The Crick is hiring Early Career Group Leaders!

Core funding for PhD studentships, postdocs, and staff scientists, phenomenal facilities and a wonderful community of early career GLs!

Please share widely and feel free to get in touch with any questions!

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We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join the lab to study how cortical microcircuits are organised at the single cell level using high throughput molecular methods. Please share and get in touch if interested!

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Applications for Doctoral Clinical Fellowships at the Crick, including a project in my lab, are now open! Please share widely!

We use high refresh rate "gaming" monitors to present closed-loop visual stimuli with low latency. They have various "gaming modes" and response time options that are poorly documented. So @antblot.bsky.social tested every possible setting to find out what they do.

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How does the brain blend what we see with what we hear? In collaboration with @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social lab, we find new anatomical and functional rules that govern how auditory and visual cortices talk to each other.

Led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social.

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵

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Agree. Cuts in UKRI funded PhD places, is about government funding and prioritisation. We need work force planning with joined up thinking

A PhD is not about an academic career, its an apprenticeship for the knowledge economy. "Europe's Silicon Valley" will not exist without PhDs

Save the date!

UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting

9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters

Abstract & registration opening soon

Pls share!

neuralcomputation.uk

Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro
Apply by: February 16th!

📢 If you are at #SfN2023, check out the lab's posters from Yiran He (Sun AM) and Alex Becalick (Mon PM)! I'll be around as well, so send me a message if you'd like to meet and catch up! #SfN23

We're hiring - a lab tech and fully funded (UK rate) PhD student! Join us at to figure out how the brain constructs auditory space! Adverts here (tech : shorturl.at/hmrFY) and here (PhD studentship : shorturl.at/adoJN). #neuroscience #hearing

🚀 Don't miss your chance join @thecrick.bsky.social PhD programme, including projects in my lab! Interested in how neuronal activity, connectivity and gene expression all relate to each other in vivo?

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🗓️ Deadline Nov 9! Please repost!

Mouse cortical neurons have ~5,000 spines, but how many different presynaptic cells do they get input from? What is the average number of synaptic contacts between connected neurons in the mouse neocortex? I was hoping that there is a good estimate based on EM but I cannot find one.

ICYMI for neuro Twitter expats, a long standing mystery is solved.

Delighted to see this in print from my @TheCrick colleagues in Jonny Kohl's lab

How pregnancy (in mice) changes the behaviour of a population of hypothalamic neurons & initiates parental behaviour before birth

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Multiple opportunities for PhD projects in my lab at the Francis Crick Institute starting in 2024! The Crick is an incredible place to do science! Please repost!

(1) Mapping neocortical circuits using high throughput molecular connectomics and in vivo imaging:
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