Vanessa Coelho-Santos
Junior Leader | CIBIT-University of Coimbra.
Neuroscientist w/a crush on blood vessels!
#firstgeneration #liveimaging #neurovascular #neurodevelopment #gliovascular #microglia #angiogenesis 🧠
https://www.vcoelhosantoslab.com
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosAt this week's #VirtualPub, we welcome Scientific Ambassador @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social, University of Coimbra, on "A window with a view to the neurogliovascular unit development." 🗓️ Fri, Feb 6 at 1 pm CET Register🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/a-win...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos⏳Deadline TODAY! If you're passionate about imaging and want to grow your network by spreading the word about #EuroBioImaging, please apply for our Scientific Ambassador 2026-2027 programme! 💰Budget: 1,500 Euros for travel & conference fees More info⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/scientific-a...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosWhat's the #EuroBioImaging Scientific Ambassador Programme and how can it boost your career? 🚀 @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social provides her insights. If you're interested, you can apply to be our Scientific Ambassador by 🗓️ Jan 30! youtube.com/shorts/0WcyI...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosGiving the gift of negative data 🥰 Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them! Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article! www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
- #VCoelhoSantoLab wishes everyone a lovely holiday season ✨ Here’s to a new year full of curiosity and exciting discoveries…yes, grants and papers too…but above all, (collaborative) science driven by curiosity and the joy of figuring things out. 🧠 @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosVery pleased to share our new review "The Evolving Landscape of Brain Metastasis" in @cp-trendscancer.bsky.social 🧠🔬🧪 Grateful to an outstanding team of co-authors, all pioneers in the #brain #metastasis field and to @valientelab.bsky.social for co-leading this 🙏🏻 Link: www.cell.com/trends/cance...
- Happy to share that I have signed a tenure-track position as Principal Investigator (eq to Associate Professor) at @ucoimbra.bsky.social (FMUC| CIBIT). ✨ Exciting times ahead for #neonatal 🧠 studies, bridging advanced #LiveImaging, #Neurogliovascular and #medicine. #ercstg25
- Happy Thanksgiving from #VCoelhoSantosLab Grateful for this hard-working group of young women! 💛 #neonatalbrain #liveimaging #cerebrovascular @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- It just so happens that our current team is all women, we’re an inclusive lab and welcome everyone!! 🧠
- #VCoelhoSantosLab News 🚨 Maria started her Erasmus at Collège de France yesterday, joining Martine cohen-salmon ’s lab. She secured a 5-month stipend to work on exciting collaborative project in proteomics about #astrocytic endfeet development and #neurovascular coupling. @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos🙌 #EuroBioImaging attended #SPAOM2025 this week with the 🇪🇸 + 🇵🇹 imaging communities. 🔬 Some key moments: - Our FAIR #ImageData satellite event - Meeting with our Scientific Ambassadors - Workshop on Impact of Imaging Core Facilities Thanks to the organisers for this amazing conference! 🎉
- 11 years after receiving a PhD student award at @ecnp.eu 2014, I return as an invited speaker to present the research of my own lab, the #VCoelhoSantosLab. A full-circle moment that makes perseverance worth it! 💫 #ECNP25 #newPI #cerebrovascular
- A privilege to chair symposium ‘Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan’ symposium today at @ecnp.eu Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations. #ECNP2025
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosEvery year, researchers in Europe take time to share their passion for science with their communities. 👩🔬 We take you around Europe to discover #ERN25 events with our Nodes. First stop, Coimbra 🇵🇹 with @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social & CIBIT! Full story ⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosHere's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosI’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosA privilege to chair symposium ‘Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan’ symposium today at @ecnp.eu Thanks to speakers @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social Amanda Kiliaan, @mariangelesmoro.bsky.social and @blacoste.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations. #ECNP2025
