In memory of Anthony Bourdain June 25, 1956 — June 8, 2018

Break my own news! 🤟🏾 #HereWeGo Pittsburgh Steelers

Excited to see this in print this morning, coincidentally on the lab's birthday! Here we tackle the question of how the PFC multiplexes social and contextual information using overlapping ensembles of neurons. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Please see this article by Marine Salery and others in Nature Communications that mapped cocaine-activated ensembles in the nucleus accumbens in response to acute vs. repeated cocaine exposure. nature.com/articles/s4146… Friedman Brain Institute

In the space of just over a month Diogo Jota won the Premier League, the UEFA Nations League and married the love of his life. His family must have been so incredibly proud of him ❤️

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

I’m very excited to share that I will join the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!! 🎉🏔️🏜️ My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?

Don’t ask us about 2015.

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/9)

Excited to have officially completed 1/4 of my MD-PhD. I learned a lot and now I’m excited to continue my learning in the Hurd Laboratory of Addiction Neuroscience ! 🧠🐀

WHAT. A. SAVE. 😱🇩🇪

✨EXCITING NEWS!✨We're hosting our first ever, in-person event! Join us immediately before #SFN for a keynote, panel discussions, networking & more! Interested in attending? Fill out the form below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Nov 15 | 9am-1pm | Tata Hall at UCSD

So many cool project ideas, so little time 🙂‍↕️

I might actually have the funniest PI in the world 😂

In Pharm Rev (ASPET), MBI researchers Drs. Nancy Padilla-Coreano and Freddyson Martínez-Rivera examine dopamine’s role in social behaviors and how its dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders like autism could affect social interactions. Read more: bit.ly/4m7Hkwf

Moi?

Yes🙂‍↕️

When you get your opportunity, create your next one.