Jesper Sjöström

We still have a few spots available for Monday's re-launch symposium of the SFN Montreal Chapter!

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📍 Maison Alcan | Oct 16 2025
#Innovation #Neuroscience #DigitalHealth #Neurotech #McGill #MGHF #RIMUHC #BRaIN

It’s inspiring to see neuroscience and digital health intersect in such engaging, accessible ways. Exciting collaborations ahead! 🧠💡

As Leader of the BRaIN Program, I was proud to highlight one of our new initiatives exploring how digital tools can support brain health — including gamified training apps for amblyopia (“lazy eye”). 👁️🎮

Ingrid Inema, Jesper Sjöström, Alex Baldwin, , Nicole Dranitsaris, Alexandra Kindrat, Alexandre Reynaud, Reza Farivar, Aparna Suvrathan

A great evening at Maison Alcan for the Montreal General Hospital Foundation’s Soirée Impact & Innovation! ✨

Symposium du chapitre montréalais - Society for Neuroscience SfN Montréal: lunch + membership included! Trainees, scientists & staff welcome. Venez apprendre, connecter et recharger!

🧪 We are reviving the SFN Montreal Chapter with a meeting on 27 Oct at MUHC's Glen site! $25 for lunch, meeting, and membership! Speakers: Mihaela Iordanova, Sonia Lupien, Michael Meaney, & Karim Jerbi. Networking at Weinstein & Gavino's afterwards! Spread the word! www.eventbrite.ca/e/symposium-...

🧪 ~8 months ago, we launched the Research Topic "The Diversity of the Plasticitome", see below! We now have 2 publication fee discounts for this RT, available on a first-come, first-served basis! Current submission deadline is Oct 31, although extensions are possible. @frontiersmedia.bsky.social

That’s too bad! Although to be fair, I wasn’t aware that your paper showed PV dendrite sublinearity either — the word sublinear doesn’t show up until the Discussion, which makes it hard to search for.

Congrats to everybody, especially the first authors Annunziato Morabito and Yann Zerlaut!

Distinct dendritic integration strategies control dynamics of inhibition in the neocortex Dendrites critically influence single-neuron computations, but their role in neocortical GABAergic interneurons (INs) remains poorly understood. We fo…

Briefly, Rebola et al find that distinct interneuron classes integrate information differently in their dendritic branches, and that this determines interneuron computational logic and, as a consequence, spiking dynamics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Branch logic: Dendritic computations diversify inhibition Long known for different circuit roles, parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons are shown by Morabito et al.,1 in this issue of Neuron, to differ in…

🧪 We got the privilege to write a Preview on the beautiful work of Morabito, Zerlaut, Rebola and colleagues that was recently published in Neuron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Yeah no kidding.
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Congrats @weihsiah.bsky.social, awesome job! 🥳

The recording of our recent webinar, "Synapse by synapse: High-speed cortical connectomics using optomapping" by Christina Chou, PhD, moderated by @pjsjostrom.bsky.social and Shawniya Alageswaran, is now available!

You can access it at: bio-protocol.org/webinar/deta...

#Webinar #LifeSciences

My former PhD student Christina Chou will give a webinar about high-throughput 2p optogenetic mapping tomorrow Thursday at 11:30 am ET, check it out! 🧪

The Institute celebrates 7 BRaIN trainees who received major research awards—from CIHR, FRQS, FRQNT & more. Their work advances brain science & training excellence. 👏
🔗 Read more: rimuhc.ca/en/-/celebra...
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Congratulations everybody, this is amazing, and thank you for your hard work! 🥳🌟

The first author, Linn Dragsted, who was a very hard-working undergraduate student in the lab, carried out this study with the talented PhD student Shawniya Alageswaran.

We conclude that, to guarantee synapse specificity, one therefore has to rely on paired recordings or 2-photon optogenetics.

🧪 We recently published our first micro-publication! This paper highlights the pitfalls of using extracellular stimulation to recruit synapses in neocortical circuits, as it lacks specificity. www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

🧪 On June 26th, my former PhD student Christina Chou will give a webinar explaining how to do high-throughput 2-photon optogenetic microcircuit mapping!

Synaptic Plasticity: A new mode of action for unconventional NMDA receptors Presynaptic NMDA receptors can shape timing-dependent long-term depression in a way that departs from their classic postsynaptic role.

A very nice Insight article in eLife by Ikuko Smith on our forthcoming eLife paper on non-ionotropic presynaptic NMDA receptor signalling in spike-timing-dependent long-term depression. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added a reduction of cardiovascular events
My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

Centre universitaire de santé McGill | McGill University Health Centre hiring Postdoctoral Fellow (Research Institute) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada | LinkedIn Posted 2:10:35 AM. Job DescriptionRESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MUHCThe Research Institute of the McGill University Health…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

Also, The Sjöström Lab is still looking to hire a new postdoc, see www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

This 400-page tome will likely define the field in coming years, as new trainees rely on it to learn state-of-the-art ephys techniques, so I recommend checking it out!

🧪 Congrats to the editors of the new Handbook of Electrophysiology, @scimemia.bsky.social, @nwanaverbecq.bsky.social, & @ianduguid.bsky.social, as well as my past postdocs @hovywong.bsky.social (now PI at CUHK) and Aurore Thomazeau (now PI at IPMC-CNRS France) to their two chapters in this book!

Congrats!!!

Centre universitaire de santé McGill | McGill University Health Centre hiring Postdoctoral Fellow (Research Institute) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada | LinkedIn Posted 2:10:35 AM. Job DescriptionRESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MUHCThe Research Institute of the McGill University Health…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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

Here is the LinkedIn job ad for our new postdoctoral position. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...