A neuroscience lab @UCSF studying GPCR signaling in glial cells during brain development and diseases
Joined April 2020
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6 Aug 2025
I am pleased to share with you that our Nature paper (rdcu.be/ezAxR) is now published online. Congratulations to Diankun, Samhita, and all co-authors!
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28 Jul 2025
Scientists discover the receptor that helps your brain clean itself—and fight Alzheimer’s
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28 Jul 2025
Congratulations to Beika Zhu and the Piao lab for the Neuron paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUqk…
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18 Oct 2024
I am very proud to present Dr. Beika Zhu's work: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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8 Oct 2020
Microglia-organized scar-free spinal cord repair in neonatal mice. (2020) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Our Graduate Fair is coming up - now updated with titles and talks! neurograd.ucsf.edu/graduate-… - see flyer to register for this event on 10/27 11-1pm (PST). There will be ample Q/A opportunity for applicants
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9 Oct 2020
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9 Oct 2020
(1/7) Immune disturbances during development increase susceptibility to neurodevelopmental disorders – but how? Work led by @Jin_Cui_ & out today in @Dev_Cell reveals how the choroid plexus propagates maternal inflammatory signals into the fetal brain.🧠
cell.com/developmental-cell/…
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8 Oct 2020
I am humbled to lead the project 3 of a recent successful P01 grant at UCSF. The 5 year funding opens up new postdoctoral positions in the Piao lab (nature.com/naturecareers/job…).
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27 May 2020
Excited to share our last manuscript @embojournal. Great work led by @taoli322 and all the Piao lab. embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…
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26 Apr 2020
Great collaboration with @LabNowakowski
Human microglia upregulate cytokine signatures and accelerate maturation of neural networks biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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