The lab has 5 presentations to check out at Neuromatch! This is an exciting new venue for online scientific presentation, discussion and collaboration. Interactive talks are short (only 15 min) and supposed to be primarily Q&A, so come with your Qs! Here is a list of our presentations along with…
Hello everyone, this is just a quick note that we (i.e. Matt Cooke and Ricky Ma, with assistance from Brie Dungate) have released a new updated version of Pathfinder. The major changes are 1) the ability to import an increased number of types from various softwares, and 2) a window…
New paper by Desiree et al! Seib, Désirée R., Espinueva, Delane F., Floresco, Stan B., Snyder, Jason S. A role for neurogenesis in probabilistic reward learning. Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000370 Abstract: Rewards are often unreliable and optimal choice requires behavioral flexibility and learning about the probabilistic nature of uncertain rewards. Probabilistic…
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…
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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…
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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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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…
The Snyder lab, along with collaborators in the Psychology Department at UBC, will be presenting FIVE posters at SFN this year! Here they are, in order of how hard it was for me to find them on my hard drive, email etc. EARLY SURVIVAL AND DELAYED DEATH OF DEVELOPMENTALLY-BORN DENTATE…
This holiday season the Snyder lab gathered for the extremely competitive, second annual, Curling Bonspiel. Here is the action in photos and videos! (videos at the bottom, after the photo gallery)