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My father worked in a tire factory in Appalachia. Friends and family in the military. Used to vote Republican. Got into college on a diversity program for the underprivileged. Ended up a Harvard professor. And now my funding is terminated because we're trying to stick it to the elites.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote about the government's attacks on Harvard. Hope this reaches a few persuadable minds. prosyn.org/PhWi74r?h=Ky...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My debut on BlueSky! Here’s how we harvest the firing of neurons to see them better in the living brain! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Grateful for the amazing dyes from @rhodamine110.bsky.social and insightful suggestions from @adamezracohen.bsky.social !

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Now out in JACS. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Grateful to thoughtful reviewers who found some errors in our model and encouraged us to make a better one! A renaissance in magnetobiology is coming...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This guy deserves a Nobel Prize, an IgNobel Prize, and a Darwin Award (honorable mention, for effort). www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-02/h...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Using light to sculpt vertebrate development! OptoNodal2 converts patterns of illumination into patterns of morphogen signaling. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled that our paper has been published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We ask: how can a neuron integrate information across multiple time scales? Twist: This neuron has extreme properties that helps it work ~300x times faster than neurons in the hippocampus Summary 🧵to follow

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Here's a little essay on dendritic excitations -- what are they for? (hint: I don't think it's for integration, at least not in hippocampal pyramidal cells) brain.harvard.edu/hbi_news/exc...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers regenerative cell proliferation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647033v1

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Honored to help enable two back-to-back papers in @natureneuro.bsky.social; first DELTA www.nature.com/articles/s41... with collaborators at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and then EPSILON www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @adamezracohen.bsky.social; @dyerfulchymist.bsky.social is always in the mix!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Which synapses get stronger when we form a memory? We developed a technique to tag recently potentiated synapses in live mice. Pulse-chase labeling with membrane-impermeable HaloLigand dyes distinguishes fresh AMPA receptors from old ones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Whole-brain, all-optical interrogation of neuronal dynamics underlying gut interoception in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645305v1

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring a new lab manager! Our wonderful lab manager Albert is headed off to grad school and we are looking to fill his position this summer. This is a great opportunity for a new graduate to spend a couple years immersed in research before applying to PhD or MD programs. 50% of the job is...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

It's such a trip to see former lab members flourish (fluoresce?) in their independent careers. Four generations present at the Dendrites GRC!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

At the Dendrites GRC. Now where, oh where, did I park?

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Angry rant: We have a @thermofishersci.bsky.social Countess 2fl automated cell counter. It recently bricked. Tech support said this model is no longer serviced, but they'd be happy to sell us a new one for ~$9k. I opened the old one, replaced a $4 battery buried inside, and voila, it works again!

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

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Did you know that when zebrafish swim, this motion evokes calcium signals in their *blood vessels*? Bill Jia and Xin Tang showed that this effect is mediated by Piezo1, and only requires physical motion, not neural activity or blood flow.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Microscopes used to be tools for passive observation. Now you can use them to tickle a sample with light too. Our pandemic project was to make user-friendly software for integrating light-patterning, imaging, and other parameters (e.g. behavior, electrophysiology). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

How do tiny magnetic fields affect biochemistry? Overflowing with pride over Katherine Xiang's study on a giant magnetic field effect in a red fluorescent protein, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

This is very clever! I wonder where the short-term memory of trial type is stored.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Tetanus on demand! (not for bioweapons, but for neuroscience research) Tetanus toxin induces paralysis by using a protease to cleave VAMP2, a protein required for synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release. To harness this toxicity and use it as a beneficial tool for neuroscience,

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing scientific legacy, and he stayed sharp and productive for so long! Glad to have known Karplus during grad school. His memory will live on in comp chem

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments