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Krissy Lyon

@krissylyon.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist & astrocyte enthusiast | Postdoc in the Allen lab @SalkInstitute.bsky.social | NINDS K99 | @lclark.bsky.social and Harvard PiN alum | she/her

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P-SPINE @spinephilly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are thrilled to announce our 2026 cohort of P-SPINE Fellows! Thank you to everyone who applied this year - the applications were truly impressive. Come join us on October 28th to hear from these amazing postdocs and to network with the Philly neuro community!
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Super excited to share that I will start my lab at University of Oregon in Fall 2027! We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders. Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW! ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...
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Kara Cerveny @kara-cerveny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reed College is an awesome place to teach and do research. Check out this piece about Reed's Beckman Scholars Program. www.reed.edu/newsroom/sto... So excited to see this finally come to fruition and hoping we
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Patricia Nano @prnano9.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Nano Lab is opening in the Dept. of BioSciences, Rice University, Oct 2026! 🧠🦉 We’ll be profiling and perturbing the molecular cues that shape the human brain using single-cell functional genomics and cortical organoids.
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
Congratulations to the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 
Airi Yoshimoto, Yijun Yang, Alexandra Wells, Simran Virdi, Archana Venkataraman, Emery Usher, Marianna Tannus Ruckert, Wenzhi Song, Kathryn Shelley, Selin Schamiloglu, Julia Peloggia de Castro, Ines Patop, Ruhi Patel, Suranjana Pal, Bernie Simone Owusu Yaw, LaShae Nicholson, Sivapratha Nagappan Chettiar, Dallas Mould, Jessica Moore, Deka Mohamed, Sierra Marable, Annie Ly, Xi (Lucy) Lu, Deirdre Logsdon, Anna Lipkin, Ellen Lesser, Mia Konjikusic, Veronika Kondev, Cayla Jewett, Lucia Ichino, Erin Huiting, Maggie Horst, Isabella Gaeta, Martha Echevarria-Andino, Natasha Claxton, Sarah Cherkaoui, Nikita Bhalerao, Merci Best, Meenakshi Asokan, Alicer Andrew
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Nick Silva @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My paper is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🐟🐭🧠 Thankful to the contributors and @annamolofskylab.bsky.social for the support! How does the developing brain clear millions of dying neurons? Read below, if interested. #zebrafish #neuroscience #microglia #devbio @zebrafishrock.bsky.social 1/5
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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 24/03/2026
Incredibly proud of this paper led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social and @mathiasgua.bsky.social titled Basolateral 'Amygdala Astrocytes Encode Anxiety States'. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧵 below
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Basolateral amygdala astrocytes encode anxiety states
Ghenissa et al. provide evidence that basolateral amygdala astrocytes reliably encode anxiety states. Using simultaneous in vivo calcium recordings across an array of behavioral tasks, combined with g...
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Wendy Xin @droligo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Super stoked to share that I’m starting my lab at UHN @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social / @kbi-uhn.bsky.social and the University of Toronto! If you’re interested in neuron-myelin interactions in circuit maturation and cognition, please reach out - we are hiring! www.oligodendrocyte.org 1/
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Xin Lab
Welcome! We study the cellular interactions between neurons and oligodendrocytes, which produce myelin in the central nervous system. Myelination - the process by which oligodendrocytes ensheath neuro...
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Giacomo Maddaloni @giacomomaddaloni.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Excited to share that I joined the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris @ipnp.bsky.social as a group leader! Thank you to FRM and BBRF for the support! My team will study how dedicated neural circuits decode seasonal changes, and drive adaptive behaviors. 🧠 ☀️ ❄️
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Eric Mulhall @ericmulhall.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Very excited to share our new manuscript – published today! Why are PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to transduce different types of mechanical force? I was lucky to work with some extraordinary colleagues to begin to figure out why. www.nature.com/articles/s41... An overview of the results below ⬇️ ⬇️
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The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 - Nature
PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.
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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 05/03/2026
PIEZO2—unlike PIEZO1—is tethered to the actin cytoskeleton, enabling sensory neurons to detect localized mechanical forces such as light touch. Findings reported in @nature.com by @ericmulhall.bsky.social from @ardemp.bskyverified.social's lab link nanometer-scale imaging to sensory function.
