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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · May 28

🧠 Join us for the Neural-Immune Interactions / Neurodegeneration Conference — in Whistler or online via livestream!

🔗 Register now:
keysym.us/KSNeuroimmun...
keysym.us/KSNeuroDegen25

#KSNeuroImmune25 #KSNeuroDegen25 #neurodegeneration @michael-e-ward.bsky.social @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social

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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · Apr 15

Check out the updated Harvard University website, which speaks to the breadth and depth of the research we do and its contributions to human health and beyond: www.harvard.edu

Harvard University

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

www.harvard.edu

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Apr 14

Harvard! Taking a stand against a right-wing authoritarian.

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PennMedCSO @pennmedcso.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join @pennmuscle.bsky.social on 4/17 for the Spring PMI Symposium, "From Molecules to Movement: Cytoskeletal Insights into Muscle Function & Neuronal Health." Learn more & register➡️ bit.ly/PMISpring2025

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WIRED @wired.com · Apr 2

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

www.wired.com

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Apr 2

Cory Booker

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Postdocs, register for the Neurodegeneration event by 4/22 (11:59pm MST) to save $200! Plus, get an extra $275 off and access two meetings for the price of one. Secure your spot: keysym.us/KSNeuroDegen25

youtu.be/ZL5SP8SJrCs #KSNeuroDegen25 @michael-e-ward.bsky.social @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social

KSQA: Dr. Michael Ward (Neurodegeneration)

YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Mar 12

So proud of Sydney and everything she is accomplishing!

Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · Mar 11

Sydney's current research builds on her previous findings on axonal transport 🧠🚗 from her time @upenn.edu with @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social.

Nowadays, Sydney combines this with a new focus 🔍 on lipid trafficking to gain insight into how small cellular imbalances 🧫 cause neuronal dysfunction [2/5]

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just a reminder! Friday morning! Hope to see many of my Philly folk there!

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Feb 10

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."

Sign the Petition

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)

chng.it

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Jim Hurley @jimhurley.bsky.social · Feb 6

Excited to see work led by @autophazeke.bsky.social, @minghaochen.bsky.social, Thanh Nguyen, and Ainara Claveras out in @science.org today, the culmination of a 15-year project to understand structurally how the synthesis of the critical lipid of autophagy, PI3P, is regulated. tinyurl.com/ywvjh8u4

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Feb 5

Your Action Is Needed!

Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy

www.ascb.org/science-poli...

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Jan 29

Please check out the exciting new work from Bishal on the regulation of mitophagy in neurons . . .

mito911 @mito911.bsky.social · Jan 29

Shout out to Dr. Bishal Basak in @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social at @upenn.bsky.social for spearheading the work on identifying a new stress response pathway that regulates mitophagy in neurons!
➡️Read pre-print here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · Jan 29

🎉 We are celebrating Bishal Basak from CRN Team Hurley as our January #NetworkSpotlight. Bishal worked on a Team paper where he identified a novel, neuron-specific mitophagy pathway. Thank you, Bishal!

Check out Bishal's paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · Jan 6

Do check out this piece: @biologists.bsky.social really is an extraordinary organisation and it's a privilege and pleasure to work for them. We've got lots planned for our 100th birthday year so do look out for upcoming content in the journal, on @the-node.bsky.social and elsewhere!

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jan 6

Our Publisher, The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social) turns 100 this year. You can find out more about our history, our ethos and our current focusses in this editorial:
doi.org/10.1242/dev...., with an accompanying timeline summarising key events in our hundred-year history.

Title: The Company of Biologists: the journey so far - a timeline. The image showing a timeline from the 1920s till the present day, with key events listed in boxes.

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Jan 5

Congratulations to John Dabiri!

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Jan 4

Inbox: Biden announces winners of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honors for science and technology.

Among the notable names

- Jennifer Doudna, biochemist who’s done pioneering work with CRISPR
- Moderna
- Pfizer

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Dec 27

Great talk from Jules Riley at #CellBio2024 - fantastic new insights into how mitophagy and inflammation are linked

Jules Riley @joulesriley.bsky.social · Dec 23

First talk at @ascbiology.bsky.social ✅🥳 #CellBio2024
So grateful for the opportunity to share our work!

Many thanks to @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social for going out of her way to be there and Bishal (in our lab) and @doroteaartscience.bsky.social from our @asapresearch.bsky.social team for the pics😊

A person giving a talk about mitochondrial damage in astrocytes at a conference

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Dec 22

Check out the latest work on how to build a sustainable future from the Howland lab at MIT

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PennMedCSO @pennmedcso.bsky.social · Dec 11

FMRP, MFF translation & mitochondrial fission in neurons ft. Adam Fenton, Ruchao Peng, @Charlie_R_Bond, @SHugelier, @melikel.bsky.social, @yiweichang.bsky.social, @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social & Thomas Jongens @BB_UPenn @penngenetics.bsky.social @cambupenn.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Dec 12

Please add me to this great list!

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Dr. Arnaldo Díaz @ajdiazphd.bsky.social · Dec 7

I’m so excited for #CellBio2024!

Who is attending?

American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Nov 27

#CellBio2024, the joint meeting of ASCB and EMBO, will take place December 14-18, 2024, in San Diego, California. Join us to connect with scientists, present your research, and explore the latest advancements in cell biology science and technology.

www.ascb.org/cellbio2024/

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Nov 27

#CellBio2024, the joint meeting of ASCB and EMBO, will take place December 14-18, 2024, in San Diego, California. Join us to connect with scientists, present your research, and explore the latest advancements in cell biology science and technology.

www.ascb.org/cellbio2024/

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Nov 25

Great to see mito911 on Bluesky!

mito911 @mito911.bsky.social · Nov 25

📣Now that @mito911.bsky.social is on Bluesky, let's highlight the research run in our team! Check out the pre-print by @palumbos.bsky.social Palumbos et al. and colleagues from the @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social!
@asapresearch.bsky.social
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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Nov 13

Excited to share this new preprint from Sierra Palumbos, tracking the effects of dysfunctional autophagy in neurons: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Nov 11

Ok, I made a starter pack for membrane trafficking and organelles (broadly defined). Feel free to self-nominate! go.bsky.app/RbtJjt7

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Michael Howland @mhowland.bsky.social · Nov 22

🚨New open-access paper published as an Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review Fluids!
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

In this paper led by Postdoc Kerry Klemmer, we use LES to analyze wind turbine wake deficit and wake added turbulence kinetic energy in stable and neutral atmospheric boundary layers.

Momentum deficit and wake-added turbulence kinetic energy budgets in the stratified atmospheric boundary layer

As wind turbines increase in scale and are deployed in diverse atmospheric conditions, understanding wake dynamics in stratified atmospheric boundary layers becomes critical. This study uses large edd...

doi.org

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Erika Holzbaur-Howland @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social · Nov 18

It is great to meet up with so many of you here! Thanks to Mark Peifer and Chantell Evans for the inspiration.

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