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Sofia was presenting at the LSSF Meeting

The Annual Life Sciences South Florida STEM Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 2023

 

Gaby was awarded the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

Thank you to the Florida Education fund for supporting Gaby’s  work on platelets

April 2023

 

Sofia Presents at the RCIF at UM

3-minute Presentation on BBB damage in FTD (Sofia’s work is supported by a diversity supplement from NIH

April 2023

 

Losing our RA but winning a new graduate student

Gaby is ‘quitting’ her RA job to start her PhD in the lab

April 2023

 

Speaker at the McKnight brain foundation

Great meeting, thank you for having us there. 

May 2023

 

First publication from the lab!!

Congrats to everyone!

April 2023

Link to the review!

 

Speaker at the Neuro Research Day at SUNY Upstate

Great students and science. I was glad to back in update NY!

March 2023

 

The lab receives funding from Florida Health

The Florida Heath Department fund our work on the contribution or platelets to Alzheimer’s Disease

March 2023

 

Talk at the ASN meeting 

A very exciting session with Vanessa Coelho-Santos, Arusha Mishra, and Baptiste Lacoste. We won the chairs for the session!

March 2023

 

Seminar at BMB at the Miller School

A very exciting session with Vanessa Coelho-Santos, Arusha Mishra, and Baptiste Lacoste. We won the chairs for the session!

January 2023

 

Seminar at the Mayo Clinic

Presentation and visit to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to discuss our work on Alzheimer’s Disease and all the ongoing exciting projects up there

January 2023

 

Nairuti Bhatt joins the lab

Nairuti joined the lab from SUNY Albany to focus to on understanding our efforts in neutrophil biology in Alzheimer’s Disease

January 2023

 

Supriya Chakraborty joins the lab

Supriya did his Masters at IISER Mohali in India and joined the lab to work on microvascular function in Frontotemporal Dementia

January 2023

 

Sofia Franciosa receives NIH funding

Sofia has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher to work on blood flow reduction in neurodegenerative diseases.

December 2022

 

Editorial published with Dr. Harraz

The editorial summarizes our special issue on capillaries in Front. Mol. Neurosci

December 2022

Link to the Editorial!

 

Sofia Franciosa joins the lab

Sofia has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher to work on blood flow reduction in neurodegenerative diseases.

September 2022

 

Lab receives NIH funding

The lab received an R21 to study vascular inflammation in Frontotemporal dementia.

August 2022

 

WORKSHOP AT AAIC2022 IN SAN DIEGO

Moderated and organized with Amy Nelson the workshop: “Microvascular dysfunction in VCID: From bench to bedside”

July 2022

 

The lab received the first grant!

Thank you to the Alzheimer’s Association for funding our AARG grant to study neutrophil function in the microvasculature of Alzheimer’s models

July 2022

 

A commentary published about VEGF signaling in Alzheimer’s

Muhammad Ali and I put our findings of VEGF signaling in the microvascular of Alzheimer’s into the context of recent exciting findings in the field

July 2022

Link to the commentary!

 

NEUROSCIENCE RETREAT IN NAPLES

I got to know all the students and their exciting projects here at UM.

May 2022

 

Seminar at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

Presentation and visit of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at UM

April 2022

 

Our cover image was selected for the April issue of BRAIN

April 2022

Link to to the Cover Image

 

New Perspective in DADM!

A team effort of early career researchers to discuss the current state and future of VCID

March 2022

Link to the publication!

 

New Publication in Brain!

Congrats! Muhammad’s paper on VEGF signaling’s role in capillary stalling and brain blood flow reductions in Alzheimer’s mice was published.

January 2022

Link to the publication!

 

5 years Stallcatchers

Panel Discussion hybrid event “5 years Stallcatchers”

October 2021

Listen to the Discussion on youtube!

 

Move from Ithaca to Miami

Oliver is sadly leaving beautiful Ithaca in late summer together with the migrating birds to Miami! I am looking forward to starting the lab and getting to know the city.

September 2021

 

Mechanisms of brain blood flow reductions in Alzheimer’s Disease

Outreach journal publication “Brain Blood Flow links with Alzheimer’s” in NatureVolve. bridging Ar&Science.

July 2021

Link to the review!

 

“Brain Blood Flow links with Alzheimer’s”

Outreach journal publication “Brain Blood Flow links with Alzheimer’s” in NatureVolve. bridging Ar&Science.

February 2021

Link to NatureVolve

 

10th UK&Ireland ECR BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER SYMPOSIUM

Oliver was presenting work about the role of VEGF-A signaling and Bood-Brain Barrier breakdown in Alzheimer’s disease.

November 2020

Listen to the presentation!

 

Proteintech’s Neurodegeneration ECR

Oliver was awarded the ECR Award and spoke at the Early-Career Neurodegeneration Conference.

October 2020

Listen to the presentation!

 

ISSART Panel Discussion about VCI

Oliver joined a panel discussion organized by the Alzheimer’s Association. The topic was the current state in vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia: debating the past and shaping the future of Dementia. 

October 2020

Listen to the panel discussion!

 

World Alzheimer’s day 2020

Oliver joined a panel discussion on World Alzheimer’s day, talking about the current state of the field and the role of the citizen science game Stallcatchers in his research.

September 2020

Listen to the panel discussion!

 

Podcast

Oliver has talked about the power of citizen science and its contribution to understanding the role of brain blood flow reduction in Alzheimer’s disease at the Scientistt: “Using crowd-sourced science to study Alzheimer’s disease.”

July 2020

Listen to the podcast!

 

Online Talk

Oliver presented a lay language talk about his current work covering the cause and consequences of reduced brain blood flow in mouse models of Alzheimer’s Disease at the JRNLclub. The presentation is entitled: “Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries contributes to cortical blood flow decreases and impaired memory function in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.”

March 2020

Watch the talk!