Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience: My research is really fun. I study these cells called Microglia in the brain. I really love studying them because they are really animatic. We're getting to know a lot more about them, but each time we know a little bit more about them, we find out that we know a lot less. My name is Ukpong Eyo. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience. I study microbial cells and I study them as glial cells, which are non neuronal cells in the brain. What has become clear is that these immune cells that we study in the brain are critical regulators of the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Our findings suggest that these cells actually regulate the vasculature in these diseases. And we've also been able as a team to recruit one of the foremost researchers that studies the human version of these cells. And we're going to be studying them in our context to see and enlighten us if they indeed play a role in Alzheimer's disease.