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Marta Pereira Iglesias

@martapiglesias.bsky.social

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Microglia lover, soft spot for development Posdoc at Morgane Thion Lab Former PhD at Amanda Sierra Lab

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Marta Pereira Iglesias @martapiglesias.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Last week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis Microglia Development: From Proliferative Progenitors to Functional Phagocytes, under the supervision of Amanda Sierra. I am deeply grateful to Amanda, my amazing labmates, and everyone in attendance for their incredible support! 🧠🔬

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Ʌʗʜʋʗɑɼɼʘ @achucarro.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Happy Friday cause we have a new PhD on town. Congratulations Dr. Pereira-Iglesias, Zorionak Marta!!! @upvehu.bsky.social @sierralab.bsky.social

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Marta Pereira Iglesias @martapiglesias.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🚨New Perspective on microglia pruning 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest publication, where we propose a novel framework to distinguish between two potential mechanisms of synapse elimination: culling and scavenging. Check it out and let us know what you think! 🔬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Microglia as hunters or gatherers of brain synapses - Nature Neuroscience

How microglia sculpt brain circuits is not clear. Here, the authors propose that their contribution to synapse removal may occur by severing synapses (culling) or collecting synapses shed off by neuro...

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Marta Pereira Iglesias @martapiglesias.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

📢 We're now on Bluesky 📢 Follow us to stay updated on the upcoming season of microglia webinars!

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