Our lab went to a joint workshop (April 10-11) with people from Director Justin's lab and Dr. Hwang's lab.
We participated in the first joint symposium of two IBS research centers, the Center for Cognition and Sociality (CCS) and the Center for Genome Engineering (CGE), held on April 6, 2023. To our delight, Jongwoo SEO won the first prize poster award for research potential.
Our work has been selected as cover art for the April 2022 issue of Biological Psychiatry !3/31/2022
Synaptic plasticity in the brain is still a mystery, as if a magician is chanting a spell while looking at a magic orb containing synapses to control the synaptic plasticity. In this issue, Koh et al. (pages 740-752) found that astrocytes co-release glutamate and D-serine to integrate synaptic plasticity in nearby synapses and induce heterosynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. This orchestration of astrocytes renders a memory flexible, resulting in cognitive flexibility. Artwork by Younghee Lee. Hippocampal astrocytes co-release D-serine and glutamate |