Genesis Omana Suarez

This week, I officially became a PhD Candidate!🧠 This exam pushed me to sharpen how I defend complex ideas, and I’m grateful for the support from my co-mentors Hugo Guerrero-Cazares and Takahisa Kanekiyo Here’s to the next chapter of my PhD journey! Lots of coffee in sight ☕️

New paper by @marissarussoo A novel methodology to purify high quality #extracellular_vesicles from #GBM cells and profile their protein content. Collab with @emilynorton295 @DoctorQMd @verobelzil and Tukiet Lam 📘JEV @IsevOrg isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/je…

DYK around half of the brain is not made of neurons? Among the other half is the octopus-like microglia. In this visualization by our Electron Microscopy team, microglia (green) wraps around a pyramidal cell (blue), one of two types of excitatory neurons in the brain.

Nature research paper: Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis go.nature.com/3HYTQie

Geoffrey Meissner and The Flylight Project Team at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus created this video to display the map of the fruit fly’s ventral nerve cord (VNC), which is like our spinal cord. The video shows neurons within the VNC of a fruit fly as they’re progressively stacked on top of each other. Each image represents a different dataset, and they were all digitally fitted together. By the end of the video, you can see a rough neuronal map within the VNC. Videos like these can give researchers a more complete understanding of the organization and communication between neurons in the VNC. This could be the foundation for future research on neuronal communication and organization in more complex animals such as humans. Download this video and discover more here: hhmi.news/4kM3aVg Credit: Geoffrey Meissner and The Flylight Project Team, @hhmijanelia

Researchers at @HHMIJanelia are decoding how neurons carry out computations carefully calibrated to an animal’s movement and environment to precisely regulate the release of neuromodulators—chemicals that fine-tune brain activity and enable us to adapt to new situations. The new findings could help scientists better understand how the brain enables flexible behavior and provide insight into mood disorders like #depression. Read more here: hhmi.news/43YcVID

PhD recruitment happening this week @MayoGradSchool I am so excited to meet everyone interviewing!!! Best of luck during PhD application/interview season everyone🥳🥳🥳

🧵Just in time for #FluorescenceFriday: New research from the Venkataramani lab @CellCellPress maps how brain tumor cells create extensive neural networks in glioblastoma. Check out our paper here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… @ekinreyhann @SvenjaKTetzlaff 1/15

@whitneylsimon @BamkoleMichael I know!! Looking forward to seeing you next time 🥺

@GenesisOmanaS @BamkoleMichael So bummed we didn’t get together before you guys had to head out. Stay safe!!

Had an amazing time at #sfn2024 in Chicago. My favorite part was catching up with mentors and friends!! Now back in Florida hoping that everyone is staying safe during hurricane Milton. 🧠

Good morning! Who's ready (and caffeinated) for #SfN24? ☕️🧠

Preprint alert! How do brainstem neuromodulatory circuits influence the pathophysiology of H3K27M+ diffuse midline #gliomas #DIPG/#DMG? New #CancerNeuroscience work led by exceptional postdoctoral fellow @RDrexler_ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I love being a PhD student. it feels like I’m expected to be miserable or overwhelmed. but as a first-gen student, I’ve had to overcome a lot worse to get here. to read and write and learn for a living feels like a gift that I hope I never take for granted, inshallah 🙏🏽

Microglia serve as conduits for the export of toxic protein aggregates from neurons and the import of healthy organelles, keeping neurodegeneration at bay go.nature.com/4dXkIuh

🎉Thrilled to share our new paper ⁦@ScienceAdvances⁩ led by first author Dr. Yunjung Jin! Big thanks to all our amazing collaborators! ⁦@owenaross⁩ @shunsuke_koga⁩ ⁦@pamjmclean⁩ ⁦@TsuneyaIkezu⁩ ⁦⁦@MayoClinicNeuro⁩ ⁦ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@ashtonmspillman Happens to me every week, the most random nightmares about my cells dying somehow🤣

Last night I had a dream (nightmare) about my cell cultures dying because I fed them watermelon…what does this mean

@Lindseykuchen @DDisparitiesPIA @ISTAART Congrats Lindsey!

Thank you to the Diversity and Disparities (@DDisparitiesPIA) @ISTAART PIA for highlighting our work on AD plasma biomarker discovery in African Americans with the Best Student Poster Award at #AAIC24!🥳 Check out our pre-print here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@GutmannLab @SethTomchik @WilkesHonorsFAU @IowaNeuroPharm @MayoGradSchool Thank you so much!!

@GenesisOmanaS @SethTomchik @WilkesHonorsFAU @IowaNeuroPharm @MayoGradSchool Great job Genesis!!!

@DivyaSthanu and I are happy to have contributed to this cool work by @SethTomchik lab. It has everything in it: disease model, motor control, internal states! Check it out!