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Zila Martinez-Lozada

@zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at NSU Neuroscience Glia lover, mom, and wife.

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Imagine that a trade school would suddenly be responsible for a neuroscience research project that studies how the neurons in the gut change with aging and conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Who then would train the electricians we rely on? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Freezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research — Harvard Gazette
Projects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/02/2025
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The #BloodBrainBarrier is again on the front page 🤩
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Glycocalyx dysregulation impairs blood–brain barrier in ageing and disease - Nature
Disruption of mucin-domain glycoprotein expression and function in the endothelial glycocalyx are associated with ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, leading to dysregulated blood–brain barrier function.
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The ISN-ASN discounted Early-Bird Registration has been extended to February 28th www.neurochemistry.org Don't wait until the 28th to apply for membership to register because approval can take 3-5 days It is not just about neurochemistry: it is like a mini SfN with ~30% more focus on glia GLIA!!!
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a picture of a city with the words new york have fun can t wait to hear about it
ALT: a picture of a city with the words new york have fun can t wait to hear about it
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@standupforscience.bsky.social does anyone know of anything being organized in South Florida? Please tag me if you know.
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very cool new paper showing that Ago2 gene in glutamatergic neurons is critical for the formation of cerebral blood vessels in the developing mouse brain 🤩 #cerebrovascular
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Glutamatergic argonaute2 promotes the formation of the neurovascular unit in mice
Neurovascular unit formation is mediated by Ago2-dependent repression of PTEN in excitatory neurons.
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Lisa S. Robison, PhD @lisarobison86.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Preprint is up! This study investigated the effects of a ketogenic diet (very low carb, high fat 🥑🥩🍳) in a mouse model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Summary thread below! (1/4) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ketogenic Diet Enhances Cognitive-Behavioral Function and Hippocampal Neurogenesis While Attenuating Amyloid Pathology in Tg-SwDI Mice
The ketogenic diet (KD), characterized by high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and moderate protein intake, has gained attention for its therapeutic potential in patients with neurodegenerative diseases, inclu...
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Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is a great explaner on what indirect costs are and why they are so important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
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Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
YouTube video by Association of American Universities
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Exactly this ⬇️. A prime example in Florida: $4bn/yr of state subsidies for private schools, sabotaging public education. "In the 2021-22 school year, 12% of the state’s education budget went to private school vouchers. This school year, that amount has nearly doubled, coming in at 23%."
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Florida’s growing school voucher program has a high price tag, analysts say
The Florida Policy Institute says the vouchers cost the state $4 billion this school year.
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Not all astrocytes regulate blood-brain barrier integrity, but those expressing Dmp1 apparently do ! #cerebrovascular #BloodBrainBarrier www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Regulation of blood-brain barrier integrity by Dmp1-expressing astrocytes through mitochondrial transfer
A subset of astrocytes expressing Dmp1 helps maintain blood-brain barrier by transferring mitochondria to endothelial cells.
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Today, I got the acceptance letter for my last paper as a research associate in Mike’s lab. What a great holiday gift.
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Astrocytes, morphogenesis, mitochondria 😍https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.22.619706
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Mitochondrial fission controls astrocyte morphogenesis and organization in the cortex
Dysfunctional mitochondrial dynamics are a hallmark of devastating neurodevelopmental disorders such as childhood refractory epilepsy. However, the role of glial mitochondria in proper brain developme...
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My mom got polio a couple of months before the vaccine got to Mexico. She passed her teenage years in bed and was only able to walk again for the uncountable hours her grandma spent giving her therapy. #vaccinesSafeLives
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congrats @natashaobrown.bsky.social and team. Beautiful work! 👏🏼
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Are the police ready to go back and investigate this case? O is being ignored because the victim was a immigrant teenager not a rich CEO
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I loved my blueskyroast.com bio too
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Astrocyte Cafe @astrocytecafe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi #astrocyte lovers! We are organizing the third edition of #AstrocyteCafe online, with FREE monthly seminars starting from January 2025...and we are looking for speakers! Speakers can be of any career stage: just send us an email with your topic to astrocytecafe@gmail.com 😍
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Søren Grubb @sorengrubb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#Astrocyte / #glia starter packs: AstrocyteSky: go.bsky.app/5f2V6L6 Neuro-glial interactions: go.bsky.app/MHtJzeC Oligodendroglia: go.bsky.app/JgL2evN
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Søren Grubb @sorengrubb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🧠NON-NEUROCENTRIC STARTER PACKS FOR BRAIN RESEARCH: I this thread 🧵 I will post starter packs for fields of research not directly related to neurons: #meninges, #vasculature, #glia, #immunecells, #dementia, #headache, #microscopy, and resources to get started with #Bluesky.
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Louis-Eric Trudeau @louistrudeau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I will have space in my lab to supervise a new Ph.D. student and/or a postdoc to work on projects focussing on the role of the immune system in Parkinson's disease. Please share with potentially interested candidates.
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Søren Grubb @sorengrubb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Did you know that #neuronal #processes arrange perpendicular to #vascular direction around #penetratingarterioles and arterial end #capillaries? 🤔 I have speculated that this may enhance #neurovascularcoupling. Here I show examples in the #human #brain. 🧠 vb.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...
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Sam Lord @samjlord.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We have tutorials on how to generate SuperPlots in Prism, R, Python, and Excel in the paper, but you can also easily make SuperPlots using @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social's SuperPlotsOfData: huygens.science.uva.nl/SuperPlotsOf...
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SuperPlotsOfData - Plots Data and its ReplicatesAbout
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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n
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Timothy Hla @hlatim.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Exciting Gordon conference on vascular cell biology - Jan 2025 in Ventura, CA org by Karen Hirschi, @UVA www.grc.org/vascular-cel...
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2025 Vascular Cell Biology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Vascular Cell Biology will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Support for trainees and early investigators that are also parents is critical, therefore better policies should be implemented. The best support I have received is funds (never enough) for a family member or a friend to travel with me to help me take care of the kids will I work.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation represent moments of cerebrospinal fluid flow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Attentional failures after sleep deprivation represent moments of cerebrospinal fluid flow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623271v1
Sleep deprivation rapidly disrupts cognitive function, and in the long term contributes to neurologi
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Nature Learning-associated astrocyte ensembles regulate memory recall www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Learning-associated astrocyte ensembles regulate memory recall - Nature
A study in mice shows that learning induces c-Fos expression in a subset of astrocytes in the hippocampus, and that ensembles of these learning-associated astrocytes are involved in the recall of memo...
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Cherie Stringer (She/Her) @aquaporingirl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Super excited for this!!! Call for abstracts and registration for the #gliameeting in #Marseille starts on 10 December! Learn more about the topics, submission process and the available stipends on the #glia2025 website: loom.ly/AJI_q_Y Submit your abstract by midnight CET on 5 February 2025!
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Zila Martinez-Lozada @zilamartinezlozada.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello, #glia lover fellows. I'm a little late to the party but finally made the switch. I stopped using the X app but was missing the networking. Hope to see you all here
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