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great to see you Sung-Yon Kim Li Ye Anna Beyeler 🇺🇦 and everyone at Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference ! Thanks to chairs Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD Steve Ramirez Ofer Yizhar 💔 for organizing an amazing conference for this fast-moving field. Upcoming talks from lab alums including tina kim Ritchie Chen and many others!

Three generations of #OptoGRC chairs in one photo! 💚 Stay tuned as we pass the torch to the 2026 leadership team - to be announced soon!

Huge shoutout to the #OptoGRC2024 social committee! 🕺🎊 Akemi Ito, Suraj Subramaniam & BumJin Ko have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep us entertained this past week. Thank you for bringing the fun and inspiring our community!

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That's a wrap on #OptoGRC2024 - thanks to all for making it a huge success! We're already excited for our next meeting, led by incoming chairs Steve Ramirez & Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD and newly elected vice-chairs Gisella Vetere & tina kim. Hope to see you all at #OptoGRC2026! 💙💚💙

Is head-fixed awake animal a good model for natural perception? doi.org/10.1038/s41467… shows that it is not. Contrary to findings in head-fixed, our head-free mice (collab @oferyizhar) revealed thalamic POm and VPM both co-code head and whisker kinematics

🚨 It's official! The 4th Optogenetics Australia Conference will be held on Feb 6th-7th, 2025 at the Kolling Institute, Sydney, Australia. Mark your calendars for an illuminating conference of brilliant minds in a stunning location. Registration details coming soon #OptoAus2025

Super-excited to reveal our latest fluorescent voltage indicator, ASAP5, now online Neuron! ASAP5 features higher responsivity and kinetics, allowing detection of single synaptic transmission events. The link gives free access until 2024.11.09: authors.elsevier.com/a/1joYd3BtfH9B…

If you’re interested in memory and neural population representations - go work with Quinn! He will be a fantastic mentor, and he’s right there next to the best mountains in Canada 🏔️🏔️🏔️

A year in ongoing trauma is difficult to explain, but it’s difficult for me to concentrate on anything else. Sorry for the long long post. This year, I’ve dealt with traumas on multiple levels.

סטודנטים/יות ופוסט-דוקים/יות, ההרשמה לכנס בנוירוביולוגיה תאית ומולקולרית תיסגר בעוד שלושה ימים (3 בנובמבר)! יש עדיין סלוטים להרצאות ופוסטרים, אז מהרו להירשם (זה בחינם) ולהגיש תקציר (erez.weizmann.ac.il/apx/r/ws1/101/…). מחכים לראותכם במכון ויצמן ב 17 בנובמבר!

We’re thrilled to announce that registration is now open for the 6th edition (on March 2025) of the Paris School on All-Optical Neuronal Circuits Control with Optogeentics and Multiphoton Microscopy! Join us and explore the latest breakthroughs with an outstanding lineup of

"This is the most decent thing we can do in this complex and loud world piled with confusion and brokenness. Let us work on the lost art of respectfulness." Beautiful words about grief, hope, and kindness from Rachel Goldberg-Polin💔🎗️ blogs.timesofisrael.com/limping-toward…..

מדענים ישראלים - מחכים לכם בבלוסקיי. בשבוע האחרון היתה נהירה של מדענים, כל הפיד שלי שם מדע, אין כמעט פוליטיקה. ויש לנו starter packs לכל תחום כמעט (רשימת יוזרים מאוגדת ומומלצת שאפשר לעקוב אחרי כולם בלחיצת כפתור 1). (הכנתי רשימה של ביולוגים ישראלים, אבל היא קצרה מדי) בואו כבר!

In 2008, when @tonyzador emailed to invite me to interview Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, I was certain it was due to a clerical error. I'm still here. You gotta play to win! If you are a senior grad student feeling uncertain about applying to this, we want to hear from you. cshl.edu/research/postd…

וואוו. פרופ׳ ידידה שטרן על חזרתה של ההפיכה המשטרית - אי אפשר להניח לשוחט לשחוט.

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🎄PinkyCaMP- our christmas gift to you! 🎁: We are excited to present PinkyCaMP, the first mScarlet based calcium sensor with: ✨exceptional, brightness ✨phototability ✨and optogenetic compatability. Check out our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…