⚡️🧠Thrilled to share our new preprint on pain-related valence cell-types + circuits — A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway for chronic pain aversion Check out the stellar work of Jessica Wojick, in a co-senior collab with KorbLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… THREAD 1/13

My latest post for PennNeuroKnow unpacks a recent paper from the Augustine lab Vineet Augustine which provides insight into the neural mechanisms of fainting!

Amazing writeup about our work by Sophie

Incredibly honored to named a #SloanFellow. Thank you to the Sloan Foundation! We are looking for postdocs. Please help to spread the word.

Thrilled to share this with my awesome colleagues!

Assistant Professors Vineet Augustine, Abdoulaye Ndao and @MoeNeuro have been selected to receive 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships, one of the most prestigious awards for early career scientists, the Sloan Foundation announced. today.ucsd.edu/story/three-ea… UCSD Engineering

Incredibly lucky to work with these awesome folks. We went bowling and had some good food!

New paper from the lab. With in vivo longitudinal imaging of glutamate and calcium, we explored what kind of synapses get eliminated during learning: Local and global predictors of synapse elimination during motor learning | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

I am attending my first ever SIGCSE Technical Symposium this week to present our work at the intersection of programming and biology! 🌱💻 #sigcse2024 Both papers are being presented tomorrow (Thurs) at 4:35 pm, or you can read them here: #1: doi.org/10.1145/362625… #2: doi.org/10.1145/362625…

Amazing work from the Xin Jin, PhD lab!

Honored to have been named a Searle Scholar. Grateful to my lab and mentors. searlescholars.org/2024/05/23/sch…

Very nice work from the Pekkurnaz Lab.

Really proud to publish this fascinating paper on receptors responsible for sexual touch. It's easy to get prudish and Victorian on this sort of work, but sexual and reproductive health is extremely important nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very cool work!

Absolutely stellar science. So well deserved my friend!

Honored to receive the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience. Very grateful to my lab and mentors.

Nice work by the Pekkurnaz Lab

Amazing work by Tongtong in the Oka lab