March for Science – Apr 22
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Nature is diluting their brand
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Pre-preprint: blogging a project
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SLAB is trying something new with one project in the lab. Prior to drafting a preprint, we’re blogging the project and sharing the results and analysis. We invite anyone to comment…
Allen Institute’s Brain Observatory data set
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The Allen Institute has released the first set of data from their Brain Observatory project. Many of you already know about this, but I wanted to post about it to encourage people to…
SLAB is hiring postdocs – neurobiologists and engineers
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Just a reminder to anyone looking for a postdoc position: check out the “Now Hiring” link above. We’re looking for people who are pure neurobiologists, pure engineers, or any mixture of the two. Graduate…
H.G. Wells and tissue clearing
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This passage from H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man (1897) is an interesting way to introduce the concept of index-matching for tissue clearing. By making sure all of the material interfaces (e.g., lipids, intracellular…
Postdoc opening in Paris, Schmidt-Hieber lab
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Christoph Schmidt-Hieber’s new lab at the Pasteur in Paris will open later this year and he has an opening for a postdoc to study neural circuits for navigation and memory.
Labrigger has…
Postdoc position with Duguid in Edinburgh
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A world-class in vivo patch clamp electrophysiologist, Ian Duguid, is recruiting to his lab. Ian provides excellent training, and his lab is in a tremendous setting: Edinburgh. Ian’s also one…
Meeting in Belgium on Read-Modify-Write Neural Circuitry
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Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders is having its annual Neurotechnology Symposium May 2nd and 3rd, 2016 in Leuven, Belgium.
This year the focus is on “Read- Modify- Write” technologies for interfacing with neural circuits.
Confirmed Speakers:
Dora…
DARPA: read 10^6 neurons, write 10^5 neurons
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DARPA wants a dream neural interface. They can wait 4 years, but they want a complete plan now (abstracts due Feb 25, full proposals April 14).
This is a direct quote from the announcement for…
Intersectional strategies: CRE-DOG
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Intersectional strategies are rapidly growing in sophistication. Unfortunately, it still takes time to generate mice and make crosses as needed, so short cuts are handy.
The CRE-DOG technique, from Connie Cepko’s lab, induces expression in…
Imaging Course at Max Planck Florida
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The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience is holding an imaging course Jan 11-20, 2016.
They have a really excellent line up of lecturers. A range of topics will be covered: two-photon imaging, FLIM, FRET, endoscopy, uncaging, optogenetics, SPIM, image analysis, instrumentation (alignment, system design), …
Applications are due in a few days, Nov….
2015 Kavli Futures Symposium for Neurotechnologies
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The 2015 Kavli Futures Symposium on “Next Generation NeuroTechnologies” will be Sept 26 in NYC. Freeman, Ji, Svoboda, Pillow, and others are all speaking. Here’s a link. Registration is filling up fast.
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Preprints and the wide field of view 2-photon
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The preprint for the wide field of view 2-photon system we built has been updated. Check it out at bioRxiv.org.
Preprint servers are a great way to share work-in-progress. ArXiv and…