📢Open-rank tenure track faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA!!✨🧪

Samantha Butler@samanthabutler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296

Job descriptions for 2 new postdocs positions to study the spinal cord basis of motor control (Just looking at the letterhead for the new lab location has me so excited. Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, U. Of Toronto 🇨🇦, here we come!) @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca

Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have 2 postdoc positions available to study spinal mechanisms of motor control. Postdoc 1 will focus on how specific spinal cell types shape neural activity www.levine-lab.org jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...

Yale Neuroscience 🧠 @yaleneuro.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have 2 searches, one cell/molecular/systems neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190736) and one computational neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190740). Got questions about the searches, the department, or the process? Please ask, happy to chat!

👋MS community: We are hosting an event for people with MS, their families, carers & the community! Hear from scientists on how fundamental research in MS has driven discoveries and evolved significantly over the years & have a chance to ask us your Qs. Oct20 4-6PM, sign up here: lnkd.in/gpr4MKux

UM-MIND is hiring! We are recruiting several tenure-track neuroscience faculty members, preferably at the Assistant Professor level, to join our institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine here in Baltimore, MD. Learn more here: umb.taleo.net/careersectio... @medschool.umaryland.edu

In this month’s “Liftoff,” our Q&A series with PIs who opened new labs, @jhennig.bsky.social discusses fostering a culture of polite and constructive disagreement and @droligo.bsky.social talks about the value of being kind. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

Liftoff: New lab alerts

Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.

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With expansion of several stem cell based initiatives @lieberinstitute.bsky.social - we are hiring! We are looking for a Staff Scientist with expertise in hiPSCs and iPSC-derived neuronal models to join our Stem Cell Core, directed by @tsawada1.bsky.social recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

This seems super important for in vivo experiments #Norepinephrine and #dopamine #sensor crosstalk depends on local innervation density doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Norepinephrine and dopamine sensor crosstalk depends on local innervation density - Nature Neuroscience

This study shows that GPCR-based norepinephrine and dopamine sensors display crosstalk in several brain areas. Relative innervation densities determine the extent of crosstalk, and loss-of-function co...

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Do psychiatric symptoms in epilepsy always arise from seizures? In ALDH7A1 models, seizure risk traced to the liver; mood-related behavior to astrocytes. One gene. Two tissues. Two pathophysiologies. Neither begins in neurons. New in Science Advances: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 1/11

Astrocyte redox imbalance underlies prelimbic neuronal hypoactivity and maladaptive affective behaviors in epilepsy

Astrocyte antioxidant imbalance reduces neuronal activity, driving depression-like behavior in epilepsy dissociable from seizures.

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New preprint from the lab 🥳 We made new knock-in zebrafish 🐟 that fluorescently tag endogenous neurofascins. So now, we can live-image neuronal nfasca/NF186 and glial nfascb/NF155 non-invasively, as nerves, nodes of Ranvier and paranodes develop in vivo 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Live-imaging of endogenous neurofascins reveals glial adhesion shapes developing nodes of Ranvier

The organisation of myelinated axons into specialised domains is essential for saltatory conduction and depends on the polarised distribution of neuronal and glial cell-adhesion molecules, including n...

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🎉 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Richard Roth to UHN’s @krembilresearch! Dr. Roth joins us as a Scientist, focusing on the interplay between synaptic plasticity and neural circuit adaptation, and how these processes shape motor learning.    🔗 Learn more about his research: www.motor-plasticity.org

Excited to share my postdoc paper from the @lyons-lab.bsky.social Our question: what controls axon diameter? It varies >100-fold between neurons, shapes signal speed & myelination, and changes in disease. Yet very little is known about what regulates it. 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A high-resolution phenotypic screen identifies regulators of CNS axon diameter in zebrafish

Axon diameter is important for action potential conduction speed, but what molecular pathways influence this neuronal property? This study reports a high-resolution imaging-based chemical screening pi...

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Excited to get started!

Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute@dkjei-uhn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎉 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Wendy Xin @droligo.bsky.social to @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social and @kbi-uhn.bsky.social! Learn more about her research: www.oligodendrocyte.org @uhnresearch.ca @uoftmedicine.bsky.social (1/2)

Did I even leave California

Our review on glial orchestration of neurodevelopment is online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social! Great fun working with Krissy Sakers and Pat Sheehan from the Eroglu and Schafer labs, and special thanks to first author Krissy for her tremendous work bringing this to fruition! www.cell.com/developmenta...

Glia orchestrate neural circuit development

In this review, Sakers et al. discuss how astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocyte lineage cells actively regulate neural circuit formation, refinement, and stabilization. They propose that coordina...

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We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Myriam Heiman named the director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Heiman, who studies neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, will lead the institute beginning July 1. picower.mit.edu/news/myriam-... #neuroscience

hippocampus brain section keychain? yes please🙂‍↕️

Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab at the SickKids Research Institute and University of Toronto in August! williamsonlab.ca Recruiting at all levels. Get in touch if you’re interested in astrocyte biology of cognition and disease!

Williamson Lab

The Williamson Lab studies astrocyte biology across development, cognition, and disease.

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We updated our preprint, "Mapping spatially organized molecular and genetic signatures of schizophrenia across multiple scales in human prefrontal cortex" to now include spatial eQTL and genetic colocalization analyses: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper from the lab. Using longitudinal ca imaging, activity-dependent tagging and optogenetics, we show that newly allocated fear engram neurons in amygdala undergo a brief period of coordinated “offline reverberation” immediately after learning. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Do brain circuits really sit in a 'soup' of neuromodulators? Are neurons like soggy bits of bread soaked in signaling factors? Is the whole brain just squelching around in one big pool of warm modulators?

Woo!!!!!! PenningtonLab.com is live!

Pennington Lab

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Deadline fast approaching! ACNP Travel Award Applications are open for the ACNP 65th Annual Meeting: January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California. Deadline to Submit is May 14, 2026, at 5:00 pm Central. tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va #ACNP2027 #travelawards

New preprint led by recent PhD graduate Dalton Fitzgerald characterizing two distinct populations of VTA dopamine neurons that differ in ion channel expression, intrinsic excitability, and response to drugs of abuse. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share my postdoc paper with @joeycheers.bsky.social & collaborators! Building on the work of many former lab members, we describe a VP-VTA projection modulated by endocannabinoids that guides action selection informed by learned cues: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Midbrain endocannabinoids actuate dopamine-based action selection

Dopamine signals guide adaptive responses to reward- and threat-predictive cues, yet the mechanisms shaping these rapid dynamics remain unclear. Luján et al. identify midbrain endocannabinoid signalin...

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📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026. We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control www.levine-lab.org

Excited to share our latest in @currentbiology.bsky.social (they who publish the coolest papers!) Memories are encoded by sparse neuronal ensembles (engrams). But most evidence comes from "simple" associative learning tasks. What about more integrative memories like spatial navigation?

#neuroskyence Help! Anyone know of a freezing stage microtome that is still in production? Leica and Epredia have both inexplicably discontinued their models 😢