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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her

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Assistant Professor CWRUSOM in the Institute for Glial Sciences & HHMI Hanna Gray Faculty Fellow | Scientific Director at Rise Up | open science, equity, innovation scavuzzolab.org riseupnortheastohio.org

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Nov 19

Read a bit about our science here:

scavuzzolab.org/research/

In WIRED magazine:
www.wired.com/story/gut-se...

In Science magazine:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unpicking the Mystery of the Body’s ‘Second Brain’

Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand.

www.wired.com

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Ron Yu @yulab19.bsky.social · 1d

Neuroscience faculty job Alert! We are hiring at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171533. Please repost.

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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 8d

We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

JavaScript is required. This web browser does not support JavaScript or JavaScript in this web browser is not enabled.

myhr.northwestern.edu

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

We are so fortunate that Aaliyah is part of our team!

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

Aaliyah says she "couldn't have asked to be a part of such an amazing lab community! My mentor and labmates strive for greatness and push me to be the best version of myself. The amount of support here has been incredible!"

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

After earning her PhD, Aaliyah is open to either academia or industry, depending on where she feels she can make the most impact. She thinks it would be fun to work in a niche area that blends science with something unexpected, like creating iPSC-derived food

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

Outside of the lab, Aaliyah likes to work out, go on new adventures with friends, volunteer, and attend the orchestra. She thinks Cleveland is full of hidden gems, a city full of surprises.

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

She is excited to grow into an independent scientist who can make a positive impact. Aaliyah says she has learned the value of balancing hard work and rest - both are necessary and rewarding.

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

Meet the lab!

Aaliyah Staples-West is a second year PhD student studying how the nervous system in the human gut develops. Aaliyah says that being in the PhD program at CWRU has sharpened her critical and analytical thinking.

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Kyle Card @kylejcard.bsky.social · 11d

Thrilled to share our paper that just came out in PNAS!

We asked a deceptively simple question: What happens when S. aureus adapts to vancomycin, a critical first-line antibiotic?

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 20d

A Nature Careers feature explores the ways scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews. #Academicsky 🧪

‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully

Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.

go.nature.com

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in how our bodies sense the world around us, how these systems develop, or how we consciously control internal reflexes? Come join our team - we're hiring!

Excited to recruit technicians, post-docs, and Stanford graduate students in any program! Please email me.
#WeAreHiring #Stanford

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 25d

Cleveland actually does rock

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 25d

So cool!!!

Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 29d

#DBfeature

Ancient emergence of neuronal heterogeneity in the enteric nervous system of jawless vertebrates

by Brittany Edens, Jason Lin, Marianne Bronner

tiom33.short.gy/DB520,117-124

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · 26d

Tomorrow, former Scavuzzo lab undergrad Jeyashri Rameshbabu will get her white coat - tune in to support her!

www.youtube.com/live/a0F2GP8...

LECOM Erie College of Medicine White Coat - 2025

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Aaliyah’s first xenograft as lead surgeon. First of many!

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today in the @nytimes.com, one of the most important stories of our time. Between the months of February and July, 319,000 Black women exited the workforce. In the same period, White men saw the largest increase in jobs- 365,000.

This is #TheDoubleTax. Pre-order: annagifty.com. #blacksky

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

www.nytimes.com

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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Aug 25

Now online! Transient gene melting governs the timing of oligodendrocyte maturation

Transient gene melting governs the timing of oligodendrocyte maturation

Oligodendrocyte maturation is governed by an SOX6-dependent gene-melted chromatin state at multiple immaturity loci. Reducing SOX6 accelerates maturation, offering a potential strategy to regenerate myelin in diseases like multiple sclerosis.

dlvr.it

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · Aug 25

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congrats Kevin Allan, Jesse Zhan, @tymillerlab.bsky.social, @tesarlab.bsky.social, et al

It was fun to do some super-resolution microscopy to help look into how a cell matures, all while sending a lot of spooky faces to Paul and Kevin since, unlike these Sox6 ko cells, I have yet to mature 😱😱😱😱😱

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Aug 22

lab out here looking like a rock band

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Aug 22

End of summer lab lunch at Banana Blossom!

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Rise Up: Northeast Ohio @riseupneo.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎉 Help us congratulate our second group of Rise Up Scholars this summer! 🎉

These incredible students spent their summer internships at Case Western Reserve University, working side-by-side with research scientists.

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Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Aug 18

Undergrad Martina Torello-Viera made @hhmi.org themed cookies to celebrate new Gilliam Fellow @raniaziar.bsky.social!

Marissa Scavuzzo she/her @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social · Aug 17

(I also came out of running retirement to support them)