[WTI-trainee] FW: Special neuroscience talk for NPAW by Ania Majewska, PhD on Wed. 09/20

[Guerrero-Medina, Giovanna]

Hi everyone,

See below in case it’s of interest.


Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD
She/Her/Ella
Director for Diversity Equity & Inclusion,
Wu Tsai Institute at Yale
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From: Neuroscience <neuroscience-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Charbogne, Pauline <pauline.charbogne at yale.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 8:45 AM
To:
Cc: Yale Neuroscience Postdoc Committee <ynpc at yale.edu>
Subject: [Neuroscience] Special neuroscience talk for NPAW by Ania Majewska, PhD on Wed. 09/20
Dear neuroscience community,

We are excited to announce a special seminar by Ania Majewska, PhD, to celebrate National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week (NPAW). You can find her bio at the end of this email. This event is organized by the Yale Neuroscience Postdoc Committee<https://medicine.yale.edu/neuroscience/training/postdocs/ynpc/> (YNPC), a group of fantastic postdocs and ARS affiliated with the Department of Neuroscience, and is sponsored by the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale.

When: Wednesday, September 20th, 1-2 pm
Where: BCMM 206/208
Talk title: A Journey in Imaging Neurons and Glia in the Intact Brain
Talk synopsis: In vivo two-photon imaging illuminates the beauty of the cellular components of the brain while also highlighting their dynamics at many different spatiotemporal scales. In this talk, Dr. Majewska will discuss the arc of her research using imaging techniques to understand glia-neuron interactions while highlighting the mentors and trainees that made the work possible and, more importantly, enjoyable.

Coffee and snacks will be served after the seminar. Everyone is invited to join the talk and the coffee break.

We hope to see you there,
Best,
Pauline


Bio:
Ania Majewska, PhD holds a Dean’s Professorship in Neuroscience with a joint appointment in the Center for Visual Science. Dr. Majewska is also co-Director of the University of Rochester Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. She is deeply committed to mentoring and directed the Neuroscience Graduate Program from 2012-2020. She was also awarded the 2022 Landis Award for Outstanding Mentoring by an NINDS investigator.
Dr. Majewska’s work examines the interactions between microglia, the brain’s immune cells, and neuronal networks in development, adulthood, aging and disease. In 2010, the lab showed that microglia, which were largely thought to be inert until activated by pathological stimuli, dynamically interacted with neuronal elements even in the absence of pathology. Since then the lab has imaged these dynamic interactions between microglial processes and synaptic structures and shown that microglia are important participants in normal brain function, contributing to processes such as experience-dependent plasticity which underlies proper wiring of the brain. More recently, the lab has examined how microglial roles at synapses contribute to deficits that arise in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
Dr. Majewska grew up in Poland and Kuwait, where she completed much of her secondary education. She moved to the United States for college and completed a BS in Biology and Chemistry and an MS in Neuroscience at Stanford University. Her PhD work at Columbia University under the guidance of Dr. Rafael Yuste explored the efflux pathways controlling synaptic calcium signals using two-photon microscopy. She continued to use imaging tools to explore synaptic changes that underlie experience-dependent plasticity in her postdoctoral work at MIT with Dr. Mriganka Sur. She is excited to continue using optical techniques to examine brain plasticity in development, adulthood and aging.

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