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forna.bsky.social
Molecular and cellular biologist, focused on presynaptic biology, brain aging, and neurodegeneration. Dedicated to pioneering new affinity tools, refining bioimaging applications, and innovating MS methods to understand biomolecular turnover in vivo
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Excited for our latest work! We developed nanobinders for the luminal domain of Synaptotagmin 1 (calcium sensor for synaptic vesicles). Thanks among others to @verstrekenlab.bsky.social @opazo.bsky.social @meunierlab.bsky.social @volkerhaucke-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdoctoral fellows to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to [email protected]. Please share and repost!

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

DELTA: a method for brain-wide measurement of synaptic protein turnover reveals localized plasticity during learning @boazmohar.bsky.social har.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social mine110.bsky.social @forna.bsky.social @hhmi.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

🚀 Thrilled to share our latest research! With the labs of Yansheng Liu and Junmin Peng we’ve built the largest in vivo protein turnover resource across multiple tissues and brain regions, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social 🔬💡 #Proteomics Check it out! 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1koBJL7PXu...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

I am Absolutely delighted to share the preprint of our last collaborative efforts where we investigated the impact of sonostimulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Thread -1- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

🧪 E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains. Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap

submitted 184 days ago • 6 comments

With Ben Cooper I am excited to announce the 8th Schram Foundation Symposium (Göttingen 25th of March 2025 as a satellite of the German Neuroscience society). It is free of charge and we have distinguished speakers including @alex-filosa.bsky.social and @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social. Please circulate!

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

SUM-PAINT that our lab developed with a massive collaborative effort with the Jungmann and the Opazo lab represents a unique way to image in parallel 30 or more proteins at ~15 nm spatial resolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 434 days ago • 0 comments

I am very excited and grateful to be one of the pairs of collaborators funded by the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network, which will allow me to start a new project with one of my favorite scientists: Giordano Lippi at Scripps!

submitted 469 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in a #PhDposition, fully funded in #Genome Science? For example the project of @CyganekLukas @yourUMG. Deadline is January 26. #CRISPR #omics #MolecularBiology More information here: uni-goettingen.de/de/556628.html

submitted 506 days ago • 0 comments

2024 start off on the right foot: our preprint on the repurposing of a small molecule inhibitor to induce rapid, synchronous and SASPless senescence to human cells is now out in Aging Cell! A multi-lab effort led by former PhD student S. Palikyras onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 511 days ago • 2 comments

Are you a cell biologist interested in nanoscale fluorescence imaging? Check out our new review in Trends in Cell Biology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks and kudos to all authors: Elisa DʼEste, Gražvydas Lukinavičius, Felipe Opazo and @rlicolnchemist.bsky.social

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