Michael Ratz
@ratz_michael
Group leader at Karolinska Institute | Neural circuit assembly, cellular barcoding, spatial RNAseq
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate the fascinating question of how genomic information is translated into synaptic connectivity during normal and perturbed mammalian brain development! Big thanks to @ERC_Research! #ERCStG
🎉 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! 400 bright minds have been awarded over €628 million to fund ideas at the frontiers of science & scholarship. Find out who, where and why 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne… 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @HorizonEU
Absolutely bonkers paper. Congrats to all. To the top of the read pile!!! Ectoderm barcoding reveals neural and cochlear compartmentalization @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
I went to the Senate floor to lay out for my colleagues the stunning story of brazen, open corruption during the first 6 weeks of the Trump presidency. I think it's a story everyone needs to know. 1/ So a🧵with the highlights from the speech.
This is so key. What the US is experiencing is a crisis of cowardice. It is possible to act now. That may not always be the case.
Just a reminder: the US is not Castro's Cuba, Putin's Russia, or Xi's China. At any moment the GOP could unite and oppose Trump and create a crisis for him. Their cowardice has been astounding but they can still act without being put in a Gulag or shot.
"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."--@TimothyDSnyder
Chef eines Altenheimes hat gerade die AfD komplett eingesargt ⚰️🚮! Diese 3 Minuten sind historisch: "Die deutsche Altenhilfe kämpft ums Überleben, wir werden weniger in Zeiten in denen wir mehr werden müssten. Wir brauchen mehr Migration und nicht weniger. Und das hat mit…
In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field. thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight-i… #WomenInScience #February11
Hiring alert 🚨 My lab and @LannerLab are looking for a postdoc to investigate motor impairments in autism spectrum disorder using cutting edge tools in zebrafish: ki.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…. Please help us spread the word among recent graduates in the field!
Everything about lineage tracing is contained in this new book! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… @leonie_vberlin and I have written an extensive chapter on barcoded tracing in the mouse brain. We hope it's helpful - thanks @garciamarquesJ for the opportunity to contribute!
Guess what - the EU 🇪🇺 also produces 41% more steel, 59% more vehicles, 39% more planes and 53 times as many ships as the US 🇺🇸 Of course, nobody will write about that. When it’s China 🇨🇳, it’s sobering. When it’s Europe, it’s ignored.
This is a sobering comparison:
Our latest work in collaboration with the Bourhy Lab (Pasteur Inst.) in which we use scRNA-seq to characterize host-rabies molecular interactions across diverse human brain cell types. Recommended if you're interested in "system virology" or glial biology: tinyurl.com/3a7e9vwp
The real work of science is generating a well-posed hypothesis that can be tested, not predicting the results of a study to test that hypothesis.
Sad news for all current graduate students out there. ChatGPT pretrained on scientific papers of the last two decades can now predict the results of your study. Oops. nature.com/articles/s4156…
this conversation will be on replay for many academics this Thanksgiving.
Looking for a motivated and talented PhD student: Are you passionate about experimental/computational immunology and cancer biology? Join our team at TranslaTUM!🌟linkedin.com/jobs/view/4079… @TU_Muenchen @TumTransla #PhDOpportunity #CancerResearch #Immunology #SystemsBiology
Researchers have developed a method that enables three-dimensional RNA analysis at cellular resolution in intact mouse brains. The new method can transform our understanding of brain function. Research by @peruhlen, @kanashigeaki, et al. Published in @ScienceMagazine.