Wow, what a powerful reminder that chaos is not a flaw in biology. This beautifully written story of the “disorderly” QCR6 protein shows how its structural unruliness actually enhances ATP production within the respiratory chain. share.google/Tfn3RQCbJFrhbwY…

Last night my brilliant friend with 20 years of expertise in Neuroscience including a decade at NIDA was fired because she was recently promoted for her outstanding performance and it triggered the probation period. This is not making NIH more efficient, this is not making us healthier, this is not punishing the people who misled the public, this is destroying America’s talent. Her work is instrumental for testing whether new medications to fight addiction are safe and efficacious before they are tested in humans. now that research is at risk. She was the backbone of the lab the most senior person. So much knowledge, talent, know how, wasted, so much science destroyed for the wrong reason. Sigh…

My heart is breaking for the ~4000 staff that were fired at NIH this morning and the ones in intramural research awaiting emails telling them if they too are being fired. This includes anyone probationary:Research Fellows, Staff Scientists, GS employees, Tenure-tracks

Proud of my wonderful partner all around @NeuroTejeda for being amongst this cohort of exceptional scientists receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)! You are a star ⭐️ well deserved! @NIMHgov @IRPatNIH @NIH whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upd…

2p micromirror-scanned functional imaging and holographic optogenetics...in freely moving animals! Wonder where we'll be in 20 years. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 👀

Wassup y’all, my first manuscript from the @Aoto_Lab is out! Despite being discovered over 30 years ago, α-Nrxn influence on synapses remain enigmatic. Here, we investigate how different mutations in Nrx3α affects synaptic properties. Check out this study— jneurosci.org/content/44/41/…

⭐ Behind the Scenes with Our Latest JoVE Video Article Publication! 🧠 We’re excited to give you a look at research from Fabio Simoes de Souza, Ryan Williamson, Connor McCullough, and their colleagues at the @CUSystem Anschutz Medical Campus, exploring how hippocampal CA1 neurons contribute to mice navigating odor plumes. Using advanced miniscope technology to record calcium signals, this team is uncovering new insights into how the brain processes spatial and olfactory information. Key Finding: “It’s possible to decode the trajectory of a mouse navigating an odor plume based on neuronal ensemble calcium signals in dorsal CA1,” the researcher shares. 📄 Learn more here: lnkd.in/eauiwj-T @LabRestrepo

Congratulations @CSNiemeyerPhd @LabRestrepo and all! Such careful work, excited to be part of the story! #microglia #Hsv1 🧠 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Our new paper by @BioIntelligeNet showing that olfactory bulb-projecting cholinergic neurons enhance odor representations in a context- and modality-specific manner biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Congrats Denise and Daniel!

Thanks to Congressman @RepScottPeters for meeting with neuroscientists in San Diego from @salkinstitute, @UCSDNeuro, and @scrippsresearch. We discussed the importance of the BRAIN Initiative and overall @NIH funding for neuroscience & biomedical research.