We are very excited to share our work using #zebrafish to study fast acting antidepressants work! Tl;dr –ketamine and related drugs drive minutes-long calcium elevations in astroglia sufficient to mediate their effects. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Details below:

A little late to the Twitter party, but happy to share my first (co-)first author publication is finally out in nature! A dream collab with Jeffrey Markowitz Winthrop Gillis exploring the role of #dopamine in real-time action selection in naive mice. More below from @Datta_Lab👇🏽💥

Great work from twitterless Shyam Akula and many friends/collaborators, with co-discovery by Lu Wang, PhD Joseph G. Gleeson! TMEM161B is essential for normal shape and folding of human brain. pnas.org/eprint/RNKQIVR…

It's that time of year when we get to announce the next cohort of U of Utah Department of Neurobiology Rising Stars! Pleased to announce @AmematsroElom @SBelloRojas31 Alex Chen Chung-ha Davis Mengyu Liu 刘孟宇 @Crmcdermott Patrick Monari, PhD @mstackmann Kaitlin Sullivan, PhD Tuna Ortiz as our 2023 incoming class!

Excited to share our preprint from the Ginty lab Harvard Medical School and Sharma lab Columbia University. Big shoot-out to the co-authors (Michael Iskols and others whose twitter not known to me). We hope the DRG neuron genetic toolkit can be a useful resource for the field. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Had a blast learning about amazing science! Grateful to everyone who made this possible

In the new preprint, we found Krause corpuscles of the genitalia are vibrotactile sensors required for normal sexual behavior. It was a great collaboration with Michael Iskols Michael Iskols. He is going to be an MD/PhD student @TriIMDPhD in New York starting next month!

So after a year of working on it and many, many revisions here is my lab's take on the wonders of Layer 1! A bit shout out to Shuhan Huang Leena Ali Ibrahim who both did the heavy lifting in putting this piece together! Let us know what you think! cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Glia and systems neuro friends still at the conference - I’ll be presenting some of our work on astroglia as ‘circuit breaker’-like computational elements enabling behavioral transitions today - come check it out!

Amazing day for my first tweet. Super excited to share my PhD research, published today nature. We find that contrary to popular belief, cortical reactivations predict the future rather than reflect the past. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/10

Check out our (Marc Duque Ramírez Florian Engert) preview of this interesting paper about how astrocytes modulate neural circuit dynamics in behaviorally meaningful ways! Now out in Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Check out our new preprint: An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning, biorxiv.org/content/10.110…, by Adam Lowet, with Qiao Zheng, Melissa Meng, Sara Matias, myself, and @naoshigeuchida. 1/6

Excited to share this pre-print from my thesis work. I spent the past few years developing a model of diabetic neuropathy and unexpectedly found that macrophages infiltrate the nerves of diabetic mice and their recruitment is neuroprotective!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredibly happy to have made a tiny contribution (7 years ago as a summer undergrad) to this work on motor control in flies, now out in nature! Hats off to first author Ben Gorko who produced this landmark work as a tech and senior author Stephen Huston. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to announce that a part of my thesis work with Misha Ahrens and Florian Engert is out on bioRxiv! Summary 🧵⬇️, but first let me shout out this incredible companion piece by @LeftonKatie with Thomas Papouin (Papouin Lab - WashU)

Happy to see my thesis work out today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Josh Merel Jesse Marshall lhq Yuval Tassa Ugne Klibaite Amanda Gellis Greg Wayne Matt Botvinick @BOlveczky Google DeepMind Video credit to the talented Kristian J Herrera

Excited to share our paper on the specialized sensory structures of the genitalia for sexual touch. It was a collective efforts with the co-first author Michael Iskols Michael Iskols and other authors Rachel Greenberg @AnnieHandler and others not on X.

Thrilled to announce that my PhD work has been officially published in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 1/8

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share that the astrocyte-centered half of my thesis work is now out Science Magazine! With Misha Ahrens Marc Duque Ramírez science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/8