1/3 Exciting News! We're hiring at all levels immediately for our lab U of Utah Department of Neurobiology Join us in cutting-edge research at the intersection of neuroscience and chemical biology! We aim to explore how neuropeptides modulate behavior and physiology. Pls RT!

Meet one of the teams behind our #TeamScience - the electrophysiology group! Using cutting-edge tech like #neuropixels, they're improving the reliability and throughput of ephys experiments to decode how decisions, learning and actions work in the brain. alleninstitute.org/division/neura…

Online now: LRRTM2 Functions as a Neurexin Ligand in Promoting Excitatory Synapse Formation dlvr.it/TLtH3K

My postdoc work at Treutlein lab Gray Camp with Jasper Janssens is out in Science Magazine! We screen for neuron subtypes using pro-neural TFs + morphogen combinations + scRNA-seq and profiled over 700,000 cells in 480 conditions. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Stimulating and recording with intracranial electrodes implanted in cortical regions and thalamic nuclei across 4,864 sites in 27 human participants reveals distinct spectral signatures elicited by perturbations of specific brain areas nature.com/articles/s4159…

As chair of the ACNP Global Outreach Committee, I am happy to answer any questions about the Global Scholarship! Please share with your networks! Excellent opportunity to attend what might be the best science meeting in this space!

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for 1 to I Mauss/S Chen, 2 to L Wilbrecht

🎊So excited to share our new publication! We identified a novel circuit underlying threat processing and adaptive learning. Deeply grateful to BBRFoundation and all the co-authors who made this possible! IBG CU Boulder Psychology and Neuroscience UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology nature.com/articles/s4138…

Prairie voles have typically been used to probe the neural basis of love, until now: Female voles that lack oxytocin receptors struggle to make friends with other females, a new study shows. By Holly Barker thetransmitter.org/neurobiology/o…

In the latest issue! Arrestin-biased allosteric modulator of neurotensin receptor 1 alleviates acute and chronic pain dlvr.it/TMNh4b

🧠 How do tiny shifts in the brain lead to different disorders like autism or schizophrenia? Jessica Cardin, PhD, joins Neuroscience Perspectives with John J. Foxe to unpack the science 🎙️Watch the full episode here 👉youtu.be/85TuiMkDCPU

Scientists are closing in on the ability to apply genome editing to a formidable new target: the human brain go.nature.com/4mYqAYd

Brain Map Reveals How Stress and Social Control Interconnect Researchers have mapped a key brain hub in the medial prefrontal cortex that regulates stress and social behavior. By charting its wiring with advanced imaging and AI mapping, they showed how this region integrates

“Neural networks of the mouse visceromotor cortex” by Hong Wei Dong et al. Nature dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

New in Science Magazine! 🎉 Thrilled to share my PhD project, we introduce a new optogenetic approach to study the developing brain - revealing how oxytocin shapes infant behavior. Thanks to my collaborators, Ofer Yizhar 💔 & my family❤️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Here’s the story🧵

Functional synapses between neurons and small cell lung cancer nature.com/articles/s4158…

Amazing work from Travis Faust in my lab UMass Chan Medical School UMMS Neuroscience UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology. Very proud of this work. Also thanks to fantastic collaborators Anne Schaefer, Pinar Ayata, Cagla Eroglu, and colleagues.

Identification of a neural basis for energy expenditure in the mouse arcuate hypothalamus: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k

Congratulations to Ishmail Abdus-Saboor on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-inst…