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“Where did the inspiration for sentient dolphins come from?”

Recruitment Positions available Multiple research positions are available in the Triplett lab at UCLA focused on statistical machine learning methods for neuroscience and mechanistic models of neural computation...

I'll be recruiting grad students and postdocs, so please reach out if interested!

More details here: sites.google.com/view/marcust...

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Agreed. Serial killers are tough, especially if they act nicely and are not just obviously bad all the tie. I really (still) can't watch the duplicity, it's too suspenseful. At least with zombies you know where you stand.

That's kind of funny, because now I don't mind horror movies as much. (I used to hate them). Something about at least those cinematic monsters are fake....?

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

There is color out there on the moon. Check out a simple linear stretch of the OG image showing the different composition of the lunar surface, particularly in the maria.

Holy smokes this is exciting.

Welcome to UCLA!!! 🔬✨

So breathtaking...

Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates and Exposes Selective Neuronal Vulnerability The ER's continuous tubular network is maintained by ER-shaping proteins whose mutation or dysregulation contributes to neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we show that ER morphology sets the speed of ...

🚨📜Our new paper out in @AdvSciNews:
ER shape matters for neuronal health - disrupting ER continuity halts neuro-firing as it slows Ca2+ store refill, explaining selective neuronal vulnerability to ER problems in neurodegeneration 🧠
a thread to follow advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

All data in this work are beautiful – look at this 3-day timelapse of in vivo myelination along a zebrafish axon!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm so pleased to see this work on neural crest development out in Nature today! This was a truly fantastic collaboration with @gleesonlab.bsky.social, Keng loi (Harry) Vong and @xiaoxuyang.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone involved 👏 🧪🐣 #devbio

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

microscopy images of a developing mouse spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and membrane stains in rainbow coloring

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a confocal 🔬 series of a developing 🐭 spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and cellular membrane stains colored in 🌈 Microscopy by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪

Exciting work! This strongly agrees with our super-resolution imaging of endogenously expressed tagged- AP-1 and Gga2 localization studies in yeast :-) So excited to see this in the mammalian world.

#neuroscience #trainees
One month left to nominate an outstanding mentor for the NINDS Landis Award!

Nomination form here: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Congratulations! that's amazing :-)

If you can't make the UCLA Brain Health Summit in person, the meeting will be live-streamed on Youtube here: teams.semel.ucla.edu/longevity/ev... (click on the hyperlink in the top right corner of the program).

Extremely timely science led by the Hong Lab @UCLA!

Dear Devoted Users of SeqSeek,

I’m sorry, but NIH has decided that we can no longer maintain the website. All of the data is still available at the links provided, and the new platform even has added functionality.

Happy gene expression hunting!

seqseek.ninds.nih.gov

Is this for FY2026?

Using vDISCO tissue clearing, and a new ultrabright chemical labeling strategy. This work introduces LINCS for rapid, scalable 3D connectivity mapping from single neurons to whole brains, advances for high-throughput circuit mapping.

Great work by Rui Lin lab.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Been under the weather fro a few days. It is wonderful to be able to see hummingbirds like this Anna's Hummingbird just by going out in my yard in #DavisCA. #birds

That's awesome!! Fingers crossed :-)

Timeline Cleanse 🐙

Check out the newest work from our, from Fabricio Nicola @fabricionicola.bsky.social on mouse jumping and spinal cell types.

Excellent collab with @vulcnethologist.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is so exciting!! congratulations @droligo.bsky.social 🎉🎉

Photo credit: Jade Fachin, an amazingly talented PhD student in the lab.
(My kingdom for an edit button!)

Node of Ranvier in a peripheral nerve

Happy Fluorescence Friday :-)

The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 Nature - PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.

New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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