Happy summer! Share my short review on Oxytocin in Social Conflict. Full text link below. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Happy to share our new review on Neural Mechanisms of Social Hierarchy across Species. We discussed different routes to achieve high social status across species, from fish to humans, and the neural circuits that support each of those strategies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural basis of social hierarchy across species

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Structured social hierarchies, in which individuals differ in their access to resources and influence over other group members, are a characteristic of many social...

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What has changed in mama bear brain (well, actually mice) to make her risk her life to attack a potential threat and protect her young? Oxytocin is the key! Happy to share our new study led by two awesome postdocs: Takashi Yamaguchi and Rongzhen Yan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression - Nature

In mice, female aggression is governed by an amygdala–to–medial hypothalamus circuit that is strengthened during pregnancy and is dynamically amplified by oxytocin during lactation.

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1/6 Check out our new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social that examines how our brain accommodates for two opposing demands - efficient and yet accurate learning. 🧵👇

Congratulations Shai! Very proud to be a part of this project.

Shai Israel@shaisrael.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Super excited to share that the “sequel” to my PhD research at the Parnas lab has been published as a featured article in Communications Biology! 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Super excited to share that the “sequel” to my PhD research at the Parnas lab has been published as a featured article in Communications Biology! 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A new system for studying neuronal remodeling and its relation to behavior in Drosophila - Communications Biology

Authors show that the adult Moonwalker SEZ neuron is a developmentally-conserved larval neuron that drives backward locomotion at both larval and adult stages and undergoes ec...

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Excited to share our latest work - expressing the bacterial sodium channel in fly Kenyon cells surprisingly *decreases* their excitability, thanks partly to decreased endogenous sodium channels. This prevents learning and decreases odor-evoked calcium influx doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

Ectopic sodium channel expression decreases excitability of Drosophila Kenyon cells

Abstract figure legend: We tested the effects of expressing the bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel NaChBac in the Kenyon cells of the Drosophila memory centre, the mushroom body. NaChBac expressi...

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Congrats, Eyal! A great way to start.

NYU Grossman School of Medicine Postdoctoral Affairs@nyumedpostdocs.bsky.social · last yr.

✨😀Congratulations to postdocs Eyal Rozenfeld and Francesco Limone on being named 2025 Leon Levy Scholars by The New York Academy of Sciences! @sciencelemon92.bsky.social @eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social @moccalin.bsky.social @liddelowsa.bsky.social www.nyas.org/press-releas...

✨😀Congratulations to postdocs Eyal Rozenfeld and Francesco Limone on being named 2025 Leon Levy Scholars by The New York Academy of Sciences! @sciencelemon92.bsky.social @eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social @moccalin.bsky.social @liddelowsa.bsky.social www.nyas.org/press-releas...

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation Announce the 2025 Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience - NYAS

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation have announced the 2025 class of Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience.

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1/ Check out our Juila Manoim, Tal Camchy, @eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social, Hadas Lerner, Hao-Hsin Chang, Ran Darshan, and Ya-Hui Chou new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nonlinear high-activity neuronal excitation enhances odor discrimination

Discrimination between different signals is crucial for animals’ survival. Inhibition that suppresses weak neural activity is crucial for pattern deco…

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I started my lab more then 4 years ago, and we have endured some very challenging times ever since.…I am very excited to share the first paper from my lab, published now in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetically encoded biosensor for fluorescence lifetime imaging of PTEN dynamics in the intact brain - Nature Methods

A first-in-class fluorescence lifetime-based FRET sensor for phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) enables the dynamic monitoring of PTEN activity in cultured cells and in vivo with high spatiotempora...

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Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter

ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter

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So happy to see this paper out! Congrats @victoriacorbit.bsky.social and @ahmarilab.bsky.social! Lots of fond memories from running these experiments. The similarity in the behavioral and striatal neural response time course produced by driving M2 inputs was really striking.

Victoria Corbit, PhD@victoriacorbit.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's a little surreal that this paper is finally out. My last paper from my PhD and likely my last mouse neuro publication ever! Ft. @ahmarilab.bsky.social @piantadosisean.bsky.social If you're into mouse behavior, optogenetics, and calcium imaging, here's this 🐀🔦🔬 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

An early surge of norepinephrine along brainstem pathways drives sensory-evoked awakening www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Happy to see this great work (and some PdCO application) out in the wild.

Marlin Lab’s 1st Thesis Defense ✨ Hear the science @2:30pm EST bit.ly/MarlinLab Have the cheers @5:00 pm EST JLG✨ Columbia Biology student Beka Stecky will share her discoveries on “What the Nose, Knows” after learning an odor predicts a stressful experience.👃🏽🧬🧪

My thesis defense date is official! And yes I put my cat and Tac2 neurons on my poster 🥰

Antipsychotics is often used to suppress hyper-aggression. Does it really suppress aggression or just cause sedation? Antipsychotics targets dopamine receptors. Our new study revealed that dopamine modulates aggression based on animals' fighting experience. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experience-dependent dopamine modulation of male aggression - Nature

Dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area have a role in modulating aggression in adult male mice, and this effect of dopamine depends strongly on fighting experience.

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Fly neuro people: has anyone tried the Ting lab’s scFLARE (or variants) for labelling active neurons in Drosophila? Thanks.

🚨Postdoc and Postbac positions available in my group at the NIEHS/NIH! Interested in investigating the neural mechanisms for social behaviors across development in a supportive environment? Make sure to apply! Job ads in🧵Feel free to DM/email w/ questions, please RT

We are hiring! We are looking for two PhD students interested in the regulation of habit formation. Habits are useful to decrease cognitive load, but carry the risk of becoming stereotyped and hard to control - it’s hard to shake a bad habit. The fruit fly Drosophila also forms habits and we […]

New year new work from the lab! We explore whether aggression experience and observation lead to similar changes in future aggression strategy. (They do!) We perform 2-color imaging across the whole social behavior network across time and track changes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Aggression experience and observation promote shared behavioral and neural changes

The ability to observe the social behavior of others and use observed information to bias future action is a fundamental building block of social cognition. A foundational question is whether social o...

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(1/6) Excited to introduce our first generation red acetylcholine sensors! #acetylcholine #GRAB #RedSensors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Red-shifted GRAB acetylcholine sensors for multiplex imaging in vivo

The neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) is essential in both the central and peripheral nervous systems. Recent studies highlight the significance of interactions between ACh and various neuromodulat...

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🎄PinkyCaMP- our christmas gift to you! 🎁: We are excited to present PinkyCaMP, the first mScarlet based calcium sensor with: ✨exceptional, brightness ✨phototability ✨and optogenetic compatability. Check out our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

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FMI science@fmiscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Wanna switch on/off synaptic transmission but not the ideal vector for your🧠🧪🔬, we are happy to help! Requested recently & available to you: ChrimsonR(no soma targeting)+PdCO (Cre & non-Cre) DoxOn/OFF PdCO-EGFP (TREtight) -> docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Probably soon @addgene.bsky.social too.

Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our @Nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict. We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mating proximity blinds threat perception - Nature

A state-dependent dopamine filter system in the male Drosophila brain balances threat perception against the drive to mate.

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Hi everyone! I am Daniela, a pre-clinical psychedelic researcher doing a PhD at the Paris Brain Institute under the supervision of Eric Burguière. I am working with the SAPAP3-KO mice and LSD. I am a great advocate for open science, diversity and science communication! Nice to meet you all 🥰

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Neuroscience methods - YouTube

Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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