Hot off the press: evidence for distinct circuits underlying positive and negative fentanyl reinforcement.

Open access doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

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Our latest paper is now out at Nature Neuroscience! 🌈We discovered hue-selective neurons in the fruit fly brain. We combined genetic methods with modeling to reveal that recurrent connections play a critical role. rdcu.be/dH6N7

My inspiration!!🤩 #blackinneuro #representation #scicomm Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin Dr. Theanne Griffith 🇧🇧👩🏾‍🔬🇭🇷 Yasmin Hurd, PhD

“To see it work for the first time was our ‘Eureka!’ moment. It was one of those moments you don’t forget in life.” go.nature.com/3UR8Wt6

I am so happy to finally share this. AANRI is one of the most rewarding scientific efforts I have been a part of. This commentary outlines the story behind the science. Thanks C. Brandon Ogbunu Ishmail Abdus-Saboor Jean Zarate / Lady Ginseng & Dr. Royal for feedback nature.com/articles/s4159…

I'm looking forward to next week's 88th Symposium on Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor. Theme this year is Brain Body Physiology.

I'm excited to share some of our new interesting results and learning from many luminaries in the field.

meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?…

Awesome new lab doing innovative and important work. Get in touch asap

📢 Our latest paper is out in Cell! Led by the multi-talented Xinhe Zheng, we accelerated AAV-based gene delivery to 2 days & enabled in vivo CRISPR screens with single cell-level readout, a leap from existing capabilities 🤯 How does it work? (1/8)

Also at the Museum of Natural History: the Ice of Hip Hop

Some gorgeous animals at the Museum of Natural History

We are so lucky to have ~8 more years with Simon Ogundare, as he’s chosen Columbia Medicine to pursue his MD-PhD. We only expect more greatness from this phenomenal scientist and human being.

Robots boost data consistency in rodent studies reliant on mechanical, optogenetic stimulation.

By Calli McMurray

thetransmitter.org/methods/robots…

The junior faculty at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute are on fire! Congrats Rudy Behnia and colleagues. I remember how cool this work was when you presented some of it at last year’s Pew meeting Rudy.

Fun symposium with some of my favs!

#MMiN2024 was tons of fun!

Saying goodbye to our six graduating seniors from the lab, although we missed Melody and Aishat today. Glad that Abednego, Simon, Sevilla, and Sarah got to bring their families by the lab. Two off to grad school (Stanford and Columbia), rest doing gap years before med school.

See a really nice News and Views about our paper by Jessica Tollkuhn
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Glad to see this work out from our neighbors at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, Andres Bendesky lab. Such fascinating and inspiring approaches and discoveries.

I am ecstatic and proud to see our graduating senior Simon Ogundare win the Bridges and Sturtevant Prize in Biological Sciences from Columbia Biological Sciences. Over the years Simon has become an integral member of our lab.

Sad news and monumental loss!