Snyder lab poster presentations at the 2018 Society for Neuroscience meeting. Stop by and say hi! Sat, Nov. 3 PM. 029.01 / A1 – Adult-born neurons are structurally plastic and remain morphologically distinct from developmentally-born neurons. *J. S. SNYDER, D. ESPINUEVA, T. O’LEARY, S. P. CAHILL, D. SEIB, J. D. COLE…
The latest study in the saga that is adult neurogenesis was just published today: Sorrells et al, (2018) Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature25975 I wrote a brief piece for Nature News and Views but since they have very strict space limitations I…
I have long been interested in the culture of science, including publishing practices related to open access and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Given certain career constraints I have identified ~20 potential papers the Snyder Lab should publish in the next couple of years. This has forced my publishing perspective to incorporate some practical…
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The 2017 Neurofutures conference was held at UBC. It was a great opportunity to learn about the latest neuroscience technologies and tools – fluorescent probes, tissue clearing and imaging, expansion microscopy techniques, synthetic protein engineering, and more. The 3rd day was a hands-on workshop on many of the methods that were presented, and…
Many studies on memory and learning utilize the immediate early gene c-Fos as an indicator of recent synaptic activity. By quantifying c-Fos positive neurons, we can compare activity across different populations in the brain, and analyze co-labelled neurons with other useful cell markers such as BrdU and Doublecortin. Our lab…
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Massive turnover in the Snyder Lab this year! In one week alone we had JD, Jerry, Delane and Erin graduate. Not that they all are leaving at this exact instant (“Got my degree, screw you guys I’m outta here!”), but soon. Soon you will also see the fruits of their…
This year’s SFN abstracts, for your anticipatory pleasure! INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ADULT-BORN AND DEVELOPMENTALLY-BORN NEURONS DURING LEARNING Alyssa Ash, Jack Clemans-Gibbon, Timothy O’Leary, Erin Chahley, Desiree Seib, Jason Snyder One feature that sets the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus apart from other regions of the brain is its ability to produce…
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Plop 30,000 neuroscientists into a downtown core and around 6pm you better be figuring out where you’re going to eat. We found such a place. It was perfect. Then the music turned off and the TV volume went up. Conversation waned. People were fighting! Blood! Joints cracking! But we just want…
Update: This work is now published in Hippocampus, here. The bioRxiv preprint is freely available and nearly identical in content. The Snyder lab’s first paper now exists (pdf here, on bioRxiv). Well, it’s more of a manuscript. Or should I call it a preprint? Does it matter? The thing, as the…
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Beginning of summer is a good time to get everyone together. Exams are finished. Some have more time to contribute, some move on to new phases of their careers, and new faces arrive. And I now have a compact tripod that fits in my bike bag, which means we can take lab…