Stephanie Orchanian

Excited to share our recent publication in this month's issue of mBio, based on my PhD research. We show that replication of 𝘛. 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘪 is required to trigger a localized immune response in the brain! 🧠 bit.ly/3TA9ALj

@kzengeler @BIG_Center_UVA @LukensJohnR Congratulations!!!

Happy to share our work on hippocampal inflammasome signaling. Thank you to members of the lab for critical experimental support, @BIG_Center_UVA colleagues for input, and @LukensJohnR for baller mentorship - it's been an honor working with you all! cell.com/immunity/fullt…

Thrilled to share this collaborative work by Kristie Yu, Francis Chandra, Amina Schartup and teams @Scripps_Ocean and @UCLA showing that an engineered gut bacterium can reduce the neurotoxic effects of dietary methylmercury cell.com/cell-host-micr…

@AkassoglouLab @yan_zhaoqi Congratulations @yan_zhaoqi !!

Congrats to Zhaoqi Yan @yan_zhaoqi postdoc fellow @AkassoglouLab for his selection as one of the 5 recipients of the 2025 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Fellowship! Grateful to Warren Alpert Foundation for supporting Zhaoqi’s exciting research on the blood-brain barrier & neurodegeneration! warrenalpertfoundation.org

Maternal microbiome is a cornerstone of maternal and fetal health. @stephorch & @pipethero @UCLA highlight gut microbiome x environmental interactions at the maternal-fetal interface that influence the brains of pregnant people & developing offspring: jci.org/articles/view/…

Curious about how the gut microbiome modulates the neurological health of pregnant women and their offspring? Check out my recent review with @pipethero out now @jclinicalinvest! 🦠🤰👶🧠 jci.org/articles/view/…

Excited to announce that the MinD-Gut Lab is kicking off in 2025, and we’re already looking for PhD students to join our research team @LSUAgCenter!! Please contact us! Check out the Nutrition and Food Science PhD program at LSU!

Grad students and postdocs, the 2025 GRS: Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease in Lucca, Italy, has reached over 70% acceptance capacity! If you're interested in attending, sign up soon at tinyurl.com/GRSNeuroimmune. @yan_zhaoqi and I look forward to seeing you there! 🧠

The MinD-Gut lab will open in Jan 2025 at the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences of @LSUAgCenter to investigate the science of microbe and diet interactions in gut-brain connection. Motivated humans to study nutrition-gut-brain communication in the heart of LA come this way

Grad students and postdocs- Registration for the 2025 GRS: Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease in Lucca, Italy is officially open! Spots are limited so sign up soon at tinyurl.com/GRSNeuroimmune! @yan_zhaoqi and I look forward to seeing you there! Please RT!

@QuinaScience The 12 mph in the 65 mph zone 💀

@QuinaScience @lissathechemist @UCIBioSci @UCIMedSchool Well deserved!!!!

Excited to announce that I was selected by the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and, starting today, am ~officially~ a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow!🥳Thank you to everyone who supported me in this especially #UCLARiseToTheChallenge and my PI @pipethero! 🙌🏼

@tinoco_lab @UCIBioSci @UC_PPFP @SD_IRACDA @MelanomaReAlli @NIAIDFunding @DeptofDefense Congratulations Roberto! 🥳🎉

I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! Grateful to all my Ph.D. Students, Postdoc, lab manager, technicians, undergrads, faculty mentors, and funding for making this possible! @UCIBioSci @UC_PPFP @SD_IRACDA @MelanomaReAlli @NIAIDFunding @DeptofDefense

Excited to share this paper in final form, now with more supporting experiments in supplement and main figs! rdcu.be/dH1m5 Many thanks to @PingFan78765311 and colleagues for their hard work and dedication through this journey.

For the AAI attendees interested in #neuroimmunology and #neurodegeneration, come stop by my poster to talk about microglial SYK signaling in tauopathies! I am poster number B621 on May 5th 🧠🦠

I couldn’t call myself a microbiologist if I went to Amsterdam and DIDN’T stop at #Micropia. Although I couldn’t find 𝑇. 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑖, I did find another Apicomplexan parasite! Can you tell which one? 👩🏻‍🔬🧫🔬

@QuinaScience The bucket hat 😭

Excited to share new research by Elena Coley-O'Rourke and colleagues showing that the microbiome modifies adverse effects of maternal protein undernutrition on offspring brain development and behavior! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…