Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Primary Thematic Area
Secondary Thematic Area
Research Summary
Brain-immune interactions throughout the lifespan
Mentorship Development

9/2020  Mentoring Across Differences
5/2021  Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS) 

Our group aims to understand the complex interactions between multiple cell types within the brain, including neurons, astrocytes, and microglia, and in particular, to define how innate immune signals shape healthy brain development, plasticty, and aging, both within the brain and in communication with peripheral immunity. Our goal is to achieve a cellular and molecular understanding of brain-immune communication that can inform new immune-based therapies for psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative illnesses.

Publications

Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions.

Nature neuroscience

Escartin C, Galea E, Lakatos A, O'Callaghan JP, Petzold GC, Serrano-Pozo A, Steinhäuser C, Volterra A, Carmignoto G, Agarwal A, Allen NJ, Araque A, Barbeito L, Barzilai A, Bergles DE, Bonvento G, Butt AM, Chen WT, Cohen-Salmon M, Cunningham C, Deneen B, De Strooper B, Díaz-Castro B, Farina C, Freeman M, Gallo V, Goldman JE, Goldman SA, Götz M, Gutiérrez A, Haydon PG, Heiland DH, Hol EM, Holt MG, Iino M, Kastanenka KV, Kettenmann H, Khakh BS, Koizumi S, Lee CJ, Liddelow SA, MacVicar BA, Magistretti P, Messing A, Mishra A, Molofsky AV, Murai KK, Norris CM, Okada S, Oliet SHR, Oliveira JF, Panatier A, Parpura V, Pekna M, Pekny M, Pellerin L, Perea G, Pérez-Nievas BG, Pfrieger FW, Poskanzer KE, Quintana FJ, Ransohoff RM, Riquelme-Perez M, Robel S, Rose CR, Rothstein JD, Rouach N, Rowitch DH, Semyanov A, Sirko S, Sontheimer H, Swanson RA, Vitorica J, Wanner IB, Wood LB, Wu J, Zheng B, Zimmer ER, Zorec R, Sofroniew MV, Verkhratsky A