Ancient origins of complex neuronal genes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Congratulations Yi Shi Jin of UC San Diego, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS160 #neuroscience

iGluSnFR3 is published! Check it out⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4159… We made a new glutamate indicator with improved sensitivity, kinetics & localization for imaging synaptic transmission. This is #iGluSnFR3 in action detecting minis w/ TTX. Kaspar Podgorski HHMI | Janelia Allen Institute

Writing or reviewing a manuscript? Watch out for these ten common statistical mistakes ⬇️ elifesciences.org/articles/48175…

Back from a twitter hiatus for this important announcement: 🚨 #Neuroscience Funding Opportunity🚨 The Biohub Collaborative Pairs Pilot Projects program is now open, seeking to fund pairs of neuroscientists to pilot bold, new collaborative efforts chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/ndcn-colla…

Been a great day for publications from the team. Mathew Koretsky and the team great job on showing genetic overlap and in some instances a depletion of genetic risk across and within neurodegenerative diseases.

And another one … Caroline Warly Solsberg and @HamptonLLeonard cranking out #AlzheimersDisease multi-ancestry meta-analysis #GWAS. With some deep dives into heterogeneity of effects and risk prediction implications. Team effort from NIH’s CARD and friends! nature.com/articles/s4138…

How do neurons choose one out of many possible synaptic partners? In the C. elegans brain, neurons are likely to form a connection if they reach a threshold of physical adjacency, supporting Peters’ rule as a principle of synaptic specificity cell.com/current-biolog…

If living close to the beach and mountains in Vancouver appeals to you - apply to join our department as a TT assistant professor of teaching! Can’t wait to see who will be our new colleague 😀

We are hiring! Looking for a bioinformatician to lead workshops, do some analysis and guide trainees. Note that all staff positions at the university are on renewable yearly contracts but this is expected to be a permanent position ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcstaff… Please RT

Super excited to announce that I'll be joining Dept of Zoology in October to start my own research group! If you're interested in working with me please get in touch, find me #Worm23 and check out my website bit.ly/3XgAk4m

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

Drosophila experience two hunger states, one driven by need and the other by pleasure, which arise from unique neural substrates. elifesciences.org/articles/84537…

Individual cell types in C. elegans age differently and activate distinct cell-protective responses doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

From #GP2AIM2023 - complex genetics team slides available now if you missed the meeting ... Check out what we have been up to in the space of global efforts in Parkinson's disease genetics, including @HamptonLLeonard summarizing preliminary results! docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Our signal propagation atlas of C. elegans is now out in nature! We measure the network’s response to optogenetic stimulation of each neuron in the head, one at a time-- over 23,000 neuron pairs. Congrats to Francesco Randi Anuj K. Sharma & @DvaliSophie. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Get some sleep! Sleep issues in 2M samples show risk of neurodegeneration 15 years out and compensates for low genetic risk. Check the link for a break down of our preprint from a collaboration between the UKDRI, NIH's CARD and DataTecnica. datatecnica.com/blog/working-a…

Long time in the works, new multi-ancestry Parkinson's meta-GWAS. 12 potential novel risk loci, some analyses of heterogeneity across populations and fine-mapping for 6 known loci. Shout outs to all the collaborators! rdcu.be/duEF1 <- open access

Mind of a dauer nature.com/articles/s4146…