Neuroscience Initiative at the CUNY ASRC

📢Join us tomorrow for our last seminar in 2025! Michelle Monje, MD PhD, from Stanford University will present "Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: from cognition to cancer".

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Check out Prof. Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle lab's (CUNY ASRC Structural Biology Initiative) recent collaboration with Profs. Patrizia Casaccia (founding director of the Neuroscience Initiative at the CUNY ASRC) and Jia Liu, and Hye-Jin Park in Nature Communications Biology! https://go.nature.com/4ou2CUZ

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Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function - Nature PU.1low CD28-expressing microglia may act as suppressive cells in Alzheimer’s disease, mitigating its progression by reducing neuroinflammation and amyloid plaque load, indicating potential immunother...

Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx

Congratulating our Biology September graduates! Best wishes for your future endeavors. 🎓🔥 #PhDone #DoctorateLife

📢Join us this Thursday, October 16th, for our next special seminar with Dr. J. Wren Kim from UC Berkeley!

🎉🎉🎉Please join us to congratulate @rebeccalopez.bsky.social on receiving @asrc-gc.bsky.social 2025 Epigenetics Core Pilot Award, co-sponsored by @10xgenomics.bsky.social @genewiz.bsky.social!

📢Join us this Thursday, October 9th, for our next Seminar! Featuring Dr. Antonio Aubry, Instructor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

📢Join our next Neuroscience seminar of the Fall 2025 series with Dr. Ella Doron-Mandel from Columbia University, on Thursday, September 25!

📣📣Please join us for our first Neuroscience Seminar in Fall 2025 featuring Dr. Ioana Carcea, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!

📣Defense Alert! Join us on Monday, August 4th for Anfal Abuhilal’s Dissertation Defense Seminar! Come and support Anfal!

Music has power! Join us this Tuesday 7/15 for a special talk featuring Dr. Concetta Tomaino, Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, on Music🎵& Neurologic Function🧠!
Details: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/music-...

Join us on June 10 for a one-day event designed for ASRC Epigenetics Core Facility users, featuring single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and presentations from 10x Genomics, Genewiz and active users conducting cutting-edge research! Registration & more info: asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/epigen...

🚨It will be a BIG day this Wednesday, June 4th for our PhD candidate Ipek Selcen who will defend her thesis titled "Characterization of epigenetic changes in adult OPCs identifies TET2 as a key regulator of their epitranscriptome". Come and support Ipek!

Join us on Thursday, June 5th!

Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Scialog / 2025-2027 Neural systems, shaped by millions of years of evolution, enable living things to perceive and react to their surroundings. But how does the nervous system adapt to today’s unpr…

Congrats! @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social wins 2025 Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems grant for her Scialog team project, "Understanding Nanoplastic-Nervous System Interactions within Organisms: A Multipronged Approach." bit.ly/43uX9VA

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Congrats to all ASRC Student Travel Grant recipients, especially our own Jackie Tomaio from @susanamingote.bsky.social Lab, who will be presenting her work at the Gordon Research Conference this summer!

A photo of Professor Rene Hen and text about their upcoming talk.

Mark your calendars! Professor @susanamingote.bsky.social is hosting a talk with Professor Rene Hen on Thursday, June 5. The talk, a part of @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social's Spring seminar series, is titled “The neural circuits underlying overgeneralization.” bit.ly/3Zo029p

Asian American and Pacific Islanders continue to play a pivotal role in the CUNY experience by enriching our campuses with their stories and historical and cultural contributions. Happy AAPI Heritage Month!

Flyer advertising the Neuroscience Initiative of the Advanced Science Research Center's Spring 2025 Seminar Series. May's guest scientist is Dr. Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She will present a talk entitled "Early-Life gut inflammation drives sex-dependent shifts in the microbiome-endocrine-brain axis" on May 1, 2025 at 12pm. Attend in-person at the ASRC, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, Auditorium. Zoom meeting ID: 88585793992, password: 064401. Dr. Ciernia is pictured smiling, wearing a grey shirt and navy blue jacket. Her image is set in a blue circle at the bottom right of the flyer.

Join us tomorrow for our next Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar! Featuring Dr. Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

📢We're hiring a tenure-track assistant/associate/full professor, with a start of January 2026! Please follow the link below to apply!
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Spring 2025 Seminar Series, 5/1 by Annie Ciernia

📢Join us on Thursday, May 1, at our Spring 2025 Seminar Series with Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia!

🎉Congrats to @pinar-ayata.bsky.social lab's Leen Aljayousi and Jack Mechler, who each received a Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG), and to Anna Flury who received a Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship in the Sciences from the Graduate Center. 👏Way to go!

The Histone Methyltransferases EHMT1 and EHMT2 Repress the Expression of Genes Related to Excitability and Cell Death in Oligodendrocyte Progenitors H3K9me2, the euchromatic repressive mark deposited by EHMT1 and EHMT2, is enriched in proliferating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). H3K9me2 levels are increased in OPCs after neuronal stimul...

Check out Casaccia Lab's newly published paper in Glia, on the molecular mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of electrical stimulation on brain repair! Congratulations to the authors: Mathilde Pruvost, Hye-Jin Park and Jia Liu.🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/glia.70014

ICYMI: We now have a website where you can find fellowship opportunities to apply for. Highly recommend bookmarking it. New opportunities will be added as they become available. www.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships-...

From the #brainawarenessweek! Students from a local school got to learn about the brains and mental health, engage with our neuroscientists, and explore & experience the science with their own hands! #BrainWeek

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Poster advertising the Neuroscience Initiative of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center's Spring 2025 Seminar Series featuring speaker James Curley, associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr, Curley (pictured on the right side of the flyer inside of a blue circle on a grey background looking directly ahead wearing a dark colored shirt) will be discussing "Unraveling the behavioral complexity of social dominance hierarchies in mice." You can join in person on April 3rd at 12pm in-person at the ASRC or via Zoom using the meeting information: ID: 85206523875 Code: 230114.

Join Us on April 3rd at Our Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series!

Poster advertising the Neuroscience Initiative of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center's Spring 2025 Seminar Series featuring speaker James Curley, associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr, Curley (pictured on the right side of the flyer inside of a blue circle on a grey background looking directly ahead wearing a dark colored shirt) will be discussing "Unraveling the behavioral complexity of social dominance hierarchies in mice." You can join in person on April 3rd at 12pm in-person at the ASRC or via Zoom using the meeting information: ID: 85206523875 Code: 230114.

Join Us on April 3rd at Our Spring 2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series!

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Congratulations to @asrc-gc.bsky.social STEM education & outreach manager Kendra Kruger for her inclusion in the 2025 City and State NY Black Trailblazers. Check out her work at the IlluminationHub asrc.gc.cuny.edu/illumination...

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