Congratulations to Dr. VJ Ramesh on his data-packed thesis! I am so happy you brought cut&run to the lab (do you understand the tshirt now?)

Go Duke! Proud of these two grads and sending a shout out to Dr. Minto too.

Hey twitter anyone know a reliable source to fix a qPCR machine? ThermoFisher wants 50% of the sales price (7K) to even look at it.

Since the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, people have wondered if a similar type of system exists in eukaryotes. Today, we report in nature the characterization of Fanzor, a eukaryotic RNA-guided system that can be reprogrammed for human genome editing. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fun with the lab.

Curious local high school students are invited to Duke each summer since 2021 for an eight-week session where they lead neuroscience research projects. “I'm just seeing how research can impact every aspect of human life." ow.ly/6GsJ50PBSsV

Another one heads to Boston. Keep being amazing, VJ.

ICYMI - our newest Journal Club! Anne West (West Lab @ Duke) recounts the study that showed that accumulation of non-CpG DNA methylation in neurons coincides with postnatal synapse maturation, suggesting that it contributes to brain function. 🔗go.nature.com/45QnEUQ

Thomas Oertner / @[email protected] C-fos is downstream of PKA/CREB and neurotransmitters that stimulate some GPCRs = CREB and c-fos production. Along the way, people (including me at times) say c-fos = “activity”, knowing we study DA/glutamate sensitive neurons. A broader understanding of what makes fos is needed!

Spread the word to seniors considering a PhD in the neurosciences! 🧵 Duke Neurobio is actively seeking prospective students with diverse training in neuroscience, biology, math, physics, computer science, engineering, as well as other life science related disciplines!

Hanging out on a hopping Tuesday evening in Ithaca with the Cornell neuroscience powerhouse team of Katie Tschida and Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou. This is what awesome science looks like.

I’m very excited to announce the completion of this special issue of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (co-edited with West Lab @ Duke), focused on Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders! sciencedirect.com/journal/molecu…

Happy holidays from the West Lab (and friends) to all of you. So proud of this crew.

Me after every NIH review cycle.

Apparently a player named Caleb Foster on Duke basketball is known as “CFOS”. Ha ha made my day - all my favorite things in one place.

Visiting the West Lab diaspora in Boston. So proud of these alums.

They came for abortion first. Now it’s IVF and next it’ll be birth control. The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right. jezebel.com/ivf-clinic-in-…

High-throughput transcriptomics offers powerful new methods for defining different types of brain cells. But we need to think more explicitly about how we use these data to distinguish a cell’s permanent identity from its transient states. By Anne E. West thetransmitter.org/defining-cell-…

NEW AD: “We must win…for them” #Olympics #Harris2024

Neuronal enhancers fine-tune adaptive circuit plasticity sciencedirect.com/science/articl…