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Sebastián Jara

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Neurobiólogo 🇨🇱 | postdoc @scrippsresearch| Sensory neurons-immune interaction | Axon plasticity

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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This new paper 🥂, just published in ACS Nano @pubs.acs.org s.acs.org, needed physicists, chemists, and biochemists in the same room! 🤓 Running out of colors in your #microscopy experiments? We developed #NanoFLex, which encodes protein identity by leveraging #nanobodies and #fluorescence lifetime
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Alejandra Mendoza @thepenkpanther.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
For those in the San Diego area interested in donating physical goods for earthquake victims in Venezuela, Encuentro cafe is collecting donations today (3941 Mason St, San Diego, CA 92110). Most needed are first aid supplies, hygiene products, diapers, electrolyte liquids and non-perishable food.
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Roberto Mayor Lab @mayorlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
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Alejandra Mendoza @thepenkpanther.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excited to share that our lab’s first preprint is now available! This work reflects a huge effort from graduate student Abeera Mehmood and coauthors! If you are interested in what B cells make all antibodies against norovirus take a look! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cori Fain @corifainphd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2027 Neuroimmune Communication in Health & Disease GRC & GRS!!! 📅 January 23–29, 2027 📍 Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura, California, USA 💻 Apply by: October 18th, 2026 grc.org/neuroimmune-co…
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Fabricio Nicola @fabricionicola.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Mammals have hundreds of joints and muscles. Controlling them individually would be nearly impossible. How does the nervous system organize such complexity into coherent actions? Our new study explores this question through a natural behavior: jumping.
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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · 26/01/2026
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging invites applications for a faculty position honoring the scientific legacy of Dr. Judith Campisi, a pioneer in the field of cellular senescence and its roles in aging and age-related disease. Job Link: buckinstitute.applytojob.com/apply/lpV3rx... #sciencejobs
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Senescence & Cellular Aging - Buck Institute - Career Page
Apply to Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Senescence & Cellular Aging at Buck Institute in NOVATO, CA.
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Bryon Silva @neurogut.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Your gut has a sex, and it matters! 🔥 In females, the ovary sends a relaxin hormone signal to enteric neurons, switching on gut enlargement and increased feeding after mating. So excited my postdoc work is finally out as a preprint 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🧠⚡️💊New @nature.com publication ! Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy nature.com/articles/s41... @pennmedicine.bsky.social
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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Do YOU live with joint pain? Do YOU experience poor pain management? Have you got 2-minutes to tell pain researchers about it? If yes 👉 forms.gle/7NTwma2gnVN1... We hope to gain insight into lived experience for those with joint pain & involve people in our #PainResearch 😃
Cartoon transparent human with skeleton showing, red glowing points on joints to indicate pain
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Will Renthal @willrenthal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨New paper from the NIH PRECISION Human Pain Network! We built a human DRG reference atlas: >500K cells from 126 donors to reveal 22 neuronal & 10 non-neuronal cell types. New insights into human sensory biology! Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Data: humandrg.painseq.com
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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
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catie profaci, phd @cprofaci.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Coming to SD 🌴 for #SfN25 🧠?! Join @storiesofwin.bsky.social for our first in-person event 🤩. We’ll have a keynote, panels, & time for networking! Won’t be in SD? You can still register to receive a recording! Speaker/panelist announcements coming soon 👀 Register by Nov 1: forms.gle/CJPcKZNZY7uU...
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Stories of WiN Symposium Registration
Stories of Women in Neuroscience (Stories of WiN, https://www.storiesofwin.org) is excited to be hosting its first in-person event! The symposium will include a keynote address, two panel discussions,...
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Andy Bell @belllab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
New preprint from the spinal cord group at Glasgow. Anatomical and functional characterisation of spinal circuits for cold, from sensory neurons to the brain…..https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680240v1
Labelled axons of calb1+ spinal projection neurons innervate multiple brain targets associated with cold sensation and thermoregulation. Darkfield images of different brain areas including the postal parabrachial and periaqueductal grey are shown with axons of ascending cells in yellow.
