Fun day building a ´basic’ fiber photometry setup for green fluorescent biosensors with rotating student Lauryn! (🥹 Please excuse the lack of mounted equipment happening, this was a rough-in). As you can see by the number of LED drivers, the end result of this build will be less ‘basic’.

🚨 PI position in dept. of Neuroscience with lab located the @crchum.bsky.social Hiring at assistant/associate prof level in the fields of neural regeneration, stem cells and spinal-associated pathologies can-acn.org/professor-re...

Very much enjoyed my visit to Bonn & Michael Wenzel’s group for a chance to share some new data and discuss together future directions in hippocampal SD research. Excited to work together! (Also great to catch up over lunch with Martin Fuhrmann!)

Dream come true last night - Rachelle surprised me on our flight over to ICSD with tickets for Radiohead in Berlin!

Extremely New Mexico view from my front porch this morning:

Excited to share the first publication out of my lab! www.jove.com/t/69418/simu... We describe the approach that I developed during my postdoc in the Thompson Lab for inducing stroke in behaving mice while recording neuronal activity in the emerging core.

So great to have you for a visit! Looking forward to staying in touch.

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/

Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice Under 2P excitation, adaptive optics measures the aberrated point spread function in ≈0.1 s/measurement, compensating for aberrations and scattering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huge congrats @amygleichman.bsky.social on this phenomenal study, demonstrating regional differences in astrocyte responses to stroke and a key role for astrocytes in post-stroke angiogenesis and repair! (see also - gorgeous astrocytes for fluorescence Friday) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experienced Albuquerque’s balloon fiesta for the first time today! Very cool.

Really fun weekend exploring Southern NM - stopped in at a roastery in Hatch (home of the chile) & camped near White Sands National Park - this state is so cool!

Hippocampal SD on the cover of STM! 😍

I’m in the market for a fanless solid state (DPSS) 561 nm laser & both companies I’ve purchased from in the past seem to have either vanished or aren’t replying to my inquiries & quote requests 👻 anyone have a good source?

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

As I transition over to Bluesky I have to plug our new #book. If you haven't already, check out the 2nd edition of The #Hippocampus Book! academic.oup.com/book/59509?s...

The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38785/po...

I have an opening in my lab for a postdoctoral fellow to work on projects that relate to the mechanisms of neurotransmitter release by dopamine neurons and/or on how inflammatory signals infuence the functionning of these neurons. Please share.

mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong), a highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein, works well for long-term super-resolution imaging, rapid tissue clearing, and CLEM www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia - Read his profile here: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

Thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by Adam Ramsaran: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kva73QW8S...

The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38785/po...

Excited to share the culmination of my postdoctoral work in the Thompson Lab out today in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/ehfWU

Science Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants #neuroscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please share! 👀 Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of New Mexico. Spreading depolarization & memory interactions.

Website for the Boyce Lab is live! I couldn't help it and included a bit of a New Mexico colour scheme. www.boyceneurolab.com

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Fun day combining work & a hike in San Lorenzo Canyon with colleagues Sam, David, & visiting speaker @olsenlab-vt.bsky.social

So excited to share the work of the fantastic Katarzyna, 1st 🧪PhD student of my lab 🧠, out in @natureneuro.bsky.social 🥂🥳 Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @braincanada.bsky.social #CIHR @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s now the end of week 3 after opening my lab here at UNM.edu - It’s an understatement to say that it’s a weird time to be a Canadian starting a lab in the US. 🫠 Yet, I’ve felt so welcome and supported here. On top of that, a colleague just brought me this cool mug 😎 Psyched to get things going!

I am pleased to share our work showing a new role for the Alzheimer’s disease risk factor CD2AP in brain endothelial cells now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD student? Postdoc? Staff scientist? It's your chance to learn more about fancy 🧠 neuroscience 🧪 imaging techniques, microscopes 🔬 and hangout in Quebec City 🇨🇦 for 2 weeks in June 😎 (no snow I promise 🤞☃️😆) Please share, deadline is January 17 and link to apply is below

A year ago today, Rachelle & I got married. It’s been a wild & fun year with so many changes. As scientists, particular during big transitions, we don’t make it easy on our partners. Rachelle is so supportive & game for (or creating her own) crazy ideas. So excited for our future together in ABQ!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @piatkevich.bsky.social

Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇

What a year! #DLC3🔥 is up tested by many of you (👀 watch out for a paper in 2025), we hit 750K downloads, and have over 120 contributors to the code! @deeplabcut.bsky.social ❄️⛷just dropped: new human pose models & high perf. models!

Recently submitted a revised version of our study on contralesional hippocampal spreading depolarizations during acute focal ischemic stroke & it’s now available on bioRxiv just in time for Christmas!

Yesterday - on my last run before the holidays - I passed my yearly distance goal. It’s been a fun running year. In July, I finished my first ultramarathon, but also realized the value of run commuting for clear thinking during a rather busy period of my work life. Can’t wait for more in New Mexico!

Scientist position at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. We are looking for neuroscientists with interests in the molecular and cellular bases of cognition. The position is open-rank, and the successful candidate will also be appointed at U Toronto. Deadline is Feb 15th. Come join us!

If some calcium enters a dendrite, how far does it diffuse? Rebecca Frank Hayward (who is on the job market!) measured this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... She combined a blue light-activated Ca++ channel with a red-fluorescent Ca++ sensor. The length constant is about 5 microns.

Coming soon: We have a Scientist position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health Program at SickKids. Should post details later this week. Stay tuned.

Such a nice, comprehensive review by @marcvoo.bsky.social and @erin-schuman.bsky.social on the molecular diversity of synapses (h/t @djabaudon.bsky.social): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..

A “lab manual” is such a great idea. Looking forward to building my own!

Just cracked the spine on At The Helm (thanks for the recommendation @ciaranmr.bsky.social !) - what other resources should I be checking out now that it’s T-2 months til I open my lab?

Congrats to the team! Here we directly image and quantify cerebral #angiogenesis and pruning in vivo. Found interesting regional differences and dependence on #notch signalling. Where you look does matter! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

The call for participating in the Summer School Frontiers in Neurophotonics June 2nd to 13th, 2025 in Quebec City, Canada is now open! One of my trainees went last year and had a great experience, so I wanted to recommend it! neurophotonics.ca/frontiers-in...

Nice work from Yasushi Okada and colleagues on the development of fluorescence lifetime biosensors for ATP, cAMP, citrate, and glucose using mTurquoise2 www.cell.com/cell-reports...