Thrilled to be invited to 2025 @AANSNeuro meeting to present on Focal Cortical Dysplasia (#FCD) and meningomyelocele @SpinaBifidaAssn. Wow neurosurgeons have great tools!! I’m so jealous.

At this point, this is unsurprising, but still absolutely appalling. “The top vaccine regulator ousted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the health secretary’s team has sought nonexistent data to justify antivaccine narratives and pushed to water down regulation of unproven stem-cell treatments.”

Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance

Dr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.

wsj.com

Breakthrough study sheds new light on causes | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Breakthrough study sheds new light on causes of spina bifida and potential treatments

Scientists make a significant breakthrough in understanding the genetic causes of spina bifida, a serious birth defect affecting thousands of newborns each year.

eurekalert.org

Dreaded identical ‘red bar’ across 4 of the @NIH 27 institute websites may suggest slating for closure or consolidation.

Check out the press release on our new paper on #meningomyelocele! radygenomics.org/2025/breakth...

Breakthrough Study Sheds New Light on Causes of Spina Bifida and Potential Treatments | RCIGM

New Research Published in Nature Offers Hope for Understanding and Preventing Common Birth Defect San Diego—April 1, 2025– Scientists at Rady Children’s

radygenomics.org

Check out our new paper in @nature that reports genetic mechanisms of neural tube defects in patients. Spina bifida is also known as meningomyelocele (MM). Prior family-based and association studies found only a few linked genes, so we took a different approach. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The contribution of de novo coding mutations to meningomyelocele - Nature

Exome sequencing of 851 trios from more than 2,500 individuals finds 187 genes with de novo mutations that contribute to meningomyelocele (spina bifida) and highlights critical pathways required for n...

nature.com

It’s very tough to delete my 23andme account along with my private information. They make it as difficult as possible. I’m following instructions but still in limbo. Have others had problems?

Sooo proud of this year’s gleesonlab alum PhD applicants, garnering admissions at >10 fantastic programs incl. WashU, Stanford, Harvard, UWash, CSRU, Duke, Baylor, and UCSD! Congrats Mari, Swappi, Ashna! Make us proud!

Excited (but sad) to wish newly minted Prof. Changuk Chung off, to start his lab @KAIST! An amazing postdoc with 10 publications (@Nature x2 and @NatureBiotech, @NatureGenet). He is ready!! Changuk transformed the #devneurosci and #mosaicism fields. Good luck!

Why has #Alzheimers research progress been so slow? Excellent story today in #NYTimes on the plight of research tainted by #eliziermasliah and other fraudsters. This went on right under our noses at at UCSD for years! t.co/FjStpVpcbl

Welcome 2025! Check out our new review on #development, considering human-specific dorsal origin of cortical interneurons. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/....

Does anyone know if #GMKF funding was on or out of the bill passed yesterday?

Did you know San Diego has the world’s largest outdoor organ, with 5,089 pipes! Come enjoy a free holiday concert!

Great conversation today with legends @geneyeo @craigventer at the @salkinstitute.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social mtg on RNA Therapeutics.

I’m new to Bluesky! ‘So far, so good’. I’m learning to ‘unlike’ posts about cats, dogs, and politics!