Hot of the new home-built macroscope. 3 minutes of retinal waves imaged over entire retina. (5x speed). Scope designed and built by incomparable Ben Smith, biology provided by ⁦@atiriac1⁩ and ⁦Miah Pitcher⁩. So much more to come!

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anyone else having trouble uploading their poster? Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

What is this instrument? Wrong answers only.

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 interacts with cholesterol and ACE2 to induce viral entry and pathological cell-cell fusion elifesciences.org/articles/65962…

This is a perfectly circular circle Truly horrifying illusion from Akiyoshi Kitaoka

What do you get when you run mouse behavior every day for 33 days? Allergies...you get allergies.

Here is a first of its kind visualization of evoked release from a dendritic process of a dopamine neuron:

bleaching my ground and electrode wires stresses me out 😌

love a good template

*opens soundcloud*

Calcium waves trigger leaf movement in Mimosa plants nature.com/articles/s4146…

When we think about communication between neurons, we often think about synapses. But as you can see in this week's #EM_Monday images, the cell body of neurons can come into contact with each other, and this contact area is huge compared to synapses. So do the neurons use...(1/n)

I've been obsessing over this image of retinal astrocytes for the past few weeks. Astrocytes (GFAP) in cyan, gap junctions (cx43) in yellow, and DAPI in magenta. Check out their endfeet on the blood vessel in the middle! ZEISS Microscopy #neuroscience #Microscopy #womeninscience