Franzi Auer
@franziau.bsky.social
Postdoc at NYU studying myelin in circuits 🐟 Triathlon and biking
Now on bioRxiv! Astrocytes in one brain region (cyan) communicate in expansive networks (magenta). Through tool development, tissue clearing, and many hours on our @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Z1, we now know these networks are repeatable across mice, plastic, and specific. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
New preprint evaluating the recent claim of epigenetically regulated immune memory in astrocytes. We believe this finding was likely artifactual, resulting from immune cell contamination & cell type mis-annotation across multiple transcriptomics experiments:
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y agoEpigenetic memory astrocytes are likely an artifact of immune cell contamination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647246v1
I, for one, am not reassured by the fact the German extreme right only got 20 percent. The acceptable number of German far-rightists is zero. The 1930s taught us that.
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
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New paper out from the lab! Led by @gdfnunes.bsky.social and Lindsay Osso in collaboration with the lab of Dan Denman. Check it out! 🔬 🐭 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Incomplete remyelination via therapeutically enhanced oligodendrogenesis is sufficient to recover visual cortical function - Nature Communications
Remyelination can restore neural function. Here, the authors characterize the drivers and limits of endogenous remyelination and explore a therapy that rescued remyelination deficits and accelerated n...
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Closing out the year, @cbellegarda.bsky.social and @franziau.bsky.social argue that zebrafish have much to teach us about diversity. Well, diversity among motor neurons that move the eyes, anyway 👀. Plus read our opinionated takes on current articles too! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kL%7Eb3Q9...
Happy to share our review on how different lipids shape microglial biology in #GLIA journal. 💫 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 👉🏽with Gaurav Chopra, Caitlin Randolph, and @katherinewalker.bsky.social
Lipids: Emerging Players of Microglial Biology
Lipids are crucial in mediating microglial metabolism and function. The microglial lipidome is vast and complex, with over 10,000 lipid species. We discuss key lipid classes and their roles in m...
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PhD opportunity: If you're interested in how astrocytes and the meninges talk to each other and how this is affected in dementia come do your PhD with us in Edinburgh (cc: Karen Horsburgh and Ingo Schiessl)! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(VIDA DTC) Exploring the role of the astrocyte-leptomeningeal vessel interface in dementia at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (VIDA DTC) Exploring the role of the astrocyte-leptomeningeal vessel interface in dementia at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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