Kristina Micheva
@kdmicheva.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, array tomographist, learner of languages and martial arts
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It is with a heavy heart that I share the unexpected news that our colleague, friend, and mentor Daniel Madison passed away on Thursday, October 9.
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It is with a heavy heart that I share the unexpected news that our colleague, friend, and mentor Daniel Madison passed away on Thursday, October 9.
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E11 Bio is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves.
Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
October 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
E11 Bio is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves.
Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
Back from a trip and I found this unintentional present I left myself
September 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Back from a trip and I found this unintentional present I left myself
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It was a good experience to step back and briefly take stock of the amazing progress in connectomics since I started working on this stuff (20 years ago!)
thanks as well to @natrevneuro.nature.com for the constructive editorial interactions.
thanks as well to @natrevneuro.nature.com for the constructive editorial interactions.
August 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It was a good experience to step back and briefly take stock of the amazing progress in connectomics since I started working on this stuff (20 years ago!)
thanks as well to @natrevneuro.nature.com for the constructive editorial interactions.
thanks as well to @natrevneuro.nature.com for the constructive editorial interactions.
Ultramicrotomy escapism: trimming blocks and enjoying the shapes and colors 💕
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ultramicrotomy escapism: trimming blocks and enjoying the shapes and colors 💕
Our 2nd Array Tomography Workshop will be in November in Buenos Aires and there is still time to apply! Five days of hands-on learning, discussions and talks + gorgeous electron microscopy and immunofluorescence. Focus on simple and affordable workflows.
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
Workshop 2025
About the workshop This workshop will cover array tomography (AT) technology with a focus on “simple and affordable” workflows based on serial ultramicrotomy and imaging. The practicals include...
www.arraytomography.org
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Our 2nd Array Tomography Workshop will be in November in Buenos Aires and there is still time to apply! Five days of hands-on learning, discussions and talks + gorgeous electron microscopy and immunofluorescence. Focus on simple and affordable workflows.
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
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We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki.
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis [email protected]; 973.800.4119
bit.ly
July 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki.
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
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Excited to announce registration to the next Array Tomography workshop in Buenos Aires is now open!
#volumeEM
See our AT website page for more information ⬇
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
#volumeEM
See our AT website page for more information ⬇
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
July 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Excited to announce registration to the next Array Tomography workshop in Buenos Aires is now open!
#volumeEM
See our AT website page for more information ⬇
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
#volumeEM
See our AT website page for more information ⬇
www.arraytomography.org/workshop-202...
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For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Activity-driven myelin sheath growth is mediated by mGluR5 - Nature Neuroscience
Employing pharmacology, genetics and all-optical approaches in zebrafish, Braaker et al. find that neuronal activity influences the growth of myelin sheaths along axons by signaling through metabotrop...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
I’m very scared to see what happens to PubMed
January 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
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What happened to the pursuit of truth? rupress.org/jgp/article/... - Eve Marder, on point...
What happened to the pursuit of truth? | Journal of General Physiology | Rockefeller University Press
The knowledge in our brains, not in our phones, is necessary for creative thinking and the pursuit of truth.
rupress.org
January 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What happened to the pursuit of truth? rupress.org/jgp/article/... - Eve Marder, on point...
Happy to share a new biorxiv manuscript with @owen-lab.bsky.social where we “slice and dice” synapses with array tomography and find subclasses with different glutamate receptor composition 🧪
Data-driven synapse classification reveals a logic of glutamate receptor composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.11.628056v1
December 18, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Happy to share a new biorxiv manuscript with @owen-lab.bsky.social where we “slice and dice” synapses with array tomography and find subclasses with different glutamate receptor composition 🧪
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Our paper is out just in time for #EM_Monday! It is about a specialized neuron-specific ER, called the spine apparatus, which is found close to synapses and has a very peculiar shape. If you think neurons are special, the spine apparatus is their🦄 horn! But how does it form?!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
December 2, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Our paper is out just in time for #EM_Monday! It is about a specialized neuron-specific ER, called the spine apparatus, which is found close to synapses and has a very peculiar shape. If you think neurons are special, the spine apparatus is their🦄 horn! But how does it form?!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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November 28, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Kristina Micheva
Get a free NIH BRAIN Initiative art calendar to prep for 2025: catalog.ninds.nih.gov/publications... .
