Mea (josc) 🐙
@jsongco_
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octopus vision | neuroscience PhD candidate | advocate for minorities in STEM 🇵🇭
United States
Joined July 2019
Octopuses have camera type eyes like vertebrates, but does their visual system function similarly? Check out the thread below for new findings from the Niell lab about neural coding in the octopus visual system! 🐙
Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor @traceofpink, together with @jsongco_ and @climbing_octo, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️ https://t.co/J99W57NoOl 1/n
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Meet Mea👋 “I started doing research in undergrad when an opportunity came up to study memory and aging. I found it interesting that changes in your brain can lead to long-lasting effects that sometimes don’t show up until months after an accident.”🔬🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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ICYMI: @uoregon neuroscience graduate student @jsongco_ won the @scicoalition's 2022 #FunditForward Student Video Challenge. Watch the video about her @NIH funded research here. #UOresearch
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Congratulations to Niell lab grad student @jsongco_, whose research advocacy video won 1st place in the Science Coalition challenge! She describes her work studying the organization of the octopus visual system 🐙👁️. Great job Mea! https://t.co/6XyOBp1Fej
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Thank you for honoring my work, & thanks to @scicoalition for the opportunity to share about my research! 🐙#FundItForward
Congratulations to Mea O. Songco-Casey, a UO neuroscience graduate student, for winning The Science Coalition’s 2022 #FundItForward Student Video Challenge. Watch her video and learn about her @NIH funded research on the octopus visual system. #UOresearch
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🥁 DRUMROLL PLEASE 🥁 TSC is excited to announce this year's winner of the #FundItForward Student Video Challenge is @uoregon's Mea O. Songco-Casey! Thank you to all the students who participated and congratulations! #ThankstoScience #FundScience 📽🎉🔬
sciencecoalition.org
WASHINGTON – The Science Coalition (TSC) today announced Mea O. Songco-Casey of the University of Oregon (UO) as the winner of its fourth-annual Fund It
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A (belated) Halloween treat that took much longer than planned: a doodle of a happy octo dressed as a ghost, shining light on the eyes/brain- the same way our #OpenAccess paper aimed to do! Available through @CurrentBiology & linked below 🐙 https://t.co/I7ZBusWlMG
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Our paper on cell types of the octopus visual system is now out @CurrentBiology! We're excited for the new directions this will open up in understanding how the octopus brain processes visual information. Great work team! https://t.co/hlRkNfW2ik
cell.com
Songco-Casey et al. combine scRNA-seq and RNA FISH to characterize molecular cell types in the octopus visual system. Cell classes are delineated by neurotransmitters/neuropeptides and additional...
The first preprint from our foray into the octopus visual system! 🐙🧠👁️ Led by @jsongco_ , in collaboration with @drzebrafish and @pastramimachine, we made a cell type map of the octopus optic lobe. 1/ https://t.co/YHPMaguxMb
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before the academic year officially starts up again, I wanted to share the ultimate highlight from my summer - finally marrying my high school sweetheart 💘🥹
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An exciting new preprint from the lab! 🐭🐵
New work on active vision! We find a temporal sequence of processing in V1 following gaze shifts in both mice and marmosets. Led by @cosmousevision @dmmartins @emmalynleonard in collaboration with @jcbyts and @judefmitchell. 1/n https://t.co/Wxcb94kLYy
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Woohoo, Phil! Anyone joining his lab will be in great company. Phil is an incredible mentor and an even more impressive scientist! 🤩 Congrats, Dr. Parker!
Thrilled to be joining the Rutgers Dept of Psychology as an Assistant Prof of Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience on Sep 1st! Our lab will study the neural circuit basis of natural visual behaviors. Extremely humbled to be part of such an amazing group! @rutgers_psych @RutgersCCS
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Over the moon about our exciting work investigating this “alien” visual system! It has been an honor to learn from so many experts and to finally share our findings with everyone - especially during #CephalopodWeek 🐙 woo hoo, team! ☺️
The first preprint from our foray into the octopus visual system! 🐙🧠👁️ Led by @jsongco_ , in collaboration with @drzebrafish and @pastramimachine, we made a cell type map of the octopus optic lobe. 1/ https://t.co/YHPMaguxMb
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Octopus moms start to self-destruct after tending their eggs. There are new clues to what’s happening in their bodies when this harmful behavior begins.
nytimes.com
Researchers are gaining a better understanding of the biochemical processes that precede female octopuses’ deaths after they lay and then tend their eggs.
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I started a beginner’s training plan on the @Nike RC app a month ago and I just completed the last run of the plan. Not only did I finish my long run feeling stronger than I started, but this was the first time (ever!) that I had run straight for over an hour! 🥲
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Exciting findings about Connexin diversity in the zebrafish!
Our paper is up on biorxiv! We examine the spatio-temporal expression of all 41 zebrafish connexins - turns out most connexin have specific patterns of expression, and many tissues express unique combinatorial signatures of connexins (Connexinplexity!) https://t.co/uEPLQdrXRU
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Check out our #SfN2021 poster from @cris_niell's lab! How are visual and self-motion signals integrated in primary visual cortex? Using ephys + miniature cameras + IMU we measured visual receptive fields and head/eye movement signals in V1 of freely moving mice [P467.04]
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Applications for the Community Engagement Travel Award are now open! CMiS is offering travel awards to financially support graduate students at the UO interested in attending conferences with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. https://t.co/NMyRQ11ktv
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The CMiS Community Engagement Travel Award prioritizes applicants interested in attending conferences with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. To encourage individuals to attend such conferences,...
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It's #WorldOctopusDay! Check out this amazing video captured by Caroline Albertin (@CarrieOcto) of California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) emerging from their egg casings. https://t.co/7kOA13LMVJ
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Please join us for the Latinx/Hispanic celebration on October 15th! Use either the QR code on the poster or the link below to RSVP! 🎉 https://t.co/6PgzQiQiUY
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