Some thoughts on rabies virus for tracing neural connections; a perspective from barrel cortex neural circuits (spikesphotons.blog ).

BCMHouston was ranked 12th in the world for Innovation by the Nature Innovation Index in 2017 (the most recent edition)! See: go.nature.com/2QcwDdv

Fantastic Neuroscience Department seminar today delivered by Dr. Alex Kolodkin from Johns Hopkins Medicine, discussing cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal guidance and connectivity. Host: Melanie Samuel 📸 credit: St-Pierre Lab #brain #developmental #neuroscience

Don't miss the first ever Open Science MOOC webinar by https://neuromatch.social/@amchagas - Bringing Science to the 21st Century: #OpenSource Tools for Better Research. Webinar will be live here: eliademy.com/catalog/oer/mo…

My lab's latest paper shows that we can boost people's ability to recollect episodic memories (that they had formed one day prior) by applying a weak electrical current over their left anterior prefrontal cortex.

Woohoo!!!! Way to go Huskies! 🏆🥇

This is changing my life. Mathpix's "Snip" will let you screenshot an equation, and it will return the LaTeX code. Works passably on handwriting, and nearly flawlessly on pdf equations. mathpix.com

"High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex" now with 27-page math supplement! with Marius Pachitariu, Kenneth D Harris, Matteo Carandini, Nick Steinmetz nature.com/articles/s4158…

Just returned from two days in SF reviewing grants for the NIH Small Business: Neuroscience Assay, Diagnostics and Animal Model Development panel. I'm warmed up for Elon Musk's #Neuralink event tonight. At 8pm I'll live-tweet the event with my first-take "review" of the tech.

The last Journal Club of Term 4 took place yesterday: we are all done with this popular course for this academic year! Our awesome course directors & students are saying hi to all! 2nd pic is during Eric Gou’s presentation. Great job, everyone! #phdlife #zoomclass #onlinelearning

Congratulations to Elena, Oleg, Hai, Yumei and John UTHealth Houston, Leonid Brown, and my student Eric BCM Department of Neuroscience on this discovery. Kalium rhodopsins: Natural light-gated potassium channels biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Dr. Nuo Li BCM Department of Neuroscience for winning the 2021 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience for his groundbreaking research! He is the 1st BCMHouston faculty member to ever win this is ultra prestigious award in our field! sfn.org/initiatives/aw…

This paper finally came out nature.com/articles/s4159… So proud of my student Eric who characterized KCR as an optogenetic tool in neurons. A wonderful collaboration and team effort. Congratulations to all authors!

A new KCR that would work well with blue light, potentially can be used in combination with red shifted excitatory opsins. WiChR, a highly potassium selective channelrhodopsin for low-light two-photon neuronal inhibition biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We present you our JEDI master! JEDI-2P, a two-photon optimized fast indicator (GEVI) enables unprecedented sustained deep-tissue voltage recording. Thanks my PI's Francois St-Pierre advice and lab members St-Pierre Lab and all collaborators' amazing work! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

New method from the St-Pierre Lab, Z. Liu Zhuohe Liu , X Lu Xiaoyu Lu, Y Guo Eric et al brings scientists closer to better understanding how the #brain works medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-m… via Medical Xpress BCM Department of Neuroscience BCMHouston Rice University

How do our brains work when we’re awake? #NEIfunded research reports a new sensor that allows imaging of brain activity for longer & deeper in the brain without missing signals. BCM Department of Neuroscience @BCMhouston Cameron Smith IMACHEM ENS Cell paper: bit.ly/3CdHmhY

Thanks to Xiaoyu Lu , Zhuohe Liu and Eric from St-Pierre Lab for developing the amazing voltage sensor JEDI-1P. It has been great working with Xiaoyu and Francois on this JEDI-1P project. We are super excited to be able to apply JEDI-1P to widefield imaging in mice!

Congratulations to Kevin Jiang on receiving the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the NIH, a 4-year award for MD/PhD students. Kevin is a #neuroscience graduate student from the lab of Dr. Mingshan Xue TCHResearchNews