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Biologist, @UCLA; neurobiology of disease, microbiome, neuroimmunology https://t.co/5SsYYAznJK
Sep 23, 2020 17 tweets 10 min read
Taking the opportunity to reflect on the personal backstory & progression of @helenvuongphd + lab’s discovery of a role for the maternal microbiota in regulating axon development in the fetal brain. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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My first 🧵: When I joined the Patterson lab @Caltech as a grad student, Liming Wang & Natalia Malkova had just established a mouse model to study epidemiological links between maternal infection and increased risk for schizophrenia & autism (very fringe at the time!)
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Jul 9, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Been stuck at home feeling isolated so my sigfig and I made this project management tool for my lab to help us connect and keep science moving. 👍 from lab members so far. Put together a website in case others are interested. We named it Kanobo. 👩🏻‍🔬 kanobo.com All features are described in the docs, but if there's enough interest I could prob set up a demo of how our lab is using it so far. Also welcome any and all feedback on how we can improve and if there are other tools that work for you.
May 31, 2019 7 tweets 1 min read
Let's consider all sides and be scientific in evaluating them. Autism has high heritability. Both human genetic susceptibility and environmental risk factors contribute.