Astrocyte lover. Assistant professor at @UMBCBiology. Excited about sex differences, TBI & BBB. Scientist in the US. Woman in Science 🇪🇦
Baltimore, MD
Joined January 2012
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I'm happy to announce that I will join @UMBCBiology as an assistant professor this August. I will be part of the first UM-FIRST cohort.
The Muñoz-Ballester lab will study how astrocytes response to injury is modulated by sex, with a special focus on mild traumatic brain injury
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Astrocyte‐Associated ABCA1/APOE Responses Accompany Hippocampal Lipid Remodeling and Ectopic Neuronal Accumulation During Epileptogenesis - Chen - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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Just a periodic reminder:
RNA abundance ≠ transcription activity.
RNA abundance is also regulated by RNA degradation.
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Ningún país llevó la privatización de las pensiones tan lejos como Chile. Desde 1981, cada trabajador ahorra para su jubilación en una cuenta individual gestionada por empresas privadas.
El modelo prometía mejores pensiones gracias a los mercados. Los fondos fueron rentables, pero las pensiones resultaron tan insuficientes que gobiernos de izquierda y de derecha tuvieron que reforzar la protección pública: Bachelet en 2008, Piñera en 2022 y Boric en 2025.
El país que privatizó las pensiones acabó volviendo a la solidaridad colectiva. Conviene recordarlo en el debate español.
El fracaso del experimento neoliberal chileno.
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How tissue dissociation impacts scRNA-seq: Standard protocols can lose reactive astrocytes & key pathological signatures! 🧠
Check out our new paper in Molecular Neurobiology on optimized workflows: link.springer.com/article/10…
#SingleCell #Neuroscience #Astrocytes
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Mayor cobertura arbórea en el barrio se asocia con mejor calidad del sueño, estudio entre 39.000 personas.
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In grad school, I was repeatedly bombarded with emails asking if I’d be willing to be a paid “mentor” to high school-age clients who were interested in pursuing and publishing “research.” I would treat advanced high school “publications” as negative signal at this point.
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The histone variant H2A.Z regulates sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology: @NeuroCellPress cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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La peatonalización aumenta las ventas del comercio: las personas prefieren un entorno amigable a uno orientado al automóvil. Estudio en 14 grandes ciudades españolas analizando miles transacciones 💳
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good biology isn't about how much data you generate, but how much of it you can trust
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1000 measles cases in Pennsylvania
7% of people in the state are unvaccinated
99% of the measles cases are in the unvaccinated
Figured it out yet?
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Let’s just take a moment and appreciate all those non-Nobel winning neuroscientists out there that put in the hard work to show optogenetics was not just feasible, but that it was actually *useful* in the generation of knowledge.
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Q: What's wrong with these plots?
A: Pooling cell-level measurements across multiple runs conceals experimental reproducibility. Read more in JCB: rupress.org/jcb/article/219/…
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The wildest part of the Nobel drama is that the least-discussed guy left out, Zhuo-Hua Pan, has a better claim on the tech than Boyden and he’s the only one with any shot of turning opto into a real therapy….he just wasn’t at a prestigious institution
statnews.com/2016/09/01/opto…
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A reminder that the abundance of 'house keeping' proteins varies significantly across cells and tissues.
GAPDH (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase) is often slandered a 'house keeping' protein, and its abundance varies significantly across human tissues.
Let's retire the vague and useless phrase 'house keeping protein'.
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Menopause is not one thing-many types, characteristics(age, symptom profile). Multi-symptoms reflect ER & PR location, density & type. >200 MHT formulations (estrogens, proestogens, route & cyclicity). ~0.2% of research funding goes towards 40% of our lifespan. 1/
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Our lab is growing: we are hiring a research tech to come work in our lab at @TowsonU !!!
Apply here:
towson.taleo.net/careersecti…
Reach out if you have any questions 🤩
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I think every scientist values negative results.
The problem is that we often see science too binary. A published negative result can kill an entire field or block it from future funding (Reviewer #2 = "this does not work, shown in XYZ").
If we were more open to accepting that many experiments are based on models and uncertainties, and that results can go both ways, sharing null results would be a lot easier.
I remember a great discussion around this topic with @RandyStout18 at @ResearchHub’s last NYC event.
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Our research-based keynote speaker for the 2026 ENIGMA IPV and @PinkConcussions IPV-BI Conference is Dr. Monique R. Pappadis!
You won't want to miss her talk, so register at the link below!
Registration: bit.ly/4xT4JY0
For more info, visit: esopenkolab.com/general-info…
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My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher! Interested in astrocyte transcriptional regulation and addiction? We study how astrocytic transcriptional, epigenetic, and chromatin regulation contributes to substance abuse disorders. DM or email me! l-holt-lab.com/