Andrew Boyce

Is this the perfect grant writing album?

Extremely New Mexico view from my front porch this morning:

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(Clearly I need to get a little more creative because when I posted my Nat Comms paper earlier this year, I also wrote “Excited to share..”!) 🥹

Congrats to my tech Briana on her first pub! 🍻

Contralesional hippocampal spreading depolarization promotes functional recovery after stroke - Nature Communications Neural mechanisms underlying deep brain strokes are not fully understood. Here authors demonstrate that spreading depolarizations occur in the intact contralesional hippocampus during unilateral strok...

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Step-by-step protocol and common troubleshooting steps are all there! Stay tuned for the accompanying video!

Excited to share the first publication out of my lab!

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We describe the approach that I developed during my postdoc in the Thompson Lab for inducing stroke in behaving mice while recording neuronal activity in the emerging core.

Matt, you know I’ll always be a 🇨🇦⛄️ at heart.

Still highs of 20 down here 🥹🌵

So great to have you for a visit! Looking forward to staying in touch.

FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/

Congrats to you and your team! Go Jays is right! 🇨🇦!

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice - Nature Communications The authors present the adaptive optics system MD-FSS, which allows high-resolution brain imaging in awake mice with rapid aberrations correction against motion. It reveals differences in brain functi...

Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice

Under 2P excitation, adaptive optics measures the aberrated point spread function in ≈0.1 s/measurement, compensating for aberrations and scattering.

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

Fluorescently labeled astrocytes at varying distances from cortical or white matter stroke infarct border

Huge congrats @amygleichman.bsky.social on this phenomenal study, demonstrating regional differences in astrocyte responses to stroke and a key role for astrocytes in post-stroke angiogenesis and repair!

(see also - gorgeous astrocytes for fluorescence Friday)

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Experienced Albuquerque’s balloon fiesta for the first time today! Very cool.

Wow - congratulations! Cool project.

Really fun weekend exploring Southern NM - stopped in at a roastery in Hatch (home of the chile) & camped near White Sands National Park - this state is so cool!

Hippocampal SD on the cover of STM! 😍

I’m in the market for a fanless solid state (DPSS) 561 nm laser & both companies I’ve purchased from in the past seem to have either vanished or aren’t replying to my inquiries & quote requests 👻 anyone have a good source?

Cool! What a creative, yet simple, approach. Love this kind of science!

Congrats to you & Katarzyna!

Sounds very interesting! Looking forward to giving it a read today. Congrats to you and your team!

Retrograde and anterograde trans-synaptic viral tracing of neuronal connections reveals local and distant effects of ischemic stroke on dendritic spines - Myrthe Van Sprengel, Jenna Butterworth, Patri... Focal stroke leads to complex neurological disturbances with variable recovery. One explanation for this variability is that stroke disrupts local and remote ne...

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So excited to see this out! Congrats Zach!

Electroconvulsive therapy generates a postictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans - Nature Communications The underlying mechanism of electroconvulsive therapy remains not fully understood. Here, the authors use optical neuroimaging in mice and humans to show that electroconvulsive therapy elicits a secon...

Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below!

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Beautiful work! Congrats to you, Sangyoon, and the rest of the team.

The Hippocampus Book Abstract. The Hippocampus Book investigates the structure, function and pathology of the hippocampus and related cortical areas. It highlights the importan

As I transition over to Bluesky I have to plug our new #book. If you haven't already, check out the 2nd edition of The #Hippocampus Book!

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Postdoctoral fellow - Seizure, spreading depolarization, and memory interactions - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque job with Boyce Lab, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico | 387... Soon to graduate/recently graduated PhD? Interest in memory disruption? The Boyce lab is recruiting a postdoc! In vivo opto, photometry, ephys!

The postdoctoral position in my lab at UNM is now posted on NeuroJobs! Check it out if you have experience in in vivo opto, ephys, and/or fiber photometry in behaving mice and an interest in seizure, SD, or memory!

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