We are excited to host Prof. Carmen Falcone (Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University) for our Wednesday seminar series on July 29, 2026. Prof. Falcone's research explores astrocyte diversity in the context of brain evolution and disease, with a particular focus on specialized astrocyte populations. In her lab's recent study published in Science Advances (Ciani et al., 2026), the team showed that varicose projection astrocytes represent a conserved reactive astroc