Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Krolak for successfully defending his thesis "Endothelial Gap Junctions in The Control of Neurovascular Coupling" on December 4th!   

Thank you for everything you have done for the lab and good luck in your future endeavors! 

Congratulations to Dr. Larios for successfully defending her thesis "Functional Consequences of Neurovascular Coupling Impairment on Cortical Processing and Sensory Encoding" on October 10th! 

Congratulations to Sarah and Urs on the publication of their recent Nature Neuroscience paper "Characteristics of blood–brain barrier heterogeneity between brain regions revealed by profiling vascular and periv

The Gu lab is excited to welcome new research assistants Adalia Zhou, Erin Mathieu, and Saira Munshani!

The Gu lab thanks you for your hard work and wishes you the best on your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Ryan, who successfully defended his thesis, "The role of the vasculature in communicating systemic inflammation to the brain” on July 18!

Congratulations to Hannah, who successfully defended her thesis, "New methods to study blood-brain barrier permeability” on November 6th!

Welcome to the newest members of the lab; graduate student Albert Chen and Postdoc Shivang Sullere!

Congratulations to Chenghua for being named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! 

Swathi and Chenghua's recent Neuron paper was featured on the Allen Discovery Center website. Read full the story here: https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/frontiers-group/news-press/articles/scishots-how-brain-plugs-leaks

Congrats to Trevor, Luke, Chenghua, and colleagues at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute on their new Nature Cardiovascular Research paper!

Congrats to Swathi, Chris, Shenghuan, Chenghua and colleagues at Stanford  on their new Neuron paper

Congratulations to Xavier, who successfully defended his thesis, "Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying adult blood-brain barrier maintenance” on October 29th.

Congrats to Chenghua, former lab members Benjamin Andreone and Urs Langen, and colleagues from Stanford University on their new Nature paper Structure and mechanism of blood-brain-barrier lipid transporter MFSD2A!

Watch Chenghua deliver the keynote lecture at the 2021 Cold Spring Harbor "Brain Barriers" conference on 4/7/21!

https://leadingstrand.cshl.edu/Keynote/Media/2021/BBB/553

Congrats to Alyssa for passing her Preliminary Qualifying Exam (PQE)!

Congratulations to Brian Chow and Vicente Nunez on publishing the paper titled Caveolae in CNS arterioles mediate neurovascular coupling!

Allen Distinguished Investigator Chenghua Gu, Ph.D., studies the brain’s blood supply system, an elaborate vascular network that closely interacts with both the immune system and the brain. Hear why she thinks the unknown questions are so important in science. Check out the video!

Faheem and Daniel, two undergraduate students from Northeastern University join the lab! Welcome!

A farewell lunch at Fogo de Chão was had for Vince Nunez on his last day as a part of the Gu Lab. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

A new postdoc, Joe Amick, has joined the Gu Lab. Welcome Joe!

Ryan Camire, a graduate student, has joined the Gu Lab! Welcome Ryan!

Congratulations to Natasha O'Brown for publishing the paper Suppression of transcytosis regulates zebrafish blood-brain barrier function! This great paper is available at the following link (https://elifesciences.org/articles/47326) and the full pdf can be found on our Publications page. 

Christopher Gallego Lazo has joined the Gu Lab as the Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Welcome Chris!

Chenghua discusses the work conducted at her lab at Harvard Medical School. 

We had a lunch to celebrate Ben's last day after finishing his beautiful defense. He will be missed!

Congratulations to Dr. Andreone for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Regulation of Transcytosis Underlies Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability"! We had a great celebration with the department afterwards to celebrate his accomplishment.

Ben's paper on Faculty1000

"Your article: Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Is Regulated by Lipid Transport-Dependent Suppression of Caveolae-Mediated Transcytosis., Neuron, 2017 (DOI: 10.3410/f.727521421.793533710), has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Louis F Reichardt. "

Congratulations to Ben, Brian, and former postdocs (Alex, Baptiste, and Ayal) for our latest paper published by Neuron on a key mechanism that explains how the suppression of transcytosis occures in the CNS to maintein the integrity of the blood-brain barrier!

