The McGehee Lab

E163: How do octopuses coordinate their arms? [SJK Audio Edition] youtu.be/TaEPrsglDko?si… via @YouTube Check out the audio version of our newest article and learn how octopus arms have segmented neurons that allow them to make big and tiny movements at the same time!

Next week (Thursday, January 16th), we welcome Dr. Julia Cox, from Northwestern University, for the Department of Neurobiology Faculty Candidate Seminar. Join us! 📍KCBD 1103 at 10:00 am "Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision making"

Next week our Neuroscience Seminar Series features Dr. Karunesh Ganguly, MD PhD from the University of California San Francisco. Join us! 🗓️Tuesday, January 21st, 11:00 am | KCBD 1103 “Ensemble reactivations drive fast sequence learning”

Professors Christopher M. Gomez, MD, Richard Kraig, MD, PhD, James A. Mastrianni, MD, PhD, and Anthony T. Reder, MD, from the Department of Neurology, are on the list. Congratulations! 👏 uchicagomedicine.org/Forefront/News…

We will host our monthly Postdoctoral Research Series next week! Please join us to learn more about the work of Ting-Feng Lin, PhD from the Hansel Lab! 🗓️Wednesday, January 22nd, 12:00 pm 📍SBRI J461

@GDunnArt Beautiful work as always! @hcratigan @Sheffield_Lab

Check out this piece inspired by the hippocampus! It’s a mesmerizing reflection of our memory-making neurons, brought to life through the technique of reflective microetching. 🎨✨ #neuroart #sciart #hippocampus #etching #fineart art available here: shorturl.at/BILwP

Congratulations @RagsdaleLab on an incredible finding and beautiful paper! rdcu.be/d6Ep0

one ion channel subunit, many faces. our preprint shows that multiple K+ conductances in 🐭vestibular hair cells require Kv1.8/Kcna10 --> Kv1.8-null hair cells generate larger and slower voltage⚡️ responses, which may impair fast detection of head motions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

during this project, I loved getting to know "gK,L" --> gK,L is the low-voltage-activated K+ conductance that passes heaps of K+ from type I hair cells into the calyx cleft --> read more about non-quantal transmission here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

How does the octopus nervous system control its 8 wiggly uber-flexible arms and integrate information from all those suckers? Possibly, by modularity, suckerotopy, and cooperation between segments of the axial nerve cord ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4146…

@MitchRoitman @SSIBsociety @Kanoski_Lab Congratulations Dr. Roitman!

Thrilled to begin my tenure as @SSIBsociety President. Congrats to @Kanoski_Lab on his incredible stewardship of this amazing society. DM or email to learn more about the society and #SSIB2025 and hope to see you in Oxford, UK

@UChicago_Brains Congrats to Chad and Heather and @sheffild_lab @hcratigan

Congratulations! 👏🎉🎓

@UChicago_Brains Congrats, Tyler!!!

Congratulations to our CON graduate student Tyler Thaxton, who was awarded the National Ataxia Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship for 2024-2025. 👏 His research focuses on "The functional domains of a1ACT and their impact on spinocerebellar ataxia type 6". Way to go!

I also want to encourage academia-bound underrepresented neuroscientists in their PhD stage to apply for this awesome opportunity! I have earned 2 years of funding for the rest of my PhD + up to 4 years of funding for my Postdoc! Happy to help any applicants seeking advice :)

Nice write-ups about @TruongLy18's new paper, with comments from Nick Betley, Haijiang Cai, @LuckmanLab, @LoraHeisler, and @_Chen_Ran_. Science: shorturl.at/oNX08 Nature: shorturl.at/beszR UCSF: shorturl.at/pqMPW @UCSF @HHMINEWS

@w_schnapp A brilliant rendition! Congrats on Tenure Dr. Cai!

#MyScienceMug illustrates a comic of a finding by Dr. Haijiang Cai (my PI, who recently got promoted to tenure!). Using optogenetics, he activated group of neurons in the extended amygdala & the mice stopped eating! So if mice ever take over & try to eat us, HE WILL SAVE THE DAY

Our napping, memory, and Down syndrome paper was just published in PNAS. Napping+REM does not support memory consolidation in Down syndrome children. Great work Spanò, Edgin and Company. This is also my first human study! There is life beyond the rodent. pnas.org/content/early/…

Check out this beautiful video from one of our #OpenScope projects! All panels were recorded simultaneously. The top plane are dendrites in the brain's top layer. The bottom row shows activity in a deeper layer of the brain – layer 5. More on OpenScope: alleninstitute.org/division/neura…

New print Myelination out today and available via link below. This pretty pretty process of glia wrapping their membranes around axons not only makes our brains faster and more efficient. gregadunn.com/product/myelin… #myelin #glia #neuron #neuroscience #brain