Postdoc in comparative connectomics with Sebastian Seung and Mala Murthy @PrincetonNeuro
Previously: synapse formation and astrocyte nanoarchitecture @McGillU
We are excited to share our paper "Organizing principles of astrocytic nanoarchitecture in the mouse cerebral cortex," a #volumeEM study, out in @CurrentBiology today! An odyssey of #astrocyte segmentation and remote work for a big team. A🧵with videos:
https://t.co/R1Vllz3nzS
A wealth of connections, now in the BANC! Congrats to this international consortium for a massive new data release shedding light on brain-body interactions.
Interactive brain-body connectivity at the Codex. Click on thorax, salivary gland, etc, and see the neurons associated with that body part! H/T @mottcallie https://t.co/5KZxJTVdqx
The first “brain-and-cord” connectome is out! Excited to have played a minor role :) See the thread and preprint for exciting findings on how info flows btwn the brain, VNC and periphery in flies. Congrats @as_bates, @jasper_tms, Minsu Kim, Helen Yang, @darbly & team!
Introducing The BANC (Brain and Nerve Cord) connectome preprint! Thanks to all who helped make this synapse-resolution map of an adult fruit fly central nervous system possible!
Preprint: https://t.co/aQUyKkIHWD
The BANC is publicly available in Codex: https://t.co/dUBuTa4Ilz
Excited to share a connectomics dataset of hippocampus CA3.
Explore the dataset: https://t.co/FpgI5YyUzG
Paper introducing the dataset and some of our discoveries: https://t.co/ORqWNuc2d3
Glad to have this review on computational tools for studying #astrocyte#ultrastructure out. If you're interested in how we might eventually integrate astrocytes into larger @vEM and #connectomics projects, have a read!
https://t.co/WkJKQgs26Z
Thanks to Tabish Syed for hammering out the majority of it with me! Tabish is on the job market for any departments looking for an expert in applying computer vision to biological problems.
Thanks to Keith Murai, Yoshi Kubota, and Youssef Mohammed for their contributions.
We had an amazing time in Lyon this week “Linking Brain Structure and Function at the Nanoscale.” Thanks so much to @ADenizot for gathering such a great group of scientists to talk about #vEM, computational models and #astrocytes!
Interested in #neuroscience & #astrocytes 🌟? Join us on 🗓️ September 26-27 in our hybrid interdisciplinary workshop! Registration is open & free: https://t.co/PszUAUh3Zz. More information here: https://t.co/v6GHCThIgM #neurotwitter#AcademicTwitter#compneuro
I hear neuro people talking about "oh you need to report what mouse chow you used and what kind of water your mice got because these can affect behavior" and I'm like, maybe don't work in this field?
Tyler Sloan discusses why neuroscience needs to overcome its legacy of minimalism and embrace the contemporary challenge of representing whole-nervous-system connectivity.
By @quorumetrix
https://t.co/JzyIKwL1Ve
College educators, check out these lesson plans that use real datasets from the Allen Brain Map to teach data science to undergraduates. Each lesson can be completed within a single class period and is suitable for in-person, hybrid, or virtual learning.
https://t.co/2QiPfXU4bI
Our latest issue is out!
It's a special issue with primers, reviews and essays on Restoration.
Earth's biosphere has been degraded by humans, now is the time to restore, regreeen, rewild.🌿🐺🦫
Most articles are freely accessible!
Check it out! 👇
https://t.co/ngUIJ6YS6M
We show its conservation from🪰to humans thanks to @FlyWireNews. Interestingly, it’s only present in a small # of🪰neurons: the rare ones w/ actin-based spines similar to vertebrate spines. This hints that SA is co-evolving with the actin-based spines (2/n)
We are excited to share a new study from our lab, published today in @ScienceMagazine. Using a genetically encoded bioluminescence protein we measured cerebral oxygen dynamics in the awake mouse brain @mrfelix@temp2spec a thread:
https://t.co/RGl01BHbJD
Someone asked me to compare postdoc pay to the median Canadian wage, here it is after taxes:
TriAgency PDF: $32-36k/yr
Average PDF: $41k
Canadian median: $68.4k
Avg rent 1BR: $26k/yr
When rent is 60-80% of your income, can you afford a research career?