Kenney Lab @ Wayne State University. Working to understand the neural and molecular basis for individual differences in behavior and brain function.
Detroit, MI
Joined May 2018
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Ever wonder how to map whole brain activity in adult zebrafish? Wonder no longer!
We demonstrate how to use the adult zebrafish brain atlas (azba.wayne.edu) to identify the neural correlates of behavior!
Check it out...work led by Neha Rajput!
eneuro.org/content/12/3/ENEU…
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I will be at the CAN meeting in Toronto if you are interested in discussing this Assistant Professor opportunity @USaskMed. Please apply!
Neuroscience job alert! The Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology at @usask (University of Saskatchewan) is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!! Please reach out if you are interested or have any questions! See link for details!
universityaffairs.ca/search-…
Super excited to have gotten tenure and remain part of the department! Thank you to all my mentors and graduate students who have made this possible. I'm humbled and extremely grateful 🤗
Congratulations to Drs. Glen Hood and Justin Kenney (@Fish4Brains) for recently being awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professors!
We're excited to have the two of you as part of our department for years to come!
Check out this feature on recent work from @sadagurski lab where they link air pollution to type 2 diabetes.
research.wayne.edu/news/stud…
Great talk today from the first person to put an optogenetic construct in a neuron...none other than Dr. Zhuo-Hua Pan at the Wayne State school of medicine! Hopefully these will make it into therapeutics for vision loss soon.
It's about time someone took the fight to for-profit academic publishers! I never understood why reviewer's don't get paid while these companies rake in profit margins of over 35% for providing a service done no better (usually worse) than non-profits.
highereddive.com/news/6-majo…
Any suggestions on current disagreements in neuroscience? I'm looking for papers for a grad class, and I'd like students to present papers on the same topic drawing different conclusions. Thinking: Adult neurogenesis in humans and glymphatic system controversy. Any other ideas?
Either the universe is talking to me or I'm crazy, but I swear this cloud looks like an adult zebrafish brain...
First annual lab Belle Isle potluck and whiffle ball was a success! Complete with a diving catch, play at the plate, and controversial call at 2nd base.
Beautiful day for a walk around midtown Detroit. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to have cultural institutions on my doorstep @waynestate!
Way to go Joe!
Congratulations to recent biology alum @josephgjonaj for receiving the David D. Henry award from @waynestatealum! alumni.wayne.edu/connect/stu…. In addition to excellent grades, he did research with @Fish4Brains and was a co-author on a paper: journals.biologists.com/jeb/… Nice job Joe 👏!
ALT Biology department alumni Joseph Gjonaj is awarded the David D. Henry award from the Wayne State Alumni Association.
Totally agree. We complain about a lack of science funding, yet collectively pay millions in exorbitant APCs or access fees to for-profit journals that add little value. That's money better spent supporting trainees and doing the science itself.
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Writing is a way of thinking. If you delegate writing to AI, you skip the thinking as well as the writing.
Way to kick butt and take names!
Congrats to the @GradPhysiology Undergrad Team for their first place finish in the Michigan Physiological Society’s Trivia Quiz! Students from @waynestatechem, @WSUBioSci, and @WayneStateNeuro, led by Dr Pat Mueller. 🧠💪 @WayneStateCLAS @waynemedicine @waynestate
"The tell-tale heart... of successful transgenesis!" - Jake Hudock. Grad student who made the first transgenic fish in the lab! Mad props to Jake for getting this up and running!
Ever wonder if your personality could predict how you react to a drug? 🤔Turns out it can! 😯
In our recent paper, we find that (1) bold and shy fish have differences in brain serotonin and (2) the effects of Lexapro (SSRI) differ in bold and shy fish.
doi.org/10.1242/jeb.247483
Going for the St. Louis trifecta.... The arch, largest chess piece and now post #MWZM2024 baseball! Go cards!
"I will know longer be a pawn in your games!" Said I to the largest chess piece in the world. Loving St. Louis @ Midwest zebrafish conference. #MZFM2024
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Our first preprint as a lab is out! This one is short and sweet: We thought there had to be a faster/higher throughput way of making transgenic fish, so we set out to test if lipofection works, and it does!
Lipid-Based Transfection of ZebrafishEmbryos: A Robust Protocol for NucleicAcid Delivery in Zebrafish biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv