Pooja Sakthivel

neuro phd candidate at @ucirvinesom | spinal cord injury & glia 👩🏽‍🔬| @drexeluniv alum | she/her

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

Check out our new paper out now in nature regenerative medicine!! @DrBrianCummings

https://t.co/Rg9SCmyNXY

[neuroimmuno nerd dominic 🧠🦠🍉 @djneuronnerd]

Another @biorxivpreprint from our lab! We systemically infected 5xFAD mice with mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 to parse out its impact on Alzheimer's neuropathology & its impact on CNS cell types using spatial transcriptomic imaging. Check it out below! 🧠🦠 https://t.co/ADySyqMacN

[UC Irvine @UCIrvine]

Aileen Anderson named vice chancellor for research at UC Irvine. The internationally recognized neuroscientist will helm the Office of Research, which provides central campus administrative support, oversight & compliance assurance for research programs. https://t.co/BqEOqbzpF9

[UCI Stem Cell @UciStemCell]

Thanks to your support, we raised $22,450 from 27 donors on #UCIGivingDay, and were able to unlock our gift challenge of $15,000 from Dr. Lorna Carlin! This support will play a vital role in providing funding to our scientists as they accelerate their research.

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

Check out this talk if you want to learn more about some of the cool traumatic brain injury work our lab does! 🧠

[Brian Cummings @DrBrianCummings]

Jonny Hasselmann and I just presented a public seminar "Unlocking Hope - Using Stem Cells to Better Understand Traumatic Brain Injury." I open with examples of serendipitous NIH funding of science and why DOGE shouldn't be in charge of funds https://t.co/Knn4OAKkxf via @YouTube

[UCI Stem Cell @UciStemCell]

Join us in Gross Hall on Tues, March 4th @ 7 PM! Light refreshments will be provided at this free event! Dr. Cummings and Dr. Hasselmann will be presenting "Unlocking Hope: Using Stem Cells to Better Understand Traumatic Brain"! See the Linktree in our bio to register!

[Ologies is on blooski @Ologies]

an episode on MEMORY!

why is yours bad? where are mems stored?

also childbirth amnesia, movie myths, aging, cramming, hormones, & how to let go of the past.

Mnemonology w/ Dr. @mike_yassa of @ucicnlm ·& @uci_brain is avail for you here:

https://t.co/UzxfRtrfN7

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

Welcome our November issue into the world!

https://t.co/PmWI5Oa0uO

[Calli McMurray @callimcflurry]

Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?

My first feature for @_TheTransmitter investigates the emotional and existential fallout for one lab in the aftermath of a misconduct case.
https://t.co/xawx3J7mCC

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

@DanielaCossio96 @UCIrvineGD @chrastil @cientificolatin Congrats Daniela!!! 🤩🥳

[Gan Lab @LiGanLab]

We're excited for our latest work published in @Neuron! We explored the impact of Alzheimer's risk factors APOE4 and TREM2-R47H in a tauopathy mouse model, revealing elevated microglial cGAS-STING signaling and senescence in females with both risk factors. https://t.co/kOnA3cUsn5

[UCLA Broad Stem Cell @UCLAstemcell]

Center trainee Mary Doan invites you to experience a “day in the life” as a UCLA PhD candidate studying molecular and medical pharmacology. She’s studying how pluripotent stem cells “eat” or use specific nutrients to enable their next identity in the @TeitellLab. 👩🏻‍🔬🧫 🍧 🏖️

[Heechul @jun_heechul]

Our research is now published in @Nature! This work, the culmination of my graduate work with @jasonyensunlee and @kei_m_igarashi, investigates item-outcome associative learning in the context of prefrontal-entorhinal cortical circuit.

https://t.co/N6sXWh48br

[neuroimmuno nerd dominic 🧠🦠🍉 @djneuronnerd]

I'm excited to announce that I was invited to speak at this week's @FASEBorg Translational #Neuroimmunology conference here in Niagara Falls! This short talk will be my FIRST conference talk, so I'm really excited to receive questions and feedback about my graduate research! 🥳🧠

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

@DanielaCossio96 @JNeurochem Thanks Daniela! Hehe that’s coming next keep an eye out 👀

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

I am SOO excited to share the first piece of my dissertation work ( & my first first-author paper!) - out now in @JNeurochem 🤩🤩🤩

https://t.co/KUSiPySmBM

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

@ActToCap @JNeurochem Thank you Bri!!

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

@RVillareal12 You’re so kind, thank you Ray! 😊

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

@mara_burns1 Thank you so much, Mara!!

[Pooja Sakthivel @sciencepooj]

We use iPSC-derived microglia to identify C1q as a regulator of microglial function. C1q triggers changes in microglial lipid storage, mitochondrial activity, migration, & proliferation! This highlights a novel function of C1q, distinct from its role in the complement cascade