Andrea Cugurra

Previously PhD student @Kipnislab (🇺🇸🇩🇪)
Current PostDoc @Iannaconelab (🇮🇹)
#allthingsneuroliver
Opinions are mine (especially those that offend you 🤩)

[De Giovanni Lab @MarcoDegiov89]

🚨 Excited to share the first study from our lab published in Science Immunology (https://t.co/xejEk4WNDC) led by @DavideMarotta18 , in collaboration with the great @iannaconelab !!

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

Congratulation!!! @EnriqueGab @gsotoheredero @MMittelbrunn

[Nature Aging @NatureAging]

Online now! @EnriqueGab, @gsotoheredero et al identify an accumulation of cytotoxic CD4+ T cells producing CCL5 in the bone marrow during aging, linked to age-associated myelopoiesis. Blocking this axis improves healthspan in aged mice @MMittelbrunn https://t.co/kEvxzMnk14

[Jang Hyun (Jay) Park @janghyun_park_]

So exciting to finally see this paper out!
This work was only possible thanks to our amazing collaborators and everyone in the @kipnislab. I am especially grateful to @jonykipnis for his tremendous support and mentorship throughout this work.

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@jonykipnis @janghyun_park_ just...wow!🥰

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

https://t.co/9PRUPIbNDg

[Sachin Gadani @SachinGadani]

The Gadani Lab at the University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a post-doc!
We are a new neuroimmunology lab interested in progressive multiple sclerosis, meningeal inflammation, and reactive glia. 1/3

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@jonykipnis also one of the most viewed GIT :)

[nature @Nature]

Book review 📚 A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic

https://t.co/J9NmPsamIY

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@KeystoneSymp @TheEndoSociety @ValentinaVenzin

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

🦦🐐☄️

[Iannacone Lab @iannaconelab]

Proud of Dr. @ValentinaVenzin, a former PhD student in my lab, for winning the EFIS ACTERIA Doctoral Thesis Prize! Her work revealed how CD4+ T cells rescue dysfunctional CD8+ T cells in the liver during chronic HBV via IL-27. Congrats, Valentina! 🎉
https://t.co/ENygYsUBub

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

I was the last scientist Susumu hired.

I joined his lab before the pandemic carrying an idea that was ambitious, uncertain, and still largely unformed. He believed in me before there was any reason to know whether the work would succeed. When institutional pressure mounted, he defended my right to pursue the science. He gave me the freedom and resources to follow the idea wherever it led, until the only real limit was my imagination.

Susumu taught me what it means to be a rigorous scientist. To distrust easy answers. To follow the evidence even when it leads somewhere you did not want to go. To demand more from an idea precisely because you love it.

We rejoiced together when an experiment revealed something beautiful, and we were equally miserable when months of work collapsed into failure. Science was never abstract around him. It was something you lived intensely, with your whole mind and body.

Some of my warmest memories have little to do with the laboratory. I think of the many evenings I spent with Susumu and Mayumi in their home, sharing a delicuous Japanese meal and talking about science, life, history, and the strange paths that bring people together.

My hands are seriously shaking as I write this.

With his death, I cannot escape the feeling that I was the last seed he planted in an extraordinary scientific lineage. The responsibility of carrying something of him forward now feels heavier than I can express.

Of all the lessons Susumu taught me, the one I will carry most deeply is seik��hō. When you do something, confront it directly and head-on. Commit yourself completely, with all your strength.

That is how Susumu lived as a scientist.

That is how I will carry his legacy forward.

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[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

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[MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower]

We are heartbroken to have lost our founder, who provided so much inspiration, but we are all honored to carry on the science he loved so much. https://t.co/IR7QX8g0Q0 #neuroscience #biology

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@ScienceMagazine @ValentinaVenzin

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@JasonSynaptic @NutritionNerd Any chance you could make a small detour to Milan to share your great science? :D Happy holidays!

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@CarlBovisNature @ValentinaVenzin

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Camillo Golgi received the 1906 medicine prize for discovering nerve cells could be stained with silver nitrate. This enabled Golgi and other researchers to make detailed studies of our nervous system, such as the ones pictured.

Learn more: https://t.co/eXwwoypgow

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@drrussellledet @ValentinaVenzin

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

https://t.co/WgqTjyXmPG Ignoring virtually every landmark paper that has defined neuroimmune cognition over the past two decades is quite an achievement. Somehow, this review pulled it off!, and even managed to cite a retracted paper. Parkour! 😍

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@ingelfingerlab It really reminds me of the waisman-becher retreats, similar vibes 🙃!

[Andrea Cugurra @Cugu89]

@jonykipnis @tmamuladze Congratulations Tornike!!:)