Aida de la Cruz-Gambra

It's taken a while, but finally here is our lab website! 🧠 🕸️
www.cuhk.edu.hk/gcni/hovywong/

05.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Last friday, our colleague Aida defended her PhD Thesis entitled "Contribution of astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles to neuronal local translation and synaptic function in Alzheimer's disease".

Congratulation Dr. de la Cruz Gambra, Zorionik beroena Aida.

04.06.2025 14:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!!! 🤗🤗

03.06.2025 09:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last Friday I defended my PhD thesis! I’m officially a doctor! 🎓🥳 I couldn’t have done it without my amazing mentor! Huge thanks to the thesis committee and to my labmates, family & friends! It’s one of the best days of my life🎊🎉

02.06.2025 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

3/3 🔎 Here we developed a simple methodology to directly measure local translation within isolated synaptosomes by exposing them to puromycin!

20.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/3 🧠Curious about local translation? Then be sure to check out our latest article, where we reveal for the first time how astrocyte-secreted factors drive new protein synthesis in synaptic compartments‼️

20.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Frontiers | Astrocyte-secreted factors modulate synaptic protein synthesis as revealed by puromycin labeling of isolated synaptosomes

1/3 📢 I’m thrilled to announce that my first-author article from my PhD research is now published📢

Thank you to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly, to this article! 🥳

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mol...

20.02.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Understanding the molecular diversity of synapses Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The set of proteins present at synapses determines their heterogeneous functions and properties. In this Review, van Oostrum and Schuman describe the molecular...

🎅 Excited to share our review in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social with @erin-schuman.bsky.social: “Understanding the Molecular Diversity of Synapses”🧠 Classification, importance of systems approaches, sources of diversity, and more! rdcu.be/d2xxF
@snsf-ch.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @biozentrum.bsky.social

06.12.2024 10:26 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Happy to share our Perspective on #microglia #pruning and help to answer the questions of whether they are hunters or gatherers of brain #synapses 🧠🧪

#neuroskyence
nature.com/articles/s4159…

11.12.2024 15:37 — 👍 41    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 0