Fun day building a ´basic’ fiber photometry setup for green fluorescent biosensors with rotating student Lauryn! (🥹 Please excuse the lack of mounted equipment happening, this was a rough-in). As you can see by the number of LED drivers, the end result of this build will be less ‘basic’.

🚨 PI position in dept. of Neuroscience with lab located the @crchum.bsky.social Hiring at assistant/associate prof level in the fields of neural regeneration, stem cells and spinal-associated pathologies can-acn.org/professor-re...

Very much enjoyed my visit to Bonn & Michael Wenzel’s group for a chance to share some new data and discuss together future directions in hippocampal SD research. Excited to work together! (Also great to catch up over lunch with Martin Fuhrmann!)

Dream come true last night - Rachelle surprised me on our flight over to ICSD with tickets for Radiohead in Berlin!

Extremely New Mexico view from my front porch this morning:

Excited to share the first publication out of my lab! www.jove.com/t/69418/simu... We describe the approach that I developed during my postdoc in the Thompson Lab for inducing stroke in behaving mice while recording neuronal activity in the emerging core.

So great to have you for a visit! Looking forward to staying in touch.

Elena Blanco-Suárez@eblancosuarez.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thank you @andrewboyce.bsky.social for hosting me at @unmhsc.bsky.social I had a great time with students and faculty, and learned that Albuquerque's founder was from Asturias (de Grao!), which got me really excited 😅

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/

FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer

An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice Under 2P excitation, adaptive optics measures the aberrated point spread function in ≈0.1 s/measurement, compensating for aberrations and scattering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice - Nature Communications

The authors present the adaptive optics system MD-FSS, which allows high-resolution brain imaging in awake mice with rapid aberrations correction against motion. It reveals differences in brain functi...

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Huge congrats @amygleichman.bsky.social on this phenomenal study, demonstrating regional differences in astrocyte responses to stroke and a key role for astrocytes in post-stroke angiogenesis and repair! (see also - gorgeous astrocytes for fluorescence Friday) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experienced Albuquerque’s balloon fiesta for the first time today! Very cool.

Really fun weekend exploring Southern NM - stopped in at a roastery in Hatch (home of the chile) & camped near White Sands National Park - this state is so cool!

Hippocampal SD on the cover of STM! 😍

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The new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine is out! A clinical study identifies people at risk of renewed COVID-19 infections after mRNA vaccination, researchers probe differences in the viral reservoir between men and women living with HIV, and more. https://scim.ag/3I301m5

I’m in the market for a fanless solid state (DPSS) 561 nm laser & both companies I’ve purchased from in the past seem to have either vanished or aren’t replying to my inquiries & quote requests 👻 anyone have a good source?

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Retrograde and anterograde trans-synaptic viral tracing of neuronal connections reveals local and distant effects of ischemic stroke on dendritic spines - Myrthe Van Sprengel, Jenna Butterworth, Patri...

Focal stroke leads to complex neurological disturbances with variable recovery. One explanation for this variability is that stroke disrupts local and remote ne...

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Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Electroconvulsive therapy generates a postictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans - Nature Communications

The underlying mechanism of electroconvulsive therapy remains not fully understood. Here, the authors use optical neuroimaging in mice and humans to show that electroconvulsive therapy elicits a secon...

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As I transition over to Bluesky I have to plug our new #book. If you haven't already, check out the 2nd edition of The #Hippocampus Book! academic.oup.com/book/59509?s...

The Hippocampus Book

Abstract. The Hippocampus Book investigates the structure, function and pathology of the hippocampus and related cortical areas. It highlights the importan

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The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38785/po...

Postdoctoral fellow - Seizure, spreading depolarization, and memory interactions - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque job with Boyce Lab, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico | 387...

Soon to graduate/recently graduated PhD? Interest in memory disruption? The Boyce lab is recruiting a postdoc! In vivo opto, photometry, ephys!

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I have an opening in my lab for a postdoctoral fellow to work on projects that relate to the mechanisms of neurotransmitter release by dopamine neurons and/or on how inflammatory signals infuence the functionning of these neurons. Please share.

mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong), a highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein, works well for long-term super-resolution imaging, rapid tissue clearing, and CLEM www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein for advanced microscopy - Nature Methods

The red fluorescent protein mScarlet3-H is bright, photostable and very robust to high temperature, chaotropic conditions and oxidative environments. mScarlet3-H works well in correlative light and el...

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We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia - Read his profile here: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

Thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by Adam Ramsaran: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kva73QW8S...

The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38785/po...

Postdoctoral fellow - Seizure, spreading depolarization, and memory interactions - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque job with Boyce Lab, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico | 387...

Soon to graduate/recently graduated PhD? Interest in memory disruption? The Boyce lab is recruiting a postdoc! In vivo opto, photometry, ephys!

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Excited to share the culmination of my postdoctoral work in the Thompson Lab out today in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/ehfWU

Contralesional hippocampal spreading depolarization promotes functional recovery after stroke

Nature Communications - Neural mechanisms underlying deep brain strokes are not fully understood. Here authors demonstrate that spreading depolarizations occur in the intact contralesional...

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Science Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants #neuroscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

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Please share! 👀 Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of New Mexico. Spreading depolarization & memory interactions.

Website for the Boyce Lab is live! I couldn't help it and included a bit of a New Mexico colour scheme. www.boyceneurolab.com

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Fun day combining work & a hike in San Lorenzo Canyon with colleagues Sam, David, & visiting speaker @olsenlab-vt.bsky.social