In June 2001, I arrived in SFO with a suitcase, a student visa, and disproportionate dreams. My life since has been nothing but a dream. My heart is with the international students in the US today.

Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

✨New paper from my lab out now in @cp-cell.bsky.social! We identified pathways for airway protective reflexes—swallowing and coughing—in mice, driven by rare throat chemosensory cells that signal vagal nerves via channel synapses. cell.com/cell/fulltex...

If you are interested in what happens deep in the brain during puberty, please check our new paper in Neuron. We visualize how nutritional status shapes sexual maturation in female mice: A flagship study by an excellent postdoc Teppei Goto. (1/N

How does neural activity control developmental synapse elimination? Here is a new review paper from the lab: Activity-dependent synaptic competition and dendrite pruning in developing mitral cells. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

A background in physics, and his own curiosity, have helped Dmitry Rinberg tackle the complexities of the neuroscience of smell. More on Rinberg sniffing out the mysteries of olfaction. By Lina Zeldovich www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...

The sympathetic nervous system may control selective organs, but how this specificity is achieved is unknown. Our new study @NatureComms www.nature.com/articles/s41...　uncovers a parallel labeled-line organization within the lower thoracic spinal cord. 1/

From our recent paper: 7-color Tetbow image of the neocortex🌈 We can distinguish hundreds of neurons based on the combinatorial expression of 7 FPs. Here is the list of plasmids for Tetbow experiments if you are interested (all available from Addgene): sites.google.com/site/seedbre...

Hello, this is my first Bluesky post! We love neuroimaging🔬 Attached are covers from our lab featuring our favorite neurons, mitral cells in the olfactory bulb and L5 neurons in the neocortex. What's your #FavoriteNeuron?