@kwitschas

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Biochemist and former postdoc at Gent University with interest in #medicine #philosophy #neuroscience #cognition #ionchannels #patchclamp #biophysics #calciumsignaling
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Postdoc in ion channel structure–work in Milan!
Universita delgi Studi di Milano

Come and work with us in Milan on the structure of natural and engineered ion channels.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/universita-delgi-studi-di-milano-27778-postdoc-in-ion-channel-structure-work-in-milan/

#cryoelectronmicroscopy #ionchannels #membranepro...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/universita-delgi-studi-di-milano-27778-postdoc-in-ion-channel-structure-work-in-milan/?fsp_sid=473

Postdoc in ion channel structure–work in Milan!

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

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New #Cx43 paper from the Leybaert group at Ghent University, Belgium!
http://doi.org/10.1002/glia.70063 "Astrocyte-targeted connexin43
hemichannel inhibition prevents radiation-induced energy transporter
decrease in neurons and astrocytic proBDNF transport to synapses"
Happy to share my new review: "From IP3RPEP6 inhibition of IP3 receptor
channels to insights: do channel subunits collaborate or cooperate?"
https://rdcu.be/ew0kv #calciumsignaling #ionchannels
From IP3RPEP6 Inhibition of IP3 receptor channels to insights: do channel subunits collaborate or cooperate?

The linked article is well worth a read, the author is very good at breaking down a complex scientific situation.

(side note: don't let this article make you think vertex should therefor get to charge obscene amounts for the drug, this work was originally based on the discovery of these ion channels by an academic researchers at Yale & St. James’s University Hospital)

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Andrew Ducker (@[email protected])

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The Drosophila genetic database FlyBase has lost its nearly $2 million grant. It’s part of the more than $3 billion in federal funding that has been terminated at Harvard University this year.

By Calli McMurray

https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/flybase-funding-squashed-amid-harvard-grant-terminations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250605-flybase-funding-squashed

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations

The team behind the <i>Drosophila</i> genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

We crossed the borders from Netherlands to Belgium to Luxemburg to France today with only the road signs making us aware that there is the (imaginary, human-made) border at all.

I don't want to live, again, in a world where there are more borders.

Even the mightiest of all trees was once a small seed.

Treat life with kindness.

Treat yourself with kindness.

#Buddhism #Zen #Kindness

📰 "Contact-free characterization of nuclear mechanics using correlative Brillouin-Raman Micro-Spectroscopy in living cells"
https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2025.04.009
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40189116/
#Mechanics #Cell

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

#einzelgänger #einzelganger #philosopher #quoteoftheday #philosophy #quotestoliveby #dailyquotes #thoughts #thoughtoftheday #lifequotes #peace #virtue #justice #baruchspinoza #spinoza

In appreciation of all the beach views @jerry has shared with us, I finally have some of my own to contribute!

#Photography #OBX #OuterBanks