November 2025 News

November 28, 2025

Awards, New Papers, and Announcements

• Dr. Kathy Steece-Collier has been invited to give a talk to the Parkinson’s Disease Support Group as part of the My Health Series through University of Michigan on Monday, November 10, 2025.
• Ben Combs’ tenure system appointment was officially approved at the Board of Trustees meeting on October 31st.
• Finneran DJ, Jackman BM, Desjarlais T, Henry A, Soliman AS, Muskus PC, Shankar R, Chen B, Nash KR, Morgan D, Gordon MN (2025) Mature tau pathology is not improved by interfering with interleukin-1 receptor signaling in two mouse models of tauopathy. PLOS One. 20(11): e0335409. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0335409. PMID: 41191631.
• Seeding Alzheimer's disease-associated tau pathology in MAPT knock-in primary neurons causes early axonopathy and synaptic dysfunction. Mueller RL, Combs B, Kanaan NM. Sci Rep. 2025 Oct 31;15(1):38140. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-21920-8.PMID: 41173863 Free PMC article.
• Neuronal gene profiling of tau oligomer-bearing cholinergic nucleus basalis neurons during the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Kara B, Beck JS, Fu Z, Hickey SL, Kanaan NM, Mufson EJ, Ginsberg SD, Counts SE. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2025 Oct 27;13(1):218. doi: 10.1186/s40478-025-02080-2.PMID: 41146342

Welcome

• Jariel Ramirez-Virella, PhD has joined the Steece-Collier Lab as a PostDoc (start date: 11/03/25)