Shan Meltzer
@shanmeltzer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. HHMI Hanna Gray fellow. Studying the development of somatosensation.
Really happy to share my career path at the Peking University biology alumni reunion. I attended the first reunion in 2009 at Hopkins and it was life changing to hear all the career stories. Happy to give back to the community!😊
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Really happy to share my career path at the Peking University biology alumni reunion. I attended the first reunion in 2009 at Hopkins and it was life changing to hear all the career stories. Happy to give back to the community!😊
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#anatomy26 #AAA
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September 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our Fall award applications are open! Check out the different opportunities to highlight incredible mentors, celebrate established leaders alongside up-and-coming talent, and so much more! Nominate someone or apply here: 👉 ow.ly/8nWy50WN3Uq
#anatomy26 #AAA
#anatomy26 #AAA
Is any neuro PI willing to talk to me for 20 min and chat about NIH institutes and study sections for neuro research? Please DM me. Thank you!!
February 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Is any neuro PI willing to talk to me for 20 min and chat about NIH institutes and study sections for neuro research? Please DM me. Thank you!!
Who came up with the number 15% anyway?? It makes no sense and there is no justification on this number from NIH.
February 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Who came up with the number 15% anyway?? It makes no sense and there is no justification on this number from NIH.
A great model for anxiety!
Robots vs rats! @adredish.bsky.social find that when a rat is attacked by a robot, hippocampal place fields develop to represent the #robot. When anxious, the rat imagines the robot's location, presumably worrying about the imminent danger 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4gRtgUX
January 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A great model for anxiety!
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Thrilled to share the most recent pub from the Griffith Lab! We show that sodium channels play unique roles in proprioceptive encoding. We also found some really cool effects on skeletal muscle, and a dev dependent role for Nav1.6 in proprioceptive spinal circuits www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage-gated sodium channels
Voltage-gated sodium channels differentially encode mammalian proprioception via distinct cellular localization patterns.
www.science.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thrilled to share the most recent pub from the Griffith Lab! We show that sodium channels play unique roles in proprioceptive encoding. We also found some really cool effects on skeletal muscle, and a dev dependent role for Nav1.6 in proprioceptive spinal circuits www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Shan Meltzer
Delighted to highlight our new paper in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons - Nature
A temporally asymmetric synaptic plasticity kernel results from bidirectional modifications of synaptic weights around the induction of a place field.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Delighted to highlight our new paper in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...