Neuroscientist | Postdoc: Cossart Lab 🇫🇷 | PhD: Epp Lab 🇨🇦 | Neuron Activity Networks under Physiological and Pathological Conditionshttps://bsky.app/profile/dterstege.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dterstege.bsky.social/post/3mgdmjp6jxc26Continued learning, sociability, and exercise promote resilience to memory impairment in AD These factors also increase the activity of the RSC, an early site of dysfunction in AD Here we perform an RSC deep-dive to examine this interaction (PV and PNNs matter!) https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/9/e045525202605 Mar 2026 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:5gbujemopz6y3prganw7rc2b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdmjp6jxc26https://bsky.app/profile/dterstege.bsky.social/post/3m52n4jwttc2xA little late posting this, but I defended my PhD thesis earlier this year! Big thanks to Jonathan Epp for his mentorship and support over the years - I can’t recommend his lab enough 🇨🇦 Also very excited to share that I’ve started a postdoc at @inmed.bsky.social with Rosa Cossart! 🇫🇷07 Nov 2025 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:5gbujemopz6y3prganw7rc2b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m52n4jwttc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dterstege.bsky.social/post/3lo2govfyik2d🚨New paper from the Epp and Sargin Labs!🚨 We identified early sex- and region-specific impairments to parvalbumin interneurons (PV-INs) during Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) pathogenesis https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt8976 Simplified highlights below: 🧵/1530 Apr 2025 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:5gbujemopz6y3prganw7rc2b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo2govfyik2d