Matt Lycas

@lycasworks.bsky.social

Neuroscientist and Super-Resolution Microscopist

Our kind of fireworks: fruit fly neurons stacked in a rapid succession of rainbow colors. This video shows a small sampling of the more than 135,000 neurons in a typical fruit fly's brain, imaged by researchers at our Janelia Research Campus using multicolor flipout technique 🎆

These stunning single-celled organisms can shape-shift & regenerate. Their trumpet-like shape inspired their name: stentor, after the herald in Greek mythology known for his booming voice. 📸: Confocal microscopy by Igor Siwanowicz, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus

Three stentors

Janelia is built for this moment. Starting today, we're taking on 2 big bets: cracking how a vertebrate brain generates behavior, & building AI-in-the-Loop Discovery — a new way of doing biology. Tiny transparent fish + one of neuroscience’s biggest questions? Let's go: hhmi.news/2BigBets

Home microscope project - high NA Phase contrast with the fun Lowa objective Lomo inverted with the Lomo 1.25 NA water inversion phase contrast Need to add light source and camera and phase annulus

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📢 We're recruiting AI Scientists at HHMI Janelia. I'm biased, but these are exceptional opportunities. You'd join as an independent scientist with access to excellent computational infrastructure, some of the best biological data in the world, and a vibrant collaborative environment.

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This mesmerizing timelapse captures the nonstop motion inside an animal cell. Red/orange streaks are the growing ends of microtubules, tiny “highways” that can rapidly assemble and disassemble to move proteins & other molecules within the cell. 📸: Andy Moore, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus

My first corresponding author 🔬🎸🦾 rupress.org/jcb/article/... Ever wonder what the ultrastructure of dopaminergic neuron presynaptic sites looks like? Using cryo-CLEM/ET we observed the wild changes that happen at these sites when the neurons fire or are more quiet. In the latest @jcb.org

Ultrastructure of dopaminergic varicosities revealed by cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy

Lycas et al. develop a cryo-CLEM workflow to characterize the ultrastructure of dopaminergic varicosities. They resolve in situ structures of TRiC/CCT and

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We're hiring! 🔬🏔️ Looking for curious, open-minded, and multidisciplinary #PhD candidates to research at the intersection of #mitochondria, #metabolism, #imaging & #physiology, with the #Alps as a backdrop. Sounds like you or someone you know? Link below! @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

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Juan C. Landoni@jclandoni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Landoni Lab opens this summer at UNIL! @fbm-unil.bsky.social 🔬 Quantitative #imaging + systems biology to decipher how #metabolic architecture & #mtDNA dynamically shape tissue development, #aging and #mitodisease. Beyond excited to fire up the lasers, open positions soon! 🧪 #mitochondria #newPI

Landoni lab & UNIL logos, featuring fluorescent images of mitochondria and nematodes