A tale of two receptors! Fantastic reconstruction, by the amazingly talented @radiant_mol, of confocal laser scanning microscopy data from our recent work. elifesciences.org/articles/71747 eLife - the journal Michael Francis Lab UMass Chan Postdoc Association UMass Chan Medical School ZEISS Microscopy #celegans

Check out our recent science outreach talks Shankar Ramachandran Michael Francis Lab Sebastian Werneburg @SchaferLabUMCMS and other cool science talks UMass Chan Postdoc Association Science Cafes UMass Chan Medical School youtube.com/channel/UCkTPw… #scienceoutreach #sciencecomm

Do tune in for the membrane fusion fission and traffic symposium #bps2022. Julia @LabVon will talk about my work on role of LLPS for sorting of insulin from the Golgi apparatus. I will present a poster on 22. Some new exciting in vivo data from last month.

#JNeurosci: Ramachandran et al University of Illinois Chicago demonstrate how neuron activation elicits calcium influx through just one calcium channel, closely associated to the synaptic vesicle and this is sufficient to trigger neurotransmitter release. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

If your attending the CSHL Meetings Neural Circuits meeting check out two posters from our lab by Shankar Ramachandran (poster #117) and @KellianneAlexa1 (poster #41)!

I am delighted to share work from my PhD days University of Illinois Chicago recently published in Journal of Neuroscience SfN Journals addressing presynaptic calcium requirements for neurotransmitter release

Thank you SfN Journals for featuring my work doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… on understanding calcium regulation of neurotransmitter release.

Dear fellow Postdocs, UMPA would like to invite you to a virtual science outreach event presented by Dr. Rocky Lai and Dr. Lisa Lojek! “Vaccines and Antibiotics: The War Between Tuberculosis and Humans” Date: Monday, March 28th Time: 6:30 - 7:30 PM RSVP: tinyurl.com/ytszb9f5

Ratna Chaturvedi from Emery Lab UMass Chan Medical School & her collaborators at OHSU Vollum Institute recently published their findings in Current Biology showing that the astrocytic GABA transporter GAT controls sleep by regulating GABA tone on wake-promoting circadian neurons in Drosophila.

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Meet your librarians and find out how the library can support your research during this webinar on May 18, 2022 at 1pm. Registration and more information: buff.ly/3PaUZ5m UMass Chan Medical School UMass Chan Postdoc Association

Did you miss our workshop on cleaning data using OpenRefine? The recording and slides are now on our seminar series page: buff.ly/2YUo5gy UMass Chan Medical School Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences UMass Chan Postdoc Association

Dear fellow Postdocs, to celebrate our first 2 years of our organization, you are all cordially invited to our celebration! When: June 3rd, 4:00 pm; Where? Outside on the ASC patio; Please RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Kellie Alexander, a grad student in Professor Michael Francis’s lab, was awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Student Research Mentor at the 2022 GSBS Student Academic Achievement and Leadership Awards. Congratulations Kellianne! #UMassChanGSBS

We have been very lucky to have two amazing summer interns Stephanie Ortiz-Espaillat a Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences SURP student and Hailey McKillop a Neuroscience at Assumption University student! We are sad to see you both go but wish you all the best and know you will do great things!!

NoA day! Excited to receive @NIGMS R35 ESI MIRA award. Postdoc positions available in our lab BCMB_UTK . Please contact if interested in using interdisciplinary approaches to study organelle formation and function in yeast and mammalian cells.

Pls. RT: My lab is looking for a Research Tech (tinyurl.com/3kh4tsxf) to join us in beautiful Ann Arbor who is excited about science & will help us in our ongoing research efforts to study neuron-glia interactions/neurodegenerative disease. U-M Kellogg Eye Center Michigan Medicine Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI) 〽️🧠

Way to go Samuel Liu ! Great to see UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology represented!

Celebrating @KellianneAlexa1 last day! We are so proud and wish you good luck in your new postdoc position Brigham and Women’s Research!