Britta Engelhardt

Glad I had the chance to present my work on the hindbrain choroid plexus to the community at the European Brain Barrier Meeting 2025. 👏 Huge thanks to the organizers, @brittae.bsky.social and everyone else for such a nice meeting 🤗 #EBBM2025

PhD position alert!

Post-doctoral position alert!

Thank you for posting! We are very happy about this opportunity!

Lack of junctional adhesion molecule (JAM)-B traps CD8 T cells in CNS border zones and ameliorates autoimmune neuroinflammation - Acta Neuropathologica Communications The endothelial blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly controls T cell entry into the central nervous system (CNS). T cell extravasation across the BBB involves a multi-step cascade with a predominant role...

Lack of junctional adhesion molecule (JAM)-B traps CD8 T cells in CNS border zones and ameliorates autoimmune neuroinflammation

Javier Pareja et al. 🧪

actaneurocomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This is a trainee seminar series and your participation is very important and much appreciated. Join us next week. Here is the free registration link:

streamyard.com/watch/wHnr7P...

I was thinking if you guys!!!

So sorry that I missed this meeting! Good to see you guys on the picture!

@cshlmeetings.bsky.social Brain Barriers 2025 is a wrap! It was an honor to co-organize this meeting in 2023 & 2025, a highlight of my scientific career.
I am amazed by all the great science presented by these awesome scientists over the last five days...the future of CNS barrier biology is 🤩 💫!

The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain | Quanta Magazine A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate.

Interesting read... food for thought - www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterio...

Thank you!!

Some excellent thoughts here...

Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in vertebrates Hasel et al. show that molecularly and morphologically specialized astrocytes make up the brain and spinal cord surface, thereby creating the glia limitans superficialis. These astrocytes selectively ...

What a cool story! Must read.
Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in vertebrates: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Mit Geduld und Leidenschaft für die MS-Forschung Ein besonderer Höhepunkt des diesjährigen «MS State of the Art Symposium» war die Verleihung des zweiten Forschungspreises der Schweiz. MS-Gesellschaft. Die mit 100’000 Franken dotierte Auszeichnung e...

Great news to share with you - I am very honored to have received the Swiss MS Society Research Award. www.multiplesklerose.ch/de/aktuelles...

Image 1: 3D reconstruction showing SARS-CoV-2 invading the brain.

Dying neurons in the Alzheimer hippocampus

Radial glia in Brain Development

Spooky brain - showing the hippocampus and LGN

It's the last #FluorescenceFriday of the year! Here is a retrospective of my favorite moments! 😁
The images below are displayed at the SAC Science Museum. Read my interview here :) shorturl.at/Tk88q 😊
Do you have a favorite one? #Microscopy 🧠🔬

Looking for reviewers before Christmas

You know a paper is good when you get on your university VPN on a Saturday morning to download the paper/supp AND send it to a few group members saying 'look at this, this is relevant to...' 😆

Warum lese ich nirgendwo die Schlagzeile:

„50jähriger AfD-Anhänger mit akademischem Background und anti-muslimischen Tendenzen fährt in Tötungsabsicht mit BMW über Weihnachtsmarkt.“

Piezo1-dependent regulation of pericyte proliferation by blood flow during brain vascular development Zi et al. elucidate the developmental dynamics of brain pericytes and reveal that blood flow promotes pericyte proliferation. The effect of blood flow is dependent on the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in ECs, subsequently mediated by the EC-intrinsic Notch signaling, and it involves the activation of Notch signaling in pericytes.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Look which excellent neuroscience journal is now on Bluesky!

Save the date and watch for news! Unique opportunity to join the brain barriers field by attending the Educational Satellite! Hope to see many of you in Bern next fall!

Advances and controversies in meningeal biology Nature Neuroscience - The authors review current knowledge of the molecular identity and functions of the dura, arachnoid and pial layers of meninges and controversial aspects of meningeal biology...

It was a unique and distinct pleasure to write this review on the meninges with my experienced colleagues. So many open questions to consider... rdcu.be/d2PEj

💯 agree! There should be an easy way for folks browsing @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social to share with their bluesky followers, scientists & non-scientists alike. An end-of-year present for us all! 🦋🎁

Also, adding you to this starter pack 👇 go.bsky.app/RB6RXKy

Now define skull-meninges-brain axis….🙃.. arachnoid barrier and glia limitans as second barrier in the way, right?

Bern last week after the first heavy snowfall - in the background behind the big church tower you can see Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau, the most prominent trio of the Bernese Alps

The Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research @unibern.bsky.social searches a new director!
A unique chance to shape a multi-disciplinary, multi-perspective research centre tackling one of the most urgent problems ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Come to Bern, help us tackle the climate crisis

The Extravolt in my lab... wonderful interdisciplinary project for an internship - check it out

Wonderful to find the science community now here in the blue sky - looking forward to exciting posts

Looking forward to restart science twitter in the blue sky... puh - nice to see you all here 🙂

I am moving here in the hope to restart science twitter in the blue sky! I look forward to exciting posts, pictures and discussions.