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)
Retroviruses can infect actively dividing neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus and spare non-dividing cells such as mature neurons. With this tool we can selectively label newly born neurons. We can infect neuronal precursor cells at various stages in development and look at a neuron’s morphology at certain ages. This…
Our very own Tim O’Leary won a supply of caffeinated Starbucks beverages at the 2015 UBC Neuroscience Extravaganza, based on his poster presentation skills! Here is a shot of him, droppin’ science. You can also see some more shots of the even here.
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2015, 8:00 AM -12:00 PM, 725.18/BB27. Here is our poster for the 2015 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. I will be presenting but Tim O’Leary did all the work. Actually, I did a bit of work, but Tim did most of the work. Briefly, this project came about…
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Usually BNS means Behavioral NeuroScience, but once a year it means Beach N Sun for the Psych department’s BNS labs…
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In order to investigate the relationship between an animal’s behaviour and neuronal network activity we are looking at immediate early gene activation in neurons after animals learned a task or were exposed to a novel situation for example. This way we can correlate the activity of certain brain regions with…
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The catFISH (cellular Compartment Analysis of Temporal activity by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) method allows us to trace back when a specific neuron has been activated. By using labeling for the RNA of the immediate early gene (IEG) zif268 for example, we know that when we detect its RNA in…
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Is it too late to post photos from our super exciting lab winter holiday ultra-competitive sports event? No?
Introduction: One of main research interests in the Snyder lab is exploring the role of adult-born hippocampal neurons in learning and memory, and whether the function of these neurons changes in non-stressful vs. stressful learning situations. To explore this issue we are using the Morris water maze (MWM), arguably the…