melcooperphd.bsky.social
NYU PostDoc (Liddelow/Chao) and Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience studying ⭐astrocyte⭐ networks! Formerly @ Vanderbilt. Neurodegeneration, visual system, gap junctions, glia, and all things microscopy. MelCooperPhD.com
👤 Joined on 20 November 2024
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@melcooperphd.bsky.social@macshine.bsky.social talks with @melcooperphd.bsky.social about her new work showing that astrocytes—long dismissed as the brain’s housekeepers—are wired together in precise, long-range networks that remodel in response to experience. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/t...
Show PostWebs of astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules go.nature.com/41QDgYD
Show PostWant to get a closer look at astrocytes in your next experiment?🔎 Try the astrocyte network tracer from Cooper et al. and the Chao lab! www.addgene.org/252501/
Show PostSubjective rather than absolute reward value determines long-term memory formation in honey bees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.22.720144v1
Show PostFor my first post here: excited to share our new work out in Nature! Learning-associated astrocyte ensembles regulate memory recall www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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