Enthusiastic brain barriers researcher located in Switzerland involved in many exciting international collaborations
Britta Engelhardt
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Some excellent thoughts here...
Lack of junctional adhesion molecule (JAM)-B traps CD8 T cells in CNS border zones and ameliorates autoimmune neuroinflammation
Javier Pareja et al. 🧪
actaneurocomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Glad I had the chance to present my work on the hindbrain choroid plexus to the community at the European Brain Barrier Meeting 2025. 👏 Huge thanks to the organizers, @brittae.bsky.social and everyone else for such a nice meeting 🤗 #EBBM2025
Post-doctoral position alert!
PhD position alert!
The endothelial blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly controls T cell entry into the central nervous system (CNS). T cell extravasation across the BBB involves a multi-step cascade with a predominant role...
What a cool story! Must read.
Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in vertebrates: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Pedro Pimentel-Coelho
Interesting read... food for thought - www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterio...
Great news to share with you - I am very honored to have received the Swiss MS Society Research Award. www.multiplesklerose.ch/de/aktuelles...
This is a trainee seminar series and your participation is very important and much appreciated. Join us next week. Here is the free registration link:
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Hasel et al. show that molecularly and morphologically specialized astrocytes make
up the brain and spinal cord surface, thereby creating the glia limitans superficialis.
These astrocytes selectively ...
www.cell.com
A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate.
Ein besonderer Höhepunkt des diesjährigen «MS State of the Art Symposium» war die Verleihung des zweiten Forschungspreises der Schweiz. MS-Gesellschaft. Die mit 100’000 Franken dotierte Auszeichnung e...
@cshlmeetings.bsky.social Brain Barriers 2025 is a wrap! It was an honor to co-organize this meeting in 2023 & 2025, a highlight of my scientific career.
I am amazed by all the great science presented by these awesome scientists over the last five days...the future of CNS barrier biology is 🤩 💫!
Britta Engelhardt
Britta Engelhardt
Britta Engelhardt
Masud Husain
Grind stays real – Víťa and @petrakompanikova.bsky.social went straight from the V4SDB Meeting 2025 to the European Brain Barrier Meeting in Bern, where Petra presented her work on the hindbrain choroid plexus. 🐁 Big thanks to the organizers and community for the warm first-time welcome! 😇 #EBBM2025
