ZVR Lab
@zvrlab.bsky.social
@urneuroscience.bsky.social research lab of @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social, dedicated to understanding #discriminationlearning and #psychopathology using #VR, #MRI, and #ML. Happy to connect with the research community on Bluesky!
Last week, PhD Candidate @abigailbossa.bsky.social attended the NIH Translational Research Scholars Event at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences! Congratulations, Abby! #neuroskyence #science #URochesterResearch #NIH #NCATS @ur-ctsi.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
Over 52,000 comments have already been submitted to stop the OMB's proposed rule, and there's still time to submit before comments close tonight. #standupforscience
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3w agoComments close at 11:59 PM tonight. For handy toolkit of how you can submit a comment, hit this link.
This summer, we're excited to have two NEUROCITY summer scholars from @cuny.edu join @zvrlab.bsky.social for a 9-week research intensive program exploring #neuroskyence! Welcome to #URochesterResearch @urochestersmd.bsky.social Elaine and Joel! 🧠 🧵1/2
Today, May 21, is Global #Accessibility Awareness Day! To increase my own awareness, and learn more about how to make digital content, including content about our own #URochesterResearch, more accessible, I'm attending a free training today. Link to join in this thread. 🌎🧑💻 accessibility.day 🧵1/2
GAAD
Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...
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Interested in participating in a #URochesterResearch study @urochester.bsky.social? Click the link below to visit the newly redesigned Health Research and Clinical Trials Website from @ur-ctsi.bsky.social! ⤵️ www.urmc.rochester.edu/clinical-res...
Health Research and Clinical Trials | URochester Medicine
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Meet the ZVR Lab team: Saishruthi Donthula, Undergrad RA: “I’m interested in how we can translate neuroscience research into clinical applications to better understand and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. Fun fact: I like pizza crust more than the actual pizza!” 🧠 🍕 #URochesterResearch
Save the date! Looking forward to our NEUROYES speaker, this Thursday 👇 Christian Cazares, PhD, of University of California San Diego Talk title: Cross-scale electrophysiological biomarkers of cortical dysfunction and behavior in Rett syndrome Learn more about NEUROYES: buff.ly/louTYM1
👀🧠📰 Exciting news for #URochesterResearch and #neuroskyence!
Schallek Lab@schalleklab.bsky.social · 5mo ago🔬Our team @urochestersmd.bsky.social is building a 📹camera to image through layers of the living eye👁️. By changing focus, we reject out-of-focus light to image 3 layers of retinal vessels @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
The @urochester.bsky.social made it to the semi-finals in #STATmadness! Keep voting for #URochesterResearch daily. :) @urochestersmd.bsky.social ⤵️ www.statnews.com/feature/stat...
2026 STAT Madness
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NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...
Comment Form: Draft NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Policy (OSP): Request for Information on Draft NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
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The @urochester.bsky.social is now in Round 2 of #STATMadness! Did you vote for #URochesterResearch today? ⤵️ www.statnews.com/feature/stat...
2026 STAT Madness
2026 bracket Welcome to STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine. Explore groundbreaking innovations from
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ZVR Lab@zvrlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago🧠📣A University of Rochester #neuroscience discovery was selected for this year’s #STATMadness! I’m excited to see our #URochesterResearch competing with top institutions in the country! @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social 🗳️VOTE HERE DAILY to help advance in the bracket: urmc.info/1ra
🧠📣A University of Rochester #neuroscience discovery was selected for this year’s #STATMadness! I’m excited to see our #URochesterResearch competing with top institutions in the country! @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social 🗳️VOTE HERE DAILY to help advance in the bracket: urmc.info/1ra
STAT Madness Application
STAT Madness identifies the top discoveries in biomedicine. Nominations go head to head in a fun March Madness style bracket contest.
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Our favorite PI had a #birthday this week. :) Happy Birthday, @zvr-bsj.bsky.social! We love doing #URochesterResearch with you! 🧠🎂
Exciting new #URochesterResearch 🧠 #neuroskyence
Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience@urneuroscience.bsky.social · 5mo agoMindTrace, a new brain-mapping technology, is guiding neurosurgeons in real time New research shows how fine-grained measures of patient performance during surgery could be harnessed to improve brain surgery 👉 buff.ly/JaGt7AS Read more: buff.ly/hO5uD4x
Why do some people get motion sickness while using a VR headset? #URochesterResearcher find it may be because VR doesn't factor in how the eyes are move while looking at a scene buff.ly/M4xRA2H
A letter signed by 40 neuroscience groups asks Congress to ensure that scientific expertise remains a priority in the search for a new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
After NINDS director ouster, 40 neuroscience organizations press U.S. Congress for oversight over hiring process
A letter signed by the groups asks Congress to ensure that scientific expertise remains a priority in the search for a new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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The 25th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address @urochester.bsky.social is on January 29, with keynote speaker Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. Registration for this free event (in-person or virtual) closes tomorrow, January 22 ⤵️ events.rochester.edu/event/mlk-ad...
