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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory

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Aiming to take neuroscience into the future by going back to where it all began: the ocean. Here to share how we study the brains behind bioluminescence Posts by @rijacobsen.bsky.social www.marineneurolab.com

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Dec 6

We're a lab dedicated to marine neuroscience, focusing on a little worm that glows to communicate. What does it say with its flashes of light? And what role does its nervous system play? Stay tuned to find out! 🌟🌊🧠

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 27d

Celebrating the lab turning 5 years old at the restaurant Troll 🎉

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Sep 4

We just published our third major funding application, including the evaluation it received, for the benefit of future applicants 🙌

Because #OpenScience is also about sharing ideas and examples that others can learn from 🌟

www.ogrants.org/grants/jacob...

Funding application (RCN, 2024): Deciphering bioluminescent communication in marine annelids · Open Grants

www.ogrants.org

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Meet our first MSc student!

This is @noralied.bsky.social 🌟 She is in her 5th year studying natural science with teacher education at #NTNU, and for her thesis she will optimize immunohistochemical methods for detecting neurons in marine annelid brains 🧠💪

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy #InternationalPolychaeteDay! 🌍🪱

To celebrate, here’s a glimpse of the bioluminescence of our gossamer worms! This video was captured in the lab by @nadiave.bsky.social using a monochrome camera — so it's in black and white — but in real life, the worms glow in a stunning bright yellow.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Are you at the Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology in Florence later this week? 👀

@nadiave.bsky.social will present a poster supported by a grant from the Tom Wilhelmsen’s Foundation (thank you for the support)!

We celebrated the grant with Nadia’s favourite treat: lemon meringue pie 🍋

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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · May 12

Here's the video again but hopefully less blurry! ☺️

I'd never seen so many Tomopteris in one place - absolutely wild

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · May 2

How to make a biologist happy: provide almost 100 specimens of their favourite marine worm (how many do you see in the video?)

Big thank you to Snorre Bakke and his students at #NTNU #Ålesund. We had a busy weekend! 🤩

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Apr 24

Amazing video! 🤩 would love to know which pheromone this is, or who discovered it in these worms?

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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · Mar 31

Had a great time presenting at the NTNU-wide symposium "NeuroSYS" last week. A 5-minute datablitz is short, but I hope I made a few people curious about bioluminescent worms! ✨️

@marineneurolab.bsky.social
@kavlintnu.bsky.social #neuroscience #bioluminescence #research

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Feb 21

In keeping with tradition, a big funding rejection (🥲) means it's treat time! More specifically, tiramisu-tower-time 🎉

It's not easy to start something new, but the like-minded people you meet along the way make it worth it. They keep science fun 🎈🌟

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Jan 24

One thing we did last year was to build our lab and in this video made by @nadiave.bsky.social you can see how it all came together!

Our worms naturally live in the deep ocean where sunlight never reaches, so we built a tent where we can house them and do behavioural experiments in total darkness 🌚

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Dec 11

Nadia @nadiave.bsky.social is our 1st PhD student. She has her BSc in neuroscience and her MSc in marine biology, both from the University of Groningen (NL). She also likes to read books, take walks through the Norwegian nature, and have coffee and cinnamon buns at the coziest spots in the city ☕☺️

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Dec 11

Our group leader Ragnhild @rijacobsen.bsky.social is a systems neuroscientist who spends most of her time studying the brain's GPS and teaching animal physiology, running the MNL on the side. But she also loves spending time in the mountains 🏔️ and reading fiction 📚

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Dec 11

Meet the team at the MNL!

We're a small lab with big ambitions, but also value time off. Because discoveries are made by humans, so you need to put their wellbeing first. Meet our humans below! 👇

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · Dec 6

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