Antibodies are funny. Funny in that sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, sometimes they have different names at different vendors, and sometimes papers do, and sometimes they don’t, specify the catalog number of the antibody they used. So a bit of detective work is required if you want to…
Shaina Cahill¹, Ru Qi Yu¹, Jason Snyder¹ ¹Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia ABSTRACT. The brain is way cooler than all the other organs (combined). I mean, what could possibly be more cool? Maybe if there was a magic drink that could make your brain bigger and stronger? We…
Yesterday we took advantage of some great weather and ate lunch outside while reading the recent neurogenesis-forgetting paper from the Frankland/Josselyn group. It basically flips the field on its head by looking at retrograde effects of neurogenesis on memory, instead of the usual approach of looking at neurogenesis effects on…
We demo’d an Olympus FV1200 confocal microscope, which I used to acquire these images of a couple interneurons, labelled with GFP. The video was made with Imaris, which offers some cool moviemaking features that you won’t find in your standard confocal software. BEST VIEWED IN HD!!!
Originally posted at Hubbian There’s one week remaining before the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting begins. That means you have about 6 days before you really really have to start tallying a list of presentations. Of course, WITH HUBBIAN*, you actually could put it off that long and still gather a…
How do the physiological properties of new neurons translate to a behavioral role? Are they just like mature neurons or are they unique? One idea that’s been thrown around is that their plastic period, their critical period, might endow them with an enhanced ability to associate information and contribute to…
The annual most insanely huge neuroscience meeting is rapidly approaching and I am pleased to announce that I will be blogging about the meeting again this year, here at Functional Neurogenesis. The meeting will be held at the Washington DC convention center, located in “China” town, which is cool because in…
It’s surprising that it’s 2011 and there’s no regular meeting on adult neurogenesis. There have been neurogenesis sessions at other meetings and perhaps the occasional, sometimes closed, neurogenesis meeting here and there, but nothing regular for all to attend. This Keystone meeting on adult neurogenesis will hopefully mark the end…
Some final observations at the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
Yesterday morning I checked out the technically-heroic dissection of mossy fiber function from the Tonegawa lab that employed a quadruple transgenic mouse: Mossy fiber input for pattern separation and pattern completion *T. NAKASHIBA1, J. CUSHMAN2, K. A. PELKEY3, C. J. MCBAIN3, M. S. FANSELOW2, S. TONEGAWA1; 1The RIKEN-MIT Ctr. For Neural…