Month: November 2023

“A first-of-its-kind study led by the University of California, Irvine has revealed a new culprit in the formation of brain hemorrhages that does not involve injury to the blood vessels, as previously believed. Researchers discovered that interactions between aged red blood cells and brain capillaries can lead to cerebral microbleeds, offering deeper insights into how they occur and identifying potential new therapeutic targets for treatment and prevention.”

Read more here: https://news.uci.edu/2023/11/20/uc-irvine-led-study-is-first-to-find-brain-hemorrhage-cause-other-than-injured-blood-vessels/

“In this webinar, produced with support from Vizgen, Xiangmin Xu, PhD, will introduce several single-cell and spatial multi-omics technologies and describe how they can be used to improve our mechanistic understandings of brain circuit plasticity and neurodegenerative diseases. You will also learn about the University of California Irvine (UCI) Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM), which has emerged as a hub for new technology and resource development in the field of neuroscience, and their efforts to develop single-cell spatial multi-omics tools.”

This webinar originally aired on September 7th, 2023. For more information and to watch the webinar recording, please see the genengnews website article here: https://www.genengnews.com/topics/omics/rewiring-the-brain-applying-spatial-omics-to-neural-plasticity-and-neurodegenerative-diseases/

“The third annual conference hosted by the UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM) was held on August 21–23, 2023, at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering in Irvine, California. Additional events also took place on August 24 on the UC Irvine campus. Hurricane Hillary generated additional anticipation ahead of the conference as she was forecasted to hit Irvine the night before the meeting, and to be the biggest storm in Irvine in ~100 years! To everyone’s relief, Hillary mostly petered out and was downgraded to a tropical storm by Saturday night. Thus, despite the “virtual option” we made available, nearly everyone attended the conference in person.”

Read the full meeting report on Nature.com here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02308-4

The International Association of Biomedical Sciences will be holding their 2023 Forum in Irvine this year. The objective of this forum is to unite leading scientists in the neuroscience field, with a particular focus on Neurodegenerative Disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and related conditions. Speakers and attendees from across the globe will come together to share cutting-edge research findings, exchange innovative ideas, and foster stronger collaborations between academia and the industry to accelerate the advancement of novel therapies. Among the speakers is our very own Director, Dr. Xiangmin Xu!

Ultimately, the Forum aims to facilitate extensive interactions between academic researchers and biopharmaceutical companies, fostering a collaborative environment that expedites the development of groundbreaking diagnostics and therapeutics.

For more information and registration check out the IABS website: https://www.ia-bs.org/contents/52/139.html