Shankar Ramachandran

Instructor @FrancisLab4 @NeurobioUMass @UMassChan, #neuroscience, #microscopy, calcium imaging, #optogenetics, #Celegans, @UMassMedPostDoc, @thisisUIC

[Shankar Ramachandran @sramac2]

It’s a pleasure to share my recent work @FrancisLab4 looking at how neuromodulators can function through multiple GPCRs to control different neural circuits and promote adaptive behaviors. @eLife #Celegans
https://t.co/ZARJII5vXh

[Michael Francis Lab @FrancisLab4]

Celebrating @KellianneAlexa1 last day! We are so proud and wish you good luck in your new postdoc position @BrighamResearch!

[Shankar Ramachandran @sramac2]

@dudney_joan @leonoramtzn does some very cool work

[Michael Francis Lab @FrancisLab4]

Way to go @Samuel_Liu_ ! Great to see @NeurobioUMass represented!

[Sebastian Werneburg @s_werneburg]

Pls. RT: My lab is looking for a Research Tech (https://t.co/I4FYLwyBel) to join us in beautiful Ann Arbor who is excited about science & will help us in our ongoing research efforts to study neuron-glia interactions/neurodegenerative disease. @UMKelloggEye @umichmedicine @UM_MNI

[Amit Joshi @amtya21]

NoA day! Excited to receive @NIGMS R35 ESI MIRA award. Postdoc positions available in our lab @BCMB_UTK . Please contact if interested in using interdisciplinary approaches to study organelle formation and function in yeast and mammalian cells.

[Michael Francis Lab @FrancisLab4]

We have been very lucky to have two amazing summer interns Stephanie Ortiz-Espaillat a @UMassChanGSBS SURP student and Hailey McKillop a @AssumptionNeuro student! We are sad to see you both go but wish you all the best and know you will do great things!!

[UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology @NeurobioUMass]

Kellie Alexander, a grad student in Professor Michael Francis’s lab, was awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Student Research Mentor at the 2022 GSBS Student Academic Achievement and Leadership Awards. Congratulations Kellianne! #UMassChanGSBS

[UMass Chan Postdoc Association @UMassMedPostDoc]

Dear fellow Postdocs,
to celebrate our first 2 years of our organization, you are all cordially invited to our celebration!

When: June 3rd, 4:00 pm;
Where? Outside on the ASC patio;
Please RSVP here: https://t.co/6MywqVfXSS

[Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChanLib]

Did you miss our workshop on cleaning data using OpenRefine? The recording and slides are now on our seminar series page: https://t.co/RSzne1cfPV
@UMassChan @UMassChanGSBS @UMassMedPostDoc

[Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChanLib]

Meet your librarians and find out how the library can support your research during this webinar on May 18, 2022 at 1pm. Registration and more information: https://t.co/WzQyRDKSlE @UMassChan @UMassMedPostDoc

[Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith @LNivisonSmith]

Grants 💰
Job applications 📝
Award nominations 🏅

They can all hinge on a great recommendation letter

But no one tells you how to write one

Writing a winning recommendation letter, a thread 🧵

@AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics

[UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology @NeurobioUMass]

Ratna Chaturvedi from Emery Lab @UMassChan & her collaborators at OHSU Vollum Institute recently published their findings in Current Biology showing that the astrocytic GABA transporter GAT controls sleep by regulating GABA tone on wake-promoting circadian neurons in Drosophila.

[UMass Chan Postdoc Association @UMassMedPostDoc]

Dear fellow Postdocs,
UMPA would like to invite you to a virtual science outreach event presented by Dr. Rocky Lai and Dr. Lisa Lojek!

“Vaccines and Antibiotics: The War Between Tuberculosis and Humans”

Date: Monday, March 28th
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
RSVP: https://t.co/8josnkLpmh

[Shankar Ramachandran @sramac2]

@MichaelHoppa Thank you! Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

[Shankar Ramachandran @sramac2]

Thank you @SfNJournals for featuring my work https://t.co/kV4YKqoIDE on understanding calcium regulation of neurotransmitter release.

[Teresa Esch (JNeurosci Features) @TEschJNFE]

How many calcium channels open when an action potential reaches a presynaptic terminal? This Week @SfNJournals, @sramac2 &al show that at a spinal cord synapse, the mean # is 4. But opening even 1 channel can allow vesicle fusion.
https://t.co/FwJLZhmxqG

[Shankar Ramachandran @sramac2]

I am delighted to share work from my PhD days @thisisUIC recently published in Journal of Neuroscience @SfNJournals addressing presynaptic calcium requirements for neurotransmitter release

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

#JNeurosci: Ramachandran et al @thisisUIC demonstrate how neuron activation elicits calcium influx through just one calcium channel, closely associated to the synaptic vesicle and this is sufficient to trigger neurotransmitter release. https://t.co/FtFZV7VhNA

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

#JNeurosci: Ramachandran et al @thisisUIC demonstrate how neuron activation elicits calcium influx through just one calcium channel, closely associated to the synaptic vesicle and this is sufficient to trigger neurotransmitter release. https://t.co/FtFZV7VhNA

[Michael Francis Lab @FrancisLab4]

If your attending the @cshlmeetings Neural Circuits meeting check out two posters from our lab by @sramac2 (poster #117) and @KellianneAlexa1 (poster #41)!

[Anup Parchure @anupap85]

Do tune in for the membrane fusion fission and traffic symposium #bps2022. Julia @LabVon will talk about my work on role of LLPS for sorting of insulin from the Golgi apparatus. I will present a poster on 22. Some new exciting in vivo data from last month.

[Shankar Ramachandran @sramac2]

Check out our recent science outreach talks @sramac2 @FrancisLab4 @s_werneburg @SchaferLabUMCMS and other cool science talks @UMassMedPostDoc Science Cafes @UMassChan
https://t.co/T0xXgAaaLG #scienceoutreach #sciencecomm