Harold Burgess

Neural circuits lab using zebrafish for brain research @NICHD. All opinions are my own.

[Leslie Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall]

If you are a senior PhD graduate student, postdoc, or junior faculty in #neuroscience, consider adding your name to my DIY database of peer reviewers. Many academic journal editors draw from this list and you may be contacted:
https://t.co/C0ycalAubR

[Scott Juntti @ScottJuntti]

Our lab is hiring a technician! Contribute to the understanding of the social brain, using cichlid fish as models. Job entails management of genetically modified fish lines, support of ongoing projects through bench work and administration, and coordination of undergraduates.🧵

[Wren Kim @jwrenkim]

What if proximity labeling enzymes (e.g., TurboID) can be activated by Ca2+ transients, just like GCaMPs? We developed Cal-ID, a Ca2+-dependent proximity labeling enzyme. It seems to label active neurons well, here is our preprint: https://t.co/o9CUkOlI8a

[Alex Keene @AlexCarlKeene]

We are recruiting technicians/graduate students/and postdocs interested in studying genetic regulation of sleep and brain evolution in fly and/or fish models. DM or email me if you would like to talk about ongoing projects in the lab and opportunities!
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[Stephen Wilson @stevewilsonfish]

A neurodevelopmental origin of behavioral individuality in the Drosophila visual system https://t.co/7TbOZS6NTY

[Harold Burgess @HBurgessLab]

@KhaliqLab That's awesome congratulations!

[Harold Burgess @HBurgessLab]

And sure enough normal looking mosaic eyes hets had only weak motor bias! Nice example of how heterozygous mutations can cause subtle behavioral phenotypes like 'handedness'.

[Harold Burgess @HBurgessLab]

Congrats @Horstick1 on publication of his cool story about 'handedness' in #zebrafish with literally a twist at the end of the tale! Here's how we worked it out...
https://t.co/h0FCG4XtE8

[Harold Burgess @HBurgessLab]

About 2 years ago disaster struck - motor bias became unreliable in our wildtype stock. Eric noticed that clutches with unreliable motor bias had 25% embryos with a curly tail phenotype. Turned out to be a serendipitous deletion of the mosaic eyes gene