Our review on glial orchestration of neurodevelopment is online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social! Great fun working with Krissy Sakers and Pat Sheehan from the Eroglu and Schafer labs, and special thanks to first author Krissy for her tremendous work bringing this to fruition! www.cell.com/developmenta...

Glia orchestrate neural circuit development

In this review, Sakers et al. discuss how astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocyte lineage cells actively regulate neural circuit formation, refinement, and stabilization. They propose that coordina...

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Ready for an exciting @fens.org Forum in #Barcelona! Visit our posters to check the latest findings in our different projects on #astrocyte involvement in #cortico-#limbic #circuit function! #ptglia @icvs-uminho.bsky.social @uminho.bsky.social

Delighted to be at FENS in Barcelona, attending the Network Glia satellite symposium on Emerging roles of glial cells in brain function and disease! If you're around, come say hi at Booth #158 to learn more about the national glia networks, including the French Glial Cell Club! #FENS2026 #FENSGlia

FENSGlia – Building the International Glia Community We end today's series by bringing the community together! Join us for the #FENSGlia Social Evening on Wed, 8 July, 20:00 at Plaça d'Osca, Barcelona. Wear your GLIA sticker from Booth 158 to spot fellow gliologists. See you there! #FENS2026

Join us Glial friends! #ptglia

Network Glia | European Glia Meeting@gliameeting.bsky.social · last mo.

FENSGlia – Building the International Glia Community Visit the Network Glia | Joint Booth (158) at #FENS2026 and meet our growing glia network community. Learn about us, connect with colleagues, and enter our raffle! Closes Wed 14:00; prizes awarded at the booth (attendance required). #FENSGlia

🧠 Special Issue @jneurochem.bsky.social now complete! #Astrocytes in #Cognition and #Behavior This special issue features reviews and research articles that explore how #astrocytes integrate #neural #circuits to understand #cognition and #behavior. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

New paper out in Glia! Male and female mice regulate their sleep-promoting VLPO astrocytes very differently across the day. 👉 pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/42252582/ #Sleep #Glia #Astrocytes #Neuroscience #VLPO #SexDifferences #CalciumImaging #Circadian @cirbcdf.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Already out! Don't miss the comprehensive analysis and discussion about astrocyte complexity. Great work led by Joao Oliveira and Christian Henneberger 👏 @cncajal-csic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @mujeresconciencia.com

🎉🔬 On June 1st, we celebrated Children's Day in a very special way at ICVS! We were delighted to welcome 5th-grade students from Teresiano School, got a closer insight into scientific research and take part in hands-on activities designed to spark their curiosity and interest in science.

It was great to deliver this Keynote at #AstrocyteCafe2026 . It was probably my longest discussion ever. I'm still impressed with the quality of the students and postdocs attending this meeting. The future of #astrocyte research is secured!

Carmen Falcone@carmenfalcone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a great day full of science and #astrocytes. Best thing? Early career researchers giving inspiring talks and lots of stimulating discussions during breaks. Also @joaofoliveira.bsky.social delivered the most fun and amazing keynote lecture🤩

Call for Travel Grants for FENS Satellite Event – SENC Student Members A total of 750 EUR has been awarded by SENC to support student attendance at the FENS Satellite Event. Deadline for applications: June 8, 2026 Notification of results: June 12, 2026 Sent to: secretariat@networkglia.eu

An inspiring meeting in Braga with fantastic people resulted in a review article reflecting on the functional units of astrocytes across scales: lnkd.in/d4_epPtY. Very grateful to be part of this scientific journey. Many thanks to all authors & @joaofoliveira.bsky.social & @chenneberger.bsky.social

Out today in @natneuro.nature.com What started as a great discussion at an amazing meeting organized by @joaofoliveira.bsky.social culminated in our new Perspective on how #astrocyte functions operate across multiple spatial scales. Read: rdcu.be/fk0B7 Full text: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The multiple scales of astrocytic functional units

Nature Neuroscience - Astrocytes modulate complex brain functions. These ubiquitous glial cells constitute a multilayered system of functional units that operate across multiple spatial scales,...

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Great and comprehensive review by @joaofoliveira.bsky.social, @chenneberger.bsky.social and other leading experts in @natneuro.nature.com on the organisation and multiple functions of #astrocytes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The multiple scales of astrocytic functional units - Nature Neuroscience

Astrocytes modulate complex brain functions. These ubiquitous glial cells constitute a multilayered system of functional units that operate across multiple spatial scales, thereby increasing the degre...

