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(Dual) in Biological Sciences, with Honors, and in Psychology; Minors in Biochemistry and in Chemistry (Florida State University, Class of 2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/379ae6ce-5fc4-4bb5-8fa2-78c963724ca7/somatosensory+inj+view+1.jpg Home A somatosensory astrocytic network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/854baa09-610e-4c7b-9234-0cdcb622f55f/25nl+Vis+cortex+cc+crossing+subset_2024-09-18T09-53-33.899.png Home Astrocytes in a visual cortex astrocytic network connected through corpus callosum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/6adca07f-2cf2-40eb-b3f8-8c953ea9054a/25nl+Vis+cortex+cc+crossing+subset_2024-09-18T09-54-37.597.png Home Astrocytes in a visual cortex astrocytic network connected through corpus callosum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/b3146830-efe3-4c17-ad79-1ef5a0db8fcc/motor+inj+view+1.jpg Home A motor cortex astrocytic network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/41b5298d-3bd2-40e1-abce-ae2e7b8d8411/linkedin+image.jpeg Home Retinal astrocytes (cyan), their gap junctions (yellow), and all retinal nuclei (magenta). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/8323b77f-fa47-4bea-a2ef-684341eee571/coded+by+depth.png Home Astrocytes in the frontal cortex of a iDISCO+ cleared mouse brain. 200um of depth, coded by color and projected onto a single image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/c5a90822-f880-4fc6-b930-b657045ceb1b/Male+5+488register+647CTB+trimmed+sagittal.png Home The visual projection from one eye (red) within an intact, cleared brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/dcfb61d4-d661-452d-adae-567379d2f69f/Male+5+488register+647CTB+trimmed+45deg+angle.png Home The visual projection from one eye (red) within an intact, cleared brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/35492f26-dcd5-430d-a846-7e89172ae2a0/Male+5+ipsi+contra+oblique+2.png Home Ipsilateral and contralateral visual projections segmented for quantification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/eb2ddedf-64ab-4720-85b3-1e7894bbcc1b/Astro+8+composite+with+scale.png Home Expansion microscopy on primary astrocytic culture enlarges cells to about half a millimeter across, enabling imaging of individual gap junctions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/579654ad-fbda-4d55-a022-9290bef6eedc/C2-MAX_M1+RBD+LCN2+647+40x.png Home Astrocytes in the brain reacting to retinal neurodegeneration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/29d5b2ef-eed4-4b51-a63d-3f43e8d9adab/Astrocyte+culture.jpg Home Immunopanned primary cortical astrocytes, cultured in serum-free conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/0f27281f-b61c-4a37-b608-8dfedc652b75/astro+gap+junction.gif Home Immunopanned astrocytes forming gap junctions (magenta). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/82ace962-8362-425b-8628-8f5eb3a79f5f/846+coronal+with+CT.jpg Home PET revealing resource distribution between the two eyes after neurodegenerative insult https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/6d8ee78e-7884-4217-8831-73efebe39021/947+coronal.jpg Home PET and CT demonstrating a lack of metabolic resource transfer after astrocyte-specific connexin 43 knockout https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/87d4dd7e-24d3-4754-9227-e2bdc2d0cef6/AstroMicroTransfer.jpg Home Co-culture of primary astrocytes and microglia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/1727186330799-O2B4MC42OI2JE4T6KR00/GLS.jpg Home Clearing a brain from an astrocyte marker mouse enabled visualization of a new astrocyte subtype on the brain's surface. https://www.melcooperphd.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b7ce526dae8570d7222f04/1623768271146-TUWYATN41TTUIEBW7QKB/Headshot.jpg Contact - Email: melissa.cooper@nyulangone.org Bluesky: @melcooperphd.bsky.social LinkedIn Google Scholar