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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 26/08/2026

Great updates! Our exceptional undergraduate researcher, