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NEURONS AND
OTHER MEMORIES
Work in and around the brain
Curated by Patricia Maurides in collaboration
with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Oct 10 – 26, 2014
Featuring: Marie Barcic (A 14’), the Alison Barth Lab, JoAnna Commandaros (BFA '86), Erin Crowder, Greg Dunn, Kevin Jarbo and Tim Verstynen, Rob Kesseler, Clayton Merrell, David Plaut, Jena Tegeler (SHS 13’), Aaron Regal (A 13’ MAM’14), Joana Ricou (BSA 04’), Qiong Zhang and Nicolas Kim, Yu Zhao (BHA’14)
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Hartmann Neuron, Alesis Andromeda, Kawai K5000s, Chroma Polaris (#1), Roland Programmers PG-300, 800, 200, 1000
NEURONS AND
OTHER MEMORIES
Work in and around the brain
Curated by Patricia Maurides in collaboration
with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Oct 10 – 26, 2014
Featuring: Marie Barcic (A 14’), the Alison Barth Lab, JoAnna Commandaros (BFA '86), Erin Crowder, Greg Dunn, Kevin Jarbo and Tim Verstynen, Rob Kesseler, Clayton Merrell, David Plaut, Jena Tegeler (SHS 13’), Aaron Regal (A 13’ MAM’14), Joana Ricou (BSA 04’), Qiong Zhang and Nicolas Kim, Yu Zhao (BHA’14)
bit.ly/NeuronsandMemories
This in vivo 2-photon image was created using viral vectors from the viral gene transfer core, a facility established in 2008 by the Picower Institute and the McGovern Institute to make viral vectors accessible to the MIT neuroscience community.
Image courtesy of Sam Clark, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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
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.
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.
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
Synapses arriving at an excitatory neuron (blue) of mouse visual cortex.
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.
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
An example of a brain cell I was able to cause to fluoresce. There are actually 4 cell-bodies in this image capture of a mouse brain.
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.