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Three Cheers for GCaMP : Optogenetic Brain Reading
Three papers are out online in Nature Methods that show big improvements in calcium imaging with genetically encoded sensors. They are are based on the fluorescence intensity indicator, GCaMP. GCaM… more →
Brain Windows
Three Cheers for GCaMP : Optogenetic Brain Reading
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andrewhires wrote 1 month ago: Three papers are out online in Nature Methods that show big improvements in calcium imaging with gen … more →
Optogenetic induction of memory recall
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andrewhires wrote 2 months ago: Speaking of reactivating specific memories, at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience meeting, Matteo Riz … more →
Light-switchable protein interactions
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andrewhires wrote 3 months ago: A fully genetically-encoded approach to light-activated transcription is getting closer now that a n … more →
Voltage imaging with sub-millisecond, single-action potential resolution
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andrewhires wrote 4 months ago: I have been itching to post about this work since David DiGregorio presented it at a meeting at Jane … more →
Photoactivated Transcription Revisted
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andrewhires wrote 5 months 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 7 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 9 months ago: Recently, Brain Windows mentioned the report A genetically encoded fluorescent reporter of ATP:ADP r … more →
Symposium : A Revolution in Fluorescence Imaging
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andrewhires wrote 10 months ago: This coming Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb 17th & 18th) at UCSD, there will be a symposium honoring … more →
BrainStorm 1 : The Calcium Memory Sensor
andrewhires wrote 11 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago: This is a cool story from Technology Review. From the link: A Fast, Programmable Molecular Clock The … more →
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to GFP
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andrewhires wrote 1 year ago: This morning, the Nobel committee recognized the work of Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger T … more →
The great GECI shootout
andrewhires wrote 1 year 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 →
