Maria Pia Rodriguez

This paper describes a national peer mentorship program for first-year graduate students, highlighting its impact and challenges.

This study shows that mitochondrial fission is essential for astrocyte morphogenesis and organization in the cortex, with Drp1 loss causing morphological and functional deficits.

This study shows that the LRRK2 G2019S mutation impairs astrocyte morphology and synapse maintenance by hyperphosphorylating ERM proteins, which disrupts the Ezrin/Atg7 interaction and autophagy.