The Frankland and Josselyn labs participate in this year’s Science Rendezvous at SickKids. From left to right: Matt (Josselyn lab), Jonathan, Ana (Josselyn lab), Jeremy (Josselyn lab), Axel, Katherine, Alonso, Melanie (Josselyn lab), Leigh (Josselyn lab), Paul, Charlotte and Sheena.
A sneak preview of our abstracts for SfN 2012. The word cloud was compiled from abstracts from Adam, Katherine, Leonardo, Maithe and Yosuke.
Last week was the Molecular Cognition meeting at the Bio-X Institute at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It was organized by Weidong Li and speakers included Alcino Silva, Guo-li Ming, Akiwa Sawa, Satoshi Kida and Yi Zhong. Above is not the meeting, but inside the Brahma Palace near Wuxi. Pictures are posted here.
That’s our current home (left), the McMaster Building at SickKids. On the right is our new home, opening in April 2013. SickKids research is currently scattered across about 5 locations around the city, and this new SickKids research tower at Bay and Elm streets in downtown Toronto will bring us all to a single site, under the same roof. The curvy structures running up the center of the building will be the new interactive zones, each spanning 2-3 floors and dividing the tower into research neighborhoods. It’s tall (although we got the short straw and ended up on the 5th floor). It’s shiny and new. We cannot wait!
Since the new year the lab has welcomed one new grad student, one new postdoc and (sort of) one new blog. Joining us from the University of Saskatchewan is Axel Guskjolen (left). Axel did his MSc thesis in Lisa Kalynchuk’s lab on adult neurogenesis, stress and cognition. Jason Snyder (right) joins us from NIH where he worked with Heather Cameron. Jason recently published this excellent paper on the role of adult neurogensis in buffering the bad effects of stress, and he is also the keeper of an excellent blog called functional neurogenesis. Welcome!
Our traditional holiday celebration at The Red Lounge (formerly The Red Room). Pictures are posted here. Happy holidays to all from the franklandlab!
Another successful PhD defense. Yesterday Anne Wheeler expertly defended her PhD thesis. In the lab she has pioneered the use of brainwide imaging and graph theoretical approaches to visualize fear memory networks in mice. (Right, Anne [with Maithe] at Molly Blooms celebrating last night)
Our new web project– neuroflocks– tracked tweets at SfN11. On the site, there’s lots of detailed day-by-day analyses of tweets and, on the left, is a network illustrating the most influential twitterers at the meeting.
Last week was the SfN meeting in Washington DC. The lab was represented by Yosuke, Katherine, Alonso and Loren who presented posters. Pictures are now posted here.
