🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇮🇪 Postdoc, Goate Lab @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Interested in microglia, 🧬, Alzheimer’s and all things omics (and Formula 1!). Previously @ University of Edinburgh, Montagne Lab
Michael Sewell
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Very excited to share a pre-print from my first postdoc, out today, exploring the impact of pericyte loss in the brain - It was a pleasure to work with former co-workers Dorota Štefančová, Audrey Chagnot, and Axel Montagne on this project.
Opened LinkedIn just now to find a post from the Professor who was by far the most rude and condescending person I have ever encountered in academia about my work — writing about how "outraged" they are by academics not taking student mental health seriously… academia is a strange place sometimes
good to see work that really cares about statistical rigor too in the field (something that is really lacking) - awesome job!
2025 off to a decent start...Happy to share my latest first author paper with the brilliant Nela Fialova and @axelmontagne.bsky.social where we sought to identify genes that are frequently altered in vascular cells in CNS disorders across existing datasets. Check it out here!
You know you work in academia when you can brush off a desk rejection (that took almost a month for a paper of five years worth of work) back to back with a fellowship rejection. In less than half an hour…
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
