European Microglia Webinar Series
ABOUT
The EMWS created by Guy Brown (University of Cambridge) is currently organized by a group of researchers from the University of Lausanne, the Collège de France, and ACHUCARRO.
You can access the recordings of the past seminars from the links below.CALENDAR
First Tuesday of the Month, 5pm CEST
- DECEMBER 1, 2025 (Monday, Exception)
- Jonas Neher, DZNE, Germany.
- JANUARY 13, 2026
- Bo Peng, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2026
- David Menassa, Oxford University, UK.
PERMANENT LINK TO TALKS
- https://unil.zoom.us/j/93018596158 (Meeting ID: 930 1859 6158)
SOCIAL MEDIA AND CONTACT
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Contact by E-mail: microgliaseries@gmail.com
PAST WEBINARS
- Sarah Marzi (UK Dementia Research Institute, King’s College London, UK) November 3rd, 2025
«Identifying gene regulatory networks driving microglial phenotypes in neurodegenerative disease« - Ozgun Gokce (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases – DZNE, Germany) October 7th, 2025
«Microglial Perspectives in Aging & Injury: Insights from Single-Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics»
(No recording available) - Michael Dolan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) September 2nd 2025
«Formation and Function of Microglial States In Remyelination»
(No recording available) - Clare Pridans (University of Edinburgh, UK) June 3rd, 2025.
“Playing with FIRE – the journey to microglia deficiency”
(No recording available) - Federico N. Soria (Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Spain) May 6th, 2025 «Illuminating matrix-microglia interactions in health and disease» (No recording available)
- Steffen Jung (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) April 1st, 2025.
“Monocyte-derived microglia and why origins can matter …” - Arkady Khoutorsky (McGill University, Canada) March 4, 2025.
«New roles of microglia in chronic pain»
(No recording available) - Gilbert di Paolo (Discovery Biology Denali Therapeutics Inc , San Francisco, USA) February 4, 2025
«Lysosomal functions of progranulin in myeloid cells and therapeutic approaches for GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia»
(No recording available) - Michelle Monje (Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA) January 7, 2025
«Neural-immune interactions in cognitive impairment following cancer therapy of COVID« - João Relvas (Institute for Innovation and Research in Health (i3S), University of Porto , Porto, Portugal) December 3, 2024
«Microglia through the lens of RhoGTPase signaling« - Anna Molofsky (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioal Sciences UCSF, Well Institute for Neurosciences , San Francisco, USA) November 5, 2024
«Regulation of microglial function by cytokines« - Urtè Neniŝkytè (Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University , Vilnius, Lithuania) October 1, 2024
«Phsphatidylserine mediates neuron-microglia interaction in the developing brain«
(No recording available) - Elvira Mass (Life & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES), University of Bonn , Bonn, Germany) September 3, 2024
«How microglia meet T cells in neurodegeneration« - Long-Jun Wu (Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), USA) June 4, 2024
«Neuroimmune interfacion: how microglia sense and regulate neuronal activity« - Miao Jing (Chinese Institute for Brain Research, China) May 7, 2024
«The Tango between astrocytes and microglia in homeostasis injury response« - Alain Bessis (Institut de Biologie de l´École normale supeérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL , Paris, France) April 2, 2024
«Microglial TNFa controls inhibitory synapses in the cortex: consequences on sleep« - Marco Prinz (Institute of Neuropathology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany) March 5, 2024
«The myeloid side of the brain« - Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti (Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Cambridge Cenrre for Myelin Repair , Oxford, UK) February 6, 2024
«Mitochondrial complex I activity in microglia sustains CNS inflammation« - Anne Roumier (Sorbonne University/YOMC Institut du fer à Moulin , Paris, France) January 9, 2024
«Impaired regulation of postnatal microglia by serotonin has lasting effects on sociability, flexibility and response to inflammation« - Renzo Mancuso (U Antwerp Center for Molecular Neurology , Belgium) December 5, 2023
«Biology and modulation of microglia in vivo in Alzheirmer´s diseases« - Francesca Peri (Department of Moleuclar Life Sciences, University of Zurich , Zurixh, Switzerland) November 7, 2023
«In the belly of the microglia: towards a quantitative understanding of how microglia phagocytose neurons « - Sandra Siegert (Institute of Science and Technology (IST) , Vienna, Austria) October 2, 2023
«From microglia morphology to function (with the help of ketamine)«
RECORDED SEMINARS
REPOSITORY OF PREVIOUS SEMINARS
(The University of Cambridge, 2021-2023)
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