Feel free to reach out here or email either Simon Butt or Konstantin Khodosevich your CV and statement of interest.
Feel free to reach out here or email either Simon Butt or Konstantin Khodosevich your CV and statement of interest.
Its involves 2 years in Oxford followed by 1 year in Copenhagen investigating cortical circuits involved in sleep development and dysfunction in psychiatric disorders. If you enjoy collaborative neuroscience and international work environments, weβd love to hear from you!
Hi all, we're on the look out for a postdoctoral researcher with links to Denmark who would interested in applying for a Novo Nordisk Fellowship to join a collaborative endeavour between Oxford and Copenhagen (novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/pos...).
Super interesting and congrats! Have you looked into the interneuron DEGs? Would be interesting to relate to our findings: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Definitely seems like glutamatergic neurons lead the way
Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Quite the faff, 2 amazing PDRAs and a crazy good PhD student. Still, made writing the limitations section quite easy π. I hope all is well with you Mick!
Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Great credit must go to the team Filippo, Liad, and the rest of the gang for persevering and demonstrating that (mainly SST) interneurons contribute to the formative activity that sculpts and creates the circuits that underpin our conscious thoughts. Thanks also to our funders @ukri.org!
A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Two faculty positions in my department this year. Please spread the word! And don't hesitate to reach out if you want to learn more.
Many thanks to all the team and our collaborators but especially Gabriel Ocana-Santero for his amazing in vivo imaging and Hannah Warming for her patching skills. The work was funded by grants from @ukri.org and @erc.europa.eu
Increasing 5-HT during this time through genetic, pharmacological (SSRIs) or adverse stimuli results in an altered trajectory for the development of GABAergic interneurons, impacting early activity and β in the case of SSRIs β that present through to adulthood.
The article is here: rdcu.be/epHXV
Image of a coronal section through postnatal mouse somatosensory cortex (S1BF with transient expression of the serotonin transporter in thalamic afferents shown in red.
Our study on the impact of altered serotonin (5-HT) signalling on the developing sensory cortex is now live at Nature Comms.
We use longitudinal in vivo imaging of 5-HT and neural activity to show that this neuromodulator is buffered in early life to promote bottom-up instruction of sensory areas.
Save the date!
We're organising a workshop on Data Sharing on the 10th of February at Guy's Campus (KCL)! All you need to know to make your datasets open to the public + engaging in open science practices.
More details to come soon β stay tuned!
Congratulations to Gabriel! @interneuron.bsky.social
Well done Ivan! @interneuron.bsky.social
For sure! Although my feeling is that Mother Nature always finds a way to (a proximity of) normal.
This sounds interesting... definitely one to check out.
Thank you so much Zoltan @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social and Gilad for being such wonderful examiners! The perfect academic end to the calendar year
Thanks @nkourdougli.bsky.social
Fast-spike interneurons in visual cortical layer 5: Heterogeneous response properties are related to thalamocortical connectivity
Some L5 INT with strong input from LGN and visual responses more similar to L4 INT than those receiving little direct LGN input.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Iβm might be biased but weβre getting there with tracking circuits over development and into adulthood (in mice). Some interesting commonalities/pathways emerging
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We did this. Beautiful work from the π¦less Gabriel Ocana-Santero & team. More to follow soon but state-dependent neuromodulation is coming to developmental neuroscience in a big way π§ π§ͺ
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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A toolbox for ablating excitatory and inhibitory synapses
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Our 2nd new Doctor in as many days! Many congratulations to Gabi on the successful defence of his thesis (in vivo 5-HT in neurodevelopment; preprint out soon!). Huge thanks to the π¦less, elite examining team of Oscar Marin & Colin Akerman, also co-PI Trevor Sharp and Serotonin & Beyond @ec.europa.eu
NEW DOCTOR from the lab, Antara Majumdarπ₯³ πΎ thanks to @kerrywalker.bsky.social @jpassecker.bsky.social for examination & 2nd supervisor @interneuron.bsky.social. Here is Antara's preprint, came out right around the US election and X being deserted: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Looking for an escape over the holiday?
@meikeesther.bsky.social and I published a ViewPoint looking at the intersection of Developmental and Systems Neuroscience titled βMore Than a Small Brain: The Importance of Studying Neural Function during Developmentβ
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
A huge pleasure to repost this announcement - over 40 students have graduated from our fantastic @sussexneuro.bsky.social PhD programme, and each year brings new perspectives and opportunities for both the new joiners and ourselves as their hosts. Do consider applying!