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Whew, I'm so glad my neurons started firing before midnight, I've been planning out my 365 Community Fish Day photo for ages, and I'd have been really sad to have forgot all about it and missed the whole thing. And forgot it I did - I've been in bed with asthma today, feeling like hell. But just now, at 10:30 or so I realised what day it was, quickly took down my previous 365 shot & arranged my fish on my corkwall to take this. Here you see them swimming with a Crankbunny mermaid puppet and two Maid of Clay cat ornaments... and two of the pushpins came from Yumyumbuttons. It's really a bit of an Etsy collage, this :-)
Anyway, I'm glad I remembered in time to put it together. Find them all here.
El MUNCYT acoge Big Neurona, un museo móvil interactivo con forma de neurona gigante. Esta instalación ha sido inaugurada por el alcalde de A Coruña, Don Xulio Ferreiro. Big Neurona es un laberinto de espejos en el que se muestran las diferentes partes que componen las neuronas y se realizan juegos y otras actividades. Estará abierta al público desde el 22 de enero al 26 de junio
Blue Neuron is a beautiful kinetic light installation built from reworked heat-treated plastic bottles. Zac’s inspiration comes principally from nature. Working in a wide range of media, from discarded plastic bottles to laser projections, his works often comment on issues such as sustainability, environmental degradation and consumption. Fish eye lens
Campo oscuro. Filtro DiI. Tinción con cristales.
Prácticas Neurobiología. Diciembre 2011. Universidad de Málaga
We used 3D public domain data from Eyewire (a citizen science game that maps real neurons as players progress). This was created for Pint of Science, to accompany a talk in Cambridge.
With this image, I wanted to show how magnificent and intriguing are the elementary processing units of the mammalian central nervous system. The image shows three "Layer 5 pyramidal neurons" visualized ex-vivo, in a coronal slice from the mouse brain containing the primary visual cortex. The unique morphology of these neurons is revealed by a fluorescent dye (Alex 594) injected into each cell via a patch clamp pipette (seen on the bottom-right corner of each neuron) and excited with a 820nm two photon laser. I found this image significant and interesting for the “Discovery Channel” theme because the morphology of pyramidal neurons, mostly characterized by the several dendrite branches ramifying from the cell body, is revealed after the combined use of the patch clamp technique and laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy. Indeed, the precise manipulation of the micropipette under the microscope allowed to inject the fluorescent dye in each neuron while keeping them alive for further experimental use. Strikingly, the cellular morphology tell us a lot about the function of pyramidal neurons, that - as a TV antenna does - continuously receive and compute information in the brain.
Alex Moreau
Render by Amy Sterling from
reconstructions by Seung Lab, Princeton Neuroscience Institute using images acquired by The Allen Institute. Funded by IARPA MICrONS. Rendered in Cinema 4D using Otoy Octane GPU renderer.
Image: E18 hippocampal neurons stained with MAPT (red) and Doublecortin (green). The two proteins overlap in the proximal dendrites, but doublecortin is more abundant in the growth cones and periphery. As a result, the periphery appears green while the more proximal regions of the cells are yellow. The single longer process of this cell, presumably an axon, has a low doublecortin content and so appears red. Blue staining is the nuclear DNA. Protocol on datasheet.
Part of a series of illustrations created for UC San Francisco to illustrate their work on the role of neurons in regulating thirst. This image shows a neuron made of water.
Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us.
#LYTMindYourHead
Lyceum Youth Theatre and Traverse Young Writers present Mind Your Head, a double bill of performances which examines the hot topic of mental wellbeing for young people today.
Each evening show will feature Brainstorm, exploring the complexities of the adolescent brain in a unique performance conceived by a playwright, a neuroscientist and partially devised by the LYT cast themselves.
Brainstorm will be paired with a selection of short scenes by the Traverse Young Writers who have responded to themes of the science and biology behind emotions, and nature verses nurture
What does happiness mean? Is it material or emotional? Controlled by circumstances or temperament?
Find out more at: lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/1061
Photography by Ryan Buchanan