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
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
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
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
April 2022
Our cover image was selected for the April issue of BRAIN
April 2022
New Perspective in DADM!
A team effort of early career researchers to discuss the current state and future of VCID
March 2022
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
5 years Stallcatchers
October 2021
Listen to the Discussion on youtube!
Move from Ithaca to Miami
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
“Brain Blood Flow links with Alzheimer’s”
Outreach journal publication “Brain Blood Flow links with Alzheimer’s” in NatureVolve. bridging Ar&Science.
February 2021
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
Proteintech’s Neurodegeneration ECR
Oliver was awarded the ECR Award and spoke at the Early-Career Neurodegeneration Conference.
October 2020
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
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