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Vincenzo Marra

@enzomarra.bsky.social

Neuroscience, bioscience techniques, electronics. enzomarra@mstdn.social Based in the Netherlands.

251 Followers  |  486 Following  |  28 Posts  |  Joined: 17.12.2023  |  1.8873

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Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience

If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
parisneuro.ovh

28.01.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”” ALBA DIGEST OUT!

Supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social, @network-alba.bsky.social released the first edition of the Global Perspectives: Neuroscience & Diversity Digest highlighting lessons from the #ALBA- #IBRO Global Diversity Series. 🌐

πŸ‘‰ buff.ly/OBK3c16

06.01.2026 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meha P. Jadhav of @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social et al. investigated ionic conductances driving tonic firing in Purkinje #neurons of larval zebrafish 🐟 🧠

πŸ“œ Read the #Research here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

29.11.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm unclear to me whether the wine drinking started as soon as the pensioners left the supermarket, like when people start eating the baguette the second they exit the boulangerie

02.11.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: πŸ’ƒ ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎢

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

24.09.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧡1/11

17.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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Non-synaptic exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane periodic skeleton Neuronal communication relies on signaling molecules transferred via exo- and endocytosis throughout the brain. Historically, studies have focused on vesicle exo- and endocytosis and their release mac...

Check the full preprint and its movies for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats @wiesner-t.bsky.social and the whole team!
@inp-marseille.bsky.social @ncis-marseille.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @neuromarseille.bsky.social 11/11

17.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – LiΓ¨ge, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚑ Neuropixels recordings
⚑ Opto/chemo
⚑ Behavior
⚑ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! πŸ™
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

17.09.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers πŸ‘‡

09.09.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoy Brussels! Pretty warm day here.

07.09.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Group photo from CPW2025 in the teaching lab

Group photo from CPW2025 in the teaching lab

#CPW2025 is now over, but we're already planning for #CPW2026 πŸ¦‘πŸ§ πŸ«€πŸ”¬

To receive updates & find out when applications open for next year's Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool, go here:
forms.office.com/e/PTh5qMvmUM

Please share the link with your electrophysiology trainees. πŸ™‚

27.08.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chini Lab Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiΓ¨ge. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.

Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email.

More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie...

RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! πŸ™

27.08.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cannot believe that week one of the @cpw-liverpool.bsky.social is nearly over! A brilliant week so far! Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, especially to the @biologists.bsky.social for their funding of our 40th workshop!

15.08.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have experience turning amateur data analysis scripts into robust, scalable code? I’m hiring (hourly pay) to professionalize Python scripts for scientific data analysis, making them reusable across multiple datasets.
TromsΓΈ/Norway-based candidates preferred, but all are welcome! DM me!

15.08.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
UniversitΓ© Paris CitΓ© hiring Doctoral Student in Paris, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn Posted 1:38:05 PM. PhD Student Position at University Paris CitΓ©In the context of a collaborative project involving…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

🚨PhD student position in #cognitive_psychology and #neuroscience, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab!

@upcite.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr

Funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social (Agence nationale de la recherche)

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

21.07.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

23.07.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Open positions

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

21.07.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster advertising the Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes conference that will be held in York, 16-19 September 2025.

Poster advertising the Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes conference that will be held in York, 16-19 September 2025.

Just few days left to register for this chromosome biology fΓͺte! 🧬🧬🧬

β³πŸ“† 16 July

www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

@vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

14.07.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientific coders πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
#RxivMaker v1.2 now has a #VSCode extension to manage citations and for syntax highlighting of #RxivMarkdown

πŸ’½: github.com/HenriquesLab...
πŸ“°: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

09.07.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Optochemical profiling of NMDAR molecular diversity at synaptic and extrasynaptic sites | The EMBO Journal imageimageNMDA receptors (NMDARs) play key roles in brain development and plasticity, and exist as multiple subtypes, whose individual characterization remains challenging in native tissues. This stud...

I am happy to announce the publication of our latest work on #photopharma of GluN2B NMDA receptors: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10..... I am very grateful to all the authors for their involvement in the work (@cecilecharrier.bsky.social, @cecidoso.bsky.social and all the blueskyless people). #iGluRs

08.07.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attractors are usually not mechanisms The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

08.07.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9
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Behavioral and neural alterations of the ventral tegmental area by exposure to junk food in rats The brain reward system is essential for regulating appetitive and consummatory behaviors in response to various incentive stimuli. Junk food, charact…

🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨
Our latest research reveals how long-term consumption of a cafeteria (CAF) diet impacts the ventral tegmental area in rats. πŸ”πŸŸπŸ©#Neuroskyence @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

07.07.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Genetically encoded affinity reagents are a toolkit for visualizing and manipulating endogenous protein function in vivo - Nature Communications Probing endogenous protein localization and function in vivo remains challenging due to laborious gene targeting and monofunctional alleles. Here, using a toolkit consisting of genetically-encoded epi...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#spatialbiology #imagingtools #fluorescencemicroscopy

06.07.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a 'provocative anecdotal data observation' paper type would be useful I think. 1-pagers.

05.07.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

One last reminder, into the last couple of days!

Not so many applications from ion channel people- what are you waiting for patch clampers?

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03.07.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Docent Psychologie De Sectie Cognitieve Psychologie van het Instituut Psychologie van de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen heeft een vacature voor Docent Psychologie Dit ga je doen Als docent psychologie ga je onderwijs v...

Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...

20.06.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now with fixed link! neuralcomputation.uk/registration...

18.06.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shame - I'll get you a beer next time!

13.06.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still in Belgium?

13.06.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photograph of the Peace Bridge in Derry/Londonderry, with the Guildhall visible in the background.

Photograph of the Peace Bridge in Derry/Londonderry, with the Guildhall visible in the background.

Photo of Ulster University campus in Derry/Londonderry.

Photo of Ulster University campus in Derry/Londonderry.

Multi-colour logo for the summer school.

Multi-colour logo for the summer school.

if you are curious about
- Computational neuroscience
- Neurotechnology
- Neuro-inspired AI

consider attending our 7-day ISRC CN3 summer school @ulsteruni.bsky.social in the great city of Derry, Northern Ireland, UK from 25th Aug-1st Sep 2025. In-person or online.

www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/i...

10.06.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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