You know Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching when prairie voles are in the news again! Here’s a piece by Steven Phelps Manoli Lab and me to get you ready for the upcoming celebration of love with a little (ok not so little) side helping of science! scientificamerican.com/article/monoga…

Our latest! Led by @nathanCSharris & Sam Bates we ask: How do experiences modify neuronal gene expression to drive plasticity? We find that multiple stimulus features can be encoded in the gene expression program of a single sensory neuron.. 1/13 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share my lab’s new paper out today Cell. "Touch neurons underlying dopaminergic pleasurable touch and sexual receptivity" Congratulations to this amazing team of scientists. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Extremely honored for this. Thanks to my lab, IHG members and staff and so many people at UCSF! Looking forward to advancing the IHG and genetics and genomics research at UCSF!

Prairie voles can form pair-bonds and rear pups without oxytocin receptor signaling, contrary to decades of research stating otherwise. Read more in Neuron: cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Manoli Lab The Shah Lab

Congratulations, Dev, Nirao, Maricruz, Yichao, Srini, and the team on this epoch-making paper! 🎉🎉🎉 Manoli Lab Nirao Shah Maricruz A Yichao Wei sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Oxytocin receptor is not required for social attachment in prairie voles cell.com/neuron/fulltex… The tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Huxley?). Been on the other side and know how much it stinks-but this is why we do science!

Thought-provoking research from 2021 One Mind JanssenUS Rising Star Awardee Dr. Devanand Manoli suggests that it may be time to reevaluate long-held hypotheses about the role of oxytocin in some forms of social attachment. Congrats, Manoli Lab! Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

.@labManoli is calling the role of #oxytocin into question. In a new study with Bales Lab and The Shah Lab, they showed prairie voles without oxytocin receptors can bond, give birth, and feed their young ucsfpsy.ch/3HEFIs8 UC San Francisco #UCSFWeill

We're very excited and happy that this collaboration is now out in the world! thanks Manoli Lab The Shah Lab

#Oxytocin—a hormone long considered essential to social bonding—may not be as critical as originally thought. “While oxytocin has been considered ‘Love Potion #9,’ it seems that potions 1 thru 8 might be sufficient,” Dr. Devanand Manoli (Manoli Lab) says. ucsfh.org/3HE7FA7

1/ 🧵I’m excited to announce new work from the Clowney lab, led by Maria Ahmed. Maria re-engineered the neuronal constituents and connectivity of an “expansion layer” to ask how quantitative properties of circuit wiring structure perception. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting new research update from 2018 One Mind JanssenUS Rising Star Awardee Dr. Susanne Ahmari sheds light on brain activity in #BingeEating disorder and uncovers a potential treatment target. Congrats Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD 🔦🏠! Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36682623/

New science from Shea Lab: "Selective deletion of Methyl CpG binding protein 2 from parvalbumin interneurons in the auditory cortex delays the onset of maternal retrieval in mice" by @dcarrot2 with a major assist from @PagliaroAlexa biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Attn FEMALE ‘MENTORS’: Young Female mice exposed to Odor of older female mice live longer. elifesciences.org/digests/84060/…

High-throughput functional analysis of autism genes in zebrafish identifies convergence in dopaminergic and neuroimmune pathways dlvr.it/Sl4Dmb

📢🧠 Applications for the 2023 One Mind Rising Star Awards are open! Learn more about and how to apply for our $300K grants supporting early-career neuroscience and psychiatry investigators who are working to accelerate #mentalhealth breakthroughs: onemind.org/rising-star-aw…