My post-bac Nejc Nagelj took these #FluorescenceFriday pictures while preparing nanocrystal samples for electron microscopy. Hoping the micrographs look just as beautiful!

The Brain Isn’t Supposed to Change This Much - The Atlantic - more on representational drift theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Excited to share our new preprint! A brain atlas of the camouflaging dwarf cuttlefish. We used MRI, histology & deep learning to build a 3D brain, full histological atlas, 3D body atlas + beautiful, interactive website to host the data: cuttlebase.org 🐙1/2

An article published in nature presents Live-seq: a single-cell transcriptome profiling approach that preserves cell viability during RNA extraction using fluidic force microscopy. go.nature.com/3SX5o6G

Interested in optics and the brain? We are looking for a postdoc or optical engineer to join our team @WUSTLneurosci to make innovation and discoveries. If you are also at #OpticaBiophotonics23, come to my talk this Tue and talk with me at the conference.

[Plz RT] Our lab is looking for dedicated Research Assistant and Postdoc Researcher! We use state-of-the-art imaging, behavioral, and computational techniques to unravel how dopamine modulates memory dynamics in the Drosophila brain. Join us!!! rb.gy/wywok

As cochair of the Chemistry Caucus, I was delighted to host a bipartisan event on the chemistry of olive oil featuring Amherst College Prof. Pat O'Hara! We celebrated its rich history and economic significance and tasted samples from around the world🫒🌍

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Very happy for Lizzie Tilden in our lab for her newly awarded F30!

Excited to share that my PhD work is now published in Cell Reports ! We showed that Drosophila dopaminergic neurons encode innate odor values and continuously update the values in a non-associative manner!! Check out full story: cell.com/cell-reports/f… and the summary 🧵↓ 1/n

Just in time for #cshldros23, we have a new preprint on how sweet taste elicits different behavioral responses. Are different behaviors coordinately regulated? At what point does the sweet-sensing circuit diverge into different behavioral pathways? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Absolutely thrilled to share my postdoc work in the Axel lab. We found odor-evoked representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex and showed that mice desire knowledge as its own reward. Now on bioRxiv! a #tweeprint 🧵: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

👇🎉 Delighted to finally share this👇 nature.com/articles/s4159… "Contextual guidance": what if we started thinking of astrocytes as contextual gates whose core function is to shape neural circuitry in a state-dependent and adaptive fashion?

Hope it is useful to neuroscientists, cell biologists, and anybody who studies the many organs in which PKA plays a major role. Great collaboration with Lizzie Tilden, Aditi Maduskar, PhD, Anna Oldenborg, and Bernardo Sabatini. We have submitted a strain donation request to The Jackson Laboratory.

Shareefpura, Lahore: Children battle severe #leadtoxicity exacerbated by #smog. This exposure will affect their health and learning abilities for life. Join us in organizing a health camp, providing crucial food supplements. Comment or DM to contribute.🙏

We are hiring a research assistant (tech) to work on information seeking projects, including an expansion into models of OCD. Excellent opportunity to get hands-on systems neuroscience research experience (must love training mice :-) ) Apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/e44b64e9-…

Interested in quantifying absolute levels of biological signals and comparing signaling dynamics across time and animals? Fluorescence lifetime, insensitive to sensor expression, could achieve this. Does this hold true in real biology experiments? Check out our manuscript. (1/8)

A Cre-dependent reporter mouse for quantitative real-time imaging of protein kinase A activity dynamics Yao Chen Bernardo Sabatini nature.com/articles/s4159…