Kenta M. Hagihara

Jobs We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.

We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share!

alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...

Congrats to @kentamhagihara.bsky.social on being named a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar!

The prestigious award recognizes Hagihara's creativity and supports his research on the roles of neuromodulators, like dopamine and serotonin, in flexible learning.

🧠📈

Glu sensors are not only for 2-photon imaging!
iGluSnFR3 was already pretty good but "too fast" for bulk fiber photometry measurements. Take a look at Fig5 of this preprint, the new "slow" variant gives you 2~3x better signals in FP.

🚨iGluSnFR4 is finally out!🚨🧪

We present iGluSnFR4f and 4s, a novel pair of genetically-encoded glutamate indicators designed for high-fidelity imaging of synaptic activity in the living brain. ⬇️

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎥 Below: iGluSnFR4s detecting minis in cultures w/ TTX

#Neuroscience

How to rebuild your network on @bsky.app and improve your experience here?

I made a short starter guide with resources.
www.neuronaldynamics.eu/resources/bl...

Also, a thread 🧵 below.

Amygdala intercalated cells form an evolutionarily conserved system orchestrating brain networks - Nature Neuroscience This comprehensive review of amygdala intercalated cells (ITCs) proposes a revised model of ITCs as a highly coordinated system that integrates diverse inputs to orchestrate brain-wide networks and sh...

A comprehensive review/perspective on Amygdala Intercalated Cells by @ingrid_ehrlich @Luthi_FMI et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...