Reposted by Julia Belkallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 22/09/2026Meet the 2026 cohort of Next Generation Leaders. This program recognizes emerging early career researchers in bioscience and is designed to foster community, exchange of ideas, innovation, and collaboration to make a broad, transformational impact on the future of science. 1288
Reposted by Julia BelkOpen Box Science @openboxscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Julia Belk's talk is now on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUOL... Microglia replacement during human aging @juliabelk.bsky.social Paper: Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging (Nature 2026)youtube.com[Julia Belk] Microglia replacement during human agingSpeaker: Julia Belk Title: Microglia replacement during human aging Paper: Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging (Nature 2026) 1127
Reposted by Julia BelkEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026One of the most important discoveries about our brain in many years! erictopol.substack.com/p/two-landma...erictopol.substack.comTwo Landmark Studies Challenge Dogma About our Brain Immune Cells and AgingLead Authors Julia Belk and Nathan Zemke Discuss and Translate their Findings 418055
Reposted by Julia BelkEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Our understanding how our brain ages and why our memory begins to slip around age 50 have been completely revamped through 2 new landmark studies involving the microglia, the brain immune cells erictopol.substack.com/p/why-our-me...erictopol.substack.comWhy Our Memory Slips After Age 50Landmark independent studies challenge longstanding dogma for brain aging 821357
Julia Belk @juliabelk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Gaining therapeutic access to the human brain is one of the biggest unsolved problems in biomedical science. Today @nature.com, we uncover a massive influx of immune cells into the human brain during aging, revealing that the brain is more accessible than previously thought. 1/nature.comSomatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging - NatureNature - Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging 25323
Reposted by Julia BelkKatherine King MD PhD @thekinglab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025And here it is! Our study in clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer’s disease — product of 5 years’ gestation. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...urldefense.proofpoint.comScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books. 4238
Julia Belk @juliabelk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Happy to share our paper describing SPACE-seq - a new approach to spatial multiomics and lineage tracing - out today in @pnas.org! 🧵(1/5)pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 23811
Reposted by Julia BelkHHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists! 111744