Studying dementia, astrocytes, neurotherapeutics. Pursuing audacious team-based neuroscience and helping the next generation achieve their highest potential.

Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC
Joined September 2022
Come join us and others at #BlueskySocial 🦋 Same handle: @orrlaboratory 🌞
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📅 SAVE THE DATE 📅 Our next hybrid conference, ISMND 2026, will take place in Hong Kong from October 20-23, 2026! More details to come!
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We need your help!! Please share your feedback on critical needs and priorities for AD, FTD, and related dementia research. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…
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Excited to share our new work out in @Nature ! Learning-Associated Astrocyte Ensembles Regulate Memory Recall nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Know an undergraduate who wants to pursue a  neuroscience PhD? @WUSTL_ENDURE empowers participants in their path to graduate school and beyond. Includes $7000 per summer, travel, housing, two scientific meetings/year. Applications due by Feb. 3, 2025. endure.wustl.edu/apply/
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Our Alzheimer's & Dementia paper @alzassociation led by @ArenazaEider examines how sex & gender impact cognitive resilience to #Alzheimer. We review risk factors, genetics, and pathology, urging the field to adopt a sex/gender-aware approach to resilience doi.org/10.1002/alz.13844
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Hot preprint alert!!! Please check out our study led by the amazing @piasglia on how mitochondrial fission regulates astrocyte morphogenesis! Unexpected findings linking astrocyte mitochondria to tiling and gap junction coupling!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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This is your chance to get an insider's view of our innovative programs, cutting-edge research, and vibrant campus community. 🧬 Application Workshop Registration: lnkd.in/eCBsFKbY Virtual Open House Registration: lnkd.in/eCHT38gp
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Now posted on @SACNAS - a tenure-track faculty search in the Dept of Neuroscience at Tufts SOM in Boston! New assistant profs ready to lead exciting research focused on healthy & pathological aging in psychiatric & neurological dysfunction please apply! tinyurl.com/28kenvds
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UCLA Neuroscience is hiring for a tenure track position! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0980…😊😍😎 Deadline to receive applications: NOVEMBER 1st!
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Reminder that CU Boulder is hiring three tenure track neuroscientists, broadly defined. Info/application here jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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💥Salk Institute Job Posting Alert💥 Seeking Assistant Professors pioneering innovative research in immunology and inflammation—areas like neuro-immunology, cancer immunology, virology, and more. Join our collaborative team at the NOMIS Center! 🔬 Outstanding start-up package 🌟 Commitment to DEI 📍 Apply now! #Immunology #ResearchJobs #ScienceCareers salk.edu/about/careers/open-…
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Interested in sex differences in memory? Then come to our amazing minisymposium today at 2 pm in room S406B! Catch me afterwards to learn about grad and postdoc openings in my lab! @FrickNeuroUWM
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The Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology @CNG_UTHealth @McGovernMed has multiple open-rank faculty openings! Come to join us to explore the non-neuronal cells and harness the power of brain immunity. DM or email me if you are interested. nature.com/naturecareers/job…
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We are hiring 3+ Neuroscience faculty at CU Boulder! Seeking applicants with outstanding research programs in cell/molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and integrative physiology. #academicjobs @FuturePI_Slack @NeuroRumblr jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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Last call for the tenure-track Assistant Professor opening in the Stanford Dept. of Neurobiology. Come be my colleague! We are interested "a broad range of problems in the nervous system at the molecular, cellular and circuit level". Apply here by 9/30: facultypositions.stanford.ed…
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Join our highly interactive neuroscience community at UW-Madison! Open rank faculty search at the Waisman Center/Department of Neuroscience. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…
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To senior grad students and junior postdocs. Umass Chan early independence fellows program. An opportunity @UMassChan to develop your independent research program. An outstanding and supportive environment to grow and excel. umassmed.edu/research/basic-…
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