Melissa Cooper, PhD

post @SfNtweets #SfN24 astrocyte joy keeps coming - you can see @MelCooperPhD's beautiful spinning astrocyte networks thanks to a mini interview with @zeiss_micro HAPPY FRIDAY linkedin.com/posts/carl-zei…

Applications now open for our 2023-2024 NYU SPiNES (Seminar for Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) lecture series! Join us for this exciting opportunity to share your latest research, interact with our faculty, trainees & visit NYC. Apply here: bit.ly/3ZC32wz

“Neuroscience is no longer all about neurons”: @NPR⁩ Check out my interview on ⁦@npratc⁩ where I talk about glial cells and inflammation in XDP! 🧠 ⁦@SfNtweets⁩ #sfn24 #sfn2024 npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-…

Just 30 minutes away! So excited to finally get to share this work with a broader audience.

@SfNtweets #SfN24 @NYULH_Neuro @nyugrossman !!ASTROCYTES ON THE BIG SCREEN!! Head over to the @zeiss_micro booth (#653) to see beautiful images from @MelCooperPhD, @pryprk, @KerryLimberg all through SfN!

@SfNtweets #SfN2024 starts in less than a week! here is what the lab will be up to from OCT 5-9 come say hi, chat to us about awesome science (obvs astrocytes) lots of people going: @WrightCP22 @holly_gildea @KerryLimberg @michaelrodea @MelCooperPhD @pryprk @borderbiologist

My talk at #CSHLGlia is coming up soon!! Come see the images that made me cry when I first looked through the eyepieces of my scope ❤️ We’ll be looking at scale bars spanning from Angstroms in some images to centimeters in others! @cshlmeetings #womeninSTEM #glia

Thank you!! I'm so excited to get started!

So honored to attend Moses’ National Academy of Sciences induction!!! It couldn’t have gone to a more deserving mentor. @theNASciences @clariselles #NAS161

“That moment you look through a microscope and realize you're the first person to ever know something - there's nothing like it. Chase the career that reminds you how amazing science is!” @MelCooperPhD

LiddelowLab collaborator presenting in 30 minutes! Do you like connexins and communication between astrocytes? @MelCooperPhD has you sorted! #Euroglia #glia2023 #gliameeting

Hippocampal vasculature is goooooorgeous! I perfused this mouse with lectin, then cleared the brain via AdipoClear. Imaged on a @zeiss_micro Z.1 lightsheet at 5x (~0.5mm z projected). #neuroscience #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #Neurology #brain

I’m so thrilled my mentor Moses Chao was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences today! It’s wonderful to see the honor go to an exceptional scientist and genuinely good person. #NAS

This was such a fun, impactful project to work on - and has some of my favorite microscopy to date. I’m so excited that some of my tissue clearing and light sheet microscopy will be out in the world! Go check it out! ⬇️🔬🌈 #neuroscience @zeiss_micro #astrocyte #glia

I've been obsessing over this image of retinal astrocytes for the past few weeks. Astrocytes (GFAP) in cyan, gap junctions (cx43) in yellow, and DAPI in magenta. Check out their endfeet on the blood vessel in the middle! @zeiss_micro #neuroscience #Microscopy #womeninscience

So honored to be on the cover of this issue. I freaked out seeing it in person, tbh. Thank you so much @Divinaction

Just had an lovely Skype a Scientist (@SkypeScientist) session with a high school Genetics class. Quick plug - scientists, outreach is a great way to rekindle your excitement for your project! The students asked more thoughtful questions than many seminar audiences, too 😂

Our paper on rats with cochlear implants is out now! nature.com/articles/s4158… The hard work of @ErinGlennon1 @SValtcheva @msvirsky with Youssef Wadghiri and Angela Zhu. Thank you all and happy holidays! Published with the peer review reports.

Being at a conference *after* having given your talk is a totally different, much better experience 😂

Hello, San Diego! I'm giving a talk at SFN on Tuesday. Come see some how a macrophage-derived factor influences astrocyte network connectivity! #SfN2022 #SFN #SFN #neuroscience #WomeninScience #Astrocyte #Glia