#fluorescencefriday

DIV21 neurons
4x expansion
Magenta- MAP2
Orange- SynGAP1

photo cred Dr. Rhys Livingstone

Congratulations to MPI for Brain Research Director Erin Schuman on her election as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science and one of the most prestigious in Europe!
👉News: bit.ly/3JZ0cvY
👉Royal Society: bit.ly/44IegU8
We further

UPDATE 🎉

For the first time since 1957, and after a long 6 years, the annual exit survey required of all US PhDs *WILL* ask voluntary sexual orientation and gender identity questions. Policymakers can now understand and address LGBTQ+ disparities in STEM, for decades to come 🏳️‍🌈

This #FluorescenceFriday is our first attempt at imaging SynGAP in live hippocampal neurons during a cLTP protocol

Thanks to Rick Huganir and Yoichi Araki for their beautifully expressing (and dispersing!) SynGAP construct!

😍 those spines!

Little did I know that promise would involve me making home made Mg2+ Neurobasal to induce cLTP.

When I joined Paul Donlin-Asp 🏳️‍🌈’s lab I insisted it was on the condition he’d let me image spine dynamics (something I had yet the chance to do), safe to say the promise has been kept

I seem to have misplaced my pink hair and 18kg.

Join SIDB Group Leaders David Price and Paul Donlin-Asp 🏳️‍🌈 as they share their research on the human brain🧠in this year's Pint of Science UK Festival! #pint24

📅 14th May, 7-9pm
🎫Tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/brain-bl…

Edinburgh Neuroscience

A blanket apology for anyone who encounters me in an airport terminal.

Caffeination + 🏳️‍🌈 = an almost 37 American weaving around people milling around at a speed I deem slow (aka a perfectly normal and reasonable speed).

The Cousin lab are hiring!! We need someone to investigate dynamin-1 dysfunction in epilepsy. Experience in primary neuronal culture, live cell fluorescence imaging and standard molecular biology / biochemistry techniques are desirable. See thread...

Thank you Rebecca Jordan for inviting me to Edinburgh and filling my schedule incredible scientists- what a crew up there!🧠 Rochefort_lab Ian Duguid Paul Donlin-Asp 🏳️‍🌈 SürmeliLab Mahesh Karnani @MaheshMiikaelKarnani@fedisci, Matt Nolan, Angus Chadwick. I forgot to take a single pic but it really was this beautiful

7 years ago these annoying and lovable fur goblins made it to Germany from the US. A little over a year ago they made it to Scotland.

From my second year of my PhD to the second year of PIhood.. lots have changed… aside from their insistence on screaming for food at 4am.

Nanodrops should keep a high score list

The agency who generates official diversity statistics for the US scientific workforce was forced to give up its pilot data, which show it's been misrepresenting its data to avoid adding LGBTQ+ questions. National Center for Science & Engineering Stats is obstructing LGBTQ+ equity in science. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I think we have a volunteer to talk about figure 1 in journal club tomorrow.

Love my cats- but they’re plant hunting demon spawn.. and as my office has less than ideal windows… the lab members benefit plant wise.

Excited to share our paper by Raffaella De Pace Saikat Ghosh et al. showing that BORC-dependent transport of lysosomal vesicles into the axon is crucial for the axonal movement of a large cohort of mRNAs, mainly those encoding ribosomal and mitochondrial proteins nature.com/articles/s4159…