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Natasha O'Brown

@natashaobrown.bsky.social

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Forever developmental biologist at ❤️ studying the blood-brain barrier #BBB in the best model system #zebrafish to understand how different molecular and cellular interactions affect BBB function. www.obrownlab.com

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 54m

Look who's the @navbo.bsky.social lab of the month! So honored. And also if you want to read my story and some unsolicited advice on the academic career path, you can also find it here in NAVBO's Lessons Learned: www.navbo.org/lessons-lear...

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 20h

Yes ma'am

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 22h

So honored to be invited to give a talk at #gliadelphia today. Gotta ❤️ the #glia community. So many great talks and posters. Not pictured are my new kickass silver boots

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 6d

We are looking for a new technician to join our lab and gain some hands on #zebrafish and molecular biology experience. Interested parties should apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... Happy to answer any and all questions about the lab! #STEMJobs

Laboratory/Technical Assistant

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Laboratory/Technical Assistant for the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience within the School of Arts and Sciences. Our mission is to un...

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 11d

#caturday to cleanse your timeliness

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 27d

Really happy with how this write up about our work and me getting the @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar award came out. sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/r...

A Rutgers Scientist Confronts the Assertive “Bouncer” of the Brain, Seeking Insights into Human Health

Rutgers, School of Arts and Sciences: News

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Aug 13

Happy hour with my oldest is food for the soul (so was the lobster roll)

Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Aug 1

Very proud of our #NeuroSURP student Megan Canace presenting her work in the lab this summer and representing the awesomeness of #zebrafish

Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congrats Ondine et al!

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Jul 25

Here's my child #olivefingers to brighten your feed in these depressing times

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Jul 17

Another great #obrownlab dinner in the 📚. I'm so happy to see how we've grown in just 2 years with @tcpotts.bsky.social @lewisgall.bsky.social and others not on bluesky

Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Jul 15

Excited to announce that our collaboration with @briandaniels.bsky.social has been published today! So happy for everyone involved, but especially me and Marissa 😆. Check it out if you're interested in #neuroinflammation and the #BBB www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Astrocytic RIPK3 exerts protective anti-inflammatory activity in mice with viral encephalitis by transcriptional induction of serpins

The kinase RIPK3 suppresses pathologic neuroinflammation in mouse models of flavivirus infection.

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Jul 12

Here's the link: www.fda.gov/news-events/.... Please post a comment about how this would greatly inhibit scientific progress

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Jul 12

My undergrad Inword got some really cool data this week, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate #fluorescencefriday than to share it. She injected oligomeric amyloid-B (red) and it caused these pulses of tracer leakage throughout the brain (turquoise) 1.5 days later. #BBB #zebrafish

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · Jul 9

Devastating and unnecessary

Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · Jul 8

This will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development

Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · Jul 8

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.

Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 7

This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.