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@medchemexpress.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:50 AM

🏆 #NobelPrize 2026 | #Optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 🧠

💡 Their work enables researchers to switch individual nerve cells on or off with light—transforming #neuroscience and how we understand the brain.

#NobelMedicine

@jontytownson.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:47 AM

Every year I give a lecture to students on non-neuronal #optogenetics, focusing on protein manipulation to answer cell and developmental biology questions. I love the topic and did my PhD in it.

@cenmag.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:28 AM

Peter Hegemann, one of the 2026 medicine laureates, cracked the biochemistry of how light can be used to regulate the activity of neurons. This research, using what is now called #optogenetics, has paved the way for others to create tools to track and map out neural networks.

#NobelPrize #chemsky 🧪

@maxplanck.de Oct 5, 2026, 9:59 AM

Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in #Physiology or #Medicine! 🎉They are Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel, who were honoured for developing #optogenetics - techniques for controlling genes with light.

An illustration of three men under the header "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026". The illustration shows Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, the winning scientists.

@osna-fm.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:54 AM

German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, along with American Karl Deisseroth, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year. This wa... https://news.osna.fm/?p=66630 | #news #breakthroughs #german #nobel #optogenetics

@tvvde.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:43 AM

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Karl @deisseroth.bsky.social , Peter Hegemann (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) und Georg Nagel ( @uni-wuerzburg.de ) zum #Nobelpreis! 🎉
"... for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and #optogenetics."

@ki.se Oct 5, 2026, 9:38 AM

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...

Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2026. Photo: Cecilia Odlind

@0xwraith.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:31 PM

Watching light switch neurons on and off in real-time is mind-blowing. Optogenetics lets us rewrite neural circuits like code, bridging biology and robotics in ways we barely imagined possible. #optogenetics

@imprs-cbp.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:57 PM

Closing the week with three fantastic talks on #proteomics, #optogenetics, and molecular dynamics from Julian Langer, Alexander Gottschalk, and Gerhard Hummer (@MPI of Biophysics / Goethe Uni Frankfurt)!

📸 Shau Chung Shin

#MD #IMPRS_CBP #biophysics

Gerhard Hummer giving talk on Day 4 of IMPRS-CBP 2026 Symposium

Julian Langer giving talk on Day 4 of IMPRS-CBP 2026 Symposium

Alexander Gottschalk giving talk on Day 4 of IMPRS-CBP 2026 Symposium

@rappopto.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 5:16 AM

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🧩 At RAPP, we configure BOB™ around your experimental requirements and can expand it with our modules for #photomanipulation, #optogenetics, #FRAP, and holographic #photostimulation with Holo4D.

➡️ BOB™ adapts to your experiment. Not the other way around.

@fabmusacchio.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 4:59 PM

#WILD! Combined wireless #electrophysiology, #IMU, camera & #UltrasonicAudio with onboard #TinyML and closed-loop #optogenetics in freely moving mice, even enabling recordings during #SocialBehavior and: in large outdoor environments. …Truly: WANT!

Diagram of a device labeled MCU, TinyML, Sync, NSP, Stim. control, I/O, Bluetooth, Storage, Battery, WILD-API, and components including a microphone, camera, neural amp, stimulator, and SD card. Labels: BATTERY, SD card, WILD, BASE PLATE, CAMERA and microphone.

system diagram of WILD. Behavioral and electrophysiological signals are fed
into TinyML and NSP modules and stored in a microSD card. Real-time detection
(Det) of neural events and behavioral motifs is performed on board and can
be used to control optogenetic manipulations in a closed-loop manner (Stim).
Communication with the host computer is achieved via Bluetooth, and seamless
synchronization with external devices is provided, all controlled by WILD–API.
The inset illustrates a mouse implanted with a WILD device, electrodes, battery
and protective 3D casing. Amp, amplifier; ephys, electrophysiolological
recording; opto-stim, optogenetic stimulation.

