Victoria K. Switacz

🚨 We are looking for 2 PhD students! 🧠🐸👃

Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.

We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩‍🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior

👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab

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22.08.2025 08:15 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Congrats & welcome to Europe (soon-ish)! :)

25.07.2025 14:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Olfaction geeks, come to Cambridge next month for a 30yrs old cross-disciplinary smell chat from philosophy to clinics to circuits 🧠👃
Headliner @dattalab.bsky.social on his lab's brand new olfactory maps study
Networking lunches, fancy College dinner, student discount, plenty of coffee. Go register!

16.06.2025 16:25 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 4

Thank you for visiting us; it was great fun having you here! And thank you for the new insights into the (M!)OB 😉🤔 🤗

13.05.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This Week in The Journal The Neural Underpinnings of Waiting Qiang Zheng, Yujing Liu, Yue Huang, Jiaming Cao, Xuanning Wang, and Jianing Yu (see article e1820242025) Waiting is important for action control during motor ta...

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | The Neural Underpinnings of Waiting; Behavioral Outcomes from Neurofibromin Deficiency
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

16.04.2025 17:53 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Please give it a read, but beware: this might be one for the (hardcore) ephys enthusiasts! 😉🤓

16.04.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...in a Ca²⁺ dependent manner! A project that fueled my passion for ephys, “phototools” & cellular signaling. It also marks my last, but definitely not least, collab w/ Rudolf, it was a pleasure! Obviously, also shoutout & huge thx to @marcspehr.bsky.social for the opportunity & mentoring.

16.04.2025 19:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ca2+-Activated Ion Channels Exert Opposite Effects in Different Signaling Compartments of Vomeronasal Sensory Neurons In most mammals, conspecific chemical cues that drive innate social and sexual behavior are detected by the vomeronasal organ (VNO) and processed in the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB). Chemosensory st...

Now out in @sfnjournals.bsky.socialjournals.bsky.social : bit.ly/3YzVjRv. In VSNs, Ca²⁺ doesn’t tell a 'simple' story. Ca²⁺ at the knob excites, while at the soma it can activate K⁺ channels, dampening excitability. This channel diversity and compartmentalization refine vomeronasal sensory output-

16.04.2025 19:30 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow morning, March 29th at 11:30 am, check out Symposium 31 at #NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social organized by MODOLFOR member Tobias Ackels @tobiasackels.bsky.social

28.03.2025 15:11 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

„Teaching makes you a better scientist…” I really like that perspective! (and the episode as well!) Insightful and fun :) Thx!

13.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kir7.1 is the physiological target for hormones and steroids that regulate uteroplacental function Progesterone and progestins activate Kir7.1 to control uterine excitability, offering insights for preterm birth therapy.

A scientific excursion for us, and a fun collaboration with Polina Lishko and her team. In this new study, led on our end by Lina Kenzler and Jerome Schrőer, we address a molecular mechanism that controls uterine contractions in mice and humans.
Enjoy the read.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

06.03.2025 21:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1