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
- 06/10/2026
- Mikael Simons, Technical University of Munich / DZNE (Germany)
- 03/11/2026
- Tristan Qingyun Li, Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
- 01/12/2026
- Pinar Ayata, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center / Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (USA)
PERMANENT LINK TO TALKS
- Zoom Meeting Room
- If the Zoom room is at full capacity, you can still follow the webinar live on Achucarro’s YouTube channel. You can ask questions via the live chat.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND CONTACT
You can also follow us in X (aka Twitter): @MicrogliaSeries and Bluesky: @microgliaseries.bsky.social
Contact by E-mail: emws-comms@achucarro.org
PAST WEBINARS
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| September 1, 2026 | Katrin Kierdorf (University of Freiburg, Germany) | Out of Shape: Functional architecture of microglia networks in development and disease |
| June 2, 2026 | Kiavish Movahedi (VUB, Belgium) | Understanding Microglial ontogeny and diversity by studying a specialized neuroimmune niche |
| May 5, 2026 | Lindsay De Biase (UCLA, USA) | Basal ganglia microglia shape circuit function across the lifespan |
| April 7, 2026 | Victoria Marshe (Columbia U., USA) | Human Microglia Expression Programs in Neurodegenerative Disease |
| March 3, 2026 | Tara Da Silva (U. Cleveland, USA) | Microglia as sculptors of white matter during development |
| February 3, 2026 | David Menassa (U. Oxford, UK) | Microglial cartography in the developing human brain |
| January 13, 2026 | Bo Peng (Fudan University, China) | Microglia replacement: from bench to clinical therapy |
| December 1, 2025 | Jonas Neher (DZNE, Germany) | The impact of peripheral inflammation on microglial immune responses |
| November 3rd, 2025 | Sarah Marzi (UK Dementia Research Institute, King’s College London, UK) | Identifying gene regulatory networks driving microglial phenotypes in neurodegenerative disease |
| October 7th, 2025 | Ozgun Gokce (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases – DZNE, Germany) | Microglial Perspectives in Aging & Injury: Insights from Single-Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics |
| September 2nd, 2025 | Michael Dolan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) | Formation and Function of Microglial States In Remyelination |
| June 3rd, 2025 | Clare Pridans (University of Edinburgh, UK) | Playing with FIRE – the journey to microglia deficiency |
| May 6th, 2025 | Federico N. Soria (Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Spain) | Illuminating matrix-microglia interactions in health and disease |
| April 1st, 2025 | Steffen Jung (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) | Monocyte-derived microglia and why origins can matter … |
| March 4, 2025 | Arkady Khoutorsky (McGill University, Canada) | New roles of microglia in chronic pain |
| February 4, 2025 | Gilbert di Paolo (Discovery Biology Denali Therapeutics Inc, San Francisco, USA) | Lysosomal functions of progranulin in myeloid cells and therapeutic approaches for GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia |
| January 7, 2025 | Michelle Monje (Stanford University, USA) | Neural-immune interactions in cognitive impairment following cancer therapy of COVID |
| December 3, 2024 | João Relvas (University of Porto, Portugal) | Microglia through the lens of RhoGTPase signaling |
| November 5, 2024 | Anna Molofsky (UCSF, San Francisco, USA) | Regulation of microglial function by cytokines |
| October 1, 2024 | Urtè Neniŝkytè (Vilnius University, Lithuania) | Phosphatidylserine mediates neuron-microglia interaction in the developing brain |
| September 3, 2024 | Elvira Mass (University of Bonn, Germany) | How microglia meet T cells in neurodegeneration |
| June 4, 2024 | Long-Jun Wu (IMM, USA) | Neuroimmune interfacion: how microglia sense and regulate neuronal activity |
| May 7, 2024 | Miao Jing (Chinese Institute for Brain Research, China) | The Tango between astrocytes and microglia in homeostasis injury response |
| April 2, 2024 | Alain Bessis (Université PSL, Paris, France) | Microglial TNFa controls inhibitory synapses in the cortex: consequences on sleep |
| March 5, 2024 | Marco Prinz (University of Freiburg, Germany) | The myeloid side of the brain |
| February 6, 2024 | Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti (Oxford/Cambridge, UK) | Mitochondrial complex I activity in microglia sustains CNS inflammation |
| January 9, 2024 | Anne Roumier (Sorbonne University, Paris, France) | Impaired regulation of postnatal microglia by serotonin has lasting effects on sociability… |
| December 5, 2023 | Renzo Mancuso (U Antwerp, Belgium) | Biology and modulation of microglia in vivo in Alzheirmer´s diseases |
| November 7, 2023 | Francesca Peri (University of Zurich, Switzerland) | In the belly of the microglia: towards a quantitative understanding… |
| October 2, 2023 | Sandra Siegert (IST, Vienna, Austria) | 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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