Thanks to all of our presenters and participants for making the 2024 CSN Symposium a great success!

The afternoon half of the CSN Symposium included talks from myself and my BU colleague Jeff Gavornik, as well as Nao Uchida (MCB_Harvard) and Lucas Pinto (@Neuroscience_NU).

The second half of the CSN Symposium also included talks from BU postdocs Mai-Anh Vu (Mai-Anh Vu) and Maxime Maheu (@maheump) and PhD student Brad Rauscher.

More photos from this morning.

The 2024 BU Center for Systems Neuroscience Symposium, 'Neurotransmission is Lit,' is underway! This morning we heard talks from our own Mark Howe and Lynne Chantranupong (@Lchantran) as well as Lin Tian, PhD (@MPFNeuro) and Yao Chen (@wustl).

Great writeup in Neuroscience News on the new study from CSN and BU Engineering faculty Prof. Nancy Kopell giving new insights into ketamine effects on the brain, published in PNASNews.

BU CSN Symposium tomorrow! This is an in person event. Hope to see you there!

CSN and Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty Prof. David Harris has a new pub in ACSChemNeurosci 'Sigma Receptor Ligands Are Potent Antiprion Compounds that Act Independently of Sigma Receptor Binding.' READ>>pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to my student Dr. Kelton Wilmerding on his PhD hooding ⁦KeltonWilmerding⁩ and congrats to the other BU GPN students, Drs. Stamati Liapis, Michael Rosario, Kaitlyn Dorst, Margaret Minnig, and Luis Ramirez!

CBR's first ever open house was a huge success. Read all about it here
bu.edu/cbr/2024/04/25…

To all mosquito researchers: there is still time to register for the Mosquito Neuroethology and Neuroecology premeeting at the Neuroethology (ISN) meeting in Berlin this summer! Sign up through the ICN page or for the workshop here: forms.gle/cMv4ohjaaGKEZG…
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'Window into the songbird brain reveals superdiffusive migration of adult-born neurons'

Trends in Neurosciences 'Spotlight' by Carolyn Pytte
cell.com/trends/neurosc…

discussing Naomi Shvedov et al., Cell Reports 2024, Ben Scott group Ben Scott
cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Our lab is hiring! We are seeking a new Research Coordinator as we support the ever-incredible Helen Gray Bauer in her transition to grad school. I would be most grateful for your help spreading the word, please share within your networks!

Light up your dopamine! This symposium on imaging neuromodulation is open to the boston area neurocommunity! May 22 at BU. Featuring talks from Yao Chen Lucas Pinto Naoshige Uchida Lin Tian, PhD and others! Details here: bu.edu/csn/2024-sprin…

CSN and BU Biology faculty Professor Heng-Ye Man has a new pub in Molecular Neurobiology, “SIK1 Downregulates Synaptic AMPA Receptors and Contributes to Cognitive Defects in Alzheimer's Disease.” READ>> link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Announcing a Boston University Center for Systems Neuroscience symposium.
Title: Neurotransmission is lit! Monitoring acetylcholine and monoamine dynamics during behavior
Location: 610
Commonwealth Ave
Time: Wed, May 22, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
RSVP (free): bu.edu/csn/2024-sprin…

Congrats Vicky Yao Qiliang Vincent Lai Ruth Dannenfelser ! I enjoyed so much working with you on this cool paper!

In today's joint Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University and BU_Neurophotonics seminar, Dr. Itamar Kahn from Columbia U.'s Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Institute discussed 'Individual Variability in the Functional Connectivity Architecture of the Mouse Brain.' Thanks Prof. Anna Devor for hosting!

Huge congratulations to our incredible student Anna-Maria Marinescu (Senior in Biology) for receiving the Undergraduate Research Award in Neurobiology this year!

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Bifano for receiving BU's Innovator of the Year award!