Carmen Falcone

Astrocyte Cafe - Seminars & 2026 Conference Join the international astrocyte research community. Monthly seminars and the 2026 Pamplona Conference.

Registrations and abstract submissions for #AstrocyteCafe2026 are now OPEN!!!

Spread the word 🤩
We hope to see many of you on June 3-5 in Pamplona!!!

Thanks Kernel Science, for our brand new website and for helping organize this conference!
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astrocytecafe.com#/conference-...

Do you know what every university’s library needs? A kids room (aka “family study room”) like this 👇

3 adults and 7 kids (!!!), and- believe it or not- but we actually worked for a few hours, while kids were having a blast creating pure chaos all around 😏

Thanks @towsonu.bsky.social!

What a wonderful day yesterday to give a talk at GWU and to have some pretty inspiring chats with faculty and students of the Dept of Pharmacology and Physiology🤩

Thanks again, Paul
@pmarvar.bsky.social for the invitation!

#EvolutionaryGlialBiology

Finishing up this semester with some pretty cool sugary brains 🧠🍪

I clearly didn’t bake these: students are the best, thanks Elena! 🙌

Wow, 3 floors full of posters for the Fall Student Research Symposium are really the best way to finish up the semester @towsonu.bsky.social 🥹

Also, happy PI faces: new collaborations are happening 😏

@kyt-thatsme.bsky.social @eharberts.bsky.social

Didn’t have enough of neuroscience conferences lately so I decided to go to another one 😉

It’s great to be part of the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter, today at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 😌

#GBSfN2025

Starting in 15 minutes!!! 😍
@italianglianetwork.bsky.social

Hi gang! I am giving a short talk at the second @italianglianetwork.bsky.social Symposium on Wednesday EU-afternoon/US-morning. Sign up to tune in!

It’s been a year already from our first one: we are hosting the 2nd online IGN symposium tomorrow from 2 pm (CET) / 8 am EDT 🤩

Come for some pretty cool #glia talks and networking!

Oh well, we forgot to take a picture altogether at the end of our talks #SfN2025…but we did make sure we had good food to celebrate our love for #radialglia and #astrocytes 😌

If you missed our Minisymposium at #SfN2025, you can still catch up with some of the topics by reading our new review:

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Also, got the printed version of this paper (and many more)🤩 @sfn.org

Looking forward to seeing many #glia folks at this social tonight, join if you are at #SfN25! Thanks for organizing this 🤩

MIN20.01- astrocytes and evolution today at 2pm 😉

@wronski.bsky.social Bruno Mota and I celebrating 7 years since we first met at this very same convention center 🫶

7 years of wonderful collaboration and friendship, but also 7 years of home bearing with me asking for selfies at @sfn.org 😬

Guess we booked the hotel in the right spot for #SfN2025 😉

Rocking the start of day 2 with some exciting brainstorming on #glia networks with my dear friend and collaborator @dibenedetto-lab.bsky.social 🙌

We love San Diego anyway 🙃

#AstrocyteCafe organizing committee (partial) reunion.

Always nice to catch up, Lukasz! 😎

#SfN2025

Here we are

#gliarock #astrocytelovers

#SfN2025 starting now, wonderful spending the whole morning with a new friend @fedezampa.bsky.social discussing science..and really much more than just that 🤩

Clustering of spatial gene expression from a profiled tissue section of human brain in the basal forebrain

Our lateral septum (LS) team is representing for #SfN25! We have two posters on Wed afternoon from RA Madeline Abramson (PSTR463.16) and undergraduate Yufeng Du (PSTR463.17) showcasing newest molecular profiling results across mouse, non-human primate and human 🧠

I'm there too - get in touch!

Revamping the annual tradition of bringing #glia to the amazing #JBJohnstonClub meeting 🫣😉

Thanks for having me, it was a blast to speak and chair this morning session!!!

#JBJC2025 #EvolutionaryGlialBiology

Also, my face while saying “I hope you like astrocytes”:

Aaaand we are starting with one of my fav meetings 🤩

#KargerWorkshop
#JBJCEvolutionaryNeuroscience
#JBJC2025

Who is coming to #SfN2025?

Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇

@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!

#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development

Congrats to my students Kyle Hastings & Elena Christou for winning the FCSM Undergraduate Research Grant! 🎉

But I want to thank all of new members of the lab. For your enthusiasm, curiosity, and for choosing a #newPI: you’ve faced every challenge with patience & teamwork!🙌🤩

@towsonu.bsky.social

We are doing it again!!!!

Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)!

We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️

Can't wait to share more about our research with my new colleagues and students at @towsonu.bsky.social.

If you are around, pass by to say hi...and to talk about #astrocytes of course!

#ASBMB

This stemmed out of a beautiful collaboration with Giuliano Taccola. 🙌

Yes, it’s a short one, but it opens many doors for future studies 🤩
I am so proud of our former students Luca Mio and Giulio Pistorio, for leading this study 👏👏

#Falconelab #glia #ExperimentalPhysiology

Immediate cortical glial alterations following spinal cord injury: Evidence from a novel in vitro model Spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers immediate and widespread pathophysiological changes not only at the site of impact but also beyond it, including alterations in remote cortical regions. Here, we rep....

Did you know that spinal cord injury can induce a remote effect on the cerebral cortex?

I did not. There are very few studies about that!
 
📣 Check out our brief communication on how spinal cord injury can impact the density of cortical #astrocytes 😮

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Submit an abstract for our 2nd @italianglianetwork.bsky.social
Symposium by Oct 10.
We want to see your cool #glial research!!!

The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9

I re-started my lab a month ago at Towson University. I am the happiest now, but no big change comes without challenges. Why is moving labs so stressful? I put together a few thoughts I have after… ... I re-started my lab a month ago at Towson University. I am the happiest now, but no big change comes without challenges. Why is moving labs so stressful? I put together a few thoughts I have after l...

I have re-started my lab at @towsonu.bsky.social a month ago. 🤩

Big changes come with challenges, but also with lots of positive sides. Moving disrupts progress in the short term but can accelerate growth in the long run. 💪

How was your move?

tinyurl.com/34tjkhtw

#NewPIagain