Diagram titled WILD showing Ephys, NSP, USV, Pupil, and Motion. Labels include Behavior, Feature detection, Signal processing, Automation, Stimulation, Closed-loop neural intervention, Behavior-aware automation, Det, Stim, Detect only, and Stim on.

A wireless platform for recording and control of neural and behavioral
activity in freely behaving small animals. a, Top: a schematic of WILD
operations. Behavioral and electrophysiological signals are processed onboard
to support feature detection, behavior-aware automation and closed-loop
neural intervention. Data are stored locally, while wireless communication
enables synchronization and monitoring through a remote device. Bottom:
WILD enables wireless recording of neural electrical activity (electrophysiology
(Ephys); scale bar, 0.5 mV, 50 ms) alongside behavioral variables, including USVs,
pupil dynamics and locomotor parameters (scale bars, pupil diameter (Pupil)
0.2 a.u.; locomotion speed (Motion) 2 cm s−1, 5 s), in freely behaving mice.

Research on animal movement, including images of a field with boxes and a rodent, followed by graphs.

Fig. 5 | Wireless electrophysiology in freely moving mice in naturalistic outdoor settings.

@seeingwithsound.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 1:02 PM

Nanoscope Therapeutics to present macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa data at the 26th Euretina Congress and Ophthalmology Futures Forums Retina Forum nanostherapeutics.com/2026/09/23/n... #optogenetics #AMD #RP #blindness

@gmj-georgia.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 9:26 PM

🔬 ETH Zurich scientists have designed a light-controlled molecular switch that wakes dormant cancer cells and makes them vulnerable… #Cancerresearch #Dormantcancercells #Optogenetics #Precisiononcology #Treatmentresistance #Cancerresearch #Dormantcancercells #Optogenetics #Precisiononcology #Tr…

@seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 18, 2026, 9:53 PM

José-Alain Sahel receives António Champalimaud Vision Award for his work to restore sight using #optogenetics https://www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/jos-alain-sahel-receives-ant-nio-champalimaud-vision-award #blindness

@seeingwithsound.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 9:53 PM

José-Alain Sahel receives António Champalimaud Vision Award for his work to restore sight using #optogenetics www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/jos-ala... #blindness

@csbj.org Sep 16, 2026, 12:46 PM

📢 Call for Papers: Photonics for Life: Bridging Biology, Medicine, and Optical Science

📅 Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

🔗 Submit your work: spj.science.org/journal/csbj...

@csbj.org #CallForPapers #Biophotonics #Biosensors #Optogenetics #BiomedicalEngineering #MedicalPhotonics

The Quantum Biology and Biophotonics section of CSBJ (A Science Partner Journal) is inviting submissions for its upcoming Special Issue:

“Photonics for Life: Bridging Biology, Medicine, and Optical Science”

For more information and submission guidelines, please visit: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/qbio

@iobswiss.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 5:18 PM

🏆 Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel receive the 2026 António Champalimaud Vision Award, the world’s largest prize in vision and ophthalmology. €1 million will support their future research.

🔗 iob.ch/news-insight...

#VisionRestoration #IOBBasel #Optogenetics #Ophthalmology

@currentmedscience.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 2:15 PM

This review highlights how #optogenetics dissects neural mechanisms using light to precisely activate or inhibit specific neurons, combined with behavioral & #electrophysiological analyses. #medsky

Read: doi.org/10.1007/s115...

#currentmedicalscience #Neuroscience #Neurobiology

Application of Optogenetic Neuromodulation in Regulating Depression

@seeingwithsound.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 12:23 PM

Nanoscope Therapeutics announces another step towards FDA approval of their gene-agnostic MOGENRY optogenetic gene therapy for RP nanostherapeutics.com/2026/09/09/n... Acceptance of the Biologics License Application (BLA); #optogenetics #blindness

@igrgavilan.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 8:14 PM

La semana en [Blue Chip]: "La optogenética holográfica: una puerta a la programación del cerebro" ignaciogavilan.com/la-optogenet... #optogenetica #optogenetics #neurotecnologia #neurotechnology #neurotech #ciencia #science