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adorrego.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Postdoc @Grubb Lab - Centre for Developmental Neurobiology - King's College London | Unconventional neurons, axons, dendrites, and how they talk to each other! | Wellcome Trust Early-Career fellow | 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧
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Accelerated signal propagation speed in human neocortical dendrites doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Hey #NeuroSky, has anyone used a MAP2 antibody that successfully labels the soma on mouse brain slices? We've tried one but it stains only the dendrites. Any advice will be useful! 🧠🧪

Spain against England tonight at Wembley. No matter the result, it’s always so much fun being at the away end…

'Days Of Night' project by photographer Elena Chernyshova, a year documenting the arctic city of Norilsk which is in darkness for 45 days a year #womensart

The University of Westminster is organising a Neuroscience Symposium on the 10th of March as part of the Brain Awareness Week. I am excited to be one of the invited speakers, and to share our latest research in the olfactory bulb* 😁 *If I manage to come back in one piece from my ski trip

You don't know how to back up an absurd claim? Don't worry! You can now cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Tsc1 Deletion in Purkinje Neurons Disrupts the Axon Initial Segment, Impairing Excitability and Cerebellar Function www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hyping up Sunday experiments by blasting Jamie xx in the lab www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HC4...

Congratulations @drnodepret.bsky.social!!!! Hard work pays off...what a beautiful paper! 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's finally out! 🎉 The first paper from my PhD about the role of planar cell polarity in DG-CA3 connectivity is in Progress in Neurobiology. Check it out to learn more about the PCP protein Vangl2 and its role in mossy fiber synaptic morphogenesis 🧠🔬 Very proud of this work and everyone involved!

I feel seen!

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

Traces, pixels, traces, pixels ♾️🔬🧠

Pride in STEM is looking for new trustees!! If you fancy getting involved as we approach our 10th year of operation, get in touch! More info below: prideinstem.org/2025/02/17/p...

Review meeting means whiteboard science! Many papers, many ideas…🧠🧪👃🏼

📣 Last Call 📣 Join us for the symposium Scent and Imagination 👃🏻🌸🏺 Happening the 4th of June in Cambridge, we have amazing speakers @willtullett.bsky.social and Sussan Babaie already planned! Last chance to be one of the speaker at this event too! Apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/

Differential roles of NaV1.2 and NaV1.6 in neocortical pyramidal cell excitability doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The new mice have arrived

And a cinematic parallel from one of my favourite shows ever — Killing Eve

Now that's a way to start a review (from Mainland et al., 2014; From molecule to mind: an integrative perspective on odor intensity)

Coming to work hits different today! Sincerely appreciate the efforts of my friends to find non-Valentine’s related decorations and bday gifts 😂

The dynamic axon initial segment: From neuronal polarity to network homeostasis www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

See ya later 😎🔬🧠🧪

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Our paper is now in the shape of a reviewed preprint on eLife @elife.bsky.social, with the reviewers' comments on full display. We plan to address these in the upcoming weeks/months, but so far I'm a big fan of this publishing model! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! It's a privilege to be a woman in science, and I am grateful to women scientists who inspire me to continue to do what I love the most! The world is in shambles right now, but this is exactly why we need to keep pushing through.

Laser microsurgery for presynaptic interrogation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tech oligarchs are imposing their tools and vision of the world upon us, outside of any democratic process. Projections on the façade of the Grand Palais in Paris, before the AI Summit opens, where Musk is expected. Artists, activists, citizens, let's join forces to fight against this dystopia.

We’re starting! 🧠🧪

How is SNARE-mediated synaptic vesicle release regulated in inhibitory #synapses? This study reveals that the #exocytosis regulator complexin controls spontaneous synaptic vesicle release in a CAPS-dependent manner in #Celegans inhibitory synapses 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4jRm255

Managed to escape the UK cold and rain for a few days. It’s summer 24/7 in the Canary Islands! ☀️

The hiking theme today is: the floor is lava! 🌋🥾 (plus a little visitor 🐦‍⬛)

Yesssssss 🤜🏼🤛🏼 @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social

Artificially-sparkly postdocs for #FluorescenceFriday because they crushed it this week ✨ @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social PhD paper got accepted 🌟 @adorrego.bsky.social nailed her undergrad lectures 🎇and they plotted the next @cam-openlab.bsky.social event Sorry pretty cells, you’re bumped this week!

Only 4 days to go for our Data Sharing workshop! Register here for a slot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-is...

First ever lectures were about action potential generation and AIS plasticity while standing in the Cambridge Hodgkin-Huxley room (followed by a day of patching in London): after that, no teaching should feel like pressure 😅 Well done @adorrego.bsky.social you crushed it! 👏

What is with journal paper reviewers these days? As another reviewer doing cross discussions (cough, Science), I’m seeing a lot of hostile, aggressive comments. You know, you can package things kindly if you think you found a mistake? Literally I’m having to flag inappropriate comments to editor 🙃🤯

Crazy busy days, but I am not going to say that I am not enjoying it all 🤓 today I gave the last of 2 lectures about neuronal plasticity in the olfactory bulb to the super enthusiastic and engaged Cambridge students. They were not the only ones learning new stuff!

On a facetime with my niece: Niece: *shows me her unicorn toy* Me: wow! What’s her name? Niece: Unicorn! Me: nice! And what’s her surname? Niece: don’t be absurd, unicorns don’t have surnames 🙄 😅😅😅😅

Sunday chaos at the rig with electrical noise and the micromanipulator freaking out and going free style. But finally, spikes! Spikes everywhere! 🧠🧪

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

1. A thread about the value of doing "slow science": When I was in grad school I heard this (likely apocryphal) story about one of my favourite scientists: Barbara McClintock.