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Amy Gleichman

@amygleichman.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist / astrocyte enthusiast / fan of new viral tools 🧠 Assistant Professor, Ohio State GleichmanLab.com

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Travis Faust @travisfaust.bsky.social · 26d

Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social:
“Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.”

This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling.

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Faust et al., Cell 2025

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Steven Sloan @sloanlab.bsky.social · Jun 30

I've been really hoping to see more manuscript threads here on 🦋, so here comes one!!! This is brand new work from the lab that took us in very unexpected directions and to exciting findings led by the amazing @emily-hill.bsky.social. Preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and 🧵below:

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Amy Gleichman @amygleichman.bsky.social · May 2

Thanks, Ashley!!

Amy Gleichman @amygleichman.bsky.social · May 1

Thrilled to announce that my lab is now open at Ohio State! We study astrocytes as gene therapy targets for brain repair after ischemic stroke and in vascular dementia, developing new viral tools along the way. If you're interesting in joining or collaborating, please reach out!
gleichmanlab.com

The Gleichman lab

gleichmanlab.com

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Nao Okabe @nao-neuro.bsky.social · Mar 18

Excited to share our new paper!

Our new paper in
@NatureComms
reveals how parvalbumin (PV) interneurons regulate stroke recovery by enhancing network synchronization.

Read here: nature.com/articles/s41...

#Neuroscience #StrokeRecovery #BrainPlasticity

Parvalbumin interneurons regulate rehabilitation-induced functional recovery after stroke and identify a rehabilitation drug - Nature Communications

The biological mechanisms of rehabilitation after stroke are not fully understood. Here authors identify parvalbumin interneurons as a key mediator of rehabilitation-induced stroke recovery and a drug...

nature.com

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Jing-Ping Lin @jpinglin.bsky.social · Mar 4

Very happy to share the link to the full article of my recent work www.science.org/stoken/autho...
Had fun visualizing this complex dataset! Excited to hear your thoughts and explore new insights or other creative ways to reuse the data!

4D marmoset brain map reveals MRI and molecular signatures for onset of multiple sclerosis–like lesions

Inferring cellular and molecular dynamics of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions from postmortem tissue collected decades after onset is challenging. Using magnetic resonance image (MRI)–guided spatiotemp...

www.science.org

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Amy Gleichman @amygleichman.bsky.social · Nov 27

Would love to be added - thanks for making this!

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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · Nov 17

There are lots of us missing, but so many joining so quickly

Please do share, and comment below to be added

go.bsky.app/5f2V6L6

(microglia starter pack also here by @mancusorenzo.bsky.social - bsky.app/starter-pack...)

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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · Nov 14

go.bsky.app/Lyzro3M

!WELCOME!

thought we might need a starter pack for all those coming over from the birdhouse - here's a GliaSky list.

apologies for missing many of you - please do reply to get added

and remember to repost so the newbies can find us!

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Amy Gleichman @amygleichman.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thrilled to announce that you can now purchase virus from Addgene expressing our improved astrocytic Cre, GfaABC1D-Cre-4x6T! We used miRNA targeting to minimize off-target expression. www.addgene.org/196410/

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