Congratulations to Brian for our latest paper published by Neuron on the relative roles of tight junctions and transcytosis during the normal development of the functional blood-retinal barrier!

Gradual Suppression of Transcytosis Governs Functional Blood-Retinal Barrier Formation.

A new student, Isle Bastille, just joined the lab! Welcome Isle!

A new postdoc, Urs Langen, just started his first day in the lab! Welcome Urs!

Congratulations to Chenghua for being selected as a HHMI Faculty Scholar!!!!

here is the news: Philanthropies Announce Selection of Faculty Scholars

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A new student, Xavier du Maine, just joined the lab! Welcome Xavier!

A new postdoc, Swathi Ayloo, just started her first day in the lab! Welcome Swathi!

A new postdoc, Sarah Pfau, just started her first day in the lab! Welcome Sarah!

Congratulations to Esther, Jiha, and Aleks for our latest paper published by eLife on a general principle of how the vast diversity of densities of vascular networks is generated!

Temporal modulation of collective cell behavior controls vascular network topology

Blood exerts a powerful influence on the brain

Congratulations Baptiste for your new faculty position! We will miss you this spring when you leave!

A new postdoc, Natasha O'Brown, just started her first day in the lab! Welcome Natasha!

Congratulations to Brian and Baptiste for our Review articles on the blood brain barrier and Neuro-vascular plasticity!

Chow and Gu (2015) Trends in Neurosci

Lacoste and Gu (2015) Mech Dev

A new postdoc, Shachar Dagan, just started his first day in the lab! Welcome Shachar!

A new postdoc, Vicente Nunez, just started his first day in the lab! Welcome Vicente!

Congratulations to Ben and Baptiste for our Review article on Neuronal and Vascular Interactions in Annual Review of Neurosci!

Andreone, Lacoste, and Gu (2015) Annu Rev Neurosci

Congratulations to Masha, Nellwyn, Aleks, Baptiste, and Won-Jong for our latest paper published by eLife on the function of neuropilin1 in angiogenesis!

Neuropilin-1 functions as a VEGFR2 co-receptor to guide developmental angiogenesis independent of ligand binding.

Congratulations to Ben for your NIH NRSA fellowship award!

Congratulations to Baptiste and Ayal for our latest paper published by Neuron on the relationship between neural activity and vascular network!

Lacoste et. al. Neuron, 2014

Welcome Brian to join the lab!

Congratulations to Ayal, Baptiste, Esther, and Ben for our recent paper published by Nature on the formation and function of the blood-brain barrier!

Ben-Zvi et. al. Nature (2014)

Congratulations to Aleks for our recent paper published by J. of Cell Biology on semaphorin signaling!

Tata et.al. J. of Cell Biology, 2014.

A new postdoc, Jieqing Fan, just started her first day in the lab! Welcome Jieqing!

Congratulations Ayal for your new faculty position! We will miss you this fall when you leave!

Chenghua's interview by graduate students and postdocs at Stanford University

"Neurotalk" podcast at Stanford University: NeuroTalk S2E15 ChenghuaGu or weblink: chenghua

Congratulations Chenghua for being promoted to an Associate Professor, and thanks to the past and current Gu lab members for your hard work!

Congratulations Won-Jong for your new faculty position! We will miss you!

Check out our latest paper, published today in the journal Neuron, Congratulations Won-Jong!

Establishment of neurovascular congruency in the mouse whisker system by an independent patterning mechanism

Welcome on board to Baptiste Lacoste, a new postdoc in the lab!

Welcome on board to Esther Kur, a new postdoc in the lab!

A new postdoc, Aleksandra Tata, just started her first day in the lab. Welcome Aleks!

Check out our latest paper, published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience!

Semaphorin3E-Plexin-D1 signaling controls pathway-specific synapse formation in the striatum

A new postdoc, Nellwyn Hagan, just started her first day in the lab! Welcome Nellwyn!

Check out our latest paper, published today in the journal Genes & Development, and it's the cover too!

Semaphorin 3E–Plexin-D1 signaling regulates VEGF function in developmental angiogenesis via a feedback mechanism