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Albert CardonaRising Talent Fellowship for postdocs of black heritage backgrounds:"The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is proud to launch the next application round of its three-year fully funded fellowship for scientists from Black heritage backgrounds."<a href="https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/recruitment/rising-talent-fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/recruitment/rising-talent-fellowship/</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PhDJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDJobs</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#postdoc</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a>

Albert CardonaJoergen Kornfeld just opened his lab at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> – he is now our colleague!His lab is recruiting students, postdocs, and staff scientists. Reach out to Joergen directly.<a href="https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/joergen-kornfeld/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/joergen-kornfeld/</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PhDJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDJobs</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a>

Albert CardonaIf an <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ElectronMicroscopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ElectronMicroscopy</a> engineer would like to join us at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> to implement this beam-shifting GridTape TEM approach, send me an email. We have two JEOL TEMs to tinker with.

Albert Cardona"The brain: what for?" – my seminar for "everyone else" at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a>. Featuring brainless maggots and more.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZwH5MYkFU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZwH5MYkFU</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScienceForEverybody" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceForEverybody</a>

Albert CardonaTalks in Cambridge, UK, are often advertised at <a href="https://talks.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://talks.cam.ac.uk</a> and are open to the public. Quite a few are both in person and over zoom. From my circles:The MRC LMB seminar series: <a href="http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7725" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7725</a>Adrian seminars in neuroscience: <a href="http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/6140" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/6140</a>Foster talks: (neuroscience, development, immunology, cancer, physiology) <a href="http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/6283" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/6283</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Cambridge</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UK</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScienceSeminars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceSeminars</a>

Albert CardonaWolfgang Baumeister of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CryoEM</a> fame delivered the John Kendrew Lecture 2023 at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> this past October. The recording of his talk is now online:"Cryo-electron tomography or the power of seeing the whole picture" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vrKLnLXebY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vrKLnLXebY</a>With an introduction from <a href="https://fediscience.org/@cjrlab" class="u-url mention">@cjrlab</a>

Albert CardonaGroup Leader position at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a>: join us!<a href="https://mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/appcentre-1/candidate/postings/2485" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/appcentre-1/candidate/postings/2485</a>Apply by November 16th, 2023.Areas of particular interest include developing and applying high-density image acquisition methods (electron, X-ray, light) to determine the structure, connectivity and function of intact nervous systems at synaptic resolution; bringing brain-scale connectomics to additional species (including vertebrates); experimental approaches that leverage connectomes to understand brain function; and computational analyses essential for research across these areas.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/FediHire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FediHire</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScienceJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceJobs</a>

Albert CardonaPostdoc position available in Ingo Greger's lab, my colleague at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> in Cambridge, UK:"to undertake research into the structural pharmacology of AMPA glutamate receptor complexes using structural biology approaches (cryo-EM)."<a href="https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12807046/scientific-researcher-neurobiology-dr-ingo-greger-lmb-2259/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12807046/scientific-researcher-neurobiology-dr-ingo-greger-lmb-2259/</a>Apply by October 30th at the latest.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Fedihire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fedihire</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PhDJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDJobs</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PostdocJob" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PostdocJob</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cryoEM</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a>

Albert Cardona"A consensus cell type atlas from multiple connectomes reveals principles of circuit stereotypy and variation", by Schlegel et al. 2023 (Greg Jefferis lab at <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> in collaboration with the Bock, Murthy, and Seung labs, and also Volker Hartenstein)Interesting to me in particular, and here I see the hand of Volker Hartenstein (my postdoc adviser!), is the annotation of developmental units: the neuronal lineages (Fig 2 below).<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Drosophila</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DevBiol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DevBiol</a>

Albert Cardona"Systematic annotation of a complete adult male Drosophila nerve cord connectome reveals principles of functional organisation", by Marin et al. 2023 (Greg Jefferis lab at <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HHMIJanelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HHMIJanelia</a> and others).<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543407v1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543407v1</a>On the analysis of the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Drosophila</a> male adult nerve cord (<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MANC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MANC</a>), reconstructed from <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/VolumeEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#VolumeEM</a> by Takemura et al. 2023 (preprint still pending to come out).<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a>

Albert Cardona"On being asked what made the LMB such a remarkable place, Max answered: ‘Creativity in science, as in art [referring to the Renaissance in Florence], cannot be organised. It arises spontaneously from individual talent. Well-run laboratories can foster it, but hierarchical organisations, inflexible bureaucratic rules, and mountains of futile paperwork can kill it. Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners.’"From Daniela Rhodes' 2002 piece on <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxPerutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MaxPerutz</a> <a href="https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1093/embo-reports/kvf103" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1093/embo-reports/kvf103</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxPerutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MaxPerutz</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#podcast</a>

