Absolutely thrilled to add a line to my signature! Nystul Lab and my application to co-direct an NIH PREP UC San Francisco has been funded!! We will be opening an admissions process to recruit an amazing cohort of diverse post-bac scholars later this year. Let's GO!! nigms.nih.gov/training/PREP

2022 UCSF Neuroscience program Retreat is underway at Asilomar conference center!

Congrats to UCSF's Hani Goodarzi Hani Goodarzi NIH Common Fund #NIHHighRisk Transformative Research Award recipient for 'Leveraging Natural Phenotypic Variations of Heterogenous ALS Populations-In-A-Dish to Enable Scalable Drug Discovery' commonfund.nih.gov/TRA/recipients Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

New paper from the lab is on Biorxiv. In this tour de force Jing shows that transient exposure in development to pathogenic autoantibodies to the NMDAR cause long-lasting anatomic and behavioral defects in motor function. A ton of work from a big team! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Amazing profile on my boss and mentor! I'm incredibly fortunate that Dr. Manley took a chance on me both as a fellow and junior faculty member UCSF Neurosurgery! Geoffrey Manley: TBI guy thelancet.com/journals/laneu…

The Kavli Service Award winners were announced at our yearly retreat - recognized for their important service to the Neuroscience Program over time - Congrats to @sschamiloglu Emily Twedell @NeuroBender !

Congratulations to Professor Holly Ingraham Holly Ingraham UC San Francisco National Academy of Sciences this years recipient of the Edwin B. Astwood Award for Outstanding Research in Basic Science Endocrine Society endocrine.org/awards/laureat…

Meet the UCSF Curci Scholars: 6 talented 1st-yr basic sci PhD students! UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program UCSF Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences Curci Scholarship Will Boost Graduate Student Diversity ucsf.edu/news/2022/10/4…

Terrific UCSF Neurosurgery event tonight on top floor of highest building in San Francisco to connect and celebrate Dr. Mitchel Berger UC San Francisco!

Applicants interested in learning more about the UCSF Neuroscience PhD program check out this link to sign up for our grad fair on 10/24. neurograd.ucsf.edu/graduate-stude…

Very excited to post our lab’s first paper where we propose a new theory of learning and dopamine function science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Here’s a few folks in our lab being taught by my daughter to dance to a “dopamine” song to celebrate 1/30

WOOHOO!!! What a great way to start the new year! First R01!!!!!! Eternally grateful to all my lab members, mentors, collaborators, and patients to make this happen! #R01 #surgeonscientist #Neurosurgery #nih #ninds #neuroscience #dbs #aDBS #parkinsonsdisease UCSF Neurosurgery UC San Francisco

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2023 UCSF Neuroscience Program Retreat at Asilomar Conference Grounds!

Congratulations to Xin Duan and team on their new study in Cell! cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Beautiful cover image for the study from Xin Duan’s group cell.com/cell/current