Excited to introduce ScaRCaMP — a highly blue-light resistant red GECI. 🔴 Now live on bioRxiv and marking my first PhD preprint (2nd for the Marko lab). Would love feedback from the community!!

Jeff Markowitz@vulcnethologist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We made a highly blue-light resistant red-fluorescent genetically encoded calcium sensor GECI) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... BluePrint™ 🗺️ below:

Our first preprint has been accepted for publication www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... !! tldr: @ezeyulu00.bsky.social , @amartyapradhan.bsky.social , @dkoveal.bsky.social and I developed a method using injectable nanoparticles to turn mice into…constellations in motion. 🧵⤵️

High-resolution in vivo kinematic tracking with customized injectable fluorescent nanoparticles

Injectable fluorescent nanoparticles were used to track positions on and inside of freely moving animals at high resolution.

science.org

Wrote a review with some thoughts about dopamine's role in movement. Hope people find it useful and/or stimulating! Thanks again to @bensaunders.bsky.social for the invitation and editing this issue. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Learned a lot, had fun and made friends!

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience@mpfneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to the faculty, teaching assistants, sponsors, staff, and participants who brought energy and curiosity to every session. From hands-on experiments to late-night data discussions and new friendships, we are leaving this year’s Advanced Neurotechniques course energized and inspired!