Data blitz meetings of MIND: Microbiome, Immunology, Neuroscience Discussions
Are you interested to attend to our new multidisciplinary data blitz discussions? MIND meetings will be centered around the intersection of the gut microbiome, immunology, and the brain. The goal is to create an environment where new ideas and projects are shared in their early infancy to complement larger more established work-in-progress forums at WashU.
These monthly discussions center around short data blitz presentations (15 mins presentations of new proposals or new preliminary data).
Motivated graduate students, postdocs and faculty members are welcome to participate!
When: 2:00p, 3rd Wednesday of the month
Where: McDonnell Pediatric Research Building 8108, 8th Floor (Snacks provided!)
Organizers: Marta Celorrio-Navarro (WashU Pediatrics), Stuart Friess (WashU Pediatrics) and Jasmin Herz (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Note individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
2025 Spring Schedule
CANCELLED – February 19, 2025
Silvia Penati (Colonna lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Immunological Surveillance in the CNS: The Role of T Cells in Brain Homeostasis”
Poornima Ekanayake (Herrlich lab, WashU Medicine) “Circulating osteopontin released by kidney injury causes acute and chronic hippocampal neuroinflammation and neurocognitive dysfunction”
March 19, 2025
Yu-Qing Cao (WashU Anesthesiology)
April 16, 2025
Silvia Penati (Colonna lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Immunological Surveillance in the CNS: The Role of T Cells in Brain Homeostasis”
Poornima Ekanayake (Herrlich lab, WashU Medicine) “Circulating osteopontin released by kidney injury causes acute and chronic hippocampal neuroinflammation and neurocognitive dysfunction”
May 21, 2025
June 18, 2025
June 19, 2024
Rajeev Aurora (Saint Louis University) “Estrogen loss activates a low grade inflammation that promotes anxiety and to postpartum depression in some individuals”
Daniel Lee (Randolph lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Insights into MIND from a multi-scalar, modular imaging workflow, ADAPT-3D”
July 17, 2024
Yohei Komaru (Herrlich lab, WashU Medicine)
“Sterile kidney injury causes monocyte-induced intravascular neutrophilic capillaritis in the lung: Kidney-Lung crosstalk”
September 18, 2024
Tristan Li (WashU Neuroscience)
Meng Wu (WashU Molecular Microbiology)
October 16, 2024
Andrew Sauerbeck (Kummer lab, WashU Neurology)
“Synaptic alterations after traumatic brain injury and neurodegeneration”
Michael Nichols (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
“Exploring neuroinflammatory pathways in Alzheimer’s disease”
November 20, 2024
Johan Aguilar (Pradhan lab, WashU Anesthesiology)
“A Model of headache disorders induces a decrease of perineuronal nets in the mesencephalic reticular formation”
Kevin Telfer (Randolph lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) and Bernd Zinselmeyer (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
“Bringing Widefield Imaging into the 3D Elysian: An Accessible Approach to Contextualize Biology at Subnuclear Resolution”