The Public Welfare Medal is about to be presented to Nancy Hopkins for her courageous leadership over three decades to create and ensure equal opportunity for women in science. #NAS161 #NASaward #womeninSTEM

Don't miss her speech: ow.ly/swGU50RqenB

Excited to share this piece with Trevonn Gyles, Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, and Daniela Schiller! We provide resources for graduate training in science communication, inspired by Grad School at Sinai's course. 🗣️📽️✍️ (1/3)

Can an animal sense the world with neurons from another species ? See our brain chimera paper and the accompanying one by Jun Wu mentioned in last post

📢 It's time for my lab to continue growing!
We are looking for exceptional postdoctoral candidates to direct projects involving epigenetic mechanisms associated with neurodevelopment and neuropsychiatric disorders.
More info👇👇
tinyurl.com/NeuroATBLab

Drugs of abuse alter neuronal signaling to reprioritize use over innate needs, according to a new Science study in mice.

The findings provide mechanistic insights into the intensification of drug-seeking behaviors in substance use disorders. scim.ag/6HO

Save the data for for this exciting workshop on social interactions organized by Carmen Sandi camilla and myself in Andalusia next Fall. DM me for more information.

Registration for the brain non-coding RNA meeting in Ascona is now open at brain-ncrna-conference.ch Fantastic line-up of speakers, gorgeous location, short talks selected from abstracts, poster award, stipends ... hurry up, since attendance is limited to 100.

They better do just to this beautiful Masterpiece‼️

#ThisWeekInNPP

Tseng et al., find that women with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have elevated levels of [11C]PBR28 standardized uptake value ratio in specific brain regions, contrasting previous findings in males with ASD 👩🧑

nature.com/articles/s4138…

Check out our latest preprint unveiling sex-specific regulation of stress susceptibility by the astrocytic gene Htra1, shedding light on the crucial role of the extracellular matrix. Huge thanks to coauthors and supporters for making this possible! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We started the project by asking a simple question: how does the development of drug addiction interfere with our natural needs? This led us to collaborate across multiple fields to unravel the underlying mechanisms. I am truly grateful to work with these hardcore scientists!

Extremely proud to share this work with mastermind Bowen Tan and Tobias Nöbauer representing an awesome collaboration across the labs of Vaziri Lab, Jeffery Friedman, and Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD now out in Science Magazine. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We are thrilled to announce that our grant proposal for the NIH Fogarty D43 program, focusing on brain health in Colombia, has been selected for funding. This grant will bolster our PhD program in Neuroscience at Medicina Javeriana and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, enhancing research on brain health…

Field trip for Society for Neuroscience Events to hear about ten years of progress through the NIH BRAIN Initiative hosted by the American Brain Coalition

This is a tremendous opportunity for science teachers in NYC to work in a Mount Sinai lab this summer and bring new expertise, methodologies, and perspectives back to their classrooms in the fall. Friedman Brain Institute

‼️My PhD work pre-print‼️ Sonenberg Lab #mTOR #TREM2 #mitochondria
➡️ #Microglia need to be fit 💪 to stop AD pathology. We delved into some previously unexplored pathways microglia employ to keep up (and not get so mad).
1/ a bit overdue🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint alert! Rebekah beautifully shows that early-life stress primes chromatin and accelerates epigenetic development specifically in early-life stress-sensitive NAc neurons as a mechanism of lifelong stress sensitivity doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Happy to see this out in Neuron. Huikun Wang, a staff scientist in our lab, demonstrates that ventromedial prefrontal cortical dynorphin signaling constrains threat-driven passive defensive behavior and switches in network states. Thread below.

cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

Our first paper is now published in Cell Reports! Here, we provide evidence that the dorsal peduncular cortex is a substrate for fear memory. Congratulations to Rodrigo Campos-Cardoso, Zephyr Desa, Brianna Fitzgerald, and the rest of our team! tinyurl.com/4yudc3hm

A giant unicorn statue, the symbol of the Boston Marathon, has been installed at the finish line for Marathon Monday.

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