Michael Ratz

@mratz.bsky.social

Group Leader, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Our study on the impact of altered serotonin (5-HT) signalling on the developing sensory cortex is now live at Nature Comms. We use longitudinal in vivo imaging of 5-HT and neural activity to show that this neuromodulator is buffered in early life to promote bottom-up instruction of sensory areas.

Image of a coronal section through postnatal mouse somatosensory cortex (S1BF with transient expression of the serotonin transporter in thalamic afferents shown in red.

While I applaud Europe taking a step to fund bringing scientific excellence to Europe, the ERC’s current success rates at 10% for Europe based scientists is statistically at lottery levels. The total ERC budget should double across the board aiming at doubling funding rates.

Single-cell people! Check out the "Innovations in Single Cell Omics" meeting, May 12-13 in Berlin! I'm really looking forward to being a part of this great line-up and also to presenting a Night Science workshop. Join us! www.isco-conference.eu Abstract deadline for talks & posters: March 7

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