🐟 Discouraged zebrafish are helping scientists understand how ketamine works in the brain. 🧠 🥼 New research from Misha Ahrens, Marc Duque Ramírez, Alex Chen, Eric Hsu, Dwight Bergles, Mark Fishman & Florian Engert. 🔗 janelia.org/news/discourag…

Our paper on ketamine’s effect on astrocytes and behavior is out in Neuron , with Alex Chen, Eric Hsu, and colleagues Alex Chen , Eric Hsu , with the Florian Engert , Fishman, & Bergles labs cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Looking for a great read to start of the new year? Bruno Averbeck responds to postlelab in JoCNForum: Response to: Has AI “killed” Marr’s ‘three’-levels framework? doi.org/10.21428/8e6ba…

prepping to do live 2-photon imaging:

Congratulations to Matthew Lovett-Barron for being part of a team of early career scientists that received an award from the Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition initiative. Matt Lovett-Barron

*Every single* cure for a disease ultimately flowed from basic exploratory research. Stopping basic research is like stopping the mountain rains and expecting rivers of cures to still flow. Examples: 1) studying saliva of Gila monster -> GLP1's 2) studying funghi -> first

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I was fortunate to be part of the NIH postbac intramural program after undergrad - a transformative experience that catalyzed my career and led me to where I am today. There is no world where we should we diminish investment in the next generation of our scientific researchers.

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come stop by my poster [3-066] this afternoon if you’re at COSYNE and want to learn more about collective behavior in fish! 🐟🐠#COSYNE2025

Our new paper is out in Nature today. Congrats to Assaf, Felix, Marcus, and all the authors!

the most satisfying takeaway from a phd is that you can solve problems far beyond your capabilities if you're willing to throw yourself at them again and again, over a long period, while staying open to new ideas it's not really about being smart. just curious & persistent

UC San Diego Assistant Professor Matthew Lovett-Barron of the Department of Neurobiology has been selected to receive a 2025 McKnight Foundation Scholar Award, one of the most prestigious awards for junior neuroscience faculty members. go.ucsd.edu/3ZRbFpM

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