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosLooking forward to chairing this exciting symposium at @ecnp.eu Congress Amsterdam: Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan. Join us to hear from these excellent speakers on how vascular health shapes cognitive function. 🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00 📍 Elicium 1 #ECNP2025
- Are you attending the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 2025 Congress? Don’t miss our session: 🧠 S17 – Vascular function and cognitive health across the lifespan 👩🏫 Chaired by @maburto.bsky.social 🗓 Tuesday, October 14th | 08:40–10:00 📍 Elicium 1 See you there 🙌 #ECNP2025
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosWant to learn about the imaging approaches that can support neuroscience? 🧠 🔬 Join the "NeuroImaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain" course organised by our Node in Brno. 🇨🇿 🗓️ November 19-21 Learn more & register🔽 www.ceitec.eu/educational-...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosThe next symposium on Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease will be organized by Brenda Kwak, Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat and Philippe Bijlenga in Geneva. June 18-19, 2026
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosMind blowing mechanotherapy of aged embryo 🤯👹
- This is the wrap-up of #VCoelhoSantosLab at #NEI25 ✨ European Researchers’ Night! See you next year in Coimbra with more #science, #brains, #bloodvessels, games & fun! 🧠 @ucoimbra.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
- The #VCOELHOSANTOSLAB is recruiting a research fellow to join the project "BarriersReveal – Unveiling sex-specific patterns in the neonatal brain barriers". More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363 Application deadline: October 13, 2025 @ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo
- Over the moon to say I’ve been awarded an #ERCstg from @erc.europa.eu ! #AngioArchitects will explore how blood vessels migrate & connect using 🔬 #liveimaging, with the hypothesis that #microglia are the “uber” driving them! 🧠🩸 Positions opening in 2026, stay tuned!
- In 2025, successful ERC Starting Grant applicants have 51 different nationalities and will carry out their projects in 25 countries. This round of grants is estimated to create some 3,000 jobs within the teams of the new grantees. More facts and figures 👉 buff.ly/ixs2NRf
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosAstrocyte networks are much larger than previously thought, which “flips the way we think about astrocytes and what their networks may mean,” says @liddelowsa.bsky.social. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosA investigadora da @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Vanessa Coelho-Santos, conquistou uma Starting Grant do European Research Council, que ultrapassa os dois milhões de euros! 👏 👏 👏 #UCoimbra #InvestigaçãoUC #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosThree new @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants for vascular researchers: Congratulations to Vanessa Coelho-Santos (@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social) for "AngioArchitects“ (LS5], Leire Bejarano for "MetaVasc" (LS4], and Mahak Singhal for "Vascular Rhythm" (LS4). Great success!
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosI'm sure we all know someone (🙋🏻♀️) or have personally benefited from early detection cancer screening, like breast & colon cancer, that are increasingly seen in younger people. And mandated to be paid for by insurance, reducing out-of-pocket 💰. The benefit is huge, important 🧵 on USPSTF in jeopardy.
- Glad to meet in person Alessandra Viale and Erika Cerutti! Was a lovely surprise…I had opportunity to show my lab and talk about our science. Amazing be part of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social as #scientificambassador 🔬🧠
- Our Med-Hub colleagues got to visit the Portuguese Brain Imaging Network (BIN) Node in Coimbra. 🇵🇹 It offers open access to PET & MRI for a variety of preclinical and human imaging applications. 🧠🫀 Thanks to the CIBIT team for this visit! Learn more ⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/visitin...
- Today Catarina, Maria, Clara, and Carolina presented their bachelor internship projects. It was truly a pleasure to watch you grow and to see the passion for blood vessels taking root in each of you. Wishing you all the success in your futures! #VCoelhoSantosLab
- 🎓 Internship season wrapped! Huge congrats to Zoé Morgado (July 14) and Filipe Ponte (July 23) for defending their bachelor theses! Zoé (Biomed Eng) and Filipe (Biotech) explored #cerebrovascular and #neuroimaging at #VCoelhoSantosLab.
