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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 4d

Experienced Albuquerque’s balloon fiesta for the first time today! Very cool.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 13d

Wow - congratulations! Cool project.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 16d

Really fun weekend exploring Southern NM - stopped in at a roastery in Hatch (home of the chile) & camped near White Sands National Park - this state is so cool!

Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 21d

Hippocampal SD on the cover of STM! 😍

Science Magazine @science.org · 21d

The new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine is out!

A clinical study identifies people at risk of renewed COVID-19 infections after mRNA vaccination, researchers probe differences in the viral reservoir between men and women living with HIV, and more. https://scim.ag/3I301m5

Inspired by the 1979 album cover by Joy Division, whose lead singer Ian Curtis was diagnosed with severe epilepsy, the cover depicts representative calcium activity of 80 simultaneously recorded mouse hippocampal neurons across four distinct stages: physiological activity (left), immediate pre-seizure epileptic population spikes (center left), seizure activity (middle), and a subsequent wave called spreading depolarization (right).

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m in the market for a fanless solid state (DPSS) 561 nm laser & both companies I’ve purchased from in the past seem to have either vanished or aren’t replying to my inquiries & quote requests 👻 anyone have a good source?

Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cool! What a creative, yet simple, approach. Love this kind of science!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congrats to you & Katarzyna!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Jun 19

Sounds very interesting! Looking forward to giving it a read today. Congrats to you and your team!

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Craig Brown @craigedbrown.bsky.social · May 27

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Retrograde and anterograde trans-synaptic viral tracing of neuronal connections reveals local and distant effects of ischemic stroke on dendritic spines - Myrthe Van Sprengel, Jenna Butterworth, Patri...

Focal stroke leads to complex neurological disturbances with variable recovery. One explanation for this variability is that stroke disrupts local and remote ne...

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · May 19

So excited to see this out! Congrats Zach!

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · May 18

Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below!

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Electroconvulsive therapy generates a postictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans - Nature Communications

The underlying mechanism of electroconvulsive therapy remains not fully understood. Here, the authors use optical neuroimaging in mice and humans to show that electroconvulsive therapy elicits a secon...

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · May 14

Beautiful work! Congrats to you, Sangyoon, and the rest of the team.

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · Apr 26

As I transition over to Bluesky I have to plug our new #book. If you haven't already, check out the 2nd edition of The #Hippocampus Book!

academic.oup.com/book/59509?s...

The Hippocampus Book

Abstract. The Hippocampus Book investigates the structure, function and pathology of the hippocampus and related cortical areas. It highlights the importan

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Apr 10

The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory!

neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38785/po...

Postdoctoral fellow - Seizure, spreading depolarization, and memory interactions - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque job with Boyce Lab, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico | 387...

Soon to graduate/recently graduated PhD? Interest in memory disruption? The Boyce lab is recruiting a postdoc! In vivo opto, photometry, ephys!

neurojobs.sfn.org

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Louis-Eric Trudeau @louistrudeau.bsky.social · Apr 24

I have an opening in my lab for a postdoctoral fellow to work on projects that relate to the mechanisms of neurotransmitter release by dopamine neurons and/or on how inflammatory signals infuence the functionning of these neurons. Please share.

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piatkevich.bsky.social @piatkevich.bsky.social · Apr 18

mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong), a highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein, works well for long-term super-resolution imaging, rapid tissue clearing, and CLEM www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein for advanced microscopy - Nature Methods

The red fluorescent protein mScarlet3-H is bright, photostable and very robust to high temperature, chaotropic conditions and oxidative environments. mScarlet3-H works well in correlative light and el...

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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia - Read his profile here: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by Adam Ramsaran:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kva73QW8S...

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks buddy! Looking forward to connecting in Montreal!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Apr 10

The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory!

neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38785/po...

Postdoctoral fellow - Seizure, spreading depolarization, and memory interactions - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque job with Boyce Lab, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico | 387...

Soon to graduate/recently graduated PhD? Interest in memory disruption? The Boyce lab is recruiting a postdoc! In vivo opto, photometry, ephys!

neurojobs.sfn.org

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks to wonderful collaborators & support from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta Innovates, CIHR, & Krembil Foundation.

Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · Apr 10

Here, we demonstrate that regionally-isolated deleterious peri-infarct and remote seizure-associated beneficial spreading depolarizations can co-occur in the brain during acute ischemic stroke. Each driving a similar acute wandering behavior, but with distinct impacts on stroke recovery.

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