Alexandra Martinez Lopez @TheAlexML
PhD student @PennNGG • 🇸🇻 Joined August 2019-
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On this #RareDiseaseDay2025 , we cannot remain silent. We must fight on the beach, and on the bench. Call your elected officials, call those who weren't elected who have become our officials. It is not "saving" us money, it is costing us our future. #fightonthebench
Interested in studying type I interferonopathy? Here is a primer on existing tools from the self proclaimed "AGS supergroup". doi.org/10.1111/imr.13…
Know an undergraduate who wants to pursue a neuroscience PhD? @WUSTL_ENDURE empowers participants in their path to graduate school and beyond. Includes $7000 per summer, travel, housing, two scientific meetings/year. Applications due by Feb. 3, 2025. endure.wustl.edu/apply/
Are you URM applying to #PennNGG? Want help with your CV and/or research statement before submitting your application? Sign up for our Application Support Program, to match with a current NGG student and/or faculty member! Read more and sign up here: forms.gle/y4wx93u3fwTXjT…
🧬 With biomedical PhD applications open now, I often get asked for advice. I created a guide filled with tips from my own journey to Harvard & insights from others. I use it to lead workshops & it’s ready to help you too! ✨ Dive in and share! ⬇️ yaelcourtney.com/phdapplication…
We are happy to announce that we have received a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (@BWFUND) to launch a GSEC Scholarship Fund to support 34 1st year grad students (part of our GSEC 2024 program) by covering financial expenses in their 1st year of grad school.
Interested in a PhD in Neuroscience? Join us in-person or virtually for a #PennNGG admissions info session on October 17 at 5:30 pm EST! 👉Registration open now: tinyurl.com/NGGInfo2024 We can’t wait to see you there!
Some cool new microglia replacement systems in which we show brain macrophages are sufficient to drive interferonopathy in a model of Aicardi Goutieres syndrome. Work by @Kel_Nem with @FChrisBennett ... and our lab's (MBL) first paper!
Some cool new microglia replacement systems in which we show brain macrophages are sufficient to drive interferonopathy in a model of Aicardi Goutieres syndrome. Work by @Kel_Nem with @FChrisBennett ... and our lab's (MBL) first paper!
Graduate school applications are due soon. So here are my tips for how to craft a strong statement for a neuroscience PhD program thread👇
It’s PhD program application season! New blog post, specific for prospective PhD students. I wanted to give some insight into the application process, “hidden curriculum,” and some specific things the Gonzales Lab looks for in candidates. Hope it helpful tinyurl.com/2f9kcd4v
This year’s grad school application cycle is upon us and I wanted to share some thoughts about the process to prospective students (🧵)
Dr. Lauren Peres and I are hiring an Applied Research Scientist (PhD required) to use tumor and blood DNA methylation data to help us understand women's cancers Information about the position can be found here: …cancer-center-careers.hctsportals.com/jobs/1502391-a… RTs are appreciated!
#NeuroTwitter, I need your help identifying those working on or interested in double sero-negative #NMOSD/#MOGAD research 🔬🧠👀 PS: Hello from #ACTRIMS2023 🏝️
Excited to share a collaborative body of work on TRPV4 and pain. Not only are microglia utilizing TRPV4 to modulate pain, but this pathway could be a possible target for treating chronic pain! jci.org/articles/view/… (Collaborator Hongzhen Hu is twitterless)
Undergrads! Interested in getting PAID to do summer research? Our team has compiled a growing list of paid summer research programs for students in STEM! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Time to jump! If you're an undergraduate seeking neuroscience research experience, apply to endure.wustl.edu by Feb. 3, 2023. Happy to answer questions or put you in touch with our amazing alumni. [email protected]. @WUSTL_ENDURE @WUSTLBio
Please consider a post-doc position in my lab! We have lots of fun. More information here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…
Excited to share work published in collaboration with the twitterless Chyi Hsieh and his lab! Using CAR T cells we ameliorated EAE, unveiling fundamental roles for high & low affinity autoreactive T cells. Chyi’s innovation and creativity are infinite! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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