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Olsen Lab - VT @OlsenLabVT

Professor and Director of the School of Neuroscience, #got_astrocytes, neuroscientist, glial biologist, #blacklivesmatter, @VTNeuro, @virginia_tech

Joined July 2018
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Excited to share our latest work - a great collaboration with the Cowell lab at UAB, and many others. Great work by PhD students Sushmita, Alana, Ray and Xiaoran. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Novel Roles for the Ectoenzyme CD38 in the Maintenance of Transcriptional and Metabolic Homeostasis...

CD38 deficiency influences brain NAD/NAM metabolism. Global CD38 deficiency drives changes in astrocyte mitochondrial, metabolic, senescence, and neurodegenerative-related genes. CD38 deficiency...

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Check out this powerful article by chemist Amanda Morris at VT and her colleagues. Can the same not be said for neuroscience/biomedical science? US must support chemistry research | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

US must support chemistry research

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Congratulations to our amazing faculty - again a University Exemplary Department Award based on reducing barriers for undergraduate research. Shout out to Elizabeth Gilbert and all the others that spearheaded this effort! news.vt.edu/articles/2025/01…
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The School of Neuroscience is looking for an associate or full professor rank to lead the newly established Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research. Amazing science, competitive start-up, salary and space! careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
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The School of Neuroscience at VT is hiring! We are inviting applications for a tenure track assistant professor. Great science, excellent start up and space. Amazing place to live. careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
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The School of Neuroscience is inviting applications for a tenure track assistant professor position. Great colleagues, startup and salary! careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
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Eyo @eyolab
17 Jul 2024
Speaking of our Department, this work just dropped from twitterless Dr. Bhanu Tewari and our Chair Dr. Harry Sontheimer on the dance between PNNs and astrocytes. There's glia, there's epilepsy, AD, electrophysiology, and excitment galore. Enjoy!!! 🤩🥳👏🏾nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice

Nature Neuroscience - Perineuronal nets stabilize synapses inhibiting synaptic plasticity. Here, the authors show that perineuronal nets act as a diffusion barrier facilitating astrocytic clearance...

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Single base resolution 5mC and 5hmC atlas in mouse cortex - neurons, astrocytes and microglia (99% CpG coverage). biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… Explore the data, or your favorite gene (NAM-Me, olsenlab.shinyapps.io/NAMME/)
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Join me in supporting Virginia Tech Giving Day! Starts today at noon! givingday.vt.edu We have supported over 70 summer undergraduate research fellowships, in part, through donor giving day support! 66 donations will unlock our 10K challenge!

Giving Day 2026

View Giving Day results here!

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one more time... The School of Neuroscience is hiring! Have a strong interest in teaching at the collegiate level, working with amazing colleagues and living in a beautiful place? If the answer is yes, check out careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
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The School of Neuroscience is hiring! Have a strong interest in teaching at the collegiate level, working with amazing colleagues and living in a beautiful place? If the answer is yes, check out hokies.dc4.pageuppeople.com/…
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Smart Biology
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Wrapping our #Top10Countdown with a bang! At #1 is 2023 Smart Biology's new immersive animations. Capturing the top spot is the Golgi ribbon animation. ow.ly/ywT350QlksK #biology #3D #Golgi #animation #education #EdTech
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Shane Liddelow 🍊 @LiddelowSA
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we're live - @CSHL #CSHLGlia 2024 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.a… NEW DATE: Aug 20-24 SAME RULES: LOADS of trainee talks, LOADS of exciting sessions (building & remodeling a nervous system; modeling glia in humans, degeneration, regenerations, & disease; brain borders; circuit control)

Glia in Health & Disease

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Had to post this amazing photo of Ray and his mom again. Congratulations to Dr. Raymundo Hernandez, so proud of you! That is what getting a PhD should look like!
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Frontiers Publishing Partnerships
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New to @dmrf's journal Dystonia! "Cerebellar dysfunction in rodent models with dystonia, tremor, and ataxia" by Meike van der Heijden and Dystonia's Editor-in-Chief @SillitoeLab is now available to read and download! Check out the article here ➡fro.ntiers.in/GmJS
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Check out the Pickrell lab's latest publication! @paulswagatika @Pickrelllab demonstrate that NAP1/AZI2 is a #cellcycle protein that activates TBK1 during #mitosis and regulates key mitotic and cytokinetic proteins to ensure accurate #celldivision. bit.ly/41gaUpx

NAK-associated protein 1/NAP1 activates TBK1 to ensure accurate mitosis and cytokinesis

Paul et al. demonstrate that NAP1/AZI2 is a cell cycle protein that activates TBK1 during mitosis and regulates key mitotic and cytokinetic proteins to ens

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The School of Neuroscience at VT is hiring a associate/full professor who will also serve as Director for the Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research. Join our interdisciplinary, innovative faculty! careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
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A recap from the Olsen lab folks at SFN! It was a great meeting.
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