Looking for a postdoc? The @sciolinolab.bsky.social at UConn is hiring! We investigate how neuromodulatory systems interact with central taste processing regions to regulate behavior using in vivo recordings, optogenetics & mouse behavior. Apply: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

Our new study on neurobiology of stress-driven food intake. www.nature.com/articles/s41... In mice, PFC controls lateral hypothalamus through a multi-branched network. Stress causes differential plasticity across branches, priming the network to promote bingeing. #stresseating

The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Next-generation multicolor indicators for in vivo imaging of norepinephrine - Nature Methods

Improved red and green indicators for norepinephrine and their characterization are reported. These indicators allow detection of norepinephrine release in awake behaving mice in dual-color fiber phot...

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Check out this new review on how neuropeptides control the locus coeruleus! Great job @danai-lama.bsky.social bringing people from the #LC community together.

Very happy that this is out now! Working with the very talented @danai-lama.bsky.social on this was an absolute pleasure. Looking forward to all of the great new science to come out of the newly formed Riga lab!

Danai Riga@danai-lama.bsky.social · last yr.

Beyond happy & proud to have our paper on peptidergic neuromodulation of the #LC out! This is a project that started with naive intentions & silly curiosity, withstood 1 pandemic & 2 lab moves & made us fall in ❤️ with the most beautiful brain regions of all!! 🔵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...