APRIL 2025: ALANA COLAFRANCESCO was awarded an honorable mention for the confocal microscopy image that she submitted for the “Science is Beautiful” contest for the Killion Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics retreat.
Representative immunofluorescence image of a coronal brain section showing the substantia nigra (SN), including the pars compacta (SNc) and pars reticulata (SNr), stained for markers of glial reactivity. Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP; magenta), S100β (green), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH; white), and nuclei (DAPI; blue) are visualized in a Cd38 knockout mouse, an astrocyte-enriched gene associated with increased risk for developing Parkinson’s Disease.
