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Emma Wilson

@toxobrains.bsky.social
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Parasite immunologist with a neuro twist. A Scot in SoCal. UCR Prof, s/mum of 2+2. New to 🦋 and hopeful.

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Abhinay Ramaprasad @abhinay.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
GRiP-ing seminars continue this Friday! Our next speaker is Emma Wilson @toxobrains.bsky.social from @ucriverside.bsky.social. Come, join us! Link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8640933246... Passcode: 719067
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Emma Wilson @toxobrains.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sorry we got blown off by the storm last time but looking forward to going back to Glasgow and talking parasites and brains with an inspiring set of scientists @abhinay.bsky.social @clarehardinglab.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @sheinerlab.bsky.social
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/
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Inflammasome Lab @inflammasomelab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Have you ever wondered whether pyroptotic corpses have functions beyond the grave? We made the surprising discovery that pyroptotic corpses are flagged by #filopodia to alert #DendriticCells they need autopsy. A short Bluetorial (1/13)👇with movies! Link: rdcu.be/d2mjm
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Pyroptotic cell corpses are crowned with F-actin-rich filopodia that engage CLEC9A signaling in incoming dendritic cells
Nature Immunology - Pyroptotic cell death results in inflammation. Here the authors find that F-actin-rich structures formed during macrophage pyroptosis persist after cell death to activate...
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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Assistant Prof job in Behavioral Neuroscience at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02011
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Assistant Professor-Behavioral Neuroscience
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 26/11/2024
Exciting new discovery from colleagues @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, astrocyte metabolism compromised by amyloid and tau oligomers leading to insufficient support for neurons. Possible new target for treating AD. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Restoring hippocampal glucose metabolism rescues cognition across Alzheimer’s disease pathologies
Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a pathologic feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with recent proteomic studies highlighting disrupted glial metabolism in AD. We report that inhibition of indo...
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Edward Wallace @ewjwallace.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I started a list of School of Biological Sciences Edinburgh folks / centres on bluesky. Please amplify and connect! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Tara Sutherland @drtesutherland.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My lab in Aberdeen, in the stunning North East of Scotland, will soon be recruiting for a post-doc to studying immune-ECM interactions in the lung. If you love IL-13, Hyaluronan, ECM biology, pulmonary immune responses....Get in touch and keep an eye out for the position.
Hyaluronan and collagen III expression in allergic lungNew Slains castle at Cruden Bay
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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A repertoire of immunologists by @rodrahimi.bsky.social go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
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A repertoire of immunologists
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Woo hoo! 1K new followers, welcome to 💙🦋! For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀… If you use any of these emojis: 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will index on a Women in STEM feed If you use 🧪 a Science feed If you use 🧠 a Neuroscience feed Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙🎊
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Carolyn King @immunologyking.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
let's do this!! I am excited to reconnect with scientists here. thx @oneyrolles.bsky.social for the push 😀 #Immunology announcement: SAVE THE DATE: 26-29 August in Basel 🇨🇭 Mauro Gaya (CIML) and I are organizing an #EMBO workshop on Adaptive #immunity in barrier tissues; details coming soon!
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