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Ana Beatriz DePaula-Silva

@biadepaula-silva.bsky.social
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Mom, immigrant 🇧🇷 and scientist. Interested in neuroinflammation and neurovirology in epilepsy, and MS. Assistant Professor - Pharmacology & Toxicology - University of Utah Obsessed with macrophages!

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Elaine Hsiao @pipethero.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📣 Our lab is recruiting postdocs to lead new fully funded projects on mechanisms of microbiome–gut–brain signaling & microbial regulation of brain–body interactions in disease, w supportive clinical collaborators. Expertise in gut–brain, systems neuro, or neuroimmunology preferred. Please email 📧
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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Microglial MyD88-dependent signaling influences extracellular matrix development and interneuron maturation in the hippocampus
Parvalbumin interneurons (PVIs) are disrupted across diverse neurodevelopmental disorders, highlighting their vulnerability to developmental perturbations. Inflammation can perturb PVI development and...
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 16/09/2025
Announcing our 9 new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows! These awards help senior postdoctoral researchers with fresh perspectives on autism & neuroscience transition to tenure-track faculty positions: www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-fou…
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Simons Foundation Announces Recipients of 2025 Fellows-to-Faculty Awards
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 class of Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows.
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Priya Prakash @pryprk.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Brain myelin as a deficient energy source in aging and disease www.cell.com/trends/endoc... Excellent discussion on how myelin fatty acid reserves may be reallocated during aging and neurodegeneration
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Brain myelin as a deficient energy source in aging and disease
Central nervous system (CNS) myelin may act as a dynamic energy store that supports brain metabolism; its consumption and replenishment is a newly recognized form of metabolic plasticity aimed at main...
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Journal of Neuroimmunology @jnijournal.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We’re excited to announce the Young Investigators Special Issue in the Journal of Neuroimmunology! We will spotlight early-career researchers and support the next generation of discovery. Submit your original research and let your work be seen and recognized. #CallForPaper
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Journal of Neuroimmunology | Early career investigators in Neuroimmunology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Historically, many established investigators in the field of neuroimmunology published early work from their laboratories in the Journal of Neuroimmunology. Our mission is to bring important work in t...
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Rebecca Pompano @pompanolab.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...
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Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Look at this team of editors 100% #WomeninSTEM, I am so proud of this 😍. With @mgood695.bsky.social and @anyabphd.bsky.social . To learn more about it: www.go.nature.com/4ncu8Hm @natureportfolio.nature.com
Brain-immune-vascular interface in dementia collection
https://www.nature.com/collections/ihbdjghgjh/guest-editors
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Interested in fabricated microbial ecosystems? Join us this summer at EcoFAB! It's an amazing program. Learn more and register here: eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-...
Logo for the 2025 EcoFAB meeting.
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Ana Beatriz DePaula-Silva @biadepaula-silva.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Congratulations to my first PhD student @caseymeili.bsky.social for passing her qualifying exam! She is officially a PhD candidate! So proud of you!
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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Eliver Ghosn @eliverghosn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We are #hiring! Please help share! Postdoc in #Immunology; B-cell biology We are recruiting a postdoc to lead projects on human B cells and plasma cells funded by the Gates Foundation and the NIH (The position is fully funded and not dependent on future grants). ghosnlab.science/join-us
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Ghosn Laboratory — join us!
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Emilia Favuzzi @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I am looking for a postdoc with an immunology background interested in joining a Yale neuroscience lab to study how the brain controls immunity. At Yale, we have a wonderful interdisciplinary & collaborative #neuroimmune community. Please reach out or share with anyone who might be interested!
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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis @sciimmunology.bsky.social @mmr2.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tristan Shuman @tristanshuman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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Nick Silva @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
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Silva Lab – Neuroimmune mechanisms in health and disease
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Use the Human Microbiome Compendium data! We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links: - Website: microbiomap.org - Data: zenodo.org/records/1373... - R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/ - Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...
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Human Microbiome Compendium
An ongoing project to build a dataset of the human microbiome at an unprecedented scale.
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
find your state here....https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state/
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 24/01/2025
The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground. Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary Here's how to do that, step-by-step:
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CTA: RFK Jr Nomination Hearing Scheduled - Time To Reach Out To Your Senators | Matthew Cortland
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Daniel McManus, PhD @danmcmanus123.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to share my PhD work from Rafi Ahmed’s lab, now published in @nature.com. We show how CD8 T cells overcome the inability to predict how long a viral infection will last by making adaptable precursor cells a priori—an elegant strategy for a non-prescient immune system! tinyurl.com/53nrpsa6
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Christina Stallings @stallingslab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Interested in Mtb pathogenesis and developing new strategies to treat these deadly infections? Please apply to join us for the GRC for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development!! www.grc.org/tuberculosis... Deadline to submit an abstract to be considered for a talk is March 1st! Please repost!
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2025 Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Faculty position in imaging at UCL #neurojobs #STEMjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Definitely not a straightforward path, but it is happening: I am officially an Assistant Professor-to-be! 🎉 I am thrilled to announce that I was awarded a @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant and I will start my lab next year. Very grateful to all those that supported me over the last years! 🫶 (1/4)
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Amanda Sierra @sierralab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Culturing microglia induces rapidly increased growth, protein content, and inflammatory protein expression. These changes are restored by engrafting in vitro cells into the brain, with xenografted human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived microglia closely resembling microglia from the human brain."
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Microbiome FacultyJob at UC Davis in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (one of the departments where I reside ...) See recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847
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Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sooo, there are still a few spots available if you want to give a talk at the third edition of #AstrocyteCafe 😏 #AstrocyteCafe is a FREE monthly seminars starting from January 2025! Speakers can be of any career stage: just send us an email with your topic to astrocytecafe@gmail.com!😍
Flyer saying: Call for speakers- Astrocyte Cafe 3rd edition/ Starting in January 2025 - online. Email: astrocytecafe@gmail.com
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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Be still my scientific ❤️.... @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social high resolution spatial transcriptomics on human meninges 🤩 work from Kevin Petrecca group at McGill University led by Theresa Degenhard - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 #Neuroscience
MERFISH confirms the spatial arrangement of meningeal cell types in situ.

