Thrilled to share Cassandra Kooiker major thesis paper pre-print biorxiv.org/content/10.110… PVT neurons encode salient early-life experiences & the same cells execute the ensuing aberrant reward behaviors. PVT subregions have opposing roles in reward circuit operations. and sex MATTERS!

So proud! Cassandra Kooiker beautifully presenting her thesis work, completing her phd. Focused on the PVT's role in encoding early life #stress and executing the consequences on reward behaviors. GO Cassie!

What IS the role of the repressor NRSF/REST in the generation of epilepsy? Took years, but the long-term study blocking the #epigenetics function of this TF is in! i'm thrilled to share eneuro.org/content/early/… American Epilepsy Society Ali Mortazavi robert hunt 🔥 Epilepsia Dr. Cate Peña

The Power of Big Data and Consortia in 2024+: Dont miss out on amazing in person or streamed talks at the contecenter.uci.edu symposium Tuesday!

The Power of Big Data and Consortia in 2024+: Dont miss out on amazing in person or streamed talks at the contecenter.uci.edu symposium Tuesday!

#Neuroscience , actually Matt Birnie's Nature Communications paper is competing for UC Irvine UCI School of Medicine in a March madness type match! Vote for novel brain mechanisms and team spirit. Why not? 😎😎🙏🙏🏃‍♀️ Stephen Mahler Dr. Tracy Bale 🟧🧠 Tom Kash Mike Yassa

What a line up! Should be fun and cutting-edge! Stephen Mahler Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social @psychoph@NIDAnews

Sophie, amazing🎉🎉 i cant wait to see how you, a passionate, brilliant physician scientist will transform #addiction science and care. Stephen Mahler Rachael E. Hokenson 🐀🐭 (they/them) UCI School of Medicine azucena

#STATMadness Update: We’ve made it to Round 2! Thank you to everybody who has been voting. Let’s keep it up this week and vote for our #UCIrvine research team in Matchup 8 to reach Round 3. Remember, you can vote once a day, even weekends! 😉VOTE HERE: bit.ly/3v3QVyC

For awesome neuroscience and terrific networking (not to mention the karaoke), dont miss the ACNP conference! See 👇. Stephen Mahler Mike Yassa Matt Birnie

📢We need your votes! The #STATMadness competition is on. Vote for UC Irvine researchers Tallie Z Baram Matt Birnie and Annabel Short from Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine in Matchup 16 for their study on Stress-Related Brain Disruption. Vote here: bit.ly/3v3QVyC #UCI MedSchool #UCI rvine #UCI

Vote for novel circuit mechanisms by which earlylife #stress influences adult behaviors! #amygdala Nature Communications Stephen Mahler Dr. Cate Peña hun

Still on cloud nine from such an amazing Thalamocortical Interactions #GRC . There were many highlights but a peak moment was giving a talk in an all women panel 🤩.

What an amazing community to get to be a part of, and can’t wait to do it all again in Italy!

Thank you for sharing your inspiring and exemplary work on the importance of basic research in understanding the thalamocortical roots of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Loving the outstanding talks and cool posters @ the thalamus GRC, in, ahem, non-sunny ventura. Bravo organizers Jeanne Paz Adam Hantman. Adam Carter Hypothalamus Gordon Research Conference 2024 #PVT talks too! Shelly Flagel Stephen Mahler Dr. Jessica Bars😷n (Barson Lab) 🐀🧠

New from the lab! A long journey that included development of a new optogenetic approach for non-invasive silencing in freely behaving untethered pups, and some cool discoveries about the role of oxytocin in early life. By Daniel Zelmanoff + wonderful team:
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Very excited to announce the UC Irvine NIH T32 training program in epilepsy research - currently the only one in the US - has been renewed for another 5 years! Congrats to Tallie Z Baram, robert hunt 🔥 and everyone who has helped make this a successful program over the years! 🥳🥳🥳

Can we diagnose anhedonia in INFANTS? is infant anhedonia predictive of adolescent #mentalhealth ? see novel, easy, validated instrument sciencedirect.com/science/articl… from contecenter.uci.edu . kudos to Laura Glynn & team.

When atmospheric rivers turn lab meetings into melt-fests, it is comforting to remember splendor in the summer grass UCI School of Medicine UC Irvine

Note of caution! as we aim to translate predictive markers from the lab to the heterogeneous, multivariate clinical arena science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… John F. Cryan Dylan Gee Yavin Shaham Mike Yassa Stephen Mahler John Mantsch Marina Picciotto Mathias Schmidt