It’s always a pleasure to have an excuse to wear my Post Malone merch brain scan shirt 🧠. At this year’s BCH Pathology Department Retreat, I got to share my thesis work as an enthusiastic talk, chat about exciting new directions, & climb a tree for a Lehtinen Lab photo. ✨

Mark your calendars! The age old question, “when will you be done with your PhD?” finally has an answer! More details to come, but there will be an in person public seminar at Harvard Medical School as well as a zoom option. To receive updates via email: forms.gle/uoZsf8esBqQM4H…

UPDATE: After I defend in Sep, I’ll be starting a postdoc with Dr. Bill Robinson’s autoimmune disease lab at Stanford University. I’m VERY excited to get the chance to study viral and bacterial triggers of chronic autoimmune diseases.🦠

R01 revised & submitted for June 5th deadline! Thankful for an advisor who gives me the freedom & guidance to learn this skill. I’m excited about this iteration - loads more prelim data, new collaborators, & a better understanding of the literature. Now? Vacation. 🌴

Looking forward to chair a symposium on “Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in health and disease” with Lehtinen Lab Lundgaard Lab and Kiavash Movahedi Thursday 27th afternoon 15:45-17:15 #FENS2024. Mark your calendar and see you soon in Vienna!

Fusion partners and chromosomal breakpoints of oncogenic fusions are not stochastic - Biagio Ricciuti, MD PhD Giannis Mountzios Dana-Farber Nature Communications Chiarle lab Lehtinen Lab Mark Awad Alessandro Di Federico, MD Taek-Chin Cheong oncodaily.com/insight/88024.… #Cancer #NSCLC #LCSM #OncoDaily #Oncology

Delighted to visit the Austrian Academy of Science Austrian Academy of Sciences with Lehtinen Lab while attending #FENS2024 FENS.

Our symposium on cerebrospinal fluid dynamics is happening today 27th June at #FENS2024 Hall H 15:45-17:15 with Lehtinen Lab Lundgaard Lab Movahedi Lab. Please come and contribute to the discussions on the multifaceted roles of #CSF

The choroid plexus synergizes with immune cells during neuroinflammation Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Out in Cell now with added data and analysis! Huixin and colleagues report that the choroid plexus has specialized epithelial-immune synergy that modulates epithelial barrier plasticity during brain inflammation. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

What a journey! A huge thank you again to all my incredibly supportive and talented mentors and coauthors. I had a great time discussing this work at FASEB #TNISRC this week and learning everything about neuroimmunology.

“Technological advances allowed us to uncover this exciting biology that no one ever expected.” - Thank you to Boston Children's for featuring our recent work on ChP management of brain inflammation (ft. Jose Ordovas-Montanes and Peter Lotfy) on their Answers blog! answers.childrenshospital.org/choroid-plexus…

I’m overjoyed to announce that my K99/R00 proposal has been funded by The National Institute on Aging (NIA) as of today!! I am very excited about the project which is a collaboration with Lehtinen Lab to study the blood-CSF barrier with new analytical tools I’ve developed in the Gygi Lab. Feeling grateful!!

Ya’el Courtney, PhD

Congratulations to THREE new Lehtinen Lab PhDs: Peter Kalugin Miriam Zawadzki Ya'el Courtney, PhD. 🎉 We enjoyed 3 excellent defenses in 24 hours, representing years of work. Good luck to Peter & Miri as they return to medical school to complete MD/PhDs, & to Ya’el in her postdoc at Stanford!

In the latest issue! The choroid plexus synergizes with immune cells during neuroinflammation dlvr.it/TCzHhR

If you are interested in Brain Barriers I highly recommend reading this beautiful paper in Cell from Lehtinen Lab about the choroid plexus - immune cell crosstalk in neuroinflammation.

We profiled embryonic CSF in a mouse model of maternal immune activation (MIA) with Bory Petrova and Lehtinen Lab. Now out in Journal of Biological Chemistry. jbc.org/article/S0021-…