The ASAP-sponsored video series, Discover ASAP, highlights top findings and tools connected to our ASAP network, including datasets, code & software, protocols, and lab materials. Featured videos include interviews of authors, grantees, and key opinion leaders in Parkinson’s research.
Discover ASAP is designed to further the spread of knowledge and enhance equity across the scientific community by promoting transparent research practices. We are excited to share these interviews and videos with the research community, in hopes that they will help to accelerate discoveries for Parkinson’s disease.
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This Month's Featured Video
Dorotea Fracchiolla (Doro), the Project Manager for Team Hurley (Mito911), joins Discover ASAP to discuss good communication as a key component of open science and how art can be used as an effective means to communicate science. Doro also talks about the paintings she created for ASAP that represent Parkinson’s disease.
Read Doro’s first and second blog posts about her art Learn more about Team Hurley.
Follow Doro on Bluesky.
Other Discover ASAP Videos
Justin Savage, a PhD student at Duke University and a member of CRN Team Calakos, joins Discover ASAP to discuss his open-source ImageJ-based synapse analysis software. Team Calakos shared source code, tutorials, tissue processing protocols, and example data for their tool. Read the publication.
Zac Caffal, a Senior Research Analyst at Duke University and a member of CRN Team Calakos, joins Discover ASAP to discuss the Selective Phospho-eIF2α ORF Tracking light (SPOTlight) reporter that measure integrated stress response (ISR) state-dependent protein synthesis. Read the paper. Check out the viral reporter.
Zack Gaertner, an MD/PhD student at Northwestern University and a member of CRN Team Awatramani, joins Discover ASAP to discuss his spatial transcriptomics dataset examining the genetic drivers of subtype-specific vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease. Read the preprint.
Karin Cox, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of CRN Team Strick, joins Discover ASAP to discuss her new method for more accurately detecting rhythmic spiking through power spectra. The team shared the source code on GitHub and Zenodo. Read the publication.
Protocol Particulars
ASAP’s previous video series – Protocol Particulars – highlighted ASAP-generated protocols. Featured guests included the protocol authors, who provided an overview of their protocol, described how the protocol relates to their ASAP project, and presented detailed troubleshooting tips. View these videos on ASAP’s Protocol Particulars Playlist.
