News
2024/11/22
Andrea and Bridget are presenting posters to showcase their thesis projects at the Neural Sciences Research Day at Temple University. Bridget was also selected to do an oral Data Blitz presentation!
2024/11/11
Congratulations to Darsaan on defending his master's thesis! He is the first student to graduate from our lab and from the Neuroscience Master's Program at Thomas Jefferson University.
2024/11/08
Elena attends the Minorities in Health Sciences Symposium at Esperanza College, in North Philly, to be part of a panel and discuss career challenges with high school students from the area. More info here.
2024/11/01
Andrea presented his project at the MD/PhD Retreat at Thomas Jefferson University and won the Best Poster Award. Congratulations!
2024/10/21
New publication alert! Yolanda's first author paper is out in PLoS ONE. Read it here. Recovery after human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs)-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) treatment in post-MCAO rats requires repeated handling.
2024/10/02
Bridget presents a poster of her project at P-SPINE.
2024/09/25
The lab attended Gliadelphia Fall 2024 symposium at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Congratulations to Bridget for an excellent Flash Presentation and for winning Best Poster in the Senior Graduate Student category!
2024/09/01
The book Astrocyte-Neuron Interactions in Health and Disease is available for pre-order here. Elena co-edited this book, and we contributed a chapter titled 'Astrocyte Regulation of Neuronal Function and Survival in Stroke Pathophysiology', co-authored by Bridget and Andrea.
2024/08/23
Andrea has been awarded a fellowship in the Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences (CBMS) NIGMS T32 Training Program (GM144302). Congratulations!
2024/08/21
Bridget presents her project at the Glia in Health & Disease Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting 2024.
2024/06/07
The Blanco-Suarez lab presents at the 9th Shriners-Temple Symposium on Neural Repair in the "Brain development and plasticity" session in Philadelphia.
2024/04/29
The Blanco-Suarez lab presents at the Spring Brain Conference in Sedona, AZ, in the plenary session "Glial Regulation of CNS Function and Dysfunction ".
2024/04/15
The Blanco-Suarez lab presents at the V Congreso de Neurobiologia de la Sociedad Mexicana de Bioquimica (5th Neurobiology Conference of the Mexican Society of Biochemistry) in Morelia, Mexico.
2024/02/21
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund a pilot study with the Khakh lab in UCLA to study astrocyte-neuron subproteomes to investigate potential therapies for stroke. More info here.
2024/01/31
John presents a poster of his work in our lab at the Scholarly Inquiry Symposium at Jefferson University.
2024/01/25
Bridget is one of the 14 finalists at the Research as Art competition at Jefferson University. Her beautiful high-resolution confocal images deserve the prize!
2024/01/01
Bridget is awarded the Predoctoral Fellowship by American Heart Association to fund her research for the next 2 years. Congratulations!
2023/11/14
Eileen presents our article "Absence of chordin-like 1 aids motor recovery in a mouse model of stroke" for the Glia Club seminar series.
2023/11/11
Elena presents our latest research at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2023 in Philadelphia, PA.
2023/09/26
The first original research article from the lab gets accepted in Experimental Neurology for publication. Congratulations to all authors, and especially, first author Eileen!
"Absence of chordin-like 1 aids motor recovery in a mouse model of stroke". Check it out here.
2023/09/12
Eileen presents her poster "Absence Of Chordin-Like 1 Prevents Loss of GluA2 and Improves Motor Recovery in a Mouse Model of Stroke" at the Gliadelphia x ANA Ancillary meeting and wins "Best Astrocyte Poster" award. Congratulations, Eileen!
2023/09/10
Eileen presents her poster "Absence Of Chordin-Like 1 Prevents Loss of GluA2 and Improves Motor Recovery in a Mouse Model of Stroke" at the American Neurological Association (ANA) Annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
2023/09/06
Our first review "Astrocytes in Stroke-induced Neurodegeneration: A Timeline" is published in Frontiers of Molecular Medicine. Congratulations to first author Eileen Collyer! Find it here.
2023/08/01
Andrea Berghella joins the lab from the MD/PhD program at Thomas Jefferson University.
2023/07/01
The Blanco-Suárez lab receives the Innovative Project Award from the American Heart Association to investigate a new approach to boost post-stroke plasticity.
2023/04/13
Bridget presents a poster at the 2023 Jefferson Synaptic Biology Symposium about our work "Absence of Chrdl1 prevents loss of GluA2 and improves motor deficits in a mouse model of stroke".
2023/03/23
Yolanda is one of the runner-ups in the Science Slam of Jefferson College of Life Sciences. She presented her project in a short talk for a non-expert audience. Congratulations!
2023/03/21
Elena becomes a council member of the American Society for Neurochemistry.
2023/01/10
Pre-order of the book Neural Repair: Methods and Protocols is available here. Chapter 4 is a contribution from the Blanco-Suárez lab on our protocol to induce photothrombotic ischemic stroke in the hippocampus of mice.
2022/11/12
The Blanco-Suárez lab latest data is presented at SfN 2022 (San Diego, CA) at the minisymposium "Diverse Functional Aspects of Astrocyte-Neuron Interactions in Health and Disease" (session 005.06 at 2pm, room 6CF).
2022/10/14
Elena visits Esperanza College in North Philly to be part of a panel during the Minorities in Health Sciences Symposium. More info here.
2022/09/22
Yolanda presents her first poster at the Postdoctoral Research Symposium at Jefferson College of Life Sciences.
2022/08/23
Bridget passes her comprehensive exam and she is now a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations, Bridget!
2022/05/28
The lab receives a travel micro-grant from Marie Curie Alumni Association to be at Brain and BrainPET meeting in Glasgow (UK).
2022/04/01
Dr. Blanco-Suárez receives the Career Development Award from the American Heart Association to fund the project "Region and Time-dependent Role of Astrocytes in Post-Stroke Plasticity Regulation".
2021/08/02
Bridget Boyle joins the lab as our first graduate student from the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program at Jefferson College of Life Sciences.
2021/07/05
Dr. Yolanda Gómez-Gálvez joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, joint with Dr. Lorraine Iacovitti's lab.
2021/04/16
Dr. Eileen Collyer-Saavedra joins the lab as a Research Associate. Our first lab member!
2021/12/23
Dr. Blanco-Suárez is named finalist of the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science 2021. More info here.
2020/10/05
The Blanco-Suárez lab opens its doors in the Department of Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA).