Michael Goard
@michaelgoard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara. I study neural circuits underlying sensation, decision making, and spatial navigation.
That's the one with cornflakes and whiskey, right? Good stuff!
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
That's the one with cornflakes and whiskey, right? Good stuff!
The sad thing was that it almost always worked.
September 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The sad thing was that it almost always worked.
It seems like neuroscience PI pairs have consistently outboxed their weight class, not sure why we discourage it so much.
August 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It seems like neuroscience PI pairs have consistently outboxed their weight class, not sure why we discourage it so much.
A student in my lab recently received an NOA for an F31 (submitted August '24), so they are still going through, perhaps a bit more slowly than usual. I suspect a 9% score would very likely be funded - fingers crossed and congrats to your student either way.
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A student in my lab recently received an NOA for an F31 (submitted August '24), so they are still going through, perhaps a bit more slowly than usual. I suspect a 9% score would very likely be funded - fingers crossed and congrats to your student either way.
She loved it. Grade-wise it was a bit too easy for her (she’s on 5.11/5.12 these days), but the routes were really interesting and having the river valley below is incredible
July 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
She loved it. Grade-wise it was a bit too easy for her (she’s on 5.11/5.12 these days), but the routes were really interesting and having the river valley below is incredible
We also tried some other GC8 variants I can tell you about if you are interested, though I believe the Thy1-GC8 you asked about never finished development.
July 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We also tried some other GC8 variants I can tell you about if you are interested, though I believe the Thy1-GC8 you asked about never finished development.
Yes, we used the TIGRE2-GCaMP8s line (037719), crossed with CaMKIIa-Cre. Although the GC8s sensor is great, we found the Tg mice had high neuorpil and low somatic expression in L2/3, not ideal for cortical imaging (never tried hippocampus) - we went back to GC6 as our workhorse Tg line.
July 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yes, we used the TIGRE2-GCaMP8s line (037719), crossed with CaMKIIa-Cre. Although the GC8s sensor is great, we found the Tg mice had high neuorpil and low somatic expression in L2/3, not ideal for cortical imaging (never tried hippocampus) - we went back to GC6 as our workhorse Tg line.