Dr. Cate Peña
@cate_cholamine
Neuroscientist and mom. Interested in brain development, early life stress, epigenetics, cats, mountains, donuts, and lots of coffee. she/her
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http://PenaLab.org 15-08-2011 13:59:54
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We're hiring! Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology UC Davis Psychology recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06660
Check out this recent Neuropsychopharmacology paper from Brian Trainor & team exploring the role of hypocretin in the NAcc shell on social approach in 🐭 nature.com/articles/s4138…
🚨 New preprint from Lerner Lab 🚨 Gabriela Carolina Lopez (Gaby) et al looked at how "rewarding" and "aversive" dopamine signals in the NAc evolve during negative reinforcement learning, with some fascinating results!
FACULTY JOB | Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine UC Irvine We are excited to announce a new TT faculty search at the Asst/Assoc level. Emphasis is broadly on neural circuits. UCI has a fantastic neuroscience program, and I'm happy to answer Qs. Apply by 10/31: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09237 Please RT
🔥New Paper from the lab! Led by Masakazu Taira (Masa) and our awesome team, we reveal the learning components signaled by dopamine release in the Nucleus Accumbens core (NAcC): jneurosci.org/content/44/35/…
Despite the fact that there were armed officers at Apalachee High School, a 14-year-old boy was still able to bring a gun to school and kill four people and wound 30 others before he was stopped. Armed officers aren't the answer; stronger gun laws are. abcnews.go.com/US/police-resp…
🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/27566… #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd UNC Psych & Neuro
Thrilled to see Bagot Lab latest paper finally out in Nature Neuroscience. This work, led by the first & second grad students to join the lab Jessie Muir & Eshaan Iyer , developed from trying to understand a puzzling sex difference we stumbled upon.