Join us this Thursday afternoon at posters 383 and 384 to see our RatDISCO work at #FENS2026 in Barcelona!
Cristina Martinez Gonzalez
@cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and microscopy enthusiast. She/her
TODAY! Do you work with microscope images and want to measure how much immunolabelling signal is present in the brain and where? This roundtable brings together the developers of QUINT—a workflow that detects, quantifies, and maps features in your images onto a three-dimensional brain atlas.
Interested in using tissue-clearing techniques to study intact samples in 3D? Check out our seminar with Dr. @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social as she introduces novel tissue-clearing strategies and key considerations for selecting the right protocol for different samples and research objectives.
Latest from the lab, led by @ara-donia.bsky.social and @juliavdkorput.bsky.social Huge team effort, with immense contributions by friends from nearby and around the globe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Myelin sheaths in the central nervous system can withstand damage and dynamically remodel
Myelin damage is a hallmark of several neurological disorders, but how it occurs remains to be fully understood. In this study, we found that early damage in zebrafish and rodent demyelination models ...
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Our first Gene Delivery Seminar of the year kicks off TODAY! Dr. @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social will share practical insights on choosing tissue-clearing approaches and utilizing advanced imaging to visualize intact samples in 3D.
VectorBuilder@vectorbuilder.bsky.social · 8mo agoInterested in tissue-clearing techniques to study intact samples in 3D? Catch Dr. Cristina Martinez Gonzalez's talk (@cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social) as she introduces novel tissue-clearing strategies & key considerations for selecting the right protocol for different samples & research objectives.
Interested in tissue-clearing techniques to study intact samples in 3D? Catch Dr. Cristina Martinez Gonzalez's talk (@cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social) as she introduces novel tissue-clearing strategies & key considerations for selecting the right protocol for different samples & research objectives.
Join us for our annual lecture! We have a fantastic line-up this year: a consultant neurosurgeon and two discovery scientists will discuss how they are redefining biomedical methods - using living human brain tissue - bringing us closer to curing major neurological diseases. Book: edin.ac/4oYHTtk
Edinburgh Neuroscience Public Christmas Lecture 2025
A brain surgeon and two discovery scientists unwrap the story of their unique collaboration using living human brain slices.
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Thanks to everyone who joined the 9th Annual SIDB Retreat! Two incredible days of inspiring science, great discussions, and vibrant collaboration. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Find out more on sidb.org or via linktree in our bio
SIDB recently featured in STV News. Using a GRIN2B rat model, Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser and Katerina Hristova showed an epilepsy drug can reduce seizures. Check it out ⬇️ edin.ac/3Kz2Mw1 @edinburghmedschool.bsky.social @patrickwildcentre.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social
Epilepsy medication could control seizures in children with rare brain disorder
Scientists have been studying GRIN2B-Related Disorder, a rare condition that affects the nervous system of young kids.
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Proud to have been a small part of this project RatDISCO is a simple & affordable tissue-clearing protocol that works in rodent brains and organoids. Enormous potential for imaging long-range projections and labelled neuron populations in the whole brain 🧠 👉 tinyurl.com/670723v1
RatDISCO, a tissue clearing and immunolabelling protocol for large rat brains
RatDISCO is a simple, cost-effective, and reproducible tissue-clearing protocol optimised for immunolabeling in adult rat brains. It enables robust detection of diverse neuronal subtypes, glial popula...
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Unsure about tissue clearing methods? Join our online workshop to learn about the soundest clearing protocols for your tissue, next Tuesday, 30th September, organised by BNA @britishneuro.bsky.social
Want to run your own lab one day? In our Postdoc to PI series with Scientifica, Dr Sam Booker shares practical tips on the 5 pillars of academic independence: Research, Funding, Teaching & supervision, Outreach and Balance Register: tinyurl.com/337ww4mc #PostdocLife #FuturePI #PhDLife
Our Scientific Ambassador @virsicas.bsky.social interviewed Robert Lees, an expert in multiphoton & light sheet microscopy at the 🐙 Octopus facility, part of Euro-BioImaging’s UK Node @bioimaginguk.bsky.social. 🔬Learn more about his role in the full interview🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-ro...
🔬 New to #tissueclearing or unsure which method is right for your samples? Join our @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social sponsored workshop with @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social & Kirsty Craigie to learn the fundamentals, compare methods, and get expert advice. 👉 www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e... #microscopy
Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori! @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
Corticotropin-releasing hormone modulates NREM sleep consolidation through the thalamic reticular nucleus
Nature Communications - Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), known for activating the HPA axis during stress, also acts centrally in the brain. Here, the authors show that CRH modulates thalamic...
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RatDISCO, a tissue clearing and immunolabelling protocol for large rat brains. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670723v1
The Strathclyde Optical Micoscopy Course #SOMC25 kicked off today - 10 days of practical light microscopy training with 24 students from around the world! From fundamental & advanced lectures, to hands-on workshops with high end systems, & a field trip to the Isle of Cumbrae, it will be great! 🔬
🎉 Congrats to @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social for winning 1st prize in the BNA Photo Competition! Her image of a whole mouse brain labelled for tyrosine hydroxylase, captured with light-sheet microscopy, will feature in the BNA 2025/26 calendar @britishneuro.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social
What does everyday #neuroscience look like? We asked BNA members, and the results were truly inspiring. www.bna.org.uk/resource/exp... Congratulations to @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social as well as shortlisted images including @kmujmer.bsky.social @mickcraig.bsky.social and @dalmaijer.bsky.social
Exploring the World of Neuroscience - by BNA Members
What does everyday neuroscience look like? We asked our members to show us, and the results were nothing short of inspiring.
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In April, SIDB researchers had a great time presenting at BNA 2025 - Festival of Neuroscience in Liverpool, UK. Find out more in our bio! @edinunineuro.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social @britishneuro.bsky.social @patrickwildcentre.bsky.social
Lets talk about brains, stem cells, and organoids with playdough and a crochet brain hat! @soapboxscienceedin.bsky.social
Heading to Liverpool for #BNA2025 - plus a chance to see my team to win the league!
I just received the price, thank you so much for all your work @womeninneurouk.bsky.social !!!
Rochefort Lab@rochefortlab.bsky.social · 2y agoThank you so much for this award! I am very touched and humbled, as I feel I have learned at least as much from my mentees as they have learned from me. Thank you @womeninneurouk.bsky.social for all the amazing work you are doing!
The Nolan lab at SIDB reveal new methods to provide a more detailed picture of how the brain forms and maintains spatial maps, which is important for memory and navigation. Read the news 🔽 sidb.org.uk/news-events/... @elife.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @edinburghmedschool.bsky.social
This month, the Illingworth Lab inspired future neuroscientists with 'Slice of Science' at Castlebrae High School. This exciting series of monthly outreach events is organised by PhD student Lucy Doyle, and gives students a slice of science alongside a slice of pizza. sidb.org.uk/news-events/...
👏 Congratulations, Nathalie (@rochefortlab.bsky.social)! What an inspiration!
Rochefort Lab@rochefortlab.bsky.social · 2y agoThank you so much for this award! I am very touched and humbled, as I feel I have learned at least as much from my mentees as they have learned from me. Thank you @womeninneurouk.bsky.social for all the amazing work you are doing!