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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We’re hiring! My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease. 🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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ehollisii.bsky.social @ehollisii.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great collaboration with Abel Torres Espín that arose from our work on SCI. Congrats to all involved, including @jsebajara.bsky.social , Amanda Bernstein, Marwa Soliman, and Yunuen Moreno López! www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Development and Validation of a Machine Learning-Derived Kinematic Deviation Index for the Evaluation of Forelimb in Rodents | AI in Neuroscience
Background: Rodent models are widely used to study neurological conditions and assess forelimb movement to measure functional performance, deficit, recovery, and treatment effectiveness. Traditional a...
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Does anyone have favorite colors for color blind friendly fluorescence images on a black background where the overlap combinations of 3 colors are important? Magenta/cyan/yellow overlaps are difficult to distinguish (lots of white) Thank you!
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Sebastián Jara @jsebajara.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Big congrats to Alejandra @thepenkpanther.bsky.social on her new SI paper! Kicking off the Mendoza Lab’s work on sensory neuron-immune interactions. Glad to see our image highlighted on their website too! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Enkephalin-producing regulatory T cells in the skin restrain local inflammation through control of nociception
Regulatory T cells curb noxious sensory signaling to dampen cutaneous inflammation, a neuromodulatory mechanism for immunosuppression.
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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alejandra Mendoza @thepenkpanther.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
After many years of work I’m so happy to share our work on #scienceimmunology on how Treg cells modulate nociception to dampen skin inflammation! My handle will make a lot more sense now!🕵🏻‍♀️
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Enkephalin-producing regulatory T cells in the skin restrain local inflammation through control of nociception
Regulatory T cells curb noxious sensory signaling to dampen cutaneous inflammation, a neuromodulatory mechanism for immunosuppression.
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mheming.bsky.social @mheming.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Very proud that our human PNS atlas is finally published in @natcomms.nature.com We found perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in #polyneuropathies. Explore: pns-atlas.mzhlab.com A tweetorial 1/13 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Diana Tavares Ferreira @dianatavf.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This work is finally online as in-press preview! JCI - Cell and molecular profiles in peripheral nerves shift toward inflammatory phenotypes in diabetic peripheral neuropathy www.jci.org/articles/vie...
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JCI - Cell and molecular profiles in peripheral nerves shift toward inflammatory phenotypes in diabetic peripheral neuropathy
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @janetsong.bsky.social shares how she plans to expose trainees to new ideas during lab meetings and Rachel Parkinson emphasizes the importance of taking a step back and reminding yourself about the joys of science. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/4mFNGCQ
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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Salk Institute seeks a Full Professor in Neuroimmunology to lead innovative research on nervous and immune system interactions within a collaborative, world-class setting. Closing date: 7th September www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
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Professor in Neuroimmunology - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
The Salk Institute seeks a Professor in Neuroimmunology to lead innovative research on nervous and immune system interactions within a world-class setting
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Fran Quintana Lab @quintanalabhms.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Our newest paper studying immunosuppressive astrocyte-GBM interactions using RABID-seq is out in ‪@nature.com today! Congrats to Brian Andersen and Camilo Faust Akl! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Barcoded viral tracing identifies immunosuppressive astrocyte–glioma interactions - Nature
Using viral barcode tracing to detect interactions between glioblastoma cells and non-malignant astrocytes in patient samples, investigators discovered a pathway that reduces tumour-specific immunity ...
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Tom Gillingwater @tomgillingwater.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New paper from the lab 🚨: Expansion microscopy reveals nano-scale insights into the human neuromuscular junction: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Expansion microscopy reveals nano-scale insights into the human neuromuscular junction
Ramadan et al. employ expansion microscopy to visualize neuromuscular junctions in human and mouse muscles. Their findings demonstrate expansion microscopy as an accessible and cost-effective approach...
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🧠🐁 Interested in a quick / reliable / reproducible tool to quantify your fluoresently-tagged axons ? Check out AxoDen, a no-coding-needed web app and downloadable GUI ... Designed + developed entriely by the amazing Raquel Adaia Sandoval Ortega www.eneuro.org/content/12/6...
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AxoDen: An Algorithm for the Automated Quantification of Axonal Density in Defined Brain Regions
The rodent brain contains 70,000,000+ neurons interconnected via complex axonal circuits with varying architectures. Neural pathologies are often associated with anatomical changes in these axonal pro...
