Rebecca Fleeman, PhD

Honored to have been chosen as a 2023 Penn State Dissertation Award winner! I am incredibly thankful to my mentor, @EA_Proctor, for providing me the wonderful training environment to contribute to the field of Alzheimer's disease!

Check out LTS Editor-in-Chief alumni @RebeccaFleeman's article titled "APOE4-get About It: How the Greatest Genetic Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease affects the Brain and Body" to learn more! lions-talk-science.org/2023/03/08/apo…

Excited to share the second project from my PhD thesis work! Thanks @EA_Proctor and @MadiKuhn for helping me bring this project to fruition 🧠

Extra, extra, read all about it! The LTS team has started a seasonal newspaper! Check out the inaugural fall edition of The Lion Ledger lions-talk-science.org/the-lion-ledge… If you are interested in contributing to future editions, email us!

Congratulations to @EA_Proctor, Bruce Gluckman, and Patrick Drew on their $3.83M grant from @NIHAging! The team will study how vascular function and sleep affect the brain’s ability to clear harmful cellular waste products in a genetic variant connected to #AlzheimersDisease

@_DougBrubaker @megn_baker @lstops @SamanthaDStrass @toyyapujol Thanks for the shout out @_DougBrubaker! I won’t be defending until September though, so I’ll have to catch the next one!

we are looking to hire a speaker for a retreat and thought I would look here for suggestions. We would love to have someone who has pursued a non-academic career after grad school (#scicomm or #sciencepolicy are examples). If anyone comes to mind gave them below!

Did you know Pharma has to publicly report when they give money to health care professionals? Check out Becca Fleeman's article on the Sunshine Act and what it means for you as a patient! lions-talk-science.org/2022/06/15/her…

Science can be controversial and one topic of controversy is DREADDs. Check out Stephanie Baringer's article titled "DREADDing Validation Experiments" to learn more! lions-talk-science.org/2022/06/01/dre…

@JoeCiriloPSU @ScienceLions is now adding doodles to our science communication!! You should encourage her to sign up to make a science doodle for us!! Let me know if she is interest ☺️

Happening this Wednesday - Lunch and Learn Webinar Alzheimer’s Disease and Exercise Webinar Rebecca Fleeman, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences Wednesday April 20th, 12noon – 1pm Free to listen, if you want 1 BCRPA or ACSM CEC $10 Register here ⬇️ attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/85253…

Curious about the future of early screening for Alzheimer’s disease? Check out Becca Fleeman’s latest LTS Article on Novel Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers! lions-talk-science.org/2022/04/05/pre… #Alzheimers

@JoeCiriloPSU @_OmQu Wish I had a quick answer, we haven't done much IHC/ICC yet!

Check out LTS's newest article by our Editor in Chief, @RebeccaFleeman, where she explains the recent controversies in the financial barriers surrounding scientific publications. lions-talk-science.org/2022/02/23/the…

@JoeCiriloPSU Awesome seminar @JoeCiriloPSU !!

@drroshnirao We are extremely grateful that we could host you as our Keynote Speaker! So many students reached out to me after and told me how much they felt they could relate to your story. Thank you so much!

Sometimes the voice in my head is still so loud saying “why would they want *me* to give a keynote talk”. Then I tell myself, I do have a lot to share about the lessons I’ve learned thus far, maybe it could be helpful to someone? #silencetheimpostor

CRISPR has enabled gene editing to be cheaper and easier than ever before. Check out this article by our Editor in Chief, @RebeccaFleeman, to test yourself on where you fall on the morals of human gene editing! lions-talk-science.org/2021/09/08/fro…

Excited to share my review article on Astrocytic Propagation of Tau in the Context of Alzheimer's Disease published in @FrontNeurosci! Thanks to my mentor @EA_Proctor for helping me get here 🧠frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Are suffering of FOMO on research articles you never get to read? Check out @BrainyMariam's article on "Secret Weapons to Keeping Your Research Articles Organized"! lions-talk-science.org/2021/01/21/sec… Feat. @RsrchRabbit @NotionHQ @SteMcQuilliam @aesnyder14 #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

Looking for some great food for thought on this Friday? Check out Becca's article on how your diet can affect your brain! lions-talk-science.org/2020/11/06/foo…