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mforst.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Baden lab. Looking into plasticity of vision in frogs 🐸
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Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

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We had an excellent week at the EMBO Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Assisi. First posters with lab-own data only, presented by the amazing Po-yu Liao and Lucia Zanetti! Great organising by @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Hiroki Asari, Tomomi Shimogori and Judith Hirsch

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Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

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The beauty of viral transfection in #avianretina 🐔 Here is a transfected #amacrinecell and some #photoreceptors in a cross-section of a #chick #retina. Great image for #FluorescenceFriday Sample from @neurofishh.bsky.social Green: Viral transfected retina; Red: DAPI for stratification

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Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Technical assistant position in my lab is open now: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi... Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th our lab: www.reinhardlab.org

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Pretty cool what you can do with free tools these days. Live tracking of a frog doing prey capture, using to bonsai-rx.org and sleap.ai

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The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

And for this #FluorescenceFriday, here’s the sequel. Froglet of the same line from the Sweeney lab.

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Please get in touch with me if you're interested in making viruses and participating in other lab tasks and experiments! Let's chat to see if we fit before the official ad goes out next month. We're a friendly, young neuroscience lab at SISSA in Italy www.reinhardlab.org

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We are looking for a new lab administrator (based in Brighton, UK). This is a 50% position, and it is largely admin & computer based. It does not necessarily require a science background. Anyone interested please get in contact and/or apply here: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/565750b6...

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