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Astrocyte physiologists and computationalists! Imaging astrocyte structure and function, we discovered and quantified a spatial threshold to astrocyte calcium surge ⭐ doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Antipsychotics are often prescribed to suppress hyperaggression. Do they really suppress aggression or just cause sedation? Antipsychotics target dopamine receptors. Our new study, published today nature, uncovered the role of dopamine in aggression. nature.com/articles/s4158…

We recently uploaded a new preprint exploring the mechanism of organ remodeling during dormancy. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Yuya, a student in my group, used the fly model to identify a novel role of BubR1 and Mad2 in pausing stem cells in a “ready-to-go” state, enabling the

Disruptions to the NIH impact more than just science; they will hit all Americans in our wallets. I spoke yesterday with Becky Fogel from KUT News about the important role NIH-funded research plays in the economy. 🧵 1/n kut.org/education/2025…

Fresh off the press, our paper linking #TravelingWaves #Cortex #Dendrites #inhibition is online Science Advances. Brilliant effort by Daniel Gonzales Hammad Khan Hayagreev Keri and others. A big thanks to Lyle Muller Pluta Lab & NIH Common Fund AFOSR science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share an updated version of our preprint "Representation of sex-specific social memory in ventral CA1 neurons". 🎉🎉 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thousands of workers were fired from CDC, NIH, & other agencies, even if they had excellent performance reviews. These are people with critical jobs like monitoring disease outbreaks or developing cancer drugs. Their salaries are a miniscule % of the budget. This makes no sense.

Bombardier Beetles spray boiling acid (212 degrees f) as a defence mechanism against predators

Our paper titled "Subtelomeric repeat expansion in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus chromosomes" has been published in Mobile DNA! Subtelomeric accumulation of Helitron-like elements in Hydractinia suggests its potential role in chromosome evolution. link.springer.com/article/10.118…

So excited to share our new paper out today in nature. We repurposed R2 retrotransposons to create STITCHR, a tool that can make diverse edits in mammalian genomes including scarless multi-kilobase scale insertions nature.com/articles/s4158…

We are hosting the next ZIPS on May 21st, featuring two speakers: Isaac Treves @isaac_treves and Wataru Yamamoto Wataru Yamamoto. All community members welcome! See details below.

My pre-PhD work is out Current Biology! We studied Alston’s singing mice, neotropical rodent that produces loud, human-audible 'songs' and engages in vocal turn-taking. Using thermal imaging in semi-natural arena, we probed song use across social contexts. cell.com/current-biolog…

Feeding Hydra

🚀Excited to share our new paper out in Virus Evolution : ‘Eco-evolutionary dynamics of temperate phages in periodic environments’. Co-authored by Stephen Beckett, PhD and Joshua Weitz ! Full article: tinyurl.com/yeyv76tp A thread 🧵

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

Check out our ZIPS this coming Wednesday, June 11th, featuring Tzitzi Alejandre Garcia and Hyun Choong Yong Hyun Choong (Jason) Yong. Details below.

Early life high fructose impairs microglial phagocytosis and neurodevelopment ⁦Justin Perry - Perry Lab⁩ ⁦nature⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158…

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The MOSAIC reconfigurable microscope by Eric Betzig et al is finally out! MOSAIC integrates multiple advanced imaging techniques including light-sheet, label-free, super-resolution, and multi-photon, all equipped with adaptive optics: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new publication on Hydra genome and transposons in Genome Biology!! 🎉: The dynamic genomes of Hydra and the anciently active repeat complement of animal chromosomes. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…