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Thrilled to congratulate my student Dr. Francisco Blanco (Francisco A. Blanco) on a successful Ph.D. defense yesterday 🎉👏It has been an absolute privilege to work with him, and I am excited to see the bright future he has ahead! BCM Department of Neuroscience BCMHouston

Understanding GABAergic synapse diversity and its implications for GABAergic pharmacotherapy: doi.org/10.1016/j.tins… Review on the diversity of GABAergic synapse organizer proteins

Goodbye party for Dr. Francisco Blanco, who recently defended his Ph.D. thesis and published an exciting paper about targeting Tiam1 for memory enhancement: jneurosci.org/content/45/6/e… We loved having Francisco in the lab and we will miss him greatly!!! Francisco A. Blanco

NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country. Brief explainer for those not in this world: buff.ly/3EtML7D

NIH funding supported : *** 412,041 jobs *** *** $92.89 billion in new economic activity*** *** $2.46 for every NIH $1 spent.*** We are a $100B industry. Let's act like it ! How about, at a bare minimum, we all just call our congressional reps??

People who spend their careers writing NIH grants are the literal opposite of grifters. It is a soul-sucking, brutal process. The scientists don’t get rich when they get funded. Their salary doesn’t change. They do it for science. For patients. You know, to make 🇺🇸healthy.

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/111…

Basic science is inspired by curiosity, accountable to evidence, and subject to peer review. Politics should have no role.

For our PhD, MD-PhD students, residents, research fellows, faculty at academic health centers, some inspiring words from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will also add: my MD-PhD Weill Cornell Medicine Rockefeller University in 1980s was fully funded by NIH and gave me the tools to make low-cost vaccines for the world

New report shows that #NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024 forbes.com/sites/michaelt…

Check out our new paper in @nature nature.com/articles/s4158…. We report genetic mechanisms of neural tube defects in patients. Spina bifida is also known as meningomyelocele (MM). Prior family-based and association studies found few linked genes, so we took a different approach.

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵

Our scientists with over 150 collaborators have released the largest functional map and wiring diagram of the brain to date – seven years in the making. Today’s 1.6 petabyte release marks a historic day for neuroscience. This moonshot milestone will further efforts towards

The brain as it's never been seen before. Scientists have created the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammal brain to date. @princetonneuro Johns Hopkins APL UW Graduate School @bcmfromthelabs @unigoettingen

After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results! We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in visual cortex in a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy. To systematically characterize neuron function, we built the first

Scientists produce painstaking wiring diagram of a mouse's brain reuters.com/science/scient…

In a new study, researchers used an AI model to build a “digital twin” of the part of the brain that processes visual information. The advancement could make it easier and more efficient to study the inner workings of the brain. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0…

Check out our new paper - cover story on Nature Neuroscience - outlining a potential new target for pain treatment and which may explain the susceptibility of older adults to chronic pain

Huge congratulations to Francisco A. Blanco (PhD) and Topher Cronkite (MD/PhD) for earning their degrees! Mentoring such bright, curious, and compassionate students has been a true honor! Can't wait to see the amazing things they'll do next! BCM Department of Neuroscience BCM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences BCM MD/PhD Program

We're pleased to announce nine students from the Neuroscience Graduate Program have graduated this Spring. We'd like to acknowledge their hard work and dedication to help reach this significant milestone! 🧠🎓 Pictured: Francisco Blanco, Ph.D., from the lab of Dr. Kim Tolias