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Doris Krauter @doriskrauter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Happy to share my first publication with @patrikernfors.bsky.social Lab - all about the DRG: Chromatin accessibility, single cell and spatial RNA sequencing - a great source for everyone interested in sensory neurons and non-neuronal cell of the DRG 😊
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lehtinenlab.bsky.social @lehtinenlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread rdcu.be/eoaSY
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Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development
Nature Neuroscience - The choroid plexus (ChP) provides molecular cues for brain development. However, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. This study identifies an apocrine secretion mechanism...
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 20/05/2025
We set out to map a detailed proteome of the human DRG and nerve using DIA-MS as a reference to the field, and I think we've succeeded! Lots of proteins (& lots of ion channels), with the data is fully searchable. It's also available on @sparc.science sensoryomics.shinyapps.io/Proteomics/
Heatmap from the linked paper in figure 2, of hDRG and nerve proteomics showing the detection of TRP- and SCN- channels across samples, with higher levels of myelin-related proteins in the nerve and higher levels of TRPV1 and SCN10a in the ganglia
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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our lab's 1st paper, led by @fchrisbennett.bsky.social & @waisenberg.bsky.social. A decade thinking how to directly assess the impact of microglia replacement. Yrs of hard work. This kind of work is needed to expand brain disease care for kids & the vision for safer, more effective cell therapy.
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Chen Ran @chenran.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Lots of recent papers discuss the nucleus of the solitary tract in interoception. In this review, we take a sensory processing perspective on how interoceptive signals are encoded in the NTS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interoceptive processing in the nucleus of the solitary tract
The interoceptive nervous system continuously monitors the status of visceral organs to synthesize internal perceptions and regulate behavioral and ph…
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/04/2025
SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com
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Join Chemsymposia 2026: Research & Innovation | ChemSymposia 2026
Join us at Chemsymposia 2026 to discover groundbreaking research in physics applications. Connect with experts, engage in insightful discussions, and explore our venue, registration details, and speak...
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Nori Zolboot @norjin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
✨So happy to see part of my PhD work with @lippilab.bsky.social out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! ✨ We developed new tools to study microRNA-target networks with greater spatial and temporal resolution and found neuronal subtype- and developmental stage-specific roles:
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MicroRNA mechanisms instructing Purkinje cell specification
Zolboot et al. introduce DD-T6B and SAP-seq, methods for investigating microRNA function with enhanced spatiotemporal resolution, and identify Purkinje cell-specific microRNAs and targets instructing ...
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Lucas Cheadle @cheadlelab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... New work from the lab characterizing sensory-dependent transcriptomes in mouse V1 across neuronal and glial cell types. Some fun nuggets in here, and all data publicly available for download and re-analysis. Happy gene hunting!
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A single-cell transcriptomic atlas of sensory-dependent gene expression in developing mouse visual cortex
Summary: Single-cell RNA sequencing of developing mouse visual cortex uncovers cell type-specific gene programs induced by sensory experience. All cell types mounted transcriptional responses to the e...
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Darragh Duffy @darraghduffy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
And science continues… check out our new work led by @rbrianroome.bsky.social
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 15/01/2025
Hey Neuroscientists 🧠! Heading to San Diego for #SfN25 in November? Join us for an exciting all-day symposium at @scripps.edu in beautiful La Jolla, just a couple of days before the conference. It's free to attend, so register early and plan your travels accordingly! 🧪
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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thrilled to share the most recent pub from the Griffith Lab! We show that sodium channels play unique roles in proprioceptive encoding. We also found some really cool effects on skeletal muscle, and a dev dependent role for Nav1.6 in proprioceptive spinal circuits www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage-gated sodium channels
Voltage-gated sodium channels differentially encode mammalian proprioception via distinct cellular localization patterns.
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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
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digiovannilab.bsky.social @digiovannilab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here is our latest discovery: macrophages that behave like neurons to help you walk Thanks to Bellardita's lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion - Nature
A population of macrophages with exclusive molecular and functional signatures in the muscle spindles express machinery for synthesizing and releasing glutamate, and a cellular component, the muscle s...
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
BOOM! Re-upping our Pain Research Starter Pack since so many people have joined this glorious place in the past week. If you are not on the list and want to be added, let me know and I will add you... I have been doing my best to keep this updated. #painresearch go.bsky.app/KboKNhg
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Coleman Lab @colemanlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Axon Degeneration starter pack now updated. Plenty of room for more so give me a nudge if you’d like to be added.
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