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosAmazing #2PM real-time morpho-dynamic responses of microglia to laser-induced parenchymal/vascular injury in🐭🧠 Age-dependent reaction speed 👉Parenchymal injury Adult > Aged/Neonatal 👉Vascular injury Adult/Aged > Neonatal @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #CellRep 2025 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Some 🧠 of #VCoelhoSantosLab!! Here we study the #neurogliovascularunit using #liveimaging! We are 🧠 imaging experts!! 🔬#worldbrainday2025 #scientificambassador @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos🚨 Review Alert *Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain* Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳 Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
- #NewResearch from the #VcoelhoSantosLab and #ShihLab used #two-photon live imaging to reveal how #microglia 🧠 evolve across across #lifespan. Key findings: 👶 Neonatal: Active but clumsy 🧍♂️ Adult: Calm but sharp 👵 Aged: Quiet and slow @ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
- #VCoelhoSantosLab at @gliameeting.bsky.social represented by the Magda Rodrigues! 🧠🔬 #glia2025 #gliovascular @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos#GliaPapers #GliaJuly2025 JULY COVER Stochastically labeled astrocytes (cyan) and Müller glia (magenta) contacting blood vessels (orange) and neural cell bodies and axons bundles (green) in a mouse retina. (see Holden, JM, et al, doi.org/10.1002/glia...)
- See you Thursday!! @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Join us this Thursday to hear some pretty cool science by @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social and @szewczyklukasz.bsky.social 😍👇👇👇 As usual, you need to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the link! Or email us at astrocytecafe@gmail.com ;) @
- See you all tomorrow!! @au.dk @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Wake up moment!!! 🎥✨ #Astrocyte calcium bursts light up as the brain shifts from sleep to wakefulness in postnatal mice. 👉 Pay attention to the glowing #vasculature. ⚡ #NeonatalBrain #NeurovascularCoupling #liveimaging @ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosWant to learn more about #astrocyte diversity across #mammals beyond Rodents and Primates? My student and I dug the literature to find out what is known about astrocytes in non-rodent and non-primate species, I hope you will enjoy our review! 🤩👇👇👇 karger.com/bbe/article-...
- Excited to announce another funded project! 💪🧠 Piece by piece, we are working to solve some of the mysteries of the #neonatalbrain using #liveimaging. Understanding our development may be the key to healthy #aging 🙃. #VCoelhoSantosLab Get in touch if you’re interested in working with us!
- Mais um passo para desvendar informações sobre o desenvolvimento do cérebro de recém-nascidos! 🧠 👶 Com este projeto, os cientistas da @ucoimbra.bsky.social esperam compreender mais aprofundadamente os fenómenos que podem impactar o cérebro durante os primeiros 28 dias de vida. #UCoimbra #Research
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosWe are excited to host @maitesolas.bsky.social in Warsaw on May 20th! We look forward to inspiring discussions and talks. If you're around, don’t miss her talk! 🧠✨ #neuroscience #astrocytes #glia #Warsaw #Poland proud members of @astrocytecafe.bsky.social
- Had the pleasure to present our recently published work lnkd.in/dhjbb4M2 at the Placental and Fetal Brain Interfaces on top of re-connect with familiar faces 🧠 #PlacentalInterfaces2025 Was also an opportunity to share the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social #ScientificAmbassador @ucoimbra.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos@cshlmeetings.bsky.social Brain Barriers 2025 is a wrap! It was an honor to co-organize this meeting in 2023 & 2025, a highlight of my scientific career. I am amazed by all the great science presented by these awesome scientists over the last five days...the future of CNS barrier biology is 🤩 💫!
