Olsen Lab - VT

Excited to share our latest work - a great collaboration with the Cowell lab at UAB, and many others. Great work by PhD students Sushmita, Alana, Ray and Xiaoran. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gl…

Check out this powerful article by chemist Amanda Morris at VT and her colleagues. Can the same not be said for neuroscience/biomedical science? US must support chemistry research | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@VTNeuro Take a look at a new article written by School of Neuroscience Assistant Professor Georgia Hodes in the Transmitter. thetransmitter.org/neuroimmunolog…

Congratulations to our amazing faculty - again a University Exemplary Department Award based on reducing barriers for undergraduate research. Shout out to Elizabeth Gilbert and all the others that spearheaded this effort! news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

The School of Neuroscience is looking for an associate or full professor rank to lead the newly established Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research. Amazing science, competitive start-up, salary and space! careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

The School of Neuroscience at VT is hiring! We are inviting applications for a tenure track assistant professor. Great science, excellent start up and space. Amazing place to live. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

The School of Neuroscience is inviting applications for a tenure track assistant professor position. Great colleagues, startup and salary! careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

Speaking of our Department, this work just dropped from twitterless Dr. Bhanu Tewari and our Chair Dr. Harry Sontheimer on the dance between PNNs and astrocytes. There's glia, there's epilepsy, AD, electrophysiology, and excitment galore. Enjoy!!! 🤩🥳👏🏾nature.com/articles/s4159…

Single base resolution 5mC and 5hmC atlas in mouse cortex - neurons, astrocytes and microglia (99% CpG coverage). biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Explore the data, or your favorite gene (NAM-Me, olsenlab.shinyapps.io/NAMME/)

Join me in supporting Virginia Tech Giving Day! Starts today at noon! givingday.vt.edu We have supported over 70 summer undergraduate research fellowships, in part, through donor giving day support! 66 donations will unlock our 10K challenge!

@VTNeuro The School of Neuroscience Welcomes Meike van der Heijden. Her lab studies the role of the cerebellum in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopment disorders. Welcome! news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

one more time... The School of Neuroscience is hiring! Have a strong interest in teaching at the collegiate level, working with amazing colleagues and living in a beautiful place? If the answer is yes, check out careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

The School of Neuroscience is hiring! Have a strong interest in teaching at the collegiate level, working with amazing colleagues and living in a beautiful place? If the answer is yes, check out hokies.dc4.pageuppeople.com/v5.3/provider/…

Wrapping our #Top10Countdown with a bang! At #1 is 2023 Smart Biology's new immersive animations. Capturing the top spot is the Golgi ribbon animation. ow.ly/ywT350QlksK #biology #3D #Golgi #animation #education #EdTech

we're live - @CSHL #CSHLGlia 2024 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?… NEW DATE: Aug 20-24 SAME RULES: LOADS of trainee talks, LOADS of exciting sessions (building & remodeling a nervous system; modeling glia in humans, degeneration, regenerations, & disease; brain borders; circuit control)

Had to post this amazing photo of Ray and his mom again. Congratulations to Dr. Raymundo Hernandez, so proud of you! That is what getting a PhD should look like!

@Stargazer_Ray @VT_TBMH @NINDSDiversity Ray, could not be more proud of you! So looking forward to watching your career develop! Congratulations.

New to @dmrf's journal Dystonia! "Cerebellar dysfunction in rodent models with dystonia, tremor, and ataxia" by Meike van der Heijden and Dystonia's Editor-in-Chief @SillitoeLab is now available to read and download! Check out the article here ➡fro.ntiers.in/GmJS

Check out the Pickrell lab's latest publication! @paulswagatika @Pickrelllab demonstrate that NAP1/AZI2 is a #cellcycle protein that activates TBK1 during #mitosis and regulates key mitotic and cytokinetic proteins to ensure accurate #celldivision. bit.ly/41gaUpx