Justin Lines

Did you see him help someone?
Did you see him try to run?
Did you see them six-on-one?
Did you see them take his gun?
Did you see that it was done?
Did you see him get shot a dozen times in broad daylight?

Do you think they'll kill again?

Party 👀

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 #SocietyForGlia #Astrocytes

@borderbiologist.bsky.social presenting now!
Come and learn about a new function for a substate of reactive astrocytes - antigen presentation!

#SocietyForGlia #SfN25 #Astrocytes

Astrocyte presentation round up for Day 1.
Sorry if I missed anyone, please comment below with others!

See you about the conference

It has been an immense honor to learn & grow with two of the greatest scientists I know: @zachtpennington.bsky.social & @joezaki.bsky.social 🧑‍🔬

Listen in on our conversation about mentorship, building trust and creating a safe space to disagree: neuronline.sfn.org/professional...

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

Screenshot of article entitled "Distinct changes to hippocampal and medial entorhinal circuits emerge across the progression of cognitive deficits in epilepsy" by Yu Feng, Keziah S. Diego, Zhe Dong, ..., Nadia N. Khan, Denise J. Cai, and Tristan Shuman. In brief: Feng et al. demonstrate that memory deficits in temporal lobe epilepsy involve multiple discrete mechanisms with distinct time courses. In epileptic mice, early-onset memory deficits are associated with disrupted hippocampal synchronization, while more severe, lateonset impairments are associated with disrupted synchrony of medial entorhinal cortex circuits.

New paper out in Cell Reports! Led by @susieyufeng.bsky.social, we found that chronic epilepsy in mice drives distinct synchronization deficits in hippocampus and MEC, with early changes in HPC and late-onset changes in MEC that align with progressive memory impairment.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

A spatial threshold for astrocyte calcium surge In astrocytes, there exists an intrinsic spatial threshold of subcellular calcium levels that triggers an astrocyte calcium surge throughout the cell, demonstrating cellular astrocyte calcium integrat...

Astrocyte physiologists and computationalists!

Imaging astrocyte structure and function, we discovered and quantified a spatial threshold to astrocyte calcium surge ⭐

doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

❓ Do you know what the anterior hypothalamic nucleus (AHN) does? No? Neither did we! 🧠

In a new preprint from the Cai Lab, learn how we discovered the AHN’s central role in regulating stress vulnerability.

Read the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

SO EXCITED to share our latest work demonstrating that the anterior hypothalamic nucleus (AHN) regulates stress vulnerability!!!

Nature paper article with title and abstract

🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10)

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just showing off some growth