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Dave Root

@neuronroot.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist at CU Boulder. he/him. Mostly amplify other neuroscientists. www.root-lab.org

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Dave Root @neuronroot.bsky.social · Feb 27

New Pre-Print led by @emilyprevost.bsky.social Glutamate-dopamine, nonglu-dopamine, and glu-only neurons and neurotransmitters they use have dissociable contributions to motivated behavior. Important to segregate DA subcell-types to better understand the many motivation-related functions of DA

Emily Prevost @emilyprevost.bsky.social · Feb 27

New preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Untangling dopamine and glutamate in the ventral tegmental area

Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons are of great interest for their central roles in motivation, learning, and psychiatric disorders. While hypotheses of VTA dopamine neuron function posit a...

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 2d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 6d

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 7d

We are looking for a new technician to join our lab and gain some hands on #zebrafish and molecular biology experience. Interested parties should apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... Happy to answer any and all questions about the lab! #STEMJobs

Laboratory/Technical Assistant

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Laboratory/Technical Assistant for the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience within the School of Arts and Sciences. Our mission is to un...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Ana Dorrego Rivas @adorrego.bsky.social · 7d

Dendritic nanotubes! What’s next?

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dend...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 7d

How it fees when Researchgate emails to tell you two people viewed your article

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 8d

Our next profile is here! Dr. Christine Constantinople studies the neural mechanisms of decision-making. Follow the link below to learn more! 🧠

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in metabolism? So are we! My lab has been exploring the cell biology of energy metabolism in the nervous system, and we are looking for postdocs. Cool sensors and microscopy, great work environment. Please help me spread the word!

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 8d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 9d

Fully funded #FindAPhD! We'll be studying neurobiology of motivation in mice hunting crickets, using a combination of genetic manipulations, behaviour and in vivo ephys. Co-suprvised by the amazing @agonru.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB. #Neuroskyence Pls share

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Animal Biology in Health & Disease - Mick Craig

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 12d

VTA monosynaptic connections by local glutamate and GABA neurons and their distinct roles in behavior
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

VTA monosynaptic connections by local glutamate and GABA neurons and their distinct roles in behavior - Nature Communications

While the connectivity of VTA dopamine neurons is well studied, less is known about the connectivity of VTA glutamate and GABA neurons. Here, authors show that these neurons form local circuits to modulate reward, aversion, feeding and locomotion.

www.nature.com

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 12d

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...

You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 14d

We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social

www.libd.org/careers/

Links to individual positions in the thread below.

Careers at LIBD | Medical Research Jobs | Lieber Institute

View our career opportunities with Lieber Institute for Brain Development including investigators, medical research jobs, scientists, & lab techs

www.libd.org

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Lindsay Schwarz @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social · 15d

With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Developmental Neurobiology

A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Lindsay Schwarz in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Schwarz l...

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 17d

The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com

We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.

Sosa Lab

www.sosaneurolab.com

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Dr. Anna Radke @aradprof.bsky.social · 21d

We are still accepting applications for Assistant Professor of Biology - focus on neurobiology! Please share!

miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

Assistant Professor

Job Title Assistant Professor Department Biology Department Worker Type Regular Pay Type Salary Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and experience. Benefit Eligible ...

miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · 21d

My department is hiring! Come join a cutting-edge and collaborative environment. Details below:

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Alex Naka @gottapatchemall.bsky.social · 21d

My group at Science has been running a big campaign to engineer new channelrhodopsins.

Excited to share the first results from it today: a suite of highly sensitive new opsins.

We call them "WAChRs".

Everyday indoor office lighting is enough to activate them pretty strongly.

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 21d

New position: Research assistant in the Manzano Lab at Binghamton... early life development, reward seeking and inhibition and single neuron imaging in behaving mice... please repost!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 21d

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

Information flyer for graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Virtual open house events on October 6th and 30th.

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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 22d

WE ARE... hiring!

Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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Dave Root @neuronroot.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats!

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 22d

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.

Lots of updates from the preprint!

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

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Johannes Bohacek @bohaceklab.bsky.social · 23d

🔵 I'm interrupting my social media hiatus to flag this important preprint from the Bruchas lab (is he not on Bluesky!?) together with @davidweinshenker.bsky.social. Very difficult experiments to show that dopamine release from LC terminals is independent of VTA 🔥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mark Rossi @markrossi.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 New preprint from an ongoing collaboration with the Pang lab. Project led by rising stars @rohansavani.bsky.social and @lewang1.bsky.social showing how individual GLP-1R neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus track ingestion across energy states.

Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Individual Paraventricular Hypothalamic GLP-1R Neurons Track Ingestion Across Energy States

Energy homeostasis is tightly regulated to ensure metabolic health in the face of uncertain environments. Changes in energy states or circulating hormonal signa

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