While @gquattrocolo.bsky.social is out with our favorite developmental neuroscientist @gordfishell.bsky.social I take the chance to introduce my son to Norse mythology and Led Zeppelin
We are #hiring 2 PhD students at the University of Oslo! 🇳🇴
1️⃣ Systems Neuro: Spatial memory & addiction
2️⃣ Neuro/Cancer: Glioblastoma invasion.
Details: vervaeke-lab.org/Hiring
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This #DarwinDay I discovered that the Museum of Natural History in NTNU has a little piece of Darwin’s collection from his voyage on the Beagle
#evolution #biology
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I was not completely convinced of the «Position-independence» because the heterotopia seems to abide to rostrocaudal and mediolateral axes of cell types, connectivity and function as the cortex above. Hence the «organization-independence»
This is the most interesting paper I have read in a while. The organization of a neural system (nucleus, layer or whatever) does not matter for function as long as it contains the right cell types connected the right way. Thanks to @gquattrocolo.bsky.social for inviting me to her Journal Club
Caricature of Wallace, including the words “After you, Mr. Darwin, kind sir.” By David Hughes for the New Yorker.
Alfred Russel Wallace born OTD in 1823.
He said he shared with Darwin “an intense interest in … the variety [of living things] that catches the eye of the observer even among those which are very much alike, but which are soon found to differ in several distinct characters.”
🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio
I just started this nice book by Ivan Soltesz. I found out about it by chance after a brief chat with Ariel Agmon and I am so happy to find Ernst Mayr all over a book on the diversity of interneurons!
#neuroskyence
www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
Veldig interessant bok om Alfred Russel Wallace. Boken forteller om de forskjellige sider av en veldig interessant mann som oppdaget naturlig utvalg, ble opptatt med spiritisme og med sosiale problemer
www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
This afternoon’s journal club took me and my kid to the Gulf of Mexico
We think that the term «interaction» is an understatement
#Onthisday was published On the origin of the species by Charles Darwin
I get inspired by this book every time I read it
#evolution
#neuroskyence
#QuattrocoloLab preprint out 👇! We explored changes in the proteome of hippocampal and dentate gyrus growth cones at early postnatal stages. We see that at P1 growth cones from the two subregions are very similar, but start to diverge from P3, with HP growth cones maturing earlier then DG ones.
The writing style is so understated compared to today’s claims. But also: we just send an idea, please publish while we work on the data.
The paper by Cobbs and Comfort describes the role played by Franklin.
This week I am sharing what I think to be the most significant publication in biology since 1859. This paper opened the door to molecular biology and molecular genetics.
#neuroskyence
The family coat of arms made at school by my son features birdwatching. I did get something right so far
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Developmental neuroscientists please keep inviting @gquattrocolo.bsky.social to your conferences. She is a great speaker and her lab is doing very interesting research. Plus she has great taste for presents to her husband when she returns from those conferences
In today’s lecture on microcircuit organization we will go through the classics from Penfield to Eccles and get to cell type specific optogenetics to dissect circuits for top down modulation of vision
How neurons connect to compute with a reminder to their biophysical properties
#neuroskyence
It’s a very good episode that makes justice to Buffon. I was surprised at first since he went a bit forgotten. They even mentioned his evolutionary ideas!
By far its birds, but I am far from a decent photographer
From the series “Once upon a time…the discoverers” an episode about Buffon and the concept of deep time
#evolution
Immunology is such a beautiful field! It was just recognized with another Nobel prize.
Richard Lewontin included it (“mechanisms of self-recognition”) in the five properties defining living organisms.
#biology
#neuroskyence
www.nobelprize.org/all-nobel-pr...
No I found the PDF online
To honor the memory of Dr Jane Goodall I am sharing her 1963 article for National Geographic Magazine
#neuroskyence
A pioneer of science, conservation and education who left a long lasting legacy.
Dr Jane Goodall
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Short philosophical summary for the lecture on Touch
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This looks like a promising step forward that improves quality rather than quantity
Looking forward to dig in more!
Grilling on a gorgeous fall evening while enjoying a wonderful Zinfandel. A present from the last master student graduated from the lab. The joys of teaching…
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25533350/
I noticed that in a few studies with pipettes (loose patch) spikes are often positive
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is very interesting. I am always terrified by extracellular recordings and Neuropixels have aggravated my anxiety. So I really appreciate studies like this.
#neuroskyence
Basket cells, parvalbumin expressing or fast-spiking neurons, names that emphasize different properties of the same type. However they are not all the same, like these in the mouse barrel cortex: one has axon in its layer; the other sends axon to other layers
Both are very beautiful
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