# Congratulations Felipe on Your Nature Paper on Bacterial Meningitis! March 13, 2023 Congrats to Felipe for his amazing new paper published in *Nature!* The paper can be found here: [](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meningitis-causing-bacteria-invade-brain) In this study, we found that bacteria signal to neurons via toxins to induce CGRP release, which then polarizes macrophage responses to shut down chemokine production and facilitate bacterial invasion. congratulate all the other Chiu lab members that contributed to one of our most recent publications in Nature. Linked below are two articles summarizing nicely why Dr. Ribeiro, and all of us in the Chiu lab are excited about his scientific findings. The accompanying News&Views by Dr. Dorian McGavern is written here: Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)