Bixuan Lin 林璧旋

First academic conference and poster presentation at ANS2022, Melbourne

Second ANS - ANS2023 at Brisbane

ANS2023 - I did a data blitz hence ft. me and a quokka!

ANS2025 as my last conference - gave an oral presentation in Hobart

Feeling really grateful for the opportunity to present my PhD data at #ANS2025 this week and successfully wrapped up my last conference during my candidature. From 2022 to 2025, each year ANS has shown me a different flavour of Australian neuroscience (& brought me to different parts of Australia!)

The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?

The heat won’t stop the energy — science (and fans!) in full swing!
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#EBBS2025

Francis Crick called it “impossible” in 1979. Now it’s real.
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.

This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Posting this image of neurons transfected to secrete proteins that @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social bioengineered to enable noninvasive monitoring of neuronal integrity in NHPs for #fluorescentfriday.

This technology will eventually lead to improved treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.