Bringing together WashU scientists interested in understanding the role of glial cells in the CNS and PNS through works-in-progress and recent publication discussions
If you find yourself reading a lot of new papers without lab work to do, now is your chance to share with our community. Anyone interested is welcome to participate!
When: 12:00p every Wednesday (new!)
Where: Zoom conference
Organizers: Sarah Rosen (post doc in the Klein lab, WashU Medicine), Celia McKee (Graduate student, Neuroscience Program)
Follow us for glia news and paper tweets: Glia Group Twitter
Note that individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
Spring 2020 Schedule
January 10 – April 29
January 15, 2020
Lorenzo Lones (DiAntonio lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Epigenetic Signaling in Glia Controls Presynaptic Homeostatic Plasticity” Neuron 2019
January 29, 2020
Celia McKee (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology)
“Astrocyte Functions Controlled by Circadian Clock Gene Bmall”
February 12, 2020
Allison Soung (Klein lab, WashU Medicine)
“Cxcr4 distinguishes HSC-derived monocytes from microglia and reveals monocyte immune responses to experimental stroke” Nature Neuroscience 2020
February 26, 2020
Artem Arutyunov (Klein lab, WashU Medicine)
“Specialized cutaneous Schwann cells initiate pain sensation” Science 2019
March 11, 2020 – NOTE location: Farrell LTC 205
Mike Vasek (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Local protein synthesis within microglia at perisynaptic and phagocytic sites”
CANCELLED – March 25, 2020
Marlene Kanmogne (Klein lab, WashU Medicine)
April 15, 2020
Erik Herzog (WashU Biology)
“Deletion of astrocytic BMAL1 results in metabolic imbalance and shorter lifespan in mice” Glia 2019
April 22, 2020
Nathan Pomper (Miller lab, WashU Neurology)
“Influence of potential COVID-19 treatments on glia”
April 29, 2020
Matthew Rosene (Karch lab, WashU Psychiatry)
“NLRP3 inflammasome activation drives tau pathology” Nature 2019
VIRTUAL Glia meetings
For Zoom access contact Celia McKee.
May 6, 2020
Katie Lefton (Papouin lab, WashU Dept. of Neuroscience)
“Structural basis of astrocytic Ca2+ signals at tripartite synapses” Nature Communications 2020
May 13, 2020
Brian Lannana (Imai lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Microglia mediate forgetting via complement-dependent synaptic elimination” Science 2020
May 20, 2020
Robert Chen (Gordon lab, WashU Pathology and Immunology)
“The gut microbiota modulates neuronal gene expression at the single-nuclear level”
May 27, 2020
Erik Musiek (WashU Neurology)
“Astrocytes in Neurodegeneration”
June 3, 2020
Krissy Sakers (Eroglu lab, Duke University)
“Genome-wide profiling of histone modifications across cortical astrocyte development, in vivo”
June 10, 2020
Richard Daneman (University of California, San Diego)
“Regulation of the blood-brain barrier in health and disease”
June 17, 2020
Marlene Kanmonge (Klein lab, WashU Medicine)
“The role of classical complement signaling in viral neuroinflammatory reponses”
June 24, 2020
Jessica Williams (Cleveland Clinic)
July 1, 2020
Oshri Avraham (Cavalli lab, WashU Dept. of Neuroscience)
“Satellite glial cells promote regenerative growth in sensory neurons”
July 8, 2020
Sara Jager (Denk lab, King’s College London)
“Redefining the heterogeneity of peripheral nerve cells in health and autoimmunity” PNAS 2020
