Graduate student Rebecca Senft did some work away from the lab bench, collaborating on "Best practices and tools for reporting reproducible fluorescence microscopy methods." A comprehensive guide for how to get consistent results in microscopy, this paper walks through a number of elements including how to best approach meta-data reporting, different types of microscopes, validation, and more. This paper is now available at Nature Methods.
About Us
Commitment to innovation, excellence, equity, and inclusivity
The Dymecki Lab embraces the core mission of Harvard Medical School, which is to alleviate human suffering by nurturing a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in biomedical inquiry. Dymecki is dedicated to ensuring excellence in scientific training, innovativeness in experimental approach, and accessibility to tools, reagents, and results. Inclusivity and equity define the lab culture.
Research
Specialization in the Serotonin System Shapes Behavior and Regulates Homeostasis
The Dymecki lab studies how functional modularity arises within the brain serotonergic neuronal system and dynamically controls diverse processes ranging from respiration and thermal balance to emotional mood state to coping behaviors…
Lab News
Read our latest publication “Neurochemically and Hodologically Distinct Ascending VGLUT3 versus Serotonin Subsystems Comprise the r2-Pet1 Median Raphe,” now available in the Journal of Neuroscience. We describe “sister” Pet1 lineages, one serotonergic and the other largely glutamatergic, with the latter forming exquisite presynaptic structures called pericellular baskets in the septum,
The Dymecki Lab's work was recently featured in the New York Times article "What Causes SIDS?" by Carrie Arnold, which can be read here.