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1 month ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt |Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky |Sandra Sexton
A new photometry technique can track absolute levels of dopamine and monitor both fast and slow changes in its concentration in freely moving mice, according to a preprint posted on bioRxiv in January.
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1 month ago | 
thestar.co.uk | Caitlin James
An hour-long webinar teaching school staff how to spot and manage eating difficulties and disorders in students and in their community launched in Sheffield this week.
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2 months ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky |Sandra Sexton
Reporter The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Methods, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid beta, Animal models, animal research, models, neurodegenerative disease Transgenic mice typically help to standardize disease research, but not in the case of a common model of familial Alzheimer’s disease: The amount of amyloid beta plaque in 5XFAD mice—so named for the five familial Alzheimer’s disease variants they carry—varies depending on how they are bred, according to a study published 20 January...
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2 months ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Calli McMurray |Loren M. Frank |Samuel J. Gershman |Caitlin James
Life as a researcher comes with a mountain of paperwork. Among the most time-consuming are the forms a scientist must submit to an institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) that detail proposed animal experiments, according to surveys on administrative burden. A new protocol-sharing site that launched 15 January aims to lighten the load.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
sheffieldwire.co.uk | Caitlin James
The council discussed plans to address Sheffield’s sewage problems with their new proposal, ‘Protect Our Rivers’ on 4 December. The debate comes after record levels of pollution in 2023, when Yorkshire Water pumped sewage into Sheffield’s rivers 4,781 times. This is equivalent to 18,000 hours, a 33% increase on the year before. The water company paid a £150,000 fine for these incidents.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
sheffieldwire.co.uk | Caitlin James
A Sheffield MP has resigned from the Cabinet this morning, after a historic conviction for misleading the police came to light. Louise Haigh, MP for Sheffield Heeley and Secretary of State for Transport, told Keir Starmer today that she will now best support his political project from outside the government. The resignation comes after Sky News revealed last night that Haigh pled guilty to incorrectly telling police that a mobile phone had been stolen from her in 2013.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Anthony M. Zador |Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky |Sandra Sexton
The field of NeuroAI encompasses two intertwined research programs: the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to model intelligent behavior, and the application of neuroscience insights to improve AI systems. The motivation for using neuroscience to improve AI is clear: If the ultimate goal is, in the words of AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, “to build machines that can perform any […] task that a human can do,” then the most natural strategy is to reverse-engineer the brain.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Anthony M. Zador |Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky |Sandra Sexton
“NeuroAI,” a portmanteau of “neuroscience” and “AI” (artificial intelligence), is on the rise. Almost unheard of until about five years ago, it has now emerged as a “hot” area of research—and the subject of a growing number of workshops, conferences and academic programs, including a BRAIN-Initiative-sponsored workshop that starts tomorrow. The intertwining of these disciplines was almost inevitable.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Jill Adams |Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky
Engrams, the physical circuits of individual memories, consist of more than just neurons, according to a new study published today in Nature. Astrocytes, too, shape how some memories are stored and retrieved, the work shows. The results represent “a fundamental change” in how the neuroscience field should think about indexing memories, says lead researcher Benjamin Deneen, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky |Sandra Sexton |Shaena Montanari
Caitlin James is a Ph.D. candidate at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. After earning her B.S. in Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, she began her thesis work at Roswell, which aims to identify molecular mechanisms by which chronic beta-adrenergic signaling impairs CD8 T-cell CD28 co-stimulatory signaling. She also studies how housing temperatures affect laboratory mouse T-cell biology. James is a National Cancer Institute Ruth L.
