Neuroscience PhD Candidate @ UC Irvine | Dr. Leslie Thompson's Lab | CIRM Scholars Trainee | F31 NINDS | ARCS Foundation Scholar | VP @HDCARE3https://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3lrdvbzcaok2zIt’s been a month! First author paper published in Neuron Mark and I are engaged! Presented at an international conference in Italy where my love and I traveled around after exploring Cinque Terre and Tuscany 🥰 Received the Allergan BioSci Graduate Award and GDDF* I’m over the freaking moon!11 Jun 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdvbzcaok2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3lqx5velm5c22Sitting in a cafe in San Gimignano Italy when I realized that my first first-author publication is now available online in Neuron!!! Check out our temporal spatial transcriptomics findings in the Huntington's disease R6/2 mouse. 🥰 Read here: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(25)00361-706 Jun 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqx5velm5c22https://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3lp5nwrdfok2vSo excited to see my fantastic boss, Dr. Leslie Thompson, on TV, along with a Huntington's disease patient speaking about the impact of HD and hope for the future. Check it out! https://ktla.com/news/local-news/orange-county-woman-opens-up-about-living-with-fatal-rare-huntingtons-disease/14 May 2025 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5nwrdfok2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3ljngowpw6k2rI have attended the UCI REMIND symposium for the past 5 years and this year I had the pleasure of presenting my work on Friday! Thanks to everyone who attended. 🔬05 Mar 2025 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljngowpw6k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3ljbjf7csdk26My best friend defended his thesis yesterday!!! I cried multiple times and can’t put into words how grateful I am to have met Dr. Pachow. He has truly changed my life and will be one of those lifetime friends. One of the best things to come out of grad school. Congrats!! See you soon in SD! 💕28 Feb 2025 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljbjf7csdk26https://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3lf3rbkfq722uCongrats Thai!!! So excited to see his thesis work published in Nature Neuroscience. Take a look at some ground breaking findings in Huntington's disease related to splicing, TDP-43 and m6A RNA modifications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01850-w06 Jan 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3rbkfq722uhttps://bsky.app/profile/maraburns1.bsky.social/post/3lcbbmh5ujd2bHi Bluesky, I’m new to the app and transitioning from X/Twitter. I’m a 5th year grad student in Dr. Leslie Thompsons lab at UCI focusing on the development of Huntingtons disease with an interest in astrocytes. Happy to be here!01 Dec 2024 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:2ukusxs4dfrcimqb3evvimh3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcbbmh5ujd2b