Nature Network Journal Club: Getting a GRASP on synapse location

The next installment of the Nature Network Neuroscience group journal club is now live. The paper proposes a new strategy to track the location of select synapses using split fluorescent proteins.

The contributor discussing this paper for the neuroscience group is Andrew Hires, a postdoctoral fellow at Janelia Farm Research Campus in the lab of Loren Looger. I want to thank Andrew for his participation.

Source: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nn/rss/action_potential/~3/NNq-rzwlyAQ/nature_network_journal_club_ge_1.html

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What to do with your unfunded proposals - place them in a centralized repository?

I would say no. Grant proposals are a precious commodity, especially in this day and age of reduced funding and evaporating money. However, in a recent Nature correspondence, Dr. Noam Harel describes his vision for a centralized grant repository, ideally open to the public, where researchers could place their best ideas, allowing various funding agencies to discover the plans most-suited to their respective agendas. Dr. Harel likens this potential web manifestation to something like eBay, Facebook or Google, but for scientists and funding agencies. A more apt analogy might be Monster.com, with both sides searching for their ideal match, and a long-term relationship (perhaps I am now making it sound more like eHarmony.com...).

When it comes to the integration of scientific communication and technology, I am extremely optimistic, and although I don't reject Dr. Harel's idea entirely, I just don't see it taking off in its presently-proposed form.

Source: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nn/rss/action_potential/~3/dYtZok4EL1I/what_to_do_with_your_unfunded.html

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On the Couch...with Delta Burke

When I asked Delta Burke to read my book on depression, I never thought a meaningful friendship would develop. But it did. Lesson learned is that depression doesn't care who you are, where you've been or what you've done in your life. Talking openly about your experiences, though, can help you heal and help others find their way as well.

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Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/two-takes-depression/201107/the-couchwith-delta-burke

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Recovering from Mental Illness? Be Your Own Best Friend

The bad/sad news: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four adults — approximately 57.7 million Americans — experience a mental health disorder in a given year. One in 17 lives with a serious mental illness. The good news: Between 70 and 90 percent of the individuals who are treated for their [...]

Source: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/recovering-from-mental-illness-be-your-own-best-friend/

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Retraction reaction redux

I apologize for the long time between posts. Things have been busy and I hope to have more for you soon. In the meantime, I wanted to toss out something to tide you over.

A recent Nature editorial extends the previous discussion that began in the AP post "Retraction reaction", concerning the retraction of a paper from the lab of Nobel Prize winner Linda Buck. The editorial touches on the issue of a significant weakness in the scientific process. Namely that save for a select few in the "know", the community-at-large rarely learns of what went wrong in a study, leading to its eventual retraction. This is indeed a concern and an on-going problem.

Source: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nn/rss/action_potential/~3/WQ7LBxpS-R4/retraction_reaction_redux_1.html

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