Ferguson Lab

Credits

Photo & figure credits.

Every photograph and scientific figure on this site is credited here, with its license where one applies.

Photographs

The films

Six short films, made by the Ferguson Lab and drawn by code from the lab's published work. Each film's sources, collaborators and funding are credited under its player and on its own end card.

The portrait

The portrait of Dr. Ferguson was made from a 2017 group photograph of the lab, taken by UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Media Productions. He is shown alone: the pose is his, and the surrounding laboratory was generated rather than photographed. It is not a photograph of a moment that happened, and it is not the college's photography, so it is credited here rather than to the photographer.

The research stories

The four photographs heading the research stories are by UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Media Productions (2017–2020). Dr. Ferguson was edited out of each, and the lab behind him filled in, so that the stories show the people who do the work. Everyone else in them is unaltered, except in the fourth photograph, where part of the colleague standing behind him was regenerated.

The 3D brain

The interactive mouse brain on the home page is drawn from the Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework v3 (2017 structure meshes), Allen Institute for Brain Science. Regions shown: whole brain, nucleus accumbens, prelimbic, infralimbic and anterior cingulate cortex, and the ventral tegmental area.

The human brain in the film From Mouse to Human is the MNI ICBM152 2009c nonlinear symmetric template, an average of MRI scans from 152 adults, so it shows no one person’s brain. McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University (Fonov et al., NeuroImage 2011; Fonov et al., NeuroImage 2009).

Copyright (C) 1993–2004 Louis Collins, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies. The authors and McGill University make no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided “as is” without express or implied warranty.

Figures from published papers

Figures are reproduced from the lab's own papers, cropped for the web where the license permits, with the panel and license shown under each image on the site.

Kim et al., Mol Psychiatry 2021

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01217-8 · CC BY 4.0

  • Fig. 1c: Confocal: Cre (red) and HA (green) co-labeled medium spiny neurons, D1 and D2 lines
  • Fig. 4f (main image): eGRASP confocal main image: D1-MSN with color-coded input synapses

Ma et al., Transl Psychiatry 2026

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-026-04128-w · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (copyright: the authors)

  • Fig. 2B: Confocal grid: stress-TRAPed prefrontal neurons (red) with retrobeads (green), GABA (magenta), DAPI (blue)
  • Fig. 5C: Excitatory input maps onto stress-activated neurons: resilient vs susceptible (color = input strength)

Kim et al., Biol Psychiatry 2024

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.03.017 · (c) 2024 Society of Biological Psychiatry, all rights reserved (NIH author manuscript)

  • Fig. 1E: Confocal tiles: Cre (red), acetylated FKHR (green), merge, DAPI — Sirt1-KO vs control D1 neurons

Dias et al., Nature 2014

https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13976 · Publisher copyright (Springer Nature; NIH author manuscript)

  • Fig. 2d: Confocal: GFP (green) and Axin2 (red) in D1 and D2 neurons of the NAc

Chaudhury et al., Nature 2013

https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11713 · Publisher copyright (Springer Nature; NIH author manuscript)

  • Fig. 1a: VTA dopamine neurons: TH (red), ChR2-EYFP (green), merge

Figures from the Journal of Neuroscience are reused under the Society for Neuroscience's author-reuse policy. Figures from Nature papers are reused under the authors' retained rights to their own work.