Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her)

Research Fellow @Otago🇳🇿 studying astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease👩🏻‍🔬🔬🧠• Teacher of Scottish Country Dancing💃🏻• @NorthwesternU @NYU @FulbrightNZ alum

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

@sunlightatwork @NeuroCellPress Congrats Kiran!! Looking forward to reading 😊

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

So many key techniques we use in the lab relies on click chemistry! 👏👏👏

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

This thread is great!
It sums up the findings from the latest AD clinical trial, and explains what how this new drug might impact the lives of AD patients and their families.

[Robert Y. Chen @therealRYC]

September 27th

@biogen @eisai announce results from their Phase III study of #lecanemab:

Slowing of cognitive decline in #Alzheimers after 18 months of therapy.

p < 0.0001

Why I'm conflicted about this historic win 🧵

#scitwitter #medtwitter #science #brain #medicine

[Assoc. Prof. Tim Sargeant @TimSargeant1]

Extremely important paper for #Alzheimers #Dementia #research - the origin of amyloid plaques is damage to #lysosomes (your cell's recycling centre). #Autophagy-lysosomal dysfunction comes before plaque formation, therefore target lysosomes for therapy
https://t.co/Z6w5YR4LkJ

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

👏👏👏

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

We believe that being first should never take priority over doing things right; we offer scoop protection meaning authors are not penalized because another group has recently published similar findings. https://t.co/RLjuTOL8Bq

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

Probably D5? I feel very called out by this 🙈

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

what is your personality type?

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

🥳 when awesome science from the lab makes it to mainstream media 🙌

[📎ChristineJasoni @JasoniCL]

Fantastic discovery - Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease - by Anatomy @otago researchers!
https://t.co/zxSBFVpM78

[Elodie Desroziers @EloDesroziers]

Love it! Such a good motivating statement for all undergraduate, postgraduate students, postdoc and PI...🙏👩‍💻

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

@AheadOfTheNerve eLife FTW! The process is transparent, they come back to you in an actually reasonable time frame (weeks, not months), and the reviewers actually talk to each other!!! I wish all journals would do it the way eLife does 🙏

[Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD @TawfikLab]

Let’s start calling neurons “non-glial” cells

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

@CourteneyMW Feel better!!! Sending healing energies!!!

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

What a great initiative! 🤗🤩

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

Here is an alternative to BioRender that is TRULY FREE and actively maintained. Over 1500 vectorized images sorted by license type (all creative commons or MIT). Fully editable icons and soon they will launch an Inkscape library. Please RT.

https://t.co/8GFCa5p3A0

[BrainSTEM Otago @Brains_NZ]

Last week we announced the winners of the Beautiful Minds mixed media neuroscience & art competition, thank you to everyone who entered. We will share some of our favourites with you - starting with our winner 'Memories of a Starry Night' by Ruben Vergara Silva. #neuroscience

[Hong-Yuan Chu @ChuHongyuan]

We are hiring postdoctoral fellows, research technicians, and research scientists to study neural circuit dysfunction in mouse models of Parkinson's disease. These positions are open immediately! We will pay your relocation costs. PLEASE apply!

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

That was an awesome conference! My brain is buzzing with all the amazing cool things that glia do. Many thanks to all involved in organising #GliaRoanoke2021 #NatureGlia2021, I thoroughly enjoyed going nocturnal for it!
👩🏻‍🔬🧠🧫✨
#IsItBedTime?

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

@NatureConf Very much appreciate the on-demand option!! Snacks and hot-beverages are keeping me going strong so far 🤓🥨🍪☕️🍵

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

Almost 2am here, which means it’s time for Glial Biology in Medicine 2021! 🤩💪 #GliaRoanoke2021 #GoingNocturnal

[BrainSTEM Otago @Brains_NZ]

Calling all budding artists and brain research enthusiasts! It is your chance to win in the 'Beautiful Minds' competition with up to $1000 worth of prizes 🤩 Entries close on 19th of November. @EMCR_OtagoHS_NZ Make sure you click into the full poster to see the deets to enter!

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

Wonderful to see the importance of basic science being acknowledged with a #NobelPrize in Physiology/Medicine 🥳🤩

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

[Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD (she/her) @ChiwiChick]

Yikes! 😬

[Lisa Boulanger 🧠🔬🧬 @BoulangerLab]

Are you using AAV to deliver genes to the nervous system? Good news / bad news. https://t.co/rugNaVdOln

First the bad news: we found AAV can shrink dendrites and disrupt synaptic transmission. The good news? We figured out why it happens, and can tell you how to avoid it. (1/n)