PhD student and dopamine neuron poker in the Beckstead lab. NRSA F31 Fellow. First Gen. Climber. He/Him
Oklahoma City, OK
Joined July 2011
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Harris Blankenship retweeted
Dopamine, the brain’s so-called “feel-good” chemical, appears to play a significant role in Alzheimer’s disease, OMRF scientist Dr. Mike Beckstead found in a groundbreaking new study. 🧠
Read more: omrf.org/2024/11/12/omrf-dis…
Thanks Mike! It was a great first SfN, and I’m glad I was able to present our work.
Great week at #SfN24. I learned a ton but the highlight for me was watching @HarrisEdwardB represent our lab by presenting his Alzheimer's (and dissertation) work -- great job! @AM_OMRF
If you’re interested in slice electrophysiology, synaptic dysfunction, or Alzheimer’s disease, come see my talk at #SfN24 in S404 at 2pm on Saturday! @SfNtweets
Harris Blankenship retweeted
I dedicate this video to the fly that gave her life for science, but will live forever in silico. She has supercharged the discoveries of the #FlyWire Consortium, and propels us into the digital transformation of neuroscience. Protip: watch with audio on. youtube.com/watch?v=RQuYaMDc…
Patched locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons all morning and ventricular cardiomyocytes all afternoon.
Harris Blankenship retweeted
How can we train biophysical neuron models on data or tasks? We built Jaxley, a differentiable, GPU-based biophysics simulator, which makes this possible even when models have thousands of parameters! Led by @deismic_, collab with @CellTypist @ppjgoncalves biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Harris Blankenship retweeted
“While applied research appears to be in the ascendancy at the moment, it is important to remember that without an equal and ongoing commitment to basic science, there would soon be nothing to translate into applications.”
doi.org/10.7554/eLife.102368
Harris Blankenship retweeted
Congrats to Kylene Harold of the Humphries lab for winning a “William C. Stanley” Early Investigator award at the Society of Heart and Vascular Metabolism meeting in St. Louis! @harold_kylene @Ken_Humphries @Soc_HrtVasMetab
Harris Blankenship retweeted
Hot-rodded vintage electron microscopes, around-the-clock shifts at the lab, huddles by a digital fireplace — and petabytes of brain connectivity data to show for it all.
Glimpse our #electronmicroscopy team's tremendous work as part of the collaborative MICrONS program.
Harris Blankenship retweeted
Recent paper from the Beckstead lab: Impact of Unitary Synaptic Inhibition on Spike Timing in Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons @mjbeckstead eneuro.org/content/11/7/ENEU…
Harris Blankenship retweeted
Very best thing I did this week was to listen to a lecture on the history of the AP and bioelectricity by @UW_PBIO Prof. Bertil Hille. He is always clear and inspiring!!! His name should appear in red in the title: if you listen, you will know what I mean.
pbio.uw.edu/bertil-hille-sem…
Harris Blankenship retweeted
Most important message for scientists to share with the general public! Thanks Cajal, @NobelPrize.
Harris Blankenship retweeted
👉This is the first study to record the synaptic currents generated by single identified direct or indirect pathway striatal neurons on single pallidal neurons.
🖱️ow.ly/csea50SfNlo
@jaumsjauns #Striatum #ExternalGlobusPallidus #BasalGanglia
Harris Blankenship retweeted
I'm thrilled to share our last work directed by @HlneMarie10 published in #neuron. We discovered a new and exciting modulator of #NMDA receptor activity. This is so exciting ☺️! @CNRS @IPMC_sophia @Univ_CotedAzur
cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
Harris Blankenship retweeted
On this day 10 years ago I was set to have another open heart surgery. The @okcthunder were in the playoffs in Memphis and dropped by.
Today, I am blessed to spend my career working on the heart with the cherry on top being able to watch the thunder back in the playoffs.
Harris Blankenship retweeted
To write well, you must read and reflect on how others write. You can't just wake up one day and start writing well. If you don't wanna see how good books do it, see and analyze papers on how the best science writers do it. How they frame arguments. How they use linear logic etc.