Hello science twitter! 🧠😃 We are excited to launch our new lab account where we will share exciting science in the field of stress and reward systems as well as updates from our daily lab life!

Come join us this fall for a 4-day short course on machine learning in animal behavior hosted at Jax. Organized by Vivek Kumar, Ann Kennedy, Gordon Berman, and myself and featuring an all-star caste of lecturers at the cutting-edge of this science.

Summer students are in!🌞Our post-doc Ines Inés Ibarra Lecue shows the new undergrads how to build microdrives! 👩‍🔧

⚠️New paper alert⚠️Laura Benoit and colleagues show that inhibiting thalamic activity during adolescence leads to cognitive impairment and changes in prefrontal cortex function in adulthood. Great collaboration with Christoph Kellendonk and Sarah Canetta! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Congrats to Urszula Skupio on the publication of a review of the role of endocannabinoid signaling in glia from her work in the Marsicano Lab doi.org/10.1002/glia.2… Here’s to many more!

Today we had a lab picnic and said goodbye to Alan who is starting his lab soon! Congratulations and good luck Alan Park!!!

❗️New review out from our team!! Check it out if you are interested to know how stress affects different circuits within brain reward system and how that translates to changes in motivated behavior! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Anyone looking for a faster solution for visualizing a large (e.g., 512x512x50000+ frame) tiff stack than ImageJ? I wrote a solution in Matlab (TiffViewer), which currently has limited functionality. github.com/jmstujenske/Ma… I welcome contributors to expand functionality.

See our new systematic review and meta-analysis paper: Early-life adversity affects only some reward processes and what matters most is its length! Harris Neural Circuits Lab René Hen Peter Balsam sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are attending #SfN2022! Here is how to find our posters:

Nancy Padilla Coreano & I had a lot of fun writing about this cool new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… which reports a novel, non-violent, subordination method that potently (only 4 days!) produces long-lasting changes in social rank, reward seeking, & coping style 1/3

Here is a link to a free version of our piece rdcu.be/c699j

Rachel Ding smashing it at the Barnard Research symposium

we had a great time celebrating our lab techs today!!!

Today we celebrated our lab techs! We want to give a HUGE shout-out to Lucy, Amanda and Mayowa for all their hard work and for creating such a fun and welcoming atmosphere in the lab!!!

Come join the Harris Neural Circuits Lab! We are looking for a research technician interested in neural circuits & mouse behavior. The position is 50:50 research:administrative in a fun, supportive, & diverse atmosphere. Salary 45K+ 1/2

NCL lab retreat 😎 We trained to give brief talks about our projects, discussed science, ate delicious BBQ and hiked!

Great first ever poster presentation from our student Giuliana at the 2023 Columbia Undergraduate Symposium! Amazing job Giuliana Cascarano!

Guess the costumes!

NCL lab retreat 2024! This year with an amazing view, great discussions and delicious lunch prepared by Alex!