Maria Weinert

♡ Neuroscience, Epigenomics, and Microglia

[Maria Weinert @MariaWeinert9]

Looking forward to another year of brilliant people and amazing talks!!!

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

A warm welcome back to all ECRs, another exciting academic year is starting 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓✨ We are back for another year of seminars, workshops and socials🍕✍️👩‍💼🥪 We will kick-start our new 2024-2025 season of the Future Leader seminar series with a talk from Dr @AnnaMallach

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

This month your @ImperialBrains ECR committee is being very active💪next week we have another seminar from our Future Leader series planned out for you🥳Our speaker is Dr Anob Chakrabarti from @ucl @TheCrick who will share his career path and wisdom about the academic ladder🪜

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Our @ImperialBrains ECRs special event for May is now live and ready for you to sign up🙌This month we're offering you a 1-day🆓workshop lead by Dr Simon Andrews from @babraham_bioinf to learn how to assemble publication-quality figures for your reports and papers 💻🔡📊📈📉📰

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Last week we had our Sci-Fi start-up pitching challenge!! 3 candidate start-up founders pitched ideas for flying cargo-dragons, music-adjustable plants and disease-detector portals🐉🌱🩻 The panel questions were brutal, but no scientists were hurt in the process! @ImperialBrains

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

This Friday the first @ImperialBrains ECR social event of the year is coming up! To celebrate the beginning of Spring (finally🌷) we invite all DoBS ECRs to join us for a special lunch event!👾👽🛸🌏 as usual, food and drinks provided, which are not that special anymore...

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Reserve your slot here 👇
https://t.co/ezTozB5Ghw

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

📢Happening tomorrow!! 📢📷 join us for our next Future Leaders Seminar 📷 👇 Don't forget to register on the Eventbrite link.
14th Feb, 12-1pm (☕️&🥪)
📍Uren, Room 1204
@imperialcollege @ImperialBrains @UKDRI

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Happy new year to all ECRs!!🍾
We are starting 2024 with a fantastic new event 🧑‍💼 join us for a 1-day workshop on @QIAGEN Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) software for analysis of 'omics datasets🧑‍💻
🗓️ 24th Jan 10am – 4pm (☕️&🥪provided)
📍Seminar room 13A, Commonwealth building

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Happening tomorrow!!
All Imperial DoBS ECRs (PhD students, post-docs, and related..) welcome!👩‍🔬🧑‍💻
Free food🍕drinks🍻 and games📢provided!
@ImperialBrains

[Wade-Martins Lab @WadeMartinsLab]

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are seeking an Apprentice Laboratory and Facilities Technician to start in early 2024. The closing date for this post is 20 Nov at 12 noon. More info: https://t.co/CT5BZ3G86K @KavliOxford @OxfordDPAG @DPAGAthenaSwan

[Alessia Caramello @alessia_neuro]

Thank you @Joe_Airey for joining us and everyone else for attending our seminars 🙏 @ImperialBrains

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Not to be a crankypuss, but awarding a Nobel for work that suffered from not being taken seriously for decades only *after* it proved to be of incredible value is not a triumph of prizemaking - it's a complete condemnation of it and the entire culture of modern academic science.

[Maria Weinert @MariaWeinert9]

@alessia_neuro @UKDRI_ECR @Ger_Crowley13 We had the best of times during the @UKDRI_ECR social yesterday. Thanks to the organisers @alessia_neuro, @Ger_Crowley13, and Paige Mumford!

[Maria Weinert @MariaWeinert9]

Really happy to share that our article "Translocator protein is a marker of activated microglia in rodent models but not human neurodegenerative diseases" was chosen by the editors at @NatureComms for their Editors' Highlights "From brain to behaviour": https://t.co/1ImjxECa90

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Another great Future Scientific Leader seminar yesterday🔮Thanks @jonnykohl for joining us, sharing your career path and your lab exciting current work on parental behaviour🐭Great food for thoughts for all our ECRs👩‍🔬Stay tuned for our next event in May🗓️👋@ImperialBrains

[Chris Toseland @ChrisToseland]

I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever.

Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy.

If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer @CR_UK

[ECRs from Imperial Brain Sciences @ImpECRbrains]

Are you a PhD student wondering what to do next?🧪Or a post-doc trying to get the most of your project?🧑‍🏫Join us at our Future Scientific Leader seminar to hear Philippa Warren talking about her research and career👩‍🔬light lunch provided for further discussion🥪🤩 @ImperialBrains

[Maria Weinert @MariaWeinert9]

@nottalexi @UKDRI @ImperialBrains Glad to be part of such a great bunch. Happy end of gregorian year to everyone!🎉

[Maria Weinert @MariaWeinert9]

@SelinaWray @braincomms @n_willumsen @AlzResearchUK Congratulation Nanet and the rest of the team. Well deserved laurels!

[Alessia Caramello @alessia_neuro]

📢to all the Imaging Mass Cytometry community📢Are you currently using (or would like to) IMC for your research?🔬I’m hosting a Method Collection on @JoVEJournal🖥️Submit your protocol as a video📽️and help me create an IMC go-to resource for years to come!
https://t.co/Y84tQhSloh