Behrang Sharif

Sensory researcher, PharmD PhD

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

@MitoPsychoBio @chillinwithpfn1 This is so beautiful! 😍 Can you please say what is stained here and why is it brighter at some tips of the mitochondria!

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@ItaiYanai @Gustavo_SFranca Resistance ladder maybe? 😉

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@ArayAlab @CAN_ACN Condolences! I'm really speechless! He was a great scientist and an inspiration to many. RIP!

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@irfanjadoonM @lpachter @10xGenomics Definitely! I have verified this in multiple published and unpublished datasets.

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@tayler_sheahan Did you feel the "delayed gratification" in academia? 😁 My personal experience is that sometimes the process is so unnecessary long that you feel more "relieved" rather than "gratified"!

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@zenbrainest No one knows how? I thought we know as much as we know about many other currently used medications!

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

truth

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@doctheagrif @DrContrexin Congratulations 😍 best wishes ☺️

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

This is so cool! Mind blown when I heard axons are not tubes! 🤯
I love how nicely the threads allow the axons pass each other (crossing in and out of the image plane)! Looking forward to seeing what other capacities these structural patterns may give axons.

[watanabe lab 🔬 @EManiax]

Do you know how axons actually look like? With @RangamaniUCSD, we showed that axons form nano-pearls due to membrane mechanics. Neuronal activity modulates their size by mobilizing cholesterol/altering membrane fluidity, resulting in the AP plasticity. https://t.co/4FyQyZR7Go

[Ramon Massoni Badosa @rmassonix]

All single-cell atlases are wrong, but some are useful

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

@zenbrainest @RealMilesBerger @StanfordMed It is unfortunate that despite so many contrary examples, and many academics talking against this attitude, the trend is not improved (if not exacerbated)! One would expect academia would find better evaluation methods in 30+ years!

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

@RealMilesBerger @zenbrainest @StanfordMed I'm sure @zenbrainest made the best out of the situation!
Researching the unknown inevitably leads to dead ends and resilience is key. The sarcasm is calling that "failure"! Plus, the mentality that "only Neuron or higher impact publication is acceptable" has become commonplace!

[Corina Nagy @DrCorinaNagy]

I am very proud of this work in collaboration with Gustavo Turecki, driven by the brilliant @MalosreeM and supported by @TrippyNeuron, Naguib Mechawar and many others @DouglasResearch

[watanabe lab 🔬 @EManiax]

How is endocytosis initiated at synapses? In this new collaborative paper with @JianLiu_Lab, led by @UnculturedTy & Haoyuan, we suggest a novel idea - exocytosis causes lateral membrane compression, leading to the pit formation! https://t.co/mVoHQ5bmRx

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

Thanks to @MBLScience PCR grant I spent some time @EManiax at John's Hopkins. Took a lot of effort and frustration but the late night cursings turned into joyful F-bombing once I finally set up the plasticity model in a dish with dual patch! 😃

[Maria Zamfir, PhD @MariaZamfirPhD]

Our first dorsal root ganglion neuron character sketch! A proprioceptive neuron expressing Piezo2 … and doing a serious stretch 😄 🤗

Inspired by the research of @ardemp

Couldn’t finish the year without adding a DRG neuron! @MarionVanhorn 🥳

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

Amazing model system (in vivo 2-photon tongue imaging) for studying structural plasticity and peripheral circuit formation! Congratulations @ZacharyWhiddon1 et al. I learned a lot about the fast replacing taste cells and the never ending thirst of afferents surveying for partners

[Zachary Whiddon @ZacharyWhiddon1]

Pre-print alert before twitter dies. Please check out my exciting work. I look at taste neuron terminals in taste buds (in a living mouse) while taste cells undergo turnover. These terminals are going nuts!

https://t.co/PVa6tDsq0x

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

Mesmerizing "explosion of life"! I'm so intrigued by the collapse before the division!

[Pablo J. Sáez / now posts in a better place (BSky) @pj_saez]

Let's start with the #FluorescenceFriday @ https://t.co/hZS9t0ouaF !!

Here you have "the explosion of life" during #cell division.

#microscopy #scicomm #organelles @[email protected]

[BryanRoth @zenbrainest]

Wow!
https://t.co/yBXQFmoWEo

[Behrang Sharif @BehrangSharif]

@MHendr1cks It's way more then 10 years we have divided one big room in our lab into two smaller recording rooms: the thermometer is left on one side while the HVAC outlet is on the underside! Same admin cycle you are going through! @prokraustinator has recently included it in a paper right?