Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL)

A marine neuroscience laboratory in its infancy aiming to discover the brain's secrets using marine organisms.
Founder and tweets: @RIJacobsen

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

First poster presentation from the lab, by @nadiavaneekelen @NRSNeuro! 🥳 And what an amazing poster design to boot! 🤩

[Nadia van Eekelen @nadiavaneekelen]

Presented the first poster of my PhD at the @NRSNeuro PhD conference in Inderøy! I had a great time 🧠😍 #NRSN2024

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Not only did we just submit a big funding application on #bioluminescence, we did it while on a bioluminescence field trip with the fantastic Twardowski group! Working nights is a spectacular experience when both the water and sky around you sparkles ✨

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Big thank you to our colleagues at the Department of Biology @NTNU who brainstormed names with us, including @TorkildBakken for making glassmark official! 😃

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

It's our 4 year anniversary! 🥳

We're celebrating by sharing that our favourite worm genus, Tomopteris, has been given a Norwegian name: #glassmark ('glass worm'). Suits them, right? 👓

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Happy #InternationalPolychaeteDay! 🪱

To celebrate, here's a tiny #Tomopteris in a big (Ø 19cm) arena, being tracked by @nadiavaneekelen using @DeepLabCut 🤩

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Thank you #platynereis organisers and attendees, for two amazing days filled with talks and conversations about worms! We had a blast 😃🙌
#WormWednesday #EED2024

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

We're so excited we're bringing the whole lab (@RIJacobsen & @nadiavaneekelen)! 🤩

[B. Duygu Özpolat, Ph.D. @biyolokum]

Two days full of worms!!! SO excited for the Platynereis Satellite meeting @EED2024 in Finland. (I am also excited about the main meeting but WORMS! Platynereis and friends!)
We have an amazing line up with guests from other research organisms and annelids. I cannot wait.

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

💙 Blue (fltr):
1: @sonkelab
2, 3, 4: @ediewidder & Falls (2013) IEEE

💜 Violet (fltr):
1, 2: Kanie et al. (2021) Scientific reports
3: Manabu Bessho-Uehara

🩷 Put together by @nadiavaneekelen

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Happy #Pride!

We’re celebrating with this collection of different organisms that emit light in (almost) all the colours of the rainbow 🌈

Image credits below 👇

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

❤️ Red (fltr):
@dantefenolio
Beinart & Tracey T. Sutton, ESRI
@beroe

💛 Yellow (fltr):
@ediewidder (2010) Science
@ediewidder & Falls (2013) IEEE
@beroe

💚 Green (fltr):
James B. Wood
Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Derge

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Some of the many techniques we use in the lab to help us understand these amazing animals!🔬👀

[Nadia van Eekelen @nadiavaneekelen]

Got training on the cryostat and did my first DAPI and cresyl violet stainings on Tomopteris slices!

So cool to learn all these new things 🤓

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

We collect our wonderful worms in the wild. See how in this video of a recent field trip made by @nadiavaneekelen! 🌞

[Nadia van Eekelen @nadiavaneekelen]

Some pictures from my first fieldtrip collecting plankton from the Trondheim fjord 🌊

The worms don't like the sun as much as I do though, unfortunately. Even though we only found six Tomopteris planktonis and no Tomopteris helgolandica, I had a great time! 🌞

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Our underwater friend, Tomopteris helgolandica, emits yellow light. This colour is so rare that it may be invisible to other animals. It might be their secret language of love... A language we're hoping to decode soon!

💛Happy Valentine's Day💛

[Nadia van Eekelen @nadiavaneekelen]

Taking charge of the @MarineNeuroLab Instagram account🚀 Get ready for cool updates, behind-the-scenes fun, and stunning pictures! 📸 Follow us and let’s dive into the marine neuroscience world together 🌊🧠

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

2023 was big: we doubled the size of our team! 👩‍🔬👩‍🔬
With the amazing @nadiavaneekelen on board we are making great progress designing+building setups, getting ready for a 2024 filled with exciting science. Let's see which bioluminescent mysteries we can solve 🤩 Happy New Year!

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Excited to showcase our bioluminescent worms at the @EED2024 Platynereis Satellite Meeting in June, in the session on polychaete diversity! 🙌

[B. Duygu Özpolat, Ph.D. @biyolokum]

We are very excited to announce the Platynereis Satellite Meeting at the EuroEvoDevo in Finland. Abstracts can be submitted via the meeting registration. We will prioritize Platynereis abstracts but other annelid friends are welcome to submit and attend. @EED2024 #WormWednesday

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

🌟Meet our very first PhD student @nadiavaneekelen!🌟
She has a BSc in Behaviour and Neuroscience, MSc in Marine Biology and will now combine these two fields to study the bioluminescence and neuroanatomy of annelids. Exciting times ahead! 🎉

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Fikk snakke om hjerneforskning og bioluminescerende børstemark på denne podcasten! En fornøyelse og ære å få bidra til studentradioen RadioRevolt, spesielt med en slik innsiktsfull vert.
Sjekk ut episoden "Hjernen" for vitenskapshistorier m.m. her:
https://t.co/PoSwIcX9pH

[Marine Neuroscience Laboratory (MNL) @MarineNeuroLab]

Got to talk about brain research and bioluminescent worms on this podcast! A pleasure and honour to contribute to student radio RadioRevolt, especially with such an insightful host.
Check out "Hjernen" for science stories and more here (in Norwegian):
https://t.co/PoSwIcX9pH