25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address
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University of Rochester@urochester.bsky.social · 7mo agoToday is a University holiday, honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address is on Thursday, January 29, with keynote speaker The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II Register to attend: https://events.rochester.edu/event/mlk-address-2026 #MLKDay
Got 2 minutes? Click the link to send an email to your Reps and Senators to restore incremental funding and ensure timely grant awards at the NIH: actnow.aamc.org/a/take-actio... (I did this today and it was super easy.) #neuroskyence #research
AAMC Action | Take Action: Tell Congress to Prioritize NIH-funded research
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Jean-Paul Noel@jpnoel.bsky.social · 7mo agoEmail your Representative and Senators before Jan 30. Ask them to "Adopt Sections 239 and 531 of the Senate LHHS Bill" to restore incremental funding and ensure timely grant awards at the NIH. Prevent a "grant drought" for our field this year. actnow.aamc.org/a/take-actio...
We're excited to welcome Julia Gauberg, MSc, PhD, of @ucsandiego.bsky.social to our NEUROYES speaker series! Dr. Gauberg will present "NFIA links neuromuscular circuit assembly to metabolic resilience in motor neurons." 🗓️Thursday, February 5 at 10am #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social
2025 was quite the year! We celebrated a publication, graduation, and a thesis competition! Congratulations, @zvrlab.bsky.social, I'm excited to see what 2026 holds for our #URochesterResearch. 🎉📸
@zvrlab.bsky.social #neuroskyence research on #learning and #anxiety ranked in the Top 5 Most Read Articles about #URochesterResearch for 2025! 🌟 ⤵️ www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publica...
Researchers Find Temporary Anxiety Impacts Learning
A brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on a person’s ability to learn what is safe and what is not.
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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience@urneuroscience.bsky.social · 8mo ago👇The can't miss neuroscience and everything in between from #URochesterResearch in 2025 🧠 www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publica...
Following her favorite advice- “Do what you enjoy, do what you love.” Dr. Francis joins #URochesterResearch to study transdiagnostic symptoms, like compulsivity, of neurodevelopmental disorders, aiming to impact individuals regardless of their diagnosis @urochestersmd.bsky.social
Faculty Q&A: Sunday Francis, PhD
The assistant professor of Neuroscience, researches transdiagnostic symptoms (TMS), like compulsivity, of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). She aims to impact individuals regardless of their diagnos...
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ICYMI: @phildeming.bsky.social presented his🧠research at the first installment of the @urneuroscience.bsky.social #NEUROYES speaker series on December 11 @urochestersmd.bsky.social. Thank you, Dr. Deming! (Next up in February: Dr. Julia Gauberg from @ucsandiego.bsky.social) #URochesterResearch
Phil Deming@phildeming.bsky.social · 8mo agoI was fortunate to have the opportunity to share my latest research with @urneuroscience.bsky.social. @drnathanasmith.bsky.social and everyone were great hosts - our conversations will certainly shape my research going forward. Read my research here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🏆Thrilled to report that PhD student @abigailbossa.bsky.social earned FIRST PLACE in the 3-Minute Thesis Competition! Abby presented "From Brain Scans to Solutions: Understanding How Trauma and the Environment Shapes the Brain". Congratulations, Abby! #URochesterResearch @urochestersmd.bsky.social
Today at 4pm in 104 Hoyt Auditorium @urochester.bsky.social, our own @abigailbossa.bsky.social competes as a finalist in the 3 Minute Thesis Final Competition! Best of luck Abby! 🌟 Reception & awards ceremony following this FREE event: events.rochester.edu/event/three-...
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Final Competition
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14-year-old invents emergency origami structure, all manta and devil rays get protections, 100,000 free school lunches in London, turning hopelessness into kind deeds… How are you making the planet better?
Read more about our research and our favorite PI, @zvr-bsj.bsky.social, on the gallery page: www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publica...
A Gallery: Neuroscientists in Color
Explore how art and neuroscience come together in this inspiring gallery that includes original art and personal narratives from researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the Universi...
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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience@urneuroscience.bsky.social · 8mo ago"Our goal is to understand how people build maps in the brain that are based on experience, and the role of those maps in psychopathologies of stress and anxiety." Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, PhD, @zvrlab.bsky.social #URochesterResearch 🎨 by @charmainela.bsky.social Visit Gallery👉 buff.ly/wC5Mgr7
📣Exciting news for #URochesterResearch and @urochester.bsky.social! #neuroskyence #VRcademicsky #VR/AR/XR/MR #cogsci
MarcosLab UR@marcoslabur.bsky.social · 8mo agoWelcome Barry Silverstein to @urochester.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social; Anticipating great synergy between #ARVR Center & @cvsuor.bsky.social; with several @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social #RochesterOptics faculty in the leadership; www.rochester.edu/newscenter/b...
Today is World Kindness Day. #Kindness is one of our core values in the ZVR Lab. How will you spread kindness today? #WorldKindnessDay #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence
@zvr-bsj.bsky.social Congrats on your latest publication! 🎉 #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence 🧠
UR Center for Visual Science@cvsuor.bsky.social · 9mo agoOUT NOW from Ben Suarez-Jimenez in NeuroImage: Image-Based Meta- and Mega-Analysis (IBMMA): A Unified Framework for Large-Scale, Multi-Site, Neuroimaging Data Analysis. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #URochesterResearch @zvrlab.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social