Yaíma Lightfoot @YaimaLightfoot
Immunologist | Brain enthusiast | Mother | Wife | Alzheimer’s Disease drug discovery sci. (NDC @MDAndersonNews). Views are my own. She/her(s). 🇨🇺🇺🇸 Houston, TX Joined January 2022-
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Come by our poster to hear more about our work at the NDC! #AAIC2023 #alz #microglia #NDC
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Microglial debris is cleared by astrocytes via C4b-facilitated phagocytosis and degraded via RUBICON-dependent noncanonical autophagy in mice (2022) nature.com/articles/s4146…
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NDC Retreat 2022! We covered 10 new drug discovery programs in 8 hours…my brain hurt but was great!
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Check out our new website! Alzheimer’s disease drug discovery, new targets, you know all the good things in life. Like and follow for more… neurodegenerationconsortium.com
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We are hiring at the Neurodegeneration Consortium #NDC! Great opportunity if you are interested in neuroscience and drug discovery. We have a Research Investigator and an Associate scientist position available, please see comment for details #hiring #neuroscience #drugdiscovery
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Congratulations to @mightymicroglia @BlurtonJonesLab and Hayk for the new findings demonstrating the hypermorphic protective PLCG2 P522R variant in Alzheimer’s disease increased microglial antigen presentation genes and recruitment of CD8+ T cells in mice! alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…
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TRPML1 inhibition by LAMTOR1 is critical for regulating dendritic lysosomal motility, synaptic plasticity, and learning🤔
TRPML1 inhibition by LAMTOR1 is critical for regulating dendritic lysosomal motility, synaptic plasticity, and learning🤔
Are you a drug hunter? #drugdiscovery #Alzheimers #ScienceTwitter #SCIENTIST #HappyHunting drughunter.com/what-is-a-drug…
Promising strategy to target AD risk-associated CD33 with small molecules #microglia #neuroinflammation #EndALZ #drugdiscovery pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
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Jackson et al. demonstrate that allele-specific knock-in mice expressing humanized APOE ε4, but not APOE ε2 or ε3, show a leaky blood–brain barrier. Removal of astrocyte-produced APOE ε4 restores normal blood–brain barrier function. bit.ly/342ho1C
Thank you @JimRayNDC for talking me into joining #scienceTwitter! But #science doesn’t sleep, and now I might not either 🧬🧫 #neuroinflammation #neurodegeneration #ENDALZ
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