Allen Institute

Here #AtAllenInstitute, we're getting ready for one of our most anticipated employee events - the Halloween costume contest. There's few gatherings that rival it when it comes to creativity, with some costumes involving an impressive amount of construction, engineering, and art. In honor of the amazing costumes we'll see, we've decided to invite a celebrity - the viral 12 foot tall skeleton. But getting it from its assembly point in the shipping bay to our atrium was a humerus endeavor. Props to Felicia Folks, Christina Jarvis, Kendal Solak, and our facilities team for the team work!

Undergraduate teaching faculty - participate in a study on the impact of teaching mitosis and cell structure using open science! Learn more about the project and share your interest at https://lnkd.in/gpmejnWy #SciEd #STEMed

On this day in 2017, the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced the addition of data from live human brain cells to the Allen Cell Types Database. Today, the database includes electrophysiological, morphological, and transcriptomic data measured from individual human and mouse cells, as well as models simulating cell activity.

Get started with our #OpenScience resources with our tutorial videos! Quickly learn the essentials on using our tools and resources for your own research with the help of our experts. Check them out: https://lnkd.in/gbrv9dBf We're always filming and adding more tutorials on our tools, datasets, and other resources. Which should we add next?

Vampire's aren't alive, but it doesn't mean they don't have a heart. 🫀🥺 Join us for a spooky edition of Pacific Science Center's Science in the City featuring our own Kaitlyn Casimo! 📆 Oct. 30, 6pm 🎟️ Free for members. $5 for non-members.

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (SeaHub), a landmark collaboration between the University of Washington, the Allen Institute and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is on a mission to build new technologies to record the history of cells over time. Researchers will build on groundbreaking technology that turns living cells into devices for recording complex biological information by encoding the cell as DNA sequences that are written to the genome. “We aim to recover the full autobiography of each cell, rather than only the last page,” says Dr. Jay Shendure, one of the researchers. Shendure’s cell-recording research will bring new insights into the changes that cells go through over the course of a disease. Then, Dr. Cole Trapnell, a professor in the UW Department of Genome Sciences, will use AI and deep learning to develop software and tools to analyze genomic data in the recorder cells. Their discoveries will inform Dr. Marion Pepper's work on designing better vaccines and programming immune cells to fight off pathogens more effectively. In the longer term, Seahub researchers hope their work will transform how scientists use DNA to study the role of cells and genes in human health. They plan to share their findings widely with the scientific community, fueling progress in labs throughout the region and around the world.

Gentle imaging for delicate cells 🧫✨🔬 Examining cells using traditional microscopes, especially for long periods of time, can stress them out and often leads to cell death. With lattice light sheet microscope, researchers can gently spy on the tiny delicate structures in cells as they move during the many hours of the human cell cycle. 🎥 ZEISS Microscopy #SciShots

Before Alzheimer's disease shows up in the clinic, there are changes that occur on a cellular level. Melissa Rudy from Fox News Digital spoke to the team behind a new study, published in Nature, that found certain inhibitory neurons are lost early in the disease's timeline.

Our popular “Neurons Beyond the Textbook” undergraduate lessons are getting a refresh, and you're invited for a sneak preview!    Join us for a virtual educator workshop on November 8th, 10:00-11:30am Pacific time, to explore these new resources for teaching neuron morphology and neuronal cell types using authentic Allen Institute data. The workshop will include tips for teaching the new materials, a behind-the-scenes lab tour, and Q&A with Allen Institute scientists.    Spots are limited, so apply to attend today! Application will close November 4th and a Zoom link will be provided to participants. Please spread the word to other neuroscience educators who may be interested!

Less than 2 months left to apply for the 2025 Shanahan Foundation Fellowship! This three-year fellowship gives Ph.D.s from non-neuroscience fields the mentorship and support to pursue their own research interests with our data. Apply by Dec. 16: https://lnkd.in/g-X9ysne