Dr. Krissy Lyon

Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

If you missed our Minisymposium at #SfN2025, you can still catch up with some of the topics by reading our new review:

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org

I thought I saw you! Should’ve said hi!

We are definitely going to sell out of laser cut brain earrings early in the conference!!! Warning!

#SfN25

WOW! 372 "astrocyte" presentations this year at #SfN2023 @SfNTweets

Not enough talks - let's work on this for 2024. Full roundup below. I am SURE I have missed some, so please reply with more! Daily session roundups to come for each session. See you all soon.
#SocietyForGlia

#SfN25 is here!!! I am looking forward to giving a talk in the ‘Astrocytes in neuronal function and dysfunction’ nanosymposium on Monday afternoon, come by!

So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...

Dear SfN friends, be prepared ☔️

I’ve already offered my extra rain coat to @kelseytea.bsky.social

YouTube video by Native BioData Consortium The Native BioData Consortium: A Beginning

If you are viewing our social media, seeing our new Webpage, looking at our great partners, the work we do together, please consider telling a friend or a philanthropist org. Here's why what we do is so important, not only for the Indigenous, but now everyone's data www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebH...

Professional Development Workshops - Navigating your career roadmap in a changing landscape. Mon Nov 17 from 12-2 at SfN

If you will be at #SfN25 next week, please join us for a professional development workshop ‘Navigating your career roadmap in a changing landscape’ on Monday from 12-2. Led by THE Dr. Michelle Jones-London. Please share with your lab and anyone you think would benefit!

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

A flyer displaying the same information as written in the post, with two images of two astrocytes around a blood vessel and one newly formed oligodendrocyte, along with logs our sponsors Avantor and Plasmidsaurus.

If you are attending #SfN25, please join @amygleichman.bsky.social and I on Monday at 9PM for a casual social gathering to discuss all things non-neuronal!

Date: Monday, Nov 17th
Time: 9PM till close
Location: The Smoking Gun SD, 555 Market St.

All welcome, please free to spread the word!

Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.

Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

bit.ly/479Ggmo

It is based on a word cloud from the titles of the 197 MOSAIC grantee projects. I had it made if I have testify in the grant delay trial but it was perfect for this occasion.

Who needs PowerPoint?

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

Required periodic Salk Institute photo☀️

Postdocs applying for K99s, particularly if it's your last opportunity: DO NOT forget to include a foreign justification document if you have any sort of foreign collaboration. Your application will be withdrawn if you don't have that.

Excited to share an important new pre-print from the lab led by incredibly talented postdoc @maureenbiologies.bsky.social, a neurotoxicologist who came to the lab with an ambitious goal of understanding the consequences of toxicant exposure in human neurodevelopment. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A cover labeled "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' by Jeremy M Berg

Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so.

Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

Harvard University lays off fly database team The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

A bar graph of the fraction of NIH non-competitive renewal awards received by month showing that fewer awards that expected to being given.

Update on NIH funding through July (August 1 budget start dates)

Non-competitive renewal awards by month for fiscal year 2025

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Thanks Monica!!

Yes that would be great! Congrats on your new position - very happy for you!

Thank you Laura!

Thank you Kevin!

Thanks Wendy!

Excited to have received the NOA for my K99 Pathway to Independence award on astrocytes in neurodevelopmental disorders! I am so grateful for my PI Nicola Allen, and all my mentors, letter writers, and collaborators.

Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals - Nature Neuroscience The relative contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic factors to astrocyte heterogeneity is unknown. Using heterotropic transplantation of septal astrocytes with distinct lineage origins, we show that ...

Cool astrocyte paper!