The Rinker Lab is looking for a technician - a really excellent opportunity for recent grads to gain experience b4 grad school! Learn stereotaxic surgery, calcium imaging, opto, DREADDs, and join a team of really awesome folks. rb.gy/ktlwb rinkerlab.com

Happy to share a new preprint from our lab led by grad student Juan Enriquez Traba. D3 dopamine receptors regulate motivation but not reinforcement. D3Rs are highly expressed in D1 MSNs. In contrast D1 receptors regulate reinforcement but not motivation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Awesome to see our work on the cover of JN SfN Journals this week! @superkash Dipa Pati 🧠🔬🏳️‍⚧️ Sofia Neira @LisaTaxier and Montse! 🎉 This cover art immuno has a good story behind it too lol! Check out our paper on insula dynorphin/kappa opioid receptors! jneurosci.org/content/43/28/…

Our manuscript on cortical VIP interneurons is now online! @WinterThompson Carly Fabian Anthony Ferranti We found that alcohol enhances VIP cell excitability during acute exposure but VIP cell excitability is reduced following chronic drinking sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

nature.com/articles/s4138… A commentary on the amazing study by Yang, Lalchandani Tuan and colleagues on an impressive role of Dynorphins in regulating synaptic plasticity! Happy read!! molecularpsychiatry Mary Kay Lobo thanks for the opportunity

This is horrible. Please stay safe CH friends!

Only a little over a week until our seminar series kicks off for the 2023-2024 academic year! Our very own postdoctoral fellow Cali Calarco will present "Psychostimulant Impacts on Nucleus Accumbens Mitochondria" #neuroscience

Excited to share a pandemic project born in lock down when a determined undergrad wanted to keep working with me! It has been a learning adventure! Whole blood mitochondrial copy number in clinical populations with mood disorders: a meta-analysis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Biologic that disrupts PDE11A4 homodimerization in hippocampus CA1 rev... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share that I recieved the #DSPAN F99/K00 from @NINDSDiversity! Special thanks to my amazing mentor Mary Kay Lobo, my letter writers @PegMcC Brian N. Mathur Arturo R. Zavala 🇲🇽🧠 Meg Fox 🦊🏳️‍🌈♿️ UMB Viral Vector Core, my lab, and the UMB community! 🧠❤️

Kash lab reunion!

Great seeing old friends at #SfN2023, But the real highlight was seeing Pina Lab grad student (Colin Johnston) and postdoc @ammpatch show off their hard work! 🤩 Congrats you two and thanks everyone who stopped by.🥳 🎉#ProudNewPI Department of Neurobiology at UMSOM Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience @um_mind

Lessons from a Toad Psychedelic about the Role of different Serotonin Receptors in Psychedelic Physiology: nature.com/articles/s4158… Congrats to Audrey and David Lankri in this collab with SamesLab and Scott Russo published in nature

Do you like listening to music? We are seeking individuals to participate in a research study looking at the effects of musical playlists on emotions, well-being, and brain function. Volunteers must be medically and psychiatrically healthy and must be able to travel to Johns

At RSoA #RSoA2024? Come learn about all things serotonin and alcohol this AM with me, Marcinkiewcz Lab Ruixiang (Roy) Wang and @ankarkhanis. 9:45 in Great Lakes B

Regarding our interneuron enhancer paper!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Breaking News!!! Addgene has just released them: addgene.org/browse/article…