I'm proud to say that the cover is a piece we created from the DTI imaging of a subject in the BRAIN funded depression DBS study we reported last year: go.nature.com/48lmlzC
🧪🧠
I'm proud to say that the cover is a piece we created from the DTI imaging of a subject in the BRAIN funded depression DBS study we reported last year: go.nature.com/48lmlzC
🧪🧠
November 25, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Get a free NIH BRAIN Initiative art calendar to prep for 2025: catalog.ninds.nih.gov/publications... .
I'm proud to say that the cover is a piece we created from the DTI imaging of a subject in the BRAIN funded depression DBS study we reported last year: go.nature.com/48lmlzC
🧪🧠
I'm proud to say that the cover is a piece we created from the DTI imaging of a subject in the BRAIN funded depression DBS study we reported last year: go.nature.com/48lmlzC
🧪🧠
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Cortical interneurons learn on the job! Speculated this was true a decade ago! Sherry Wu and Min Dai finally provide evidence! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pyramidal neurons proportionately alter the identity and survival of specific cortical interneuron subtypes
The mammalian cerebral cortex comprises a complex neuronal network that maintains a delicate balance between excitatory neurons and inhibitory interneurons. Previous studies, including our own researc...
www.biorxiv.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Cortical interneurons learn on the job! Speculated this was true a decade ago! Sherry Wu and Min Dai finally provide evidence! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is fun 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:10 PM
This is fun 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
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Best thing you could watch in 2016 and best thing you can watch today. RIP Thomas Reese
November 19, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Best thing you could watch in 2016 and best thing you can watch today. RIP Thomas Reese
Celebrating the small (70 nm) victories today - look at these perfect serial sections that I cut!
🧪 the joys of #arraytomography
🧪 the joys of #arraytomography
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Celebrating the small (70 nm) victories today - look at these perfect serial sections that I cut!
🧪 the joys of #arraytomography
🧪 the joys of #arraytomography
I'm here, who else?
November 13, 2024 at 4:47 PM
I'm here, who else?
Time for some of my favorite images with immunofluorescence array tomography: this one is human cortex, and the yellow fluff around the blue nuclei are lipofuscin granules that accumulate with aging. Lipofuscin in this image comes for free - no label needed because it is autofluorescent!
November 12, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Time for some of my favorite images with immunofluorescence array tomography: this one is human cortex, and the yellow fluff around the blue nuclei are lipofuscin granules that accumulate with aging. Lipofuscin in this image comes for free - no label needed because it is autofluorescent!
Delicious & unique array tomography cake from the Array Tomography Workshop in Munich 2024. Thank you!
November 8, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Delicious & unique array tomography cake from the Array Tomography Workshop in Munich 2024. Thank you!
Color-coordinated EM. Chapter 2. Autumn synapses with #webknossos
November 17, 2023 at 7:53 PM
Color-coordinated EM. Chapter 2. Autumn synapses with #webknossos
There are places / communities / ecosystems that are so difficult to leave and keep pulling you back
Woods Hole, MBL
Woods Hole, MBL
August 24, 2023 at 10:08 PM
There are places / communities / ecosystems that are so difficult to leave and keep pulling you back
Woods Hole, MBL
Woods Hole, MBL
Found in the Lillie library, MBL - interesting dynamics of the languages used in early zoological literature
and here's the actual reference: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.550.10041
and here's the actual reference: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.550.10041
August 16, 2023 at 8:48 PM
Found in the Lillie library, MBL - interesting dynamics of the languages used in early zoological literature
and here's the actual reference: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.550.10041
and here's the actual reference: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.550.10041