My lab started a monthly Vintage Journal Club where we read and discuss seminal papers in the field that are related to ongoing projects. It's turning out to be really fun to discuss "vintage" work in the context of what we know today. The lab seems to enjoy it too. 🧪 🤓

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I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for #optogenetics, a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” More to follow.

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Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

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