@dianebissen.bsky.social

Neuroscientist, saber fencer, unabashed nerd and book lover. Postdoc in the Turrigiano lab at Brandeis.

Back to Bluesky to share the most exciting news: my postdoctoral research is now published in Neuron! We used cricket hunting to show how ethological learning persistently rewires juvenile (but not adult!) visual circuits by co-opting homeostatic plasticity. Full story www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Ethological learning during the critical period resets synaptic setpoints in mouse binocular visual cortex

Bissen et al. show that prey capture learning profoundly reshapes visual cortical circuitry and function during developmental critical periods, but not in adulthood. These learning-induced structural ...

cell.com

Fencing finally started again after a prolonged hiatus for administrative reasons! My muscles hurt, but there's nothing quite like (strategically) waving your saber around to get your mind off lab work.

When a friend of mine realized I'd made a Bluesky account, her immediate reaction was "Whoa! You've joined social media? 🤯 Is the world ending?" So despite potentially triggering an apocalypse (oops)... hello world!