Photocontrol of ion channels and receptors for treating blindness and understanding the brain. Opinions are my own.

Joined February 2019
This is election interference.
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President Trump and Elon Musk’s funding cuts to groundbreaking medical research do NOT Make America Great. That’s why I’m on the Senate floor introducing a resolution pledging support for NIH & asking for immediate passage. Watch. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1lDxLzWgw…
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PhD programs are pausing admissions to graduate school due to NIH indirect cost cuts. See the growing number of programs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… How is science supposed to advance with fewer trainees, less $ for research? This is devastating.
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In @elife: A toolbox for ablating excitatory and inhibitory synapses doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103757… Congratulations Don and Aida!
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Check out our preprint on new recombinant tools for reversibly ablating excitatory and inhibitory synapses. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… Thanks to amazing first author @AidaBareghamyan and collaborators @RichKramerLab , Dave Chenoweth and Robert Campbell.
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We are seeking new colleagues! @fsubio @FSUNeuroscience @FSUCTP @AchemsInfo TWO TT Asst Prof in Neurosci w focus in Chemosensory/Systems or Cell/Molecular - join expanding NS major, mentor in our NIH training programs, & collaborate w creative scholars neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38211/…
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Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a letter Friday endorsing Kamala Harris for president, including the CEOs of Costco, Ford, American Express, Merck, PayPal, Autodesk, Lyft, Yahoo, Docusign, Yelp, DuPont, Sony, Pepsi, Zillow, Twilio, and LinkedIn. cnbc.com/2024/09/06/harris-e…
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This makes me like and trust Harris 1000% more.
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I had an interesting experience with Marjorie Taylor Greene today. Apparently, she got tired of hearing all the jokes about her being dumb. She decided to prove a point and went home one night to study all the world capitals of every country. Today at work she overheard myself and one of my colleagues who shall remain anonymous making a joke about her. I felt bad because she caught us dead to rights. She said, "You know that's just wrong. I am actually quite educated and intelligent. As a matter of fact, I can tell you the capital of any country in the world." Intrigued, my colleague asked, "Alright then, what's the capital of Spain?" MTG quickly replied, "Easy, that one's an 'S'." We just smiled and nodded.
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Rich Kramer retweeted
10 years ago, I got divorced, lost my job, so me and my buddy got on our motorcycles and rode North to the Alaskan Arctic until the road ran out.
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Have you ever wondered what our MBL scientists are working on? Check out this #ScienceShort featuring MBL Associate Scientist Andrew Gillis (@GillisLab)!
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Great day visiting Neuroscience at UC Berkeley! Here's David Weisblat teaching me about leeches. Great time catching up with @SteveBrohawn @Bautista_DianaM @EllenLumpkin @RichKramerLab @DanFeldmanPhD and meeting @IndigeNerd and students including @DocterTrevor @AntonyLurie et al.
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Rich Kramer retweeted
👀 Environmental acclimation in HOURS via RNA editing!!?? @CellCellPress @MBLScience sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congratulations Erik Jorgensen of @UUtah, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS160 #neuroscience #physiology
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I don't know about y'all but I actually get a lot of joy from admitting when I'm wrong versus doubling down on pride and trying to be right. I would rather take pride in learning from someone else or a situation rather than shutting my ears for convenience. Anyone else?
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From the Banghart lab: CNV-Y-DAMGO enables photopharmacological manipulations of mu opioid receptor signaling in behaving mice with high temporal resolution. @chromism nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever. Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy. If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer @CR_UK
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Carl Sagan’s words becoming more true everyday
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Rich Kramer retweeted
1/6 It has been exactly two years since I returned to Russia. I have spent these two years in prison. When you write a post like this, you have to ask yourself: How many more of such anniversary posts will you have to write?
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😍 wow
Replying to @quorumetrix
I’ve made this video as an intuition pump for the density of #synapses in the #brain. This volume ~ grain of sand, has >3.2 million synapses (orange cubes). Peeling them away leaves only inputs on 2 #neurons. Zooming in, we see the synapses localized to the dendritic spines. #b3d
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