Olivia Goldman PhD
@oliviagoldman.net
Neuroimmunology & Bioinformatics 🦠 | Schmidt Science & Weill Neurohub Postdoctoral Fellow | SENse Lab @berkeleymcb.bsky.social | PhD in the deadliest animal 🦟 | Co-founder & Exec Board Secretary @cientificolatino.com 💗 | she/her 🏳️🌈
So lucky to have my work featured in this awesome study! Check out how vision shapes spatial maps in the hippocampus, out now on biorxiv 🔥
Sarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow does #vision shape spatial maps in the hippocampus? Check out our brand new preprint 👇 As someone who did a PhD on the #hippocampus & postdoc on visual cortex and superior colliculus, it's such a joy to start closing the loop - especially with such a great team! 😊
Congratulations to our sixteen NSF-GRFP awardees and Honorable Mentions!!
Applying to STEM grad programs? Know someone who is? Be a good friend/colleague/mentor/labmate.... tell them to apply to #GSMI!!! ❤️ 👉👉 cientificolatino.com/gsmi 👈 👈
Científico Latino@cientificolatino.com · 4mo agoSign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2026! 🤩 ➡️ www.cientificolatino.com/gsmi The GSMI program supports 100 graduate school applicants through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, professional development, and community building! Applications accepted until 5/31/26!
New article from @cientificolatino.com !!! On the struggles of first year grad students and how to support them 💜
Valerie Tornini@valetornini.bsky.social · 4mo agoHappy to share our article on @cientificolatino.com's GSEC program: a national mentorship program for 1st-year STEM grad students, geared for those from underrepresented backgrounds. We review why programs like this are urgently needed & what we learned while running it 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...
Happy to share our article on @cientificolatino.com's GSEC program: a national mentorship program for 1st-year STEM grad students, geared for those from underrepresented backgrounds. We review why programs like this are urgently needed & what we learned while running it 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...
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🎉 Thrilled to see our #MosquitoCellAtlas featured on the cover of @cp-cell.bsky.social ! This mosaic represents 367K cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Beautiful art by @somedonkey.bsky.social meets the #Vosshalllab science! 🦟🎨
Cell - a Cell Press journal@cp-cell.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew issue alert! 👉 cell.com/cell/current On the cover: The mosquito mosaic represents the tissues of the atlas presented by Goldman et al. The atlas reveals the complex diversity underlying the mosquito’s remarkable ability to locate human hosts and transmit deadly pathogens
Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!! This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
Head to Mosquitos: Cell atlas reveals sex differences in mosquitos – potentially applicable for disease spread management 📷 @oliviagoldman.net, AlexandraDefoe et al @rockefeller.edu in @cellpress.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with John Ankers
Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)
FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping
Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...
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#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
I'm happy that I could contribute even a small part to this fantastic and monumental study! Huge shoutout to @oliviagoldman.net @nadavshai.bsky.social and @leslievosshall.bsky.social for their incredible leadership in organizing this massive project!
Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · 9mo agoExcited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
TOMORROW – for CSU East Bay Students! Our Co-Founder/Board Secretary @oliviagoldman.net participates in "Paths into Mind and Brain Careers" for CSU East Bay's Connections Week! 🕰️ Tuesday, 11/4, 12pm to 2pm 📍University Union, Multipurpose Room (CSU East Bay) ➡️ lrubio12.wordpress.com/event
Great to see that our mosquito cell atlas is now out in Cell. Amazing work from @oliviagoldman.net and @nadavshai.bsky.social to organise so much data and so many interesting stories into a single paper!
Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · 9mo agoExcited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Excited to team up with CSU East Bay for Connections Week (Nov 4-8)! ➡️ lrubio12.wordpress.com/event… 11/5, @latinodeciencia.bsky.social leads a virtual workshop on applying to summer research & grad school (open to all!) 🎓 11/4, @oliviagoldman.net joins the Paths into Mind & Brain Careers panel! 🧠
What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
A real game-changer for the mosquito community - all packed in a beautiful paper!!!!
Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · 9mo agoExcited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🦟 The mosquito is the most deadly animal in the world. The Mosquito Cell Atlas is an incredible new resource to help us understand more about their ability to transmit pathogens to humans. Data is available on the UC Santa Cruz @genomebrowser.bsky.social at mosquito.cells.ucsc.edu
UCSC Cell Browser
mosquito.cells.ucsc.edu
Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · 9mo agoExcited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mosquito cell atlas is now published! Congratulations to @nadavshai.bsky.social and @oliviagoldman.net and the many other collaborators that contributed to this resource. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...
cell.com
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...
cell.com
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Científico Latino@cientificolatino.com · 10mo agoLast year, we helped 100 students save $31K in grad school app fees, giving students from underserved communities the freedom to apply widely. This year we lost 16 partners = $8.2K setback = 110 fewer dreams. 🎓 You can change that. 💸 Donate to open 110 new doors. givebutter.com/supportCL
An excellent and very comprehensive resource for grad students-to-be!
Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · 11mo agoIt's been a while since I applied to the #NSFGRFP... but over that time I developed this guide based on my experiences and mentoring other students with the NSF-GRFP through Cientifico Latino, Inc. (and otherwise)! 💛 Thank you to John Lê for the additional contributions!!
It's been a while since I applied to the #NSFGRFP... but over that time I developed this guide based on my experiences and mentoring other students with the NSF-GRFP through Cientifico Latino, Inc. (and otherwise)! 💛 Thank you to John Lê for the additional contributions!!
Científico Latino@cientificolatino.com · 11mo agoApplying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
Feel very lucky to have learned so much alongside Dr. Tornes Blanco (@anibaltornesblanco.bsky.social)!!! 🥳🌟
Científico Latino@cientificolatino.com · 12mo ago🎉 Congratulations to the brilliant, newly-minted Dr. Aníbal Tornes Blanco!! Aníbal is Científico Latino Junior Board member, longtime team member, & 2019 GSMI scholar. We are so honored to celebrate this milestone & continue to work with you to make science more inclusive!!
Graduate school applications are expensive!! 💸 We are proud that we were able to save $53,205 in graduate school costs this year for our 100 GSMI scholars through Cientifico Latino, Inc. scholarships and fee waivers. Learn more about our program: cientificolatino.com/gsmi
We had a blast at #ASV2025 in Montréal! 🦠🍁 Our co-founders @latinodeciencia.bsky.social & @oliviagoldman.net: 🔹 Led a workshop on culture, communication & mentorship 🔹 Spoke on a panel about shifting cultural & funding landscapes Big thanks to the organizers & everyone who came!
Please share with NYC-based undergraduates!
Científico Latino@cientificolatino.com · last yr.🚀 Join us for our *first-ever* Pathways to the PhD conference on Sat, Sept 27 in NYC — sponsored by MIT! In-person event for college students & recent grads exploring STEM PhDs. Get insider tips & MIT insights! 📍 St. Francis College, NYC 🔗 Register: cientificolatino.com/phd-conference
More 1st year grad students unable to find a lab because of funding shortages in rotation-based programs. #fundingcuts What advice would you give to an incoming 1st year to try avoid this?
