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Alonso Ortega-Gurrola

@alonso-ortegag.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ Liddelow Lab PhD @ Tosches Lab Reactive glia enthusiast From Mexico, living in NYC

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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This deeper understanding of development in the salamander brain was also foundational for our first study on brain #regeneration, led by @alonso-ortegag.bsky.social, where we show that brain regeneration is not a simple amplification of adult neurogenesis... 🧵5/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Glial cell states bias the regeneration of neuron types across the newt life cycle
Salamanders have outstanding regenerative abilities, which tend to decline in post-metamorphic life stages. Among various tissues, these amphibians can regenerate the brain from ependymoglia cells, an...
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Alonso Ortega-Gurrola @alonso-ortegag.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Very happy to see my PhD work in Biorxiv as of today. I was recently in a talk from @itaiyanai.bsky.social where he talked about his Night Science idea. The talk was already 5 minutes in when it immediately hit too close to home. I had no idea what to make out of this data for so long…
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Melissa Cooper, PhD @melcooperphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!
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Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - Nature
Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.
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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7
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Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons
In the developing cerebral cortex, Cajal Retzius (CR) cells are early-born neurons that orchestrate the development of mammalian-specific cortical features. However, this cell type has not been conclu...
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Alonso Ortega-Gurrola @alonso-ortegag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Post a non-religious photo you think as holy.
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Sara Zeppilli @sarazeppilli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Happy to see my PhD work in the Fleischmann lab at Brown University @carneyinstitute.bsky.social published in @natureneuro.bsky.social! -Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution nature.com/articles/s41...
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