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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 9d

Why study the brain? We asked students, professors and administrators at our institute. Their response: understanding this extraordinary organ is key to understanding ourselves, tackling devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s and building a better future for us all.

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Why Study The Brain?

YouTube video by Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 16d

Curious about how your brain makes sense of the world? Come to Saturday Science and explore your senses with activities and demos for the whole family.
📅 Saturday, Sept 27 | 1–4 PM
📍Greene Science Center, 605 W 129th St, NYC
🎟️ Free and open to everyone!
👉 Sign up: bit.ly/SatSciSept2025

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 19d

How does the brain connect with each muscle to control the body? Check out new videos from @columbiamed.bsky.social & @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social that reveal two key molecules behind this vital process in fruit flies. @genesdev.bsky.social

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 20d

What happens when you listen to speech a different speeds? Does your brain change its processing speed too? It turns out, no
@samnorman-haignere.bsky.social & researchers at
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social found the auditory part of the brain keeps clocking in at a fixed time
via @natneuro.nature.com

Temporal integration in human auditory cortex is predominantly yoked to absolute time - Nature Neuroscience

Temporal integration throughout the human auditory cortex is predominantly locked to absolute time and does not vary with the duration of speech structures such as phonemes or words.

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Dana Foundation @danafoundation.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Calling all middle school #STEM teachers in NYC!

New spots have become available for the October 2025 Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social.

Apply by Sept. 22: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/teacher-inst...

#neurosociety #stemlearning #stemeducation

Promotional poster for The Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute's Teacher Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. The poster invites teachers to join a series of professional development workshops focused on neuroscience and psychology for middle school educators. Event details including dates, credits, and registration instructions are provided.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 28d

A brain center that controls consummatory responses

The BNST brain region integrates a broad range of external and internal signals to flexibly regulate consumption, revealing a unified control over consummatory responses.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 28d

How does hunger spur us to consume? @columbiauniversity.bsky.social scientists have found a brain area that drives mice to consume sweets, fats, salt & food. This finding may inform novel treatments for both overeating and undereating:
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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our event "How Early Life Shapes the Developing Brain" was so popular that we’ve added more virtual tickets! Join experts as they discuss early life, brain development, and resilience.

Sign up at bit.ly/SNFBILSept

Featuring Claudia Lugo-Candelas, PhD; Kevin G. Bath, PhD; moderated by Thiago Arzua, PhD.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Collaborations are moving neuroscience forward. Scientists from 20 institutions (including ours!) created the first brain-wide map of individual neurons’ activity in mice for the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

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fitzpatricklab.bsky.social @fitzpatricklab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our latest paper on the development of an #ultrafast #laser #PhasePlate for #cryoET @fitzpatricklab.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1063/4.0000770

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 25

Special thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Pinkerton Foundation, and NIH (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) for supporting this program.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 23

Last week we proudly celebrated the graduating BRAINYAC class with a poster session highlighting the students’ research! BRAINYAC partners 10th & 11th graders from schools in Upper Manhattan & the Bronx with @columbiauniversity.bsky.social neuroscientists.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congratulations to @bendeskylab.com on being awarded a @hypothesisfund.bsky.social seed grant! He’s asking why some of an animal’s genes are switched on and others off, depending on which parent the genes came from. And how evolution shapes this phenomenon, called genetic imprinting.
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · Aug 19

4/ Awardee @bendeskylab.com investigates how genetic conflict between paternal + maternal genes 👫 ('genomic imprinting') evolved & why this epigenetic phenomenon leads to developmental incompatibilities.
🎉 Congrats Dr. Bendesky! @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
🙏 #HFScout @harmitmalik.bsky.social

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨New Marlin Lab publication✨ app.jove.com/v/67112/prof...

In this #JoVE, we share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments (🧵1/2)

Led @brimcr.bsky.social & @AmirLawen, a @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social collab w/ @ItamarKahn.

Profiling Maternal Behavior Responses During Whole-Brain Imaging

Recent advancements in whole-brain imaging tools have enabled neuroscientists to investigate how coordinated brain activity processes external cues, ...

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟
www.pew.org/en/projects/...

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 7

Join us on September 9 for our next Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture: how early life shapes the developing brain.

Featuring Claudia Lugo-Candelas, PhD; Kevin G. Bath, PhD; moderated by Thiago Arzua, PhD.

Learn more and register: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stavros-niar...

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society is helping teachers explore neurodiversity, AI & screen time with students, @danafoundation.bsky.social notes. Are you a NYC middle school teacher? Apply by 8/8 for the fall, to dive into AI’s role in schools! bit.ly/teacher-neur...

Picture of Diana Li, PhD accompanied by the quote: “Empowering teachers to create the opportunity for their students to explore is key.”

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 1

By growing brain-like balls of cells in lab dishes, our own Joseph Gogos and colleagues are revealing how a missing chunk of chromosome can lead to major problems in the human brain—and potential ways to treat them. Read more in @natcomms.nature.com
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Fluorescent labels reveal that a higher proportion of cells from 22q11.2 deletion syndrome patients (left) are stuck in an early phase of division (green), compared to cells from healthy individuals (right).

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Jul 31

How do brains change over evolution? By comparing the brains of two worms in exquisite detail, research by Oliver Hobert, Steven Cook, et al. reveals evolutionary changes that might one day shed light on brain disorders. Read more in @science.org zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/tale-two-worms

All 180 neurites in the brain of the roundworm P. pacificus, as revealed by electron microscopy

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 22

Victoria Abraira reflects on a paper from Charles Zuker’s lab that made her wonder which aspects of somatosensory circuits are hardwired, which are plastic and how we can change them, in our latest “This paper changed my life.”

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior

The findings from Charles Zuker’s lab put the taste system on the map, revealing that some fundamental principles of behavior are hardwired.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Jul 11

Framing human brains in terms borrowed from artificial intelligence is dangerous—writes Shohamy lab grad student @iddogefen.bsky.social in @latimes.com. He explores the harm of trying to “optimize” or “fine-tune” people—for education, health, law, art or science. tinyurl.com/2zjsv892

Contributor: The human brain doesn't learn, think or recall like an AI. Embrace the difference

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Jun 27

What was @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social up to in 2024?
See for yourself in our Yearly Recap: bit.ly/ZIyearlyrecap

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Jun 26

Learn more: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/restoring-br...

Restoring Brain Cell Behavior

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