Join us for a symposium on how striatal cholinergic interneurons control dopamine and gate learning using amazing techniques! Don't miss out! 🧠 Mark Howe Lauren Burgeno, PhD 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧👩‍🔬🧠💉🔬🧀🍺 @NicTritsch

Visited the lovely basketball museum UNC-Chapel Hill after a very successful cholinergic symposium chaired by Steph Cragg and me at @MMiN2024, and grateful to be voted onto the Scientific Advisory Board for the International Society for Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience!

Spatiotemporally selective #astrocytic ATP dynamics (Inflares) encode brain injury intensity and position, and are sensed by #microglia nature.com/articles/s4159…

Super-excited to reveal our latest fluorescent voltage indicator, ASAP5, now online Neuron! ASAP5 features higher responsivity and kinetics, allowing detection of single synaptic transmission events. The link gives free access until 2024.11.09: authors.elsevier.com/a/1joYd3BtfH9B…

Happy to share the latest from Hamid_Lab UMN biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The RL community has made important strides in understanding flexible behavioral control, especially wrt dopamine. But a longstanding, vexing puzzle is the relationship b/n “phasic” and “tonic” DA.

The first preprint of my postdoc with Dud{man,Lab}🇺🇦 is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

(1/6) Excited to introduce our first generation red acetylcholine sensors! #acetylcholine #GRAB #RedSensors biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Striatal cholinergic interneurons act at nAChRs to depress #dopamine release, supporting an inverse scaling of dopamine release according to cholinergic activity nature.com/articles/s4159…