Inaugural lecture to the faculty of Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) and Simon Wiegert (@simwieg.bsky.social) - bridging green and red biology.
Kudos to everyone involved for pushing the boundaries of what we can see in the brainš
Check out the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Christopher Ford Andrew Yee @anitaluthi.bsky.social @labluthi.bsky.social @simwieg.bsky.social @FellinLab @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social digersarah.bsky.social
Happy to have contributed to this beast of a paper with some optogenetics and fiber photometry.
Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).
...been doing this already a lot ;) Very easy
Improved red and green indicators for norepinephrine and their characterization are reported. These indicators allow detection of norepinephrine release in awake behaving mice in dual-color fiber phot...
Dopamine ā reward but turns out, also not the learning molecule we thought.
If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time.
This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit.
Aš§µwith my toy model and notes:
#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
Cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic inputs support learning-driven hippocampal stability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two-author papers are always special.
Using optogenetic stimulation of hippocampal synapses in awake mice and tracking them over approx. 2 weeks, we link synaptic strength, spine volume and their stability. It's confirmed: bigger spines are stronger and more stable š
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šØ 8 PhD positions in GPCR signaling! The research group āDynOrg"(āŖ@dfg.deā¬, @simwieg.bsky.social) is hiring doctoral researchers to study how GPCRs shape brain, heart & behavior ā combining optogenetics & physiology. š 7 labs across Germany
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Flexibility and stability of neuronal ensembles are crucial features of brain function. Little is known about how these properties of local circuits are influenced by long-range inputs. We show, in mi...
In this study, the authors find that synaptic strength predicts spine size and long-term stability via in vivo imaging together with optogenetic stimulation in awake mice. While individual synapses sh...
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Kudos to everyone involved for pushing the boundaries of what we can see in the brainš
Check out the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Christopher Ford Andrew Yee @anitaluthi.bsky.social @labluthi.bsky.social @simwieg.bsky.social @FellinLab @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social digersarah.bsky.social
Simon Wiegert
Simon Wiegert
Simon Wiegert
Ofer Yizhar
Mannheim Center for Translational Neuroscience
UniversitƤt Heidelberg
Kevin Mitchell
Improved red and green indicators for norepinephrine and their characterization are reported. These indicators allow detection of norepinephrine release in awake behaving mice in dual-color fiber phot...
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
