🥳Excited to share our new paper in its final form: rdcu.be/dI6Ci. If your research would benefit from intersectional tools (a way to target cells based on multiple features), then ConVERGD might be of interest. Doesn't need to be 🧠-related!

An ultra-short-acting benzodiazepine in thalamic nucleus reuniens undermines fear extinction via intermediation of hippocamposeptal circuits nature.com/articles/s4200…

Must read!!

Really interesting new paper from our collab with Justin Moscarello 🧠🏳️‍🌈 exploring effects of stress on avoidance learning and fear conditioning…once again, sex matters! Congrats to the team!! 🥳 🎈 🍾

Had the pleasure of being invited to serve as a mentor at the MINDS Program conference. Was an inspiring event with a riveting keynote by Diana Bautista. The future of neuroscience is bright!!

The Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, Feb 9-14 2025 in Fiji 🇫🇯 🏖️ , has an amazing line up of sessions and speakers 🤩! Register soon wcnpmeet.org as rooms are going fast! Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity (WCNP) 🧠

Stay tuned for a job ad from MiamiOH Psychology this fall! We will be hiring a behavioral neuroscientist to build a research program involving undergraduate and graduate trainees. Anyone interested can reach out to me with questions

We're hiring two tenure-track assistant professors in behavioural neuroscience to begin on July 1, 2025. Please share with your networks! Apply by Oct 1, 2024 here: bit.ly/PsychBNSPositi…

🚨Big news! I am delighted to share that I will be returning to #ILLINOIS to direct the Beckman Institute this Fall! My research career was born at Beckman Institute at Illinois and it is an incredible honor to join this research community in this role. Exciting times ahead!! 🧠🔬🧬

Three new opportunities to join the Beckman team: Research scientist, apply by Aug. 8 Beckman Café chef, apply by Aug. 19 Tissue Engineering Lab manager, apply by Aug 26 🔸🤝🔹 Learn more and apply at beckman.illinois.edu/jobs

And it’s out! Our lab’s very first paper is published today Nature Methods! Our calcium-activated split-TurboID (CaST) can biochemically tag activated neurons within 10 minutes, enabling a molecular handle on functionally relevant cell ensembles: tinyurl.com/ddyecxze

🎉🎉🧠🧠🔬🔬🥼🥼🧬🧬 Big day! New Amar Sahay lab #preprint! Please share! Feedback welcome! 🍫🍫🍩🍩🍦🍦🔥🔥 Here we identify a unique cell-type and circuit in the brain 🧠 that regulates context-dependent feeding! 🍫🍫🍫 🧵… 1/9

Outstanding scientist on the market for a faculty position 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻!!!

📢 Faculty job 📢 We Yale Neuroscience are hiring tenure-track faculty members! We seek candidates in #neuroscience at large who will join a richly collaborative community that strives to foster an inclusive research environment. Deadline Oct. 15. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/150930

@hugobayer1, @stephenmaren, et al. showed that stimulating the infralimbic cortex with picrotoxin enhances the extinction of conditioned fear 🐭, likely by influencing inhibitory memory formation during the consolidation of fear conditioning nature.com/articles/s4138…

Beckman is #hiring for two positions: Research scientist Senior research programmer Applications for both positions must be received by 6 p.m. CST on Sept. 19. Learn more and apply at beckman.illinois.edu/jobs 🔶🤝🔷

Greenhouse gas emissions are changing Earth's climate. Join Steven Chu, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Prize winner, for his lecture, "The challenges in getting to net-zero GHG emissions." 📍Beckman Institute Auditorium 🗓️3 p.m. Sept. 17 go.beckman.illinois.edu/BeckmanBrown

You discover a role for the IL in the formation of inhibitory memories during fear conditioning!

I'll be recruiting a PhD student through the Cog Neuro Program UIUC Psychology Department this year. If you're interested in brain organization, networks, and cognition, please consider applying. 🧠🧠🧠