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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · 15d

Tomorrow, I will be in Zaragoza participating to a new edition of the Research Career Course organized by the @academiajoven.bsky.social . During this course we will discuss about research funding, evaluation, dissemination, ethics, emotional management, among other important topics.

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Academia Joven de España @academiajoven.bsky.social · Sep 4

Por cuarto año consecutivo la @academiajoven.bsky.social organiza el Curso de la Carrera Investigadora en colaboración con @unizar.es y @csic.es

🗓️25 y 26 de septiembre
🏛️💻Presencial y online
📍Paraninfo @unizar, Zaragoza
👉Gratuito

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Más información e inscripción:
academiajoven.es/proximos/iv-...

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · 23d

In addition, I will be giving a talk in an interesting symposium organized by @carmensandi10.bsky.social explaining some ongoing projects of the lab regarding the behavioral effects of cannabinoid drugs.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · 23d

We are at @eurbehavpharm.bsky.social meeting ⛵️ Tomorrow @imanzanaressierra.bsky.social (Post. #1.7) and @carlarduaso.bsky.social (Post. #1.34) are presenting posters regarding the link between Cannabinoid drugs and Psychosis and Cannabinoid drugs and Alzheimer Disease, respectively.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Sep 6

Together with Giovanni Marsicano, @bolanosjuanp.bsky.social and @imanzanaressierra.bsky.social, we took profit of the #SENC2025 to have an exciting meeting with interesting findings from our @caixaresearch.bsky.social project, in which we are investigating the psychotic effects of cannabis.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tomorrow, our PhD student
Irene Ferreres
will be presenting the poster "Impact of adolescent stress on behaviour
and neuroimmune function" (num. 116). Come to see our posters and discuss our research.

Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Sep 3

oday, our PhD student
@imanzanaressierra.bsky.social
will be presenting the poster entitled "Studying the psychotic-like states induced
by Delta-9-Tetrahidrocannabinol (THC):
new behavioral strategies to tackle the
complexity of psychosis in mouse models" (num. 305)

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our group is in the #senc2025 meeting in Gran Canaria where we will show two different stories from the lab through the presentation of two posters.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Aug 28

This study suggest that data-driven analysis reveals nuances missed by traditional measures to measure mouse behavior representing a step toward richer, data-driven profiling of mouse behavior.

Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Aug 28

The main findings are briefly summarized here:

➡️ Indirect associated cues through second-order conditioning triggers distinct behavioral responses compared to cues directly associated with reinforcer.

➡️ Older mice struggle with second-order conditioning

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Aug 28

We developed a pipeline combining DeepLabCut, Keypoint-MoSeq & DeepOF to study age- and sex-dependent differences in light-tone second-order conditioning in mice.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 New paper from our lab published in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social and performed in the @researchmar.bsky.social led by our PhD student
Marc Canela.

📄More info below:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Profiling mouse behavior with computational tools to assess age-dependent differences in associative learning

Canela et al. introduce a data-driven pipeline to dissect second-order conditioning (SOC) behavioral responses in mice. Their work reveals that SOC elicits unique behavioral signatures depending on th...

www.cell.com

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our contribution, led by our postdoc @carlarduaso.bsky.social, has been to infuse MitoDREADD in the hippocampus of APP/PS1 mice, a mouse model of amyloidosis accompanied by cognitive decline, and show how the enhancement of mitochondrial activity reverse memory deficits in this mouse model.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our group is proud to have contributed to a new paper published in @nature.com
led by @marsicano.bsky.social, in which MitoDREADD, a new tool to enhance mitochondrial activity, show promising effects against the cognitive decline in neurodegenerative disorders.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Potentiation of mitochondrial function by mitoDREADD-Gs reverses pharmacological and neurodegenerative cognitive impairment in mice - Nature Neuroscience

Activation of Gs signaling at mitochondria by mitoDREADD-Gs increases mitochondrial metabolism, leading to better memory in mouse models of dementia, directly linking brain mitochondrial deficits to c...

www.nature.com

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jul 29

Very happy and honored that our ERASE project has been proposed to be funded by the @ageinves.bsky.social . 3 exciting years ahead to further investigate the brain substrates of emotion recognition in normal and pathological aging. #PID2024

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jul 8

The wildfire touching Marseille prevented me to be in the symposium, to share our project linking astrocytes, cannabinoid drugs and Alzheimer disease and to attend to the interesting @gliameeting.bsky.social ! I am sure the symposium conducted by @murphyroyallab.org has been a success!

Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jul 8

Together with Ciaran @murphyroyallab.org, from the Université de Montreal, we are co-chairing today the Symposium "Understanding the roles of astrocytes in cognition and behaviour across the lifespan" in the @gliameeting.bsky.social in Marseille.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jul 8

Together with Ciaran @murphyroyallab.org, from the Université de Montreal, we are co-chairing today the Symposium "Understanding the roles of astrocytes in cognition and behaviour across the lifespan" in the @gliameeting.bsky.social in Marseille.

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Hospital del Mar Research Institute @researchmar.bsky.social · Jul 7

Recycle your poster, share your research! New #Neuroscience event at @researchmar.bsky.social

🗓️ July 24 ⏰15:15h 📍Marie Curie Room
👩‍🔬 Keynote by Dr. Sara Mederos (@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social)

🔗 Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

👉 researchmar.net/agenda/968

@bgarcialab.bsky.social

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Hospital del Mar Research Institute @researchmar.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧠 How does the brain make decisions based on indirect associations between stimuli?

🔬 A new @pnas.org study led by Dr. Busquets @bgarcialab.bsky.social (@researchmar.bsky.social)
sheds light on the role of the amygdala and cortical circuits

👉 researchmar.net/news/732/

@hospitaldelmar.bsky.social

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our postdoc @carlarduaso.bsky.social will show her postdoctoral results during the Poster session during the morning of Sunday 29th. (P1.7): Astrocytes in action: sex-, genotype-, and cannabinoid-dependent mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our PhD student @imanzanaressierra.bsky.social will show her PhD results during the Poster session during the morning of Sunday 29th. (P1.5): A new behavioral protocol to study positive psychotic-like states induced by Delta-9-tetrahidrocannabinol (THC) in mice.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Together with our postdoc Sílvia Castany, we will be chairing the Symposium "The immune mind: how immunity shapes mood and behavior" with very interesting talks by @murphyroyallab.org, @caromenard666.bsky.social, @agnesnadjar.bsky.social and Sílvia on Sunday 29th at 11:30h.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Heading to the @ebbsociety.bsky.social meeting in Bordeaux to enjoy 4 days in a fantastic city, meeting colleagues and friends and enjoying a great scientific program. Our lab will contribute showing our different research lines.

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our PhD Jose Antonio González Parra and postdoc Irene Ayuso are attending the European Social Club meeting in Coimbra. Today, during the poster session, we have shown our interesting results on the brain circuits controlling emotion recognition in mice. #socialbehavior #mousebehavior #neuroscience

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Our results, performed in the @researchmar.bsky.social, may help understand how inferential learning circuits are altered in trauma-related or neuropsychiatric disorders.

Check out the full paper here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#Neuroscience #Learning #Amygdala #Rodents #Behavior

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Busquets-Garcia Lab @bgarcialab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Finally, by manipulating LEC→BLA projections during odor-taste associations we show that this pathway is crucial for proper inferential responses.

🧠 These findings offer new insight into the circuits behind complex learning.

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