(A) Annotated schematic of meningeal anatomy using a representative H&E image and MERFISH panel. Primary neuroanatomical features of the meninges include: periosteal and meningeal layers of the dura; dura border cells; arachnoid barrier cells, subarachnoid space; trabeculae; blood vessel (BV)-covering pia; brain-covering pia; and astrocytic end feet of the glial limitans superficialis. H&E scale bar = 200μm; MERFISH scale bar = 100μm. (B) Two representative MERFISH panels from two samples demonstrating the spatial arrangement of primary cell types by visualizing all transcripts associated with cell type signatures. Dotted white boxes B1-4 indicate magnified regions. Each cell type is represented by a different colour. White arrows point to contact points of meningeal fibroblasts and vascular cells. P = Pia; A = Arachnoid; AT = Arachnoid Trabeculae; E = Endothelia only. Scale bars = 100μm. (C) Two representative MERFISH panels from two samples demonstrating the spatial arrangement of primary cell types by visualizing cell types following cluster identification and segmentation. Dotted white boxes C1-4 indicate magnified regions. Each cell type is represented by a different colour. White arrows point to contact points of meningeal fibroblasts and vascular cells. P = Pia; A = Arachnoid; AT = Arachnoid Trabeculae; E = Endothelia only. Scale bars = 100μm.
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John Lukens @lukensjohnr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Meningeal neutrophil immune signaling influences behavioral adaptation following threat www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
OPEN RANK #FACULTY #POSITION in #Pharmacology & #Neuroscience with expertise in #behavioral pharmacology/neuroscience of relevance to substance use disorders. Review of applications will start immediately. Target start date is Fall 2025. Come join us! Apply here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor | U-M Careers
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Nicola Fattorelli @nicola-fattorelli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Microglia community, let’s start the discussion 🧠 follow the Microglia Starter Pack and ask @mancusorenzo.bsky.social to add your colleagues as they join Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/DT3Cp4A
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adam grieve @adamgrieve.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c
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Terradot lab @laurentterradot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A postdoctoral position is available in our team to study the type VI secretion system. Biochemistry, X-ray cryst and some cryoEM with @fronzeslab.bsky.social team Reposts appreciated 😊
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JB Manent @jbmanent.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey #epilepsy research people doing the great migration from the other side! I've just created this starter pack with a few names that I'll update as I get feedback, so please spread the word so we can build a community! go.bsky.app/B8pPi1n
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