Rogier Min
Neuroscientist | Astrocytes | Electrophysiologist interested in Ions, Water and the Brain | Leukodystrophies | Assistant professor @ Amsterdam UMC
- 🚨 PhD position in astrocyte physiology! Join us in Amsterdam to explore how astrocytes dynamically regulate brain water flow! Apply using the link below: 🧠🔬🌍 🔗 werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicatie-1179368 #Neuroscience #PhD #Astrocytes #MLC #SUPERGLUE
- Fresh from the lab! In this new paper, PhD student Sven Kerst shows how phenotypes observed in isolated cell models for the leukodystrophy MLC are also observed in intact astrocytes in acute brain slices! Glia | Neurobiology Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Excited to share our latest paper! We argue that in MS, the primary immune attack isn’t on myelin or myelinated axons — but on the ion & water homeostasis machinery in astrocyte endfeet. A short thread on this new perspective 1/11
- Most textbooks describe MS as an immune attack on the fatty myelin layer that insulates axons. But the hunt for a specific myelin antigen in MS hasn’t been very successful… So what’s going on? 2/11
- A clue came in 2022: MS patients can develop antibodies against a protein called GlialCAM - triggered by infection with the very common Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Nearly all MS patients have had EBV before disease onset. 3/11
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View full threadIt was a joy to write this perspective together with Marjo van der Knaap. Her deep knowledge of white matter disorders is truly exceptional! And our paper shows how studying rare diseases can illuminate fundamental brain processes - with implications far beyond! 🧠✨ 11/11 < the end >
- I’m very excited that NWO will fund our ENW-XL consortium grant ‘Superglue’!! The project will focus on astrocytes, the multifunctional glue cells that keep our brain working. Let’s see what we will discover 🤩 !! www.nwo.nl/nieuws/64-mi...
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- Reposted by Rogier MinPhD opportunity: If you're interested in how astrocytes and the meninges talk to each other and how this is affected in dementia come do your PhD with us in Edinburgh (cc: Karen Horsburgh and Ingo Schiessl)! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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- Reposted by Rogier MinHey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
- My first post in the sky is a: Job Alert! We are looking for a PhD student to study astrocyte dysfunction in the rare neurological disease MLC. Looking for a challenge? See the job advertisement below! werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
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- Reposted by Rogier Min🌟PhD Opportunity in membrane biophysics!🌟 Fully-funded 4 year PhD studentship at @AstonAIME with @NaomiLPollock1 using neutron scattering at @isisneutronmuon to study lipid interactions with membrane proteins. Apply now: www.aston.ac.uk/graduate-sch... #PhDOpportunity #Biophysics
- Reposted by Rogier Minsome great starter packs for the #glia, #astrocyte, #oligodendrocyte, #microglia, #neuro researcher: gliasky, astrocytesky, microglia But if you also like interactions between celltypes, please help this starter pack get started. Maybe someone can connect all of us in a feed? go.bsky.app/MHtJzeCat://did:plc:cutbm73djqhzti57lo44s3qq/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lauyv3ow2m2z
- Reposted by Rogier MinThere are lots of us missing, but so many joining so quickly Please do share, and comment below to be added go.bsky.app/5f2V6L6 (microglia starter pack also here by @mancusorenzo.bsky.social - bsky.app/starter-pack...)at://did:plc:iscdjy27whs7vtmk6hmx67fk/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb63ojtrjz2c
