2025 🤩 Who’s coming?

Aleksandra Pekowska and I are bringing a bit of #evolution to this great meeting 😉

Looking forward to co-chairing our symposium “S23 Glial cell diversity and function across evolution: from worms to mammals” 🪱🪰🐁🐅🦇🦧

More info soon!

16.06.2025 11:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

15.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 50    🔁 40    💬 0    📌 2
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Beyond Rodents and Primates: Uncovering Cortical Astrocyte Diversity across Mammals Abstract. Astrocytes, a type of glial cell type in the brain, show remarkable morphological and functional diversity across mammalian species. This review explores astrocyte biology beyond the commonl...

Want to learn more about #astrocyte diversity across #mammals beyond Rodents and Primates?

My student and I dug the literature to find out what is known about astrocytes in non-rodent and non-primate species, I hope you will enjoy our review!

🤩👇👇👇

karger.com/bbe/article-...

10.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This is so cool!!!

28.05.2025 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting now!!! :)

28.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to another cool #TIBBE seminar today, the topic for today’s talks and discussion will be “linking brain and behavior” 🤩

Join us on crowdcast 👇👇👇

28.05.2025 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It was fun collaborating with Dr. Giovanna Ponte and Martina Zinourov Roncalli di Montorio to write this review on #octopus #glia: go check it out, it is finally out in Brain, Behavior and Evolution by @kargerpublishers.bsky.social!

#GliaEvolution

karger.com/bbe/article-...

19.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I honestly can't wait to chair this session today, together with Matthew Broadhead!

Join us to hear three new talks at #AstrocyteCafe ☺️🥰

15.05.2025 09:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great to connect finally in person!!!😍

#TIBBE
#ECCN2025

09.05.2025 19:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s a wrap for #ECCN2025, many new ideas, collaborations, but -above all- new interesting people to hopefully meet at other meetings in the future!!!

Grateful to be part of this community!

#ComparativeNeurobiology #EvolutionaryNeuroscience
#EvolutionaryGliaBiology

09.05.2025 12:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now you can also read all about @idoiaeu.bsky.social beautiful work on catshark brain development and the enigmatic origin of cajal retzius cells in their preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

09.05.2025 05:36 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

@k4tj4.bsky.social’s talk left me speechless: a great study on how mechanical forces can shape the evolution of brain morphology (70 primate species,impressive computational models and validation from development!). 👏👏👏

Also, so glad to finally meet Katja in person!

#ECCN2025

08.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Brought a bit of #glia to this great evolutionary meeting.

It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩

Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation!

#ECCN2025

08.05.2025 09:52 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Alain Chédotal @alainchedotal.bsky.social giving a beautiful presentation with amazing data on the Development and evolution of the visual system.
at #ECCN2025
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

08.05.2025 07:59 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Takashi Namba @takashi-namba.bsky.social talking about the metabolic microenvironment for the evolution and development of the human neocortex
at #ECCN2025
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

08.05.2025 09:21 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Diving into Multiome approaches to understand gene specification networks in the zebrafish retina with Juan Ramon Martínez-Morales @jrmarmor.bsky.social
at #ECCN2025
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

07.05.2025 09:20 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Nuria Flames showing how C. Elegans can be used to learn about the mechanisms underlying evolutionary adaptations of homologous neuronal cell types, #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social

06.05.2025 14:51 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Víctor @borrell-lab.bsky.social kicking off #ECCN2025 in Alicante. Looking forward to an amazing meeting with fantastic speakers covering a large range of the phylogenetic tree.
First up: Gilles Laurent on Evolutionary perspectives on circuits for vision and sleep, including octopus camouflaging 😍

06.05.2025 07:49 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
ECCN2025 | 11th European Conference of Comparative Neurobiology

On my way to #ECCN2025 in Alicante (Spain), can’t wait!!!

Also, I am messing with my circadian rhythms this month with all this jet lag back to back 🙃

eccn2025.umh.es

06.05.2025 08:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had a wonderful visit to the Krasnow Institute at the George Mason Universoty yesterday🤩 Thanks so much, Giorgio Ascoli, for the invite!

If you don’t know them already, check their two massive online projects/databases NeuroMorpho.org and Hippocampome.org 💪

#OpenScience

02.05.2025 10:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The first @embo.org #Astrocyte #Meeting was a success! Thanks to our excellent speakers, brilliant trainees, & DiBio @unipd.bsky.social volunteers. Looking forward to the next iteration! Laura.Civiero Matthew.Holt Olga.Sin WonSuk.Chun Keith.Murai Valentin.Nagerl @carmenfalcone.bsky.social

21.04.2025 19:18 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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This month marks the last one as a PI in Italy before moving my research to Towson University and starting a lab all over again.

Shoutout to the amazing folks I had the honor to work with in Italy and made it all worth it: best of luck for the next steps of your careers! 🙌🫶

19.04.2025 08:38 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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