In the desert of tools to manipulate oligodendrocytes in the brain, we built an OASIS. 🌿 Pun intended. I’m still in awe every time I spot an amazing-looking cell. The beauty of OL and myelin never fails me! Hope this tool helps more people see it too.

Congratulations to Dr Gabe Escobedo on his successful thesis defense! An amazing performance! On to even bigger and better things with Eli Lilly.

Another successful NewBee Neuroscience Program in the books! Great time hosting high schoolers from The Village School! Feed your curiosity and live inspired! @bcmhouston.bsky.social

What happened to the pursuit of truth? rupress.org/jgp/article/... - Eve Marder, on point...

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many of you already know about my battle with an autoimmune disease that started shortly after I got COVID in 2022. Here's a summary from a science/health blog aimed at battling disinformation. 🧪😷🧠 Separate from my story, there is a lot of other useful health content! www.youcanknowthings.com

1/ In March 2023, I received a lumbar puncture. This was key to receiving my chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy #cidp diagnosis. This 🧵 is on my experience with identifying and treating #autoimmunedisease. I'll also be sharing some 🧵s I posted previously on the Other Place.

A sad/happy day. Today Yuki Ogawa leaves my lab to start his own lab at the University of South Carolina. Yuki joined my lab in 2017. It is impossible to overstate how he has impacted the lab for good. He will be a fantastic mentor and leader. Watch close! He will do great things!