Neurobiology of Aging & Disease Laboratory
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Latest work from the lab published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Microglia, the immune cells of the brain, need a lot of energy to clean up toxic waste that can lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
How is this fueled? Read here to find out!
https://twitter.com/AgingBrainLab/status/1628441095872081921?s=20
“Immunity and metabolic function are intricately linked processes, and targeting microglial metabolism offers a window…
Posted by Neurobiologyaging on Thursday, 4 March 2021
Using TSPO knockout (TSPO-KO) and neuronal TSPO transgenic (TSPO-Tg) mouse models to investigate TSPO function in the…
Posted by Neurobiologyaging on Thursday, 21 January 2021
Mitochondrial complex I (MC-I) may be a useful imaging biomarker to detect neuronal damage and metabolic changes.
Posted by Neurobiologyaging on Thursday, 21 January 2021
Congratulations to Dr Naik for receiving a travel award from the EMBO workshop.
During May 2017, Dr Roshan Naik traveled to Portgal and Spain to present at two conferences.
Dr Naik presenting at ECO
17th-20th May 2017, Porto, Portugal
Dr Naik presented work in the form of a poster titled ” Metabolic dysfunction in Translocator protein knockout mice: role in inflammation”.
Dr Naik presenting at EMBO
24th -27th May 2017, Sitges, Spain
This workshop consisted of a small group (nearly 100+) of researchers working on basic, translational and clinically oriented work on adipose tissue; it was highly fruitful for networking and receiving important input on our work.