Johansen Amin

Today we published a work that outlines a fundamental step in how NMDA receptors, an ion channel that controls connectivity between neurons, primes itself for opening. This has implications for how other channels activate, and provides a new drug target. cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

When PhD students are asked to supervise undergraduate projects.

@david_colquhoun @LizzieGadd I think people still rely on journals to tell us which manuscripts are of quality. No one wants to have to read every paper closely and make their own decision. Seeing "nature" in the citation reassures people that they are spending their limited time reading is well vetted.

@LizzieGadd You spend a lot of time wondering how best to rank journals, This seems odd at a time when paper journals barely exist and everything is read on the web. Journals are no longer relevant.

I've now made the recording of my #UKSG2021 Breakout Session: "Journal metrics: what they can and can't tell us", available on my webpages at lizziegadd.wordpress.com/talks/

@JPhysiol @AminJohansen @NeuroMoodyG @stonybrooku Nice that the review made Editor's Choice!!!

Grateful that I get to attend #SfNConnectome21, come see my poster (P046.01) Role of auxiliary subunits in the biogenesis of AMPA receptors, January 13th at 10:00 -10:30 AM (EST)🧠for a lively discussion! Very excited to present at my first #SFN as an #NSPeeps!

@leonDIslas Some old school papers - before ion channels were really a thing. Hille, 1971, JGP. using organics and rev. pots to measure pore size Armstrong, 1971, JGP, block to identify a gate.

Just uploaded my poster for #SfNConnectome21! Come visit me on Jan 12th from 1:30-2:00p to learn about epilepsy-associated NMDAR variants!

I need this for Christmas next year. Its the lego DNA helix discovery set. You have to sign up with Lego's website to support it so they produce it. Look- its gotta a little Rosalind Franklin!!

@AndrewPlested @biocns @david_colquhoun @noelecertain @LonnieWollmuth 537 jumps!! 1ms? I would love to see that.

@garyiaco @LonnieWollmuth Thanks Gary! It means a lot.

@LonnieWollmuth Valiant work! And very interesting findings uncovered. Congrats both @AminJohansen and @LonnieWollmuth on this!

Excited about our new paper in Neuron. authors.elsevier.com/a/1cAF63BtfGx4… A not so novel technique - measuring latencies to 1st channel opening - in this case for single NMDARs offers new insights into receptor gating.

Today we published a work that outlines a fundamental step in how NMDA receptors, an ion channel that controls connectivity between neurons, primes itself for opening. This has implications for how other channels activate, and provides a new drug target. cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

@chrisahern @noelecertain @LonnieWollmuth Thank you! Very exciting to see so many people interested.

Love to see it....latency is back in the fore. Congrats to @AminJohansen @noelecertain @LonnieWollmuth

@biocns @david_colquhoun @AndrewPlested @noelecertain @LonnieWollmuth I love that you still remember the file name/date.

@david_colquhoun @AndrewPlested @AminJohansen @noelecertain @LonnieWollmuth Yes, I recall that recording 161096. I still show the n=1 first latency distribution in my lectures to final year students. Over 400 1 ms jumps onto a single-channel patch. Beautiful distribution and the best way to measure directly Popen. It was fun.

@_MarcGielen_ Thank you! Its so hard to tell how a manuscript is going to be received. Lol, my heart skipped a beat when they sent it out for review.

Good to see changes being made in science publishing. We are long overdue for an update, if not a complete overhaul, to our current publishing model.

I feel uncontrollable urge to amplify this idea on Twitter

@elonmusk @tesla As a medical student I am deeply terrified at the profound shortage of ventilators, not just world wide- but where I work. Stony Brook University Hospital is the primary hub for COVID-19 treatment on Long Island, NY. We need more ventilators NOW.

@RandPaul Chemistry much? Methane is CH4. There is no oxygen. You must have forgotten a great deal of science if you're not concerned about climate change. I assume you had an understanding of basic science when you went to medical school. I expect better from physcians in congress.

With so many billionaires about, why not a private prize of $10 million for the scientist who genetically creates an O2 producing organism that will thrive in the frigid, methane lakes of Titan?

Despite climate alarmist predictions, humans will likely survive for hundreds of millions of years into the future. In the meantime, we should begin creating atmospheres on suitable moons or planets. cosmosmagazine.com/space/pushing-…