iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Congratulations @kangyongloh.bsky.social, Spencer Zhao, @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social, and the whole team– including my longtime and wonderful collaborator Zhenan Bao– for this key step in our journey toward genetically-targeted chemical assembly in biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

2) unbiased computational screening of brain-spanning activity for fast directionally-propagating spatiotemporal elements; & 3) novel genetically-encoded voltage sensing integrated with designed spectrally-compatible opsins (from our channelrhodopsin structural work) for systematic causal testing.

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Directional elements: the preprints are out! 1/n Congratulations to our amazing team: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... biorxiv.org/content/10.6... biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We screened for principles governing global brain dynamics by developing a set of new methods: 1) conformal immersion microscopy;

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Our microbial-opsin work (and most of the field ) is basic science, but it was intriguing to review clinical progress–direct & indirect–with a wonderful team of co-authors t.co/JrJen2WGBV & adapt a fig. of PMID:28912215 (2017) with my long-time collaborator Peter Hegemann (pic: a memory from 2017).

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

strongly recommend this book... @neilshubin.bsky.social is a great communicator and scientist. We're coming up on the 10 year anniversary of this special moment from February 2015: Neil showing the Tiktaalik fossil to a few of my entranced kids.

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Fueling up for the birthday symposium: “currywurst” (left) and avocado toast (right) at Cafe Einstein near the Brandenburg Gate.

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A moment in time: Dieter Oesterhelt passed away in Münich on this day (November 28) in 2022. He identified the 1st microbial rhodopsin more than 50 years ago, with far-reaching impact that could hardly have been imagined. laskerfoundation.org/in-memoriam-...

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

‪@jessiecreel.bsky.social‬ thanks for the appreciation!... BTW the Mandarin edition of Projections just came out. Thanks to Shih-Chieh Lin for the image. Very moved by the response...

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

The HNC (Human Neural Circuitry) team at our launch celebration at Stanford! Story here: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

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