It is our pleasure to announce that the 2020 Neurosciences Graduate Teaching Award goes to Jess Haley Jess Haley and Kevin White Kevin White Jr Congratulations!! 🎉

The Thal Award is given annually, in honor of our past Department Chair Leon Thal, to recognize outstanding graduate student research.  We are very pleased to announce the recipient of this year’s Thal award is Caterina Profaci catie profaci, phd Congratulations!! 🎉

NGP Career Development Committee launches new informative blog today! Job Talk Learn about all the possible careers you may pursue with a STEM PhD. stemjobtalk.com

Check it out! This is the podcast I’ve been working on at NASA. You can listen to the trailer now made by yours truly.

Excited to finally share my first pre-print ever with Shrek Chalasani’s lab: Targeted millisecond-scale activation of cells using non-invasive Sonogenetics #tweetprint #ultrasound 1/18

Awesome things happening at UCSD!

Awesome opportunity for UCSD undergrads!

Really exciting work happening in the Shrek Lab!

Really excited to announce that Shrek Chalasani and I were awarded a 2021 Salk Institute Innovation Grant for my project on C. elegans decision making! salk.edu/engage/innovat…

Here's a petition put together by our grad TA union opposing the rent increase - please sign and share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

My anger towards this injustice knows no bounds.

We must fight back. Voice your support here!

Recently UC San Diego_HDH made @UCSD graduate students aware that graduate on campus housing rental rates will be increasing dramatically. Not only will these rent hikes hinder our ability to recruit top applicants— it will also harm our current students’ quality of life 1/3

Congratulations to Salk Associate Professor Sreekanth Chalasani! He has won the 2021 National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Gallagher Mentor Award. #NPA2021AC nationalpostdoc salk.edu/news-release/s…

We’re hiring (a paid position)! I’m looking for a UC San Diego undergrad to work with me on a C. elegans neuroscience project! 🔬🪱 Please share!

Interested in applying to graduate school? Our graduate mentors would love to help! October 5, 2021 | 5PM PST Registration: forms.gle/sXWqd3wum4DHbM…

Our application is live! kibm.ucsd.edu/2022-cob-kibm-… The CoB-KIBM Scholars Program consists of a paid full-time research position across 10 weeks within a UC San Diego or Salk laboratory. We highly encourage students with little or no research experience to apply!

🚨🚨🪱ALERT ALERT ALERT🪱🚨🚨 Sensory integration in #celegans : Intrepid post-doc Molly Matty ( Molly A. Matty ) and colleagues define a mechanism by which gut <-> brain signaling influences behavior. Out NOW in PLOS Genetics ! ➡️➡️🔗: bit.ly/mattyetalplosg…

New research on risk taking: Matty et al show hunger induces intestine-neuron insulin signaling to increase risky behavior in #Celegans Jess Haley Anupama Singh Ahana Chakraborty Malene Hansen Lab The Chalasani Lab Sanford Burnham Prebys Salk MNLO #Genetics 🔎: doi.org/10.1371/journa… 📷 Molly A. Matty

C. elegans uses an "accept-reject" behavioural strategy, based on learned features of its environment, to make decisions about food. This research tackles a core problem in #neuroscience: how neural circuits mediate decision-making. elifesciences.org/articles/10319…