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosI love taking photos of blood vessels in the brain! Here are some of my favorite shots, which one resonates with you the most? #MicroscopyMonday
- Very happy to share that I’ve been selected as a Scientific Ambassador for @eurobioimaging.bsky.social! Let’s continue to innovate and explore the unseen, promoting the power of advanced imaging tools more accessible and open to all! @ucoimbra.bsky.social #AdvancedImaging #VCoelhoSantosLab
- Today we came together to welcome the newest Scientific Ambassadors to #EuroBioImaging. 🌟 We are so happy to welcome these talented, young researchers into our community and look forward to all of their initiatives! Welcome onboard! 🤩 www.eurobioimaging.eu/scientific-a...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosSex-specific impacts of #PrenatalStress Dexamethasone on🐭P14🧠#Angiogenesis (density branching segment length) #NeuroGlioVascularUnit (AQP4) Hippocampus Prefrontal cortex Somatosensory cortex Striatum Cerebellum @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social #FrontNeurosci 2025 www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
- The very first original publication from the #VCoelhoSantosLab. We explore the impact of #prenatalstress on the #gliovascular interface, revealing sex-specific effects on brain development offspring. #opticalimaging Read the full story 👇 bit.ly/4iB3IMI @ucoimbra.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
- A Look Back at the 2nd edition of Neurovascular and Neurometabolic Regulation in Health and Disease. Packed with engaging discussions, hands-on multiphoton imaging, and groundbreaking studies—all fueled by enthusiastic students and plenty 🍕 Special thanks to all the speakers! #Neurovascular
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosI'm pleased to share our new paper about the impact of locomotion on haemodynamic responses across the brain's vascular compartments in SPIE: Neurophotonics. www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neu... Please read the comments below for a 'Bluetorial' on our findings... 👇
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosWe are seeking a talented post-doc fellow to join our young group @maastrichtu.bsky.social @carimmaastricht.bsky.social #mhens to study the neurovascular unit. #brain #vascular #csvd. Check if you are eligible #MSCA and apply: lnkd.in/epnmCFU6
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosI was imaging this weekend, took this image because it was beautiful to me, the blood vessels, fibroblasts, astrocytes, & macrophages as steadfast guardians at the brain's edges. Cheers to the 'guardians' of all that is important. ❤️
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosLet’s gooooooo!!! Finished my sign last night, printed this morning
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosOur latest work is now available as a preprint! Targeting CRC with nanoparticles—it’s what we do! Soon…more to come! Thanks to everyone involved and who contributed to this work! @beppebattaglia.bsky.social @luisgraca.bsky.social @becarios.bsky.social @lacaixa.bsky.social
- Beyond excited to welcome my former postdoc mentor @Andy Shih, to the Neurovascular Coupling course at the #BEB doctoral program! I can’t wait for the insights and discussions ahead. If you’re interested in the topic, don’t miss his seminar—it’s going to be a great one!
- Beyond excited to welcome my former postdoc mentor @Andy Shih, to the Neurovascular Coupling course at the #BEB doctoral program! I can’t wait for the insights and discussions ahead. If you’re interested in the topic, don’t miss his seminar—it’s going to be a great one!
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos🧠 A investigadora Vanessa Coelho-Santos e a sua equipa estão a estudar as barreiras cerebrais e a resposta imunológica nos primeiros dias de vida de recém-nascidos. noticias.uc.pt/artigos/cien...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosThanks to everyone involved! And for more info check the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Happy to receive new funding to explore this uncharted territory! 🧠 cool image I know 😎, it is from the #vcoelhosantoslab #fluorescentfriday #cerebrovascular #liveimaging #neonatal #sexdifferences
- 🧠 A investigadora Vanessa Coelho-Santos e a sua equipa estão a estudar as barreiras cerebrais e a resposta imunológica nos primeiros dias de vida de recém-nascidos. noticias.uc.pt/artigos/cien...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosNew review from our lab in @brain1878.bsky.social We explore how molecular blood-brain barrier (BBB) changes in aging, neurodegeneration and stroke affect disease progression, delivery of therapeutics, and much more! academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
- Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and right now, we are pure women power! ✨🧠!!! The future is ours to shape! 💪🔬 #WomenInScience #KeepScienceFun #FearlessDiscovery #Cerebrovascular
- 🧠 we can host your application ☺️ ibro.org/grant/exchan...
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-Santos#EVBOSummerSchool 2025: Please help spread the news! 10-11 June 2025 | Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland Registration will open soon. Stay tuned! The summer school will be preceded by the excellent and free-of-charge Wihuri Research Symposium on Cardiovascular Biology! More info buff.ly/42I9fvY
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosWe are excited to start the third edition of #AstrocyteCafe on February 6th with a lineup of amazing speakers 🤩 Join us for this monthly seminar series on #astrocyte research, it's online and it's free! To register for the mailing list and receive announcements, click the link in the bio!
- Reposted by Vanessa Coelho-SantosMicroplastics (mp) have been linked to stroke but mechanisms unknown. In mice, mp were phagocytosed & detected in altered phagocytes in the blood that could cause blockages in small blood vessels and thrombi linked with transient alterations in brain.🧪