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A new clue to how the body detects physical force
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 04/03/2026
New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2
Nature - PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/01/2026
Some new tiny neuron watercolors in the Ko-Fi shop ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044F #sciart 🧠
2 small blue neuron paintings in mats
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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Astrocytes put the brakes on brain plasticity in mice by secreting the protein CCN1 to stabilize existing circuitry, a Nature study shows. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
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Astrocytes stabilize circuits in adult mouse brain
The glial cells secrete a protein that suppresses plasticity post-development.
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Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D. @rose-hill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
If you missed our Minisymposium at #SfN2025, you can still catch up with some of the topics by reading our new review: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4... Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 15/11/2025
We are definitely going to sell out of laser cut brain earrings early in the conference!!! Warning! #SfN25
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
WOW! 372 "astrocyte" presentations this year at #SfN2023 @SfNTweets Not enough talks - let's work on this for 2024. Full roundup below. I am SURE I have missed some, so please reply with more! Daily session roundups to come for each session. See you all soon. #SocietyForGlia
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
#SfN25 is here!!! I am looking forward to giving a talk in the ‘Astrocytes in neuronal function and dysfunction’ nanosymposium on Monday afternoon, come by!
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Elizabeth Sypek @elizabethis.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Dear SfN friends, be prepared ☔️ I’ve already offered my extra rain coat to @kelseytea.bsky.social
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
If you are viewing our social media, seeing our new Webpage, looking at our great partners, the work we do together, please consider telling a friend or a philanthropist org. Here's why what we do is so important, not only for the Indigenous, but now everyone's data www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebH...
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The Native BioData Consortium: A Beginning
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If you will be at #SfN25 next week, please join us for a professional development workshop ‘Navigating your career roadmap in a changing landscape’ on Monday from 12-2. Led by THE Dr. Michelle Jones-London. Please share with your lab and anyone you think would benefit!
Professional Development Workshops - Navigating your career roadmap in a changing landscape. Mon Nov 17 from 12-2 at SfN
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
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Wendy Xin @droligo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
If you are attending #SfN25, please join @amygleichman.bsky.social and I on Monday at 9PM for a casual social gathering to discuss all things non-neuronal! Date: Monday, Nov 17th Time: 9PM till close Location: The Smoking Gun SD, 555 Market St. All welcome, please free to spread the word!
A flyer displaying the same information as written in the post, with two images of two astrocytes around a blood vessel and one newly formed oligodendrocyte, along with logs our sponsors Avantor and Plasmidsaurus.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social bit.ly/479Ggmo
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Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz
The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It is based on a word cloud from the titles of the 197 MOSAIC grantee projects. I had it made if I have testify in the grant delay trial but it was perfect for this occasion. Who needs PowerPoint?
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Required periodic Salk Institute photo☀️
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Postdocs applying for K99s, particularly if it's your last opportunity: DO NOT forget to include a foreign justification document if you have any sort of foreign collaboration. Your application will be withdrawn if you don't have that.
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Steven Sloan @sloanlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Excited to share an important new pre-print from the lab led by incredibly talented postdoc @maureenbiologies.bsky.social, a neurotoxicologist who came to the lab with an ambitious goal of understanding the consequences of toxicant exposure in human neurodevelopment. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so. Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.
A cover labeled "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' by Jeremy M Berg
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/08/2025
Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
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TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US
TRYPTYR is a prescription eye drop used for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. See prescribing information, how to save, and more.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Update on NIH funding through July (August 1 budget start dates) Non-competitive renewal awards by month for fiscal year 2025 1/7
A bar graph of the fraction of NIH non-competitive renewal awards received by month showing that fewer awards that expected to being given.
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Excited to have received the NOA for my K99 Pathway to Independence award on astrocytes in neurodevelopmental disorders! I am so grateful for my PI Nicola Allen, and all my mentors, letter writers, and collaborators.
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Cool astrocyte paper!
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Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals - Nature Neuroscience
The relative contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic factors to astrocyte heterogeneity is unknown. Using heterotropic transplantation of septal astrocytes with distinct lineage origins, we show that ...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
don't be fooled that this NIH effort is only about NOFO - listen to minute 21-22 "they are working tirelessly" to "phase out" "existing" funding www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...
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Director’s Desk: The Future of Animal Models in Research | NIH’s Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Congratulations to all the new awardees!! Happy to see this program ongoing!
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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
In this entire 4.5 hour video from the FDA and NIH about reducing animal models, I didn't hear any discussion about conducting research developing new treatments for mental health disorders with behavioral symptoms
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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'll be presenting at this science fair: I've done many a poster presentation, but never one quite like this!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It would be great if other journals did this
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/06/2025
Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings
Massive crowd of No Kings marchers. Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
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