kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

Congrats to my colleagues Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman on the Nobel Prize!

My favorite part of this news is knowing that more people (including kids) will get to hear and be inspired by the story behind the science and scientists (especially Kariko).

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/katalin-kariko-and-drew-weissman-penns-historic-mrna-vaccine-research-team-win-2023-nobel

What is this beautiful neural phenomenon? Cortical spreading depolarizations, some of the brain's tallest waves, are thought to play a role in many things ranging from migraines to seizures.

Learn more about these beautiful and mysterious neural waves in this weeks post, "Catching the Brain's Tallest Waves" by Sophie Liebergall.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/09/26/catching-the-brains-tallest-waves/

Image taken by Sophie Liebergall and Zach Rosenthal at the University of Pennsylvania

#sciComm #neuroscience #brain #brainWaves

Our work on the nanoscale organization of presynaptic actin got the October 2023 cover. It's here on the glossy paper of
@JCellBiol ! This is the best thing ever 🪩 https://rupress.org/jcb/article-abstract/222/10/e202208110/276185/Presynapses-contain-distinct-actin

15 MSCA Cofund postdoctoral fellowships on cancer research in Spain

The Scientific Foundation of the Spanish Association Against Cancer

New open call AECCTalent MSCA COFUND postdoctoral programme coordinated by contracancerES for excellent cancer research in Spain. Visit aecctalent.com

See the full job descript...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-scientific-foundation-of-the-spanish-association-against-cancer-27778-15-msca-cofund-postdoctoral-fellowships-on-cancer-research-in-spain/?feed_id=60353

This story is wild. If the organization of the brain (or brain-like ganglion) in animals that undergo metamorphosis fundamentally changes, are they really the same animal after transition?

I love how weird nature is.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/insect-brains-melt-and-rewire-during-metamorphosis-20230726/

We are editing a collection in #JNeurophysiol about the Functional Logic of #NeuralCircuits!
See details below, in the link and flyer; and send us your research, reviews, or opinion papers! The deadline is Sep 1st, 2024.

Http://ow.ly/mShk50PPiur

#Neurophysiology #AINeuroscience

Are you interested in the #cytoskeleton ...?

#actin, #actomyosin, #myosin, #microtubule, #kinesin, #intermediatefilament, #vimentin, #keratin, #desmin, #GFAP, #peripherin, #syncoilin, #internexin, #neurofilament, #synemin, #syncoilin, #lamin

are hashtags used by @Rxiv_cytoskeleton bot.

Unfortunately, if you search / follow one of these hashtags, most of the posts from this bot will be invisible because a recent policy makes them "unlisted", see https://botsin.space/@muffinista/110378654504428500

#ScienceMastodon

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"The Cell Biology Division of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), a research institute within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), invites applications for a tenure-track Group Leader position."

#sciencejobs

https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12805618/research-group-leader-in-cell-biology/#job-description

Exciting Faculty job opportunity at the University of California, Berkeley: Assistant Professor - Phylogenomics and Molecular Epidemiology of Pathogens with Pandemic Potential 🦠 #Virology #FacultyJobs #Epidemiology https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/649979/assistant-professor-phylogenomics-and-molecular-epidemiology-of-pathogens-with-pandemic-potential

More hiring in Glasgow neuroscience! The Weir lab is advertising a postdoc position, to interrogate the neurobiology of chronic pain with confocal microscopy, RNA-sequencing, electrophysiology, and behaviour. More details on https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCW482/research-assistant-associate

Spontaneous activity is an important attribute of neurodevelopment. @cssmity &co show that satellite #GlialCells in the #PNS display isolated spontaneous Ca2+ transients, sensitive to #mechanosensitive protein #Piezo1, revealing a role for #mechanobiology in the activity of developing neural cells #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3t0Ko6w

Please see below for an exciting opportunity to join microbiology at Newcastle, and help us build target-based antibiotic discovery!
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCX827/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-antimicrobial-drug-discovery

Welcome to all! ❤️​🐀​
Potential new followers: can we try something out?

- if you're a #Neuroscientist (of any status, yes, undergraduate students can be neuroscientists), could you answer with your neuro 'categories': Experimentalist, Computational, Philosopher, Fly, Human, Rodent, Whale, Tetrodes, Calcium imaging, fMRI, EEG, etc. This is so that I (and possibly others) can put you in a List! I'll share my lists once they have grown enough 😀​

- if you're not a Neuroscientist, this account will probably not follow you, but you are totally free to follow it, and also to tell us about you and any questions you might have about neuroscience!

- if you want to learn about neuroscience, I will try to post beginner-level explanations with the hashtag #NeuroForNewbies. Just an experiment...

2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions - Kapahi lab

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

The #Kapahi lab at the #Buck Institute is inviting applicants for 2 #postdoc positions using bioinformatic approaches from flies and humans.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/buck-institute-for-research-on-aging-27778-2-postdoctoral-researcher-pos...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/buck-institute-for-research-on-aging-27778-2-postdoctoral-researcher-positions-kapahi-lab/?feed_id=59655

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday !
Look at these super cute HUVECS stained to reveal their nucleus (pink) and actin cytoskeleton (blue) ...but wait ...what are these dotty rings in orange ? Well, feel free to have a look at our paper to know 🫢😁
https://elifesciences.org/articles/85165

Pretty interesting new data on GluA1 homomers from Ingo Greger’s lab. Distinct structural dynamics of this special subclass, compared to other AMPAR, are examined at multiple levels, from CryoEM to synaptic responses. #glutsmate #ionchannels #synapses https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06528-0

We have put up an archive of our lab news that we posted to Twitter/X/Xitter/TwiX.

Browse and search here:
https://mechanochemistry.org/Royle/newsarchive/

Postdoc position - Lipid Network Reconstruction & Computational Modeling @Joostholthuis

Osnabrück University

The Holthuis Lab at Osnabrück University is looking for a Postdoc to work on LIPID NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION & COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FOR IMDs

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/osnabruck-university-27778-...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/osnabruck-university-27778-postdoc-position-lipid-network-reconstruction-computational-modeling-3/?feed_id=58795