We are mid-way through Grad Student Appreciation Week and we at the BIG Center are deeply appreciative of the continuous cutting-edge work that all our grad students exemplify and the culture of personal and academic excellent they show. You all make us great!!!

Congrats to BIG Center trainee Michael Kovacs from the Tajie Harris lab Tajie Harris lab for being awarded an F30 fellowship

Nice feature by Bill Petri highlighting neurological complications associated with COVID-19. Looking forward to BIG things to come at UVA. Scientists are getting a clearer picture of what COVID-19 does to your brain. Here's what they found 13newsnow.com/article/news/l… via 13News Now

Today 4/13 at 4 PM - Dr. Talos "Altered immune signaling in epilepsy: evidence from experimental mouse models and human pathology" Neuroscience Graduate Program at UVA

Way to go John Lukens !

Don’t miss BIG_UVA trainee talks by Inge Lentferink Werkman and @lowkeboer89 as well as posters by Josh Kulas and Bria Friestad at #DukeGliaCamp today. We are proud of them for being selected to present their work. 👏👏👏.

The G-lab is looking for a talented post-doc to study the role of ER stress in #inflammation and a technician to study new treatment for #myelin repair - #URM are encouraged to apply - Please RT ad infinitum and DM for questions

Please RT! If you are interested in lipid metabolism in microglia come join us as PRA! We are a small group, but working in a 🔥 area, and as a PI, I'll be committed to your career development too. Feel free to DM or email me for a chat about the role! cu.taleo.net/careersection/…

Congrats to Sandro Da Mesquita, Jonathan Kipnis 💔, and Kipnis Lab on this amazing work. Miss you all, but happy to see you still doing BIG things in science and beyond. 🥳nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats to BIG trainee Dr. Ashley Bolte on publishing an outstanding review article highlighting the roles of microglia and brain drainage (glymphatics-meningeal lymphatics) in traumatic brain injury Trends in Immunology John Lukens Ashley Bolte #concussion #TBI #microglia

Congratulations to BIG_UVA trainee Kendra Liu (Kendra Liu ) in the Kucenas Lab (Dr. Sarah Kucenas) lab for receiving the prestigious Jefferson and Raven Fellowship UVA 👏👏👏. bio.as.virginia.edu/content/more-g…

Congratulations to our BIG Center Faculty Dr. John Lukens John Lukens who will lead a team as a recipient of the Trans University Microbiome Initiative grant from TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative: microbiome.virginia.edu/2021-spring-tu…. 👏👏👏

Our amazing Director Tajie Harris was recognized for her leadership in Neuroimmunology research training UVA and scholarship as a Pinn Scholar. We are proud to have Dr. Harris lead our Center. Future faculty and trainees, BIG is doing big things! 😉. Congrats Tajie👏👏👏.

Neuroimmunology Postdoc position(s) available in the Lukens Lab UVA BIG_UVA to investigate the role of the innate immune system in Alzheimer’s disease and/or neurodevelopmental disorders. Please RT. See link below or hit me up directly. uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/…

Alex Mathew's latest uses a data-driven approach (77 transcriptomes!) to predict how #focusedultrasound BBB opening drives signaling for neurogenesis, amyloid-beta clearance, BBB closure, and others. Virginia BME Focused Ultrasound Foundation UVA Engineering. Theranostics. thno.org/ms/doc/2589/pu…

BIG_UVA faculty Dr. Tajie Harris (Tajie Harris), Dr. Alban Gaultier (Alban Gaultier), Dr. John Lukens (John Lukens) and Dr. Ukpong Eyo (Eyo) got to showcase our Center to Dr. Craig Kent (K. Craig Kent, MD), UVA’s Executive Vice President of Health Affairs today.😎🤩

Our next #ASNI Seminar is on September 30 at noon EDT. Pr Marco Prinz and Dr Lukas Amann from Universität Freiburg will present the myeloid side of the brain with Craig Moore and Dr Marie-Eve Tremblay from UniversityOfVictoria. ZOOM link and more info on: isniweb.org/event/asni-neu…

Happening Oct 27 and Nov 8, we will be hosting two info sessions on the neuroscience graduate program UVA - Sign up to learn more about our grad program and speak with the directors and current grad students. Pls RT! applycentral.virginia.edu/portal/ngp_inf…

Beautiful work coming out of our BIG Center from Alex Kuan that will revise our concepts of Microglial origins showing that they derive (at least in part) from monocytes: cbs19news.com/story/42572507…

Work from our G-Lab Alban Gaultier contributed to the use of #Fluvoxamine. Exciting times!!!