I made a video with @ucdavis.bsky.social on the benefits of federal grants for health science and our economy. Please share with friends/family that could be receptive or better yet, make your own video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndjH...

From Labs to Lives: Brian Trainor, Ph.D.

YouTube video by UC Davis

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Join our department! NBIO is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor. Position open until April 1, 2025. Please share with your networks. Apply @ apply.interfolio.com/162469 #stemhiring #neurojobs

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The @uw-nbio.bsky.social Dept. Neurobiology & Biophysics has job posting for an Assistant Teaching Professor! Open until April 1, 2025. This position will support the UW undergraduate Neuroscience major, with a focus on ephys labs. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/162469

The @uw-nbio.bsky.social Dept. Neurobiology & Biophysics has job posting for an Assistant Teaching Professor! Open until April 1, 2025. This position will support the UW undergraduate Neuroscience major, with a focus on ephys labs. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/162469

Got Bowie on the brain

New NIH R01 grant to examine anatomy and function of the dorsal endopiriform nucleus as part of the claustrum complex. reporter.nih.gov/search/6CHod.... Looking for team members (e.g., postdoc, tech) to join the journey.

Remarkable talk by Dr. Mitra Heshmati today at the Conciousness GRC, on the engineering of synthetic consciousness states through whole brain genetic capture.

Life as a researcher comes with a mountain of paperwork. A new IACUC procedure database aims to lighten the load. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/pr...

Protocol-sharing site aims to ease administrative burden of animal research

The library of regulatory-compliant animal procedures offers experimental standards and specific language that researchers can borrow for their own legal paperwork.

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New paper out! Led by @michaelecoulter.bsky.social, we learned that rats can learn to use content-specific neurofeedback to generate specific remote hippocampal representations. surprisingly, this occurs *outside* of SWRs!

@michaelecoulter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Animal models of memory retrieval trigger retrieval with cues and measure retrieval using behavior. We developed a neurofeedback paradigm for direct study of neural activity associated with memory retrieval by separating this from activity related to cues or behavior. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

To all the scientists out there, just keep breathing.

UW Neurobiology & Biophysics@uw-nbio.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week we are hosting Dr. Jack Feldman of UCLA. Join us for Dr. Feldman's talk, "Breathing Matters", UW Seattle Health Sciences Bldg G-328, 1/23 @ 9:30 am.

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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New paper from the lab! Do you pay close attention to what your research animals are eating? If you are interested in behavior, development, or reproductive physiology – you should! 🧵 ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc356mpr

Dietary phytoestrogens recalibrate socioemotional behavior in C57Bl/6J mice in a sex- and timing-dependent manner

Estrogens are potent regulators of socioemotional behavior across species. Ubiquitous in human and animal diets, plant-derived phytoestrogens (PE) bin…

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For those of you who say we have taken AI too far, gaze upon this scientifically accurate representation and weep

🆕 in DPN‼️ @rossenator.bsky.social & co @einsteinmededu.bsky.social developed an object detection machine learning tool to identify cell types of the estrous cycle in mice, providing a fast & reliable method for estrous cycle monitoring in neuroscience studies! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A novel method for estrous cycle staging using supervised object detection - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience

This study presents a new machine learning tool called ODES (Object Detection for Estrous Staging) to determine the estrogen-related cycle stage in female mice. Unlike traditional models that classify...

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Excited to share a new tool from the Ross Lab @rossenator.bsky.social @einsteinmededu.bsky.social for estrus staging in mice. Honored to be part of this innovative work!

NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)@dpn-journal.bsky.social · 2y ago

🆕 in DPN‼️ @rossenator.bsky.social & co @einsteinmededu.bsky.social developed an object detection machine learning tool to identify cell types of the estrous cycle in mice, providing a fast & reliable method for estrous cycle monitoring in neuroscience studies! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

John Tuthill explains why practical summer courses in neuroscience matter and how this tradition helps researchers rekindle the unfettered joy that initially brought them to the field. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca... #neuroskyence

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share our latest research in @eLife: We uncover how learning mechanisms shape dynamic defensive behaviors in mice, moving beyond the typical focus on freezing.🧠💡 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #Neuroscience #PTSD #FearConditioning

Contributions of associative and non-associative learning to the dynamics of defensive ethograms

Associative and non-associative learning mechanisms summate to produce robust and complex conditioned behavior profiles, opening new avenues to in-depth investigations of defensive responses and threa...

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We are excited to announce the first recipient of the DPN Editors’ New Investigator Waiver Award: Dr. Kristin Kostick-Quenet! The Kostick-Quenet lab focuses on the ethical, social, & cultural factors related to integrating emerging AI-based technologies into clinical care

As much fun as ACNP was, thrilled I was able to be back in time to watch Mary Loveless share her rotation presentation with the GPN cohort! Congratulations Mary!

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Celebrating my bestie’s success at #ACNP2024. So proud for @bangasserlab.bsky.social

Hi #ACNP2024 👋 We are @acnporg.bsky.social’s new open access journal publishing on digital methodologies that advance the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and modeling of mental illness. We launched just last year and this will be our second ACNP meeting!

Neuropsychopharmacology@npp-journal.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are officially on the ground in Phoenix so it's time for the #ACNP2024 role call 📣 Introduce yourself, your science, tell us if you're a veteran or first-timer, promote your poster/talk/favorite social - whatever you want, this is your space to say it ⬇️

Excited for day 1 of #ACNP2024 at the pre-meeting Technology in Psychiatry (TIPS) conference! Fantastic lineup and discussions so far.

#flourescent(almost)friday (make sure to full screen this!) Some hippocampal neurons and dendritic arbors visualized from mCherry with a 3.6x objective in a SmartSPIM using iDisco.

Some new images from last night using a new stain (for us). Was imaging with a trainee and we came to the conclusion that being a brain astronaut it pretty cool... 250um MIP from an iDisco cleared brain using LSFM.

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

#flourescentfriday! Some TRAP2xDREADD cells from a ~250um thick digital horizontal slice of a cleared (hind)brain.

Dying hair cells

First 2 days here have been flowing walls of pictures of stars and flowers... and it is such a breath of electronic air...

Our next multi-agent behavior challenge launches in <2 months! Will share bits of info here in the meantime. First, the basics: - 226 hours of top-down video of socially interacting mice - 15 contributor labs - all vids fully manually scored for behavior - 45 unique behaviors across videos (!)

Welcome to @trapp.bsky.social who started his postdoc in the lab this month! Super excited share his more on his project as he settles in...!