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Photoactivated Transcription Revisted
Looks like there has been some new results in the field of photoactivated transcription. Unlike the fully genetically-encoded systems reviewed in a Journal Club, this uses a hybrid genetic and small … more →
Brain Windows
Photoactivated Transcription Revisted
andrewhires wrote 4 days ago: Looks like there has been some new results in the field of photoactivated transcription. Unlike the … more →
Infrared fluorescent proteins
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andrewhires wrote 2 months ago: Hunting for new fluorescent proteins in the coral reefs of the Caribbean and Australia is a task tha … more →
Background : Perceval, the ATP:ADP sensor
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andrewhires wrote 4 months ago: Recently, Brain Windows mentioned the report A genetically encoded fluorescent reporter of ATP:ADP … more →
Symposium : A Revolution in Fluorescence Imaging
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andrewhires wrote 5 months ago: This coming Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb 17th & 18th) at UCSD, there will be a symposium honorin … more →
BrainStorm 1 : The Calcium Memory Sensor
andrewhires wrote 6 months ago: As mentioned in the previous post, this is the first installment of BrainStorm, a section of ideas I … more →
Fluorescent Proteins in Scholarpedia
andrewhires wrote 7 months ago: I just discovered that the scholarpedia article on fluorescent proteins was published back in July. … more →
Preview : Structure of G-CaMP2
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andrewhires wrote 7 months ago: A high-resolution crystal structure of the genetically-encoded calcium indicator G-CaMP2 would aid i … more →
Some interesting posters @ SfN
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andrewhires wrote 8 months ago: Here’s a few posters that caught my eye at SfN. Click the meeting planner for the full abstra … more →
Raw Data : Vesicular Release from Astrocytes, SynaptopHluorange
andrewhires wrote 8 months ago: When I was working on my Ph.D. thesis, I was trying to find some biological question to definitively … more →
A molecular clock
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davidkirkpatrick wrote 8 months ago: This is a cool story from Technology Review. From the link: A Fast, Programmable Molecular Clock Th … more →
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to GFP
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andrewhires wrote 9 months ago: This morning, the Nobel committee recognized the work of Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger T … more →
The great GECI shootout
andrewhires wrote 12 months ago: Dierk Reiff’s lab has done another head-to-head in vivo showdown between various GECIs and a s … more →
Sensing salty currents with Mermaids
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andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: A new genetically-encoded voltage sensor paper is out from a friend and former mentor of mine, Atsus … more →
Voltage sensitive imaging powering up
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andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: I’m starting to come around on voltage imaging. I haven’t been a fan of it for a number … more →
SLICK labeling and new FPs
andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: There is a nice writeup of the single-neuron labeling with inducible Cre-mediated knockout (SLICK) p … more →
Giving synapses a 'born on' label
andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: Memories are thought to be encoded by the patterns of synaptic connections in the brain. Learning ca … more →
Journal Club : GFP Reconstitution Across Synaptic Partners (GRASP)
andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: This week, I’m guest presenting a recent Neuron paper over at the Nature Network’s neuro … more →
Optical imaging of neuronal glutamate release and spillover with GluSnFR
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andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: This post is difficult to craft. I’ve been struggling with whether to write an epic post descr … more →
3D and Multicolor Superresolution Imaging
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andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: Progress in superresolution imaging is still moving very quickly. Here are two more great papers in … more →
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