Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!✨🔬 Today Char shares this stunning cryosection of the spiral ganglion of a 50 day old mouse🐁 immunostained against Calb2 (Type 1a marker) in blue💙, Calb1 (type 1b marker) in red❤️ and Pou4f1 (Type 1c marker) in green💚🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! 🔬🤩 Today we are treating you with this beautiful GIF from Adam! 🐭 The image shows a 3D reconstruction of a TdTomato sparse labelling of MOC neurons (at the top of the image) and their iLOC counterparts (shown at the bottom).🧠🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬 We hope you are having a good day! To start off the week in a great way we have today's photo from Char!🌞🧪 The photo shows the apical coil of a 4 day old mouse cochlea stained with the pan-neuronal marker β-tubulin(shown in ❤️)🐁 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬 I hope you will enjoy today's image from Char!🌞 The image shows a Mid-modiolar cryosection of a 25 day old cochlea showing Calb2 staining (💚) in Type I neurons in the Spiral Ganglion and Hair Cells in the Organ of Corti.🐁🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! 🔬🧪 I hope you are all having a great monday! 🌟 Today's image is from Sarah and it shows a P8 cochlear apex,🐁 with F-actin labelled ❤️ red by phalloidin and inner hair cells glowing 💚 green through AAV-induced GFP expression. #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬✨ Today's photo is from Char and it shows a beautiful immunolabeled image of a 9 day old mouse cochlea.🐁👂 In 💙 you can see the hair cells of the apical section stained beautifully by myosin VIIa!😍 #HearingResearch #Neuroskyence

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬 Have you wondered what goes on in a brain?🧠 Today's image comes from Andrea and it shows calcium activity in neuronal nuclei in a zebrafish!🐟 The blinking shows activation in neurons with warmer colours indicating higher activity✨🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! 🔬🧪 I hope your week is off to a great start! 🌟 Today's image is from Sarah and it shows a P8 cochlear apex,🐁 with F-actin labelled ❤️ red by phalloidin and inner hair cells glowing 💚 green through AAV-induced GFP expression. #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Howdy all! Today's paper spotlight is hot from the presses (hence the watermark) and comes from Pankaj Bhatia. This terrifying work shows how PFAS (forever chemicals) can cause hearing loss through death of cochlear hair cells and their associated neuron! ☠️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬🧪 I hope your week has started off great and today's photo will only make it better!🌞 Today Char shows us this beautiful staining of the cochlea neurons (marked ❤️ by beta-tubulin) and the Type 2 SGNs (marked 💚 by peripherin) #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬✨Hope you had a good weekend! Today's photo is from Alice and it shows an immunostaining of outer hair cells in a 2 month old mouse!🧪🐁 Phalloidin (in 💜) stains the body of the hair cells and in green is a lab secret🤫 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬🧪 Today's stunning image comes from Lillian! The image shows the apical part of a 9-day old mouse cochlea with myosin7a ❤️ staining the hair cells, DAPI 💙 staining the nucleus and a ✨mysterious✨ green protein💚👀 #NeuroSkyence #HearingResearch

Today our PhD students Ivy and Zoë showcased their research at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social 2nd Year symposium sharing their posters and getting some invaluable feedback and, we are sure, lots of praises for their excellent work!🧪❤️ #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬✨ Today we are back with a good one!🤩 Today's photo comes from Char and shows the apical turn of a 4 day-old mouse cochlea immunostained against the ribbon synapse marker CtBP2 (❤️) and Myosin 7a (💙) as a hair cell marker. 🐁🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬✨ To fight off the weekend blues Char is sharing a great photo showing a mid-modiolar section of the spiral ganglion in an adult mouse.🧪🐁 Red (parvalbumin) and green (Calb2) stain two different types of spiral ganglion neurons!❤️💚 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬✨ Today's stunning new image comes from Char and it shows a mid-modiolar section of the spiral ganglion in an adult mouse.🧪🐁 In the image red (beta-tubulin) stains the spiral ganglion neurons and blue (DAPI) stains the cell nuclei! ❤️💙 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday !🔬✨ Today Elli treats us to a great recording of inner hair cells in the cochlea of a 7-day-old mouse, showing spontaneous activity during development.👂🐁 The colours show calcium activity, with brighter colours indicating higher activity.💜❤️💛🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! 🔬🤩 Today’s image comes from Lillian and it’s her first immuno!🐁🧪 In the image, red ❤️ highlights myo7a, which shows the hair cell bodies! Beautiful! #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Today's (long overdue) paper spotlight actually comes from us! This review is a great place to start if you want to understand spontaneous activity in the cochlea! Definitely worth a read, even if it's just to look at the cute cartoons :) The paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41731255/

Around 90 million children and adolescents live with hearing loss. Globally, 1.5 billion people are affected, including 430 million with disabling hearing loss. Without action, this could rise to 2.5 billion by 2050.(www.who.int, World Report on Hearing 2021)

Today is #WorldHearingDay! 👂 This year's topic focuses on hearing loss in school-age children, and highlights the difficulties in diagnosing hearing loss at such an early age especially in regions with low resources.👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 www.who.int/campaigns/wo... #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬 Today's image comes from Ivy and it shows a beautiful dissection of the organ of Corti of a mouse!😮🐁 In the image the 💚 signals are myosin VI, an essential protein expressed in auditory hair cells for hearing acquisition!👂✨🧪 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬🤩 Today's image is a stunning one and comes from Zoë! In this image we can see both the inner and outer hair cells stained with Phalloidin (in ❤️) whereas the supporting cells are outlined with Cx30 and Cx26 (respectively in 💚 and 💜)🐁 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Last week in beautiful Puerto Rico🌞, our amazing PIs Ginny and Adam presented their work at the ARO conference👂, soaking up inspiring talks and posters, trading the UK freeze🥶 for sunshine😎 while sharing science and learning from others. 🧪 #ARO #HearingResearch #Neuroskyence

This week's #MicroscopyMonday is the second part of a previous one!🔬👀 Two weeks ago we showed you a view of the synapses of a 3 day old mouse and today we are showing you how it changes over time with this beautiful image of a 12 day old mouse coming from Char! 🧪🐁 #Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🧪🔬Today's image comes from Sarah and it shows the hair cells (highlighted by Myo7a in red) and the spiral ganglion neurons (highlighted by Beta tubulin in blue) in a two month old mouse cochlea!🐁👂 #NeuroSkyence #HearingResearch

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! 🔬To celebrate February we have a beautiful image from Char and shows a stunning view of the synapses of the inner hair cells in a 3-day-old mouse.🐁👂In this snapshot CtBP2, in red, labels the presynaptic ribbons and PSD95, in green, labels the postsynaptic sites.✨🧪

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬🤩Today's image is something a little bit different, it comes from Andrea and shows a phalloidin staining of the inner ear of a 30 hours old zebrafish with the first hair cells already present (highlighted by the arrows) and growing!🐟🧪 #NeuroSkyence #HearingResearch

New Year, but same old happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! 🎆We kick off 2026 with a beautiful image from Char showing the apex dissected from a 34 day old mouse cochlea.🐁 Beta III tubulin (in green) shows the spiral ganglion neurons in the center and their afferent fibres!🧪🔬 #NeuroSkyence

Christmas is near and we would like to wish all of you happy holidays from everyone at the Hearing Research Group!🎄🎆👂