Wild new research tool alert!🤯If you plug a research question into elicit.org, it uses AI to not only find relevant papers but pulls out ANSWERS from the papers. Adding to my list of things that would've changed the game at the start of my PhD #AcademicTwitter

Thrilled to share Science Magazine piece, a 10 yr obsession: developing brains get signals from the environment that shape emotional circuit maturation & impact mental health. What signals? which ones are 'bad'? how do they influence circuit refinement? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Why human neurons mature so slow? Is it possible to accelerate their maturation? Excited to share our work as a preprint. We tackled this question using human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC). Thanks to everybody involved in this work Lorenz 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"What in your opinion is the most beautiful scientific piece of research in the field of computational neuroscience in the last 40 years?" I've asked this of panelists in the latest Gatsby meeting this past week, and I thought it would be interesting to share the responses:

Your cell is an entire factory that works 24/7: #biology

21 Scholarships in the United Kingdom (UK) that offers more than 1000 scholarships combined for international students (BSc, MSc, PhD). Whatever course you are looking for, I'm sure you will find it among these scholarships. Thread:👇📌

Seeing molecules in the deep brain tissue is hard. What if we made reporters that exit the brain into the blood where they are easy to see? Our reporters measured gene delivery and c-Fos in specific brain regions - with a simple blood test. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am pleased to share with you my review about cell types, published in Cell yesterday. 1/ What is a cell type and how to define it? cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

#ReasonsToBeSDB Did you know that SDB keeps track of Graduate Training Programs in #devbio? sdbonline.org/graduate_progr… If you know of a program and want it included, let us know!

Shine et al. argue that the brain’s serotonergic system can be better understood when viewed from the perspective of the gastrointestinal tract. bit.ly/3cEyDdV

How are T cells trained to distinguish healthy self from harmful foreign? In our recent paper rdcu.be/cSSrO just out in Nature Communications we studied the ‘mini you’ that T cell educators in the thymus generate to teach T cells about the healthy self. 1/10

I'm often asked to recommend neuroscience books for 1st year grad students or those with limited background in neuroscience. Here are a few books I know.

We tend to reward people with certain genetic propensities with better environments (higher SES 💰). This results in gene-environment correlations that make society more unequal and further complicate studying human genetics. Out now in Nature Genetics: nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵👇🏽

I am excited to share my TED Talks at #TED2022 on how lab-grown neural cells and circuits can contribute to reverse engineering human brain development & uncover the biology of neuropsychiatric disorders ted.com/talks/sergiu_p… #assembloids #organoids #brain #Mentalhealth

Pooling all the ancient DNA data together, spanning over past 10,000 years, reveals regions of human genome that underwent natural selection during major population transitions. Amazing!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Absolutely beautiful paper from Shu-Hsien Sheu Shu-Hsien Sheu and David Clapham @DavidEClapham. Axon-cilium synapses! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

The bidirectional microbiota-gut-brain axis contributes to sleep disorders. 😴 #MedTwitter #microbiome #psychiatry #neurology #sleepmedicine sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Looking for neural data to analyze? You can find our electrophysiology and imaging data sets (+code/methods) on our lab website! Thousands of neurons, mostly from medial entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, recorded/imaged in behaving mice #openscience giocomolab.weebly.com/data-code-meth…

Our DREAM paper is out: We found the first master regulator of DNA repair capacities! Read and re-tweet now: The DREAM complex functions as conserved master regulator of somatic DNA repair capacities, CECAD Cologne Uniklinik Köln Universität zu Köln nature.com/articles/s4159…

What would the world be like if we could simulate supraorganismal behavior… like war? Kay M Tye PhD starts with a provocative question for this psychiatrist. I’m sold. #SOBP2023