Albert Cardona"Generating parallel representations of position and identity in the olfactory system", Taisz et al. 2023 (Greg Jefferis' lab at <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a>) <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867423004725" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867423004725</a>In a neural circuit of the female brain for processing the scent of the male pheromone (cVA), different features such as that it is a male and where it is in space are read out at different depths of the neural circuit layers.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Drosophila</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a>

Albert CardonaFaculty position open at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> in Cambridge, UK:Group Leader at the Neurobiology division: come join us!<a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CZP497/research-group-leader-neurobiology-lmb-2136" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CZP497/research-group-leader-neurobiology-lmb-2136</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#jobs</a>

Albert Cardona<a href="https://mastodon.social/@scottishwaddell" class="u-url mention">@scottishwaddell</a> You are welcome–it's been fun to discover an entirely different slice of science and research here, starting this past October. My presence in the other side is nominal, keeping an account there as a flag and pointer to here. The move gave me the chance to follow more entomology accounts and learn more about insects and small invertebrates I'd like to map some day. Also: one has to follow more accounts here to sample the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DevBiol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DevBiol</a> fields as broadly as we did on the other side, as the only promotion algorithm is the boost button.In other news, this week we installed a Bruker SkyScan microCT in the lab, courtesy of the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> (I love this place), and we are over the moon. It's essential to quality-control samples that proceed to electron microscopy for <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a>. But it's also going to prove useful to scan whole small animals densely at 0.5 to 1 µm isotropic resolution.

Albert CardonaHarald Hess awarded the 2023 James Prize in Science and Technology Integration by the US National Academy of Sciences: <a href="https://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/2023-awards/Hess.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/2023-awards/Hess.html</a>At <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HHMIJanelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HHMIJanelia</a>, the lab of Harald Hess revolutionized electron microscopy with enhanced FIBSEM (C. Shan Xu et al. 2017 @eLife <a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/25916" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://elifesciences.org/articles/25916</a> ) –now in use by us at <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a>, and applied to <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Drosophila</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a>; built an automated STEM to image the whole <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Drosophila</a> larval body at 5x5x35 nm; and so much more. Hats off! Congratulations!

Albert CardonaFantastic talk today by <a href="https://mas.to/@DenisDuboule" class="u-url mention">@DenisDuboule</a> at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> on <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Hox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hox</a> genes, highlighting their unique features and introducing the resolution of a long-standing mystery: the Hox timer. As explained in:"Sequential And Directional Insulation By Conserved CTCF Sites Underlies The Hox Timer In Pseudo-Embryos", Rekaik et al. 2022 <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.29.505673v1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.29.505673v1</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DevBio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DevBio</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/gastruloids" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#gastruloids</a>

Albert Cardona“We had central heating and hot water. They didn’t always work that well but it was way more than what most people had — Americans were told that because of the advantageous English climate you didn’t need heating or refrigeration!”—Joan Steitz, RNA pioneer, discovered the spliceosome <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_A._Steitz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_A._Steitz</a> and here commenting on UK housing in the late 1960’s.From “Ahead of the Curve” by Kathleen Weston, telling the history of the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UK</a>

preLights⚠️ Danger ahead – trust your gut feeling!<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Metabolites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metabolites</a> from pathogenic <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bacteria</a> trigger a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/stress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stress</a> response in the worm’s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/gut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gut</a> <a href="https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/olfactory-chemosensation-extends-lifespan-through-tgf-%ce%b2-signaling-and-upr-activation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/olfactory-chemosensation-extends-lifespan-through-tgf-%ce%b2-signaling-and-upr-activation/</a>Great <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/preLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preLight</a> from <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/CheeKiangEwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CheeKiangEwe</a> who covers a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preprint</a> from the Taylor lab <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MRCLMB</a>. Includes an author's response 📝

Albert CardonaA huge THANK YOU to everyone that worked on this project for 10 years, starting with first co-authors Michael Winding and Ben Pedigo at University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. A collaboration with Marta Zlatic, Carey E. Priebe, and Joshua Vogelstein.This work started at <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HHMIJanelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HHMIJanelia</a> and continued at the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MRCLMB</a> in Cambridge, UK.All neuron reconstructions were done painstakingly by hand with <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CATMAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CATMAID</a> by over >80 people! Thanks so much!<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/connectomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#connectomics</a> /END

Albert CardonaThe <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/MRCLMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MRCLMB</a> offers fully funded PhD studentships. Come join us!Deadline: December 1st, 2022 (six days left).Have a look at the projects listed for the Neurobiology Division (where Marta Zlatic, Greg Jefferis, Bill Schafer, Marco Tripodi, and many others, including myself).List of projects: <a href="https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/international-phd-programme/projects/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/international-phd-programme/projects/</a>How to apply: <a href="https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/international-phd-programme/how-to-apply/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/international-phd-programme/how-to-apply/</a><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhD</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a>

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