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We're thrilled to share this #Perspective @natneuro.nature.com on #astrocytes as a multilayered system of #functional #units that operate across spatial scales. 👉Available for reading here: rdcu.be/fk0B7 👉Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The multiple scales of astrocytic functional units - Nature Neuroscience

Astrocytes modulate complex brain functions. These ubiquitous glial cells constitute a multilayered system of functional units that operate across multiple spatial scales, thereby increasing the degre...

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🧠 New preprint from our lab! #Hippocampal #astrocytes actively contribute to: 👉 the encoding of #context-specific #aversive stimuli 👉 predict #recall of #fear #behavior. @icvs-uminho.bsky.social @caixaresearch.bsky.social #PTglia

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hippocampal astrocytes contribute to encoding context-specific aversive stimuli to regulate fear-related behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.22.727208v1

ICVS researcher Isabel Veiga was featured on Antena 1’s program 90 Seconds of Science, where she discussed her current project focused on identifying new therapeutic targets for malaria treatment 🦠🔬 👉 Listen to the interview here: www.rtp.pt/play/p2936/e...

The weekend is an excellent time for a GLIAL WALK! #PTGlia #MoveForYourGlia Check out how the first Kms-long #glial #cells ever recorded! redeglial.weebly.com/move-for-you...

Move for your GLIA!

​ We are happy to announce our newest activity to celebrate our 10th anniversary: MOVE FOR YOUR GLIA!  ​This initiative invites participants to design walking or running routes shaped like glial...

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João Filipe Oliveira@joaofoliveira.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An exciting initiative! Go out and #Move for #your #GLIA! ... and share with us! All information here: redeglial.weebly.com/move-for-you...

Sharing the latest from the lab. Led by Yunlong Liu, this work explores how microglia and engram neurons interact during fear extinction in the hippocampus. rdcu.be/fgNH7

Microglia-dependent regulation of fear memory extinction

Nature Neuroscience - Liu et al. show in mice that microglia are recruited to the soma and dendritic processes of fear engram neurons during extinction learning and that they weaken fear memories...

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Interested in finding your own astrocyte networks? The plasmid is now available on Addgene! www.addgene.org/252501/ Check out how we implemented it in this paper, published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Need extra guidance? Watch this space for a more detailed protocol paper soon!

📢 ICVS Advanced Seminar! Today, 12 pm, room A0.02, UMinho School of Medicine. 🎤 Karen Duff 🧬 "Tauopathy in Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia" Join us for cutting-edge science. See you there! #ICVS #AdvancedSeminars

An exciting initiative! Go out and #Move for #your #GLIA! ... and share with us! All information here: redeglial.weebly.com/move-for-you...

Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - Nature

Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.

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1 week left! Submit your abstract for FENS 2026 Satellite Event SE07 – Emerging Roles of Glial Cells in Brain Function and Disease (5 July, Barcelona). Join leading & early-career researchers. Deadline: 30 April 2026 https://www.networkglia.eu/activities/

I had an amazing time at the #International #Astrocyte #School with good old and new friends and a bright student team! What an inspiring place to discuss astrocyte physiology and research. The future of astrocyte research is bright! 🌟 #IAS2026

Feeling like learning about a secret astrocyte network in the brain? Check out the latest from @melcooperphd.bsky.social in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (take two because I'm out of action on the socials!)

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - Nature

Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.

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We are doing it again!!!! Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)! We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️

I'm super proud of João Viana for his excellent PhD defense! João is a central and vital piece in my lab, and it felt like a walk in the park. I'm thankful to Richard Robitaille, Albino Oliveira-Maia, and Sandra Vaz for the terrific discussion! @icvs-uminho.bsky.social @champalimaudr.bsky.social

I had a great time at the #Glial #Symposium of the @warsawgliacomm.bsky.social in Warsaw. Awesome presentations and excellent discussions with this emerging #glial community. I'm looking forward to the next endeavors and collaborations! @szewczyklukasz.bsky.social

Meet our speakers at #WGC2025! João de Oliveira will explore how astrocytes shape behavior, and Prof. Bożena Kamińska will discuss their plasticity in brain tumors. Join us in Warsaw for cutting-edge brain science! 🧠 #Astrocyte #Hippocampus #NeuroOncology #GLIA #WGC @joaofoliveira.bsky.social