Wu lab celebrated an eventful and productive 2024! Moving the lab from @MayoClinic to @UTHealthHouston is not an easy task. So grateful to everyone for your tremendous efforts setting up the lab. Wish all the prosperous 2025! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
I enjoy being a judge for 30th Neuroscience Poster Session at Texas Medical Center. @MDA_UTHGrad Such a vibrant neuroscience community & glia research here! The trainees are just amazing. Proud of @KoichiHaruwaka@FionaJiaying for best poster awards!@McGovernMed @CNG_UTHealth
Such a pleasure to host Lingxiao @LWang357 PhD defense today @MayoGradSchool. Appreciate his leading efforts in our lab to study microglia and macrophage function in brain injury. Very proud to witness him to mature as a talented and outstanding scientist! Many congrats, Dr Wang!
The first official group photo of Wu lab @UTHealthHouston today! Beryl ruined our planned lab gathering, but we all stayed safe. Appreciate the diligence of members in Houston diligence setting up the new lab at our new Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology @CNG_UTHealth.
Glad to share our study on board-associated macrophages (BAM) published @CellReports! The work was spearheaded by talented PhD student Lingxiao @LWang357@MayoGradSchool We found CCR2+ monocytes are able to replenish resident BAMs when they were depleted or lost under diseases.
Happy holidays! We enjoyed great time at the Wu lab Christmas party. Thanks Dale for the tremendous contribution in the past 6 years! Thanks @AbhijeetBarath@aastha_dheer for organizing the event!
Many congrats on Fiona’s excellent PhD defense today! She is so brave and talented, spearheading the completely new research direction on glioma research in the Wu lab. Thanks committee members @DrAaronJJohnson @Da_Mesquita_S, Dr Vile, Dr Scarisbrick for the tremendous support!
Super excited to share our new paper about TREM2 roles in glioma! Big thanks to my amazing team for their great support. And one step closer to finishing my PhD 😆
https://t.co/9WY6kXJVjv
@LongJun_Wu@MayoGradSchool@NeuroOnc
Super excited to share our new paper about TREM2 roles in glioma! Big thanks to my amazing team for their great support. And one step closer to finishing my PhD 😆
https://t.co/9WY6kXJVjv
@LongJun_Wu@MayoGradSchool@NeuroOnc
Great work from @aastha_dheer on microglial chemogenetics and seizures. Acute activation of microglia Gi signaling reduced seizures while chronic activation increased neuronal death.
Let’s play a little game.
Let’s say that you’re the CSO at a cancer pharma company, and you have to choose a target to go after.
Here’s a gene – high expression is associated with poor prognosis in brain cancer. Looks like a good candidate for an inhibitor right?
My paper about chemogenetic manipulation of CX3CR1+ cells is finally out @molpsychiatry! Big shout out to co-first @FionaJiaying and the team! Very grateful for all the support from my PhD mentor @LongJun_Wu!
Please check it out if you are interested!
👉 https://t.co/xEIjZaB93y
Extremely excited that we are awarded 8-year NINDS R35 grant on how microglia sense and regulate neuronal activity! Truly appreciate the strong support @NINDSfunding! Grateful to all former and current lab members for tremendous contributions and tireless work in past 11 years!