Ewoud Schmidt

Assistant Professor at Medical University of South Carolina || Neuroscience

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Exciting special issue on the 'Genetics of Human Origin' edited by Jason Stein, Luis De La Torre-Ubieta, and @brainevodevo.

Check out our contribution on human-specific genetic modifiers of cortical architecture and function: https://t.co/d7bhVtAF1a

[Debby Silver @TheSilverLab]

I am so excited to share our BioRxiv study led by super talented postdoc Jing Liu. How do human-specific genomic changes shape development? We use mice and primate iPSCs to directly assess functions of a human accelerated region, HARE5. https://t.co/bGvPAA0Mjm

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

We are at #Sfn23! Come see Hanzhi Teresa Zhao's poster on how human-specific genes modify cortical circuit function and behavior, including some widefield mesoscale data. Tomorrow afternoon, November 11 - EE13/34.14

[MUSC Department of Neuroscience @neuro_MUSC]

Announcing a new faculty search in neurodevelopment and its disorders!
https://t.co/Fm1hCXl83X

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Had a great time visiting MPFI and joining them for an episode of their fantastic #NeuroTransmissionsPodcast!

[Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience @MPFNeuro]

A new episode of our  #NeuroTransmissionsPodcast featuring @ereschmidt is out! Discover how human-specific genes shape the unique biological features of the human brain. Available on YouTube & major podcast platforms.

🎧🌐 #SciencePodcast #Genetics
📺 https://t.co/YrxgRJJHes

[Max Koppers @MaxKoppers]

I am very excited and looking forward to start my own research team @FGA_lab @VUamsterdam soon to study neuronal mRNA trafficking and axonal translation.
I am looking for a PhD candidate to strengthen this team so get in touch if you are interested!
https://t.co/2rSFnN6UIH

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Thank you Liqun Luo for stopping by at @neuro_MUSC - a great visit and such an amazing talk on the mechanisms underlying assembly of neural circuits!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Was very exciting to have Dr. David Fitzpatrick from @MPFNeuro visit us at @neuro_MUSC where he shared his lab's incredible work on the synaptic level processing of visual information in the ferret cortex. Thank you for visiting!

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Great time having Dr. Na Ji at @neuro_MUSC, with a fantastic talk on new developments in the world of in vivo microscopy. Thank you for visiting!

[ADNF @ANS_DevNeuro]

@ANS_DevNeuro Symposium XVI on March 31st!

Speakers: E. Favuzzi @emiliafavuzzi; E. Schmidt @ereschmidt; T. Bale @TheBaleLab; A. Voronova @AMVoronova
Hosts: @JulianHeng1 @LauraRoseFenlon @piperlab_uq @DehorterLab @dr_kellyg
@AusNeuroSoc @ANS_Students @WWNeuRise @worldwideneuro

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Review with @fpolleux on the mechanisms underlying evolution of connectivity in the human cortex as part of the Horizons in Neural Circuits research topic: https://t.co/d4Jb0DYU33
Hopefully a good read or at least a worthy addition to the growing ‘must-find-time-to-read’ list.

[Tristan Geiller @tgeiller]

Happy to share my new paper, out today in @Nature. I developed a single-cell approach to trace inputs and manipulate the activity of individual place cells in CA1, which revealed how neurons are embedded into specific and recurrent subcircuits. https://t.co/shEi4rf0ZI

[Attila Losonczy @attila_losonczy]

Work by a fantastic postdoc, Tristan Geiller, @tgeiller. Great collaboration: Sadra Sadeh and Claudia Clopath #ClopathLab, Heike Blockus and Franck Polleux #fpolleux, Andy Murray @andymurray000, and Balazs Rozsa @Femtonics and our lab: Sebi Rolotti, Bert Vancura, Adrian Negrean!

[Randy Bruno @TheBrunoCortex]

An apical tuft is one of the most prominent features of a pyramidal neuron. What do these mysterious subcellular compartments do during learning? A new study from @Sam_Benezra tracks the activity of the same apical tufts across learning of a behavior. 1/n

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

And thanks to @MarioDipoppa, @MauroMMonsalveM, and @kendmil for their work on the computational modeling, and Jacob, @chrisXrodgers, @TheBrunoCortex, Amélie, @HillmanLab for your work, thoughts, and inspiration.

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Our paper is out! We show how the human-specific modifier SRGAP2C alters the structure and function of cortical circuits and improves behavioral performance.
https://t.co/En4022q9eR

[Ewoud Schmidt @ereschmidt]

Many thanks to all authors! Especially @fpolleux, it’s been amazing to work for and with such a great scientist. Also very happy to have @teresazhao13 continue some of this work in my lab. And @JneuroPark for the many hours we ran behavior, even in the middle of a pandemic.