Charleen Chu @mitophagy
Physician scientist studying Parkinson's disease & frontotemporal dementia; mitochondrial recycling; synaptodendritic differentiation and maintenance path.upmc.edu/personnel/Facu… Pittsburgh Joined September 2013-
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After several years of work, our review on Autophagy & Mitophagy at the Synapse is finally out! Thanks to my fabulous co-authors for their dedication and insights. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@SenBobCasey @SenFettermanPA The #EndangeredSpeciesAct turns 50 this year! Please stop attacks on this landmark legislation in Congress #ESA50
Congratulations to Sam on his first R01!! - The Chu Laboratory chulab.weebly.com/4/post/2023/11…
@ekadvany There are other small shops for mail ordering high quality, inexpensive woks and kitchen/dining ware such as kkdiscount.com, which would also be a better solution than Amazon.
@ekadvany Some things are worth waiting for. We should be supporting our local one of a kind shops, not throwing them under the bus.
The next @AJPathology Featured Author Seminar is on Tuesday, March 21! Check out this preview from Dr. Charleen Chu (@mitophagy) from the @PittDeptofMed. Check out a preview youtu.be/2Pa6tH25JtE Register here bit.ly/3marR4q #ASIPvirtual #ASIPwebinar @PittTweet
Revolutionary 😲 Exposure of pregnant mice to BPA results in obesity in progeny for generations. Why? The mice have increased appetite, correlating with #epigenetic events in #sperm, affecting appetite-controlling neurons in hypothalamus. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… by @CorcesVictor
#JNeurosci: Using Pink1 knockout mice, Otero et al. @PittTweet discovered that PINK1 deficiency causes a striking simplification of cortical dendritic architecture, associated with reduced synaptic input and decreased spine density and maturation. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…
Interesting reading for anyone interested in genetic risks for a neurodegenerative diseases. While the examples are for PD, principles apply for AD, FTD, ALS, etc.
Required reading: @jbeck_PhD & colleagues "provide genetic information for professionals to use in their communication to patients & families who have experienced #Parkinsons"; Includes up-to-date info on PD variants, inheritance patterns, & ethical issues nature.com/articles/s4153…
The 2022 MITOtalks season is approaching the last stop! Patricia Boya @patricia_boya will take mitochondria on a cell trip that ends with some of them in the lysosomes. Are you going to miss it??? This thursday, usual time. And stay tuned for news about our 2023 season!!
Join us for Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration 2023! We are bringing together leading academic researchers in #Mitochondrial research to initiate further collaborations. Register now for Earlybird discount: ow.ly/uvXB50LuhE7
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Deadlines are approaching for @KeystoneSymp #Mitochondrial Dysfunction: From Ultra-Rare Diseases to #AgingResearch, this March in Breckenridge! See scholarship, abstract and discount reg dates: bit.ly/3TJ0ERx #KSMitochondria23
Over the past 2 decades, Twitter has become a watercooler for the scientific community. Past studies have estimated that hundreds of thousands of scientists use the site. fal.cn/3tZ32
Scientists Capture Detailed Snapshots of Mouse Brain Cells Nibbling on Neurons Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) play a significant role in synaptic pruning, a new study reveals. #neuroscience #science neurosciencenews.com/opcs-synaptic-…
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Just published @ScienceMagazine A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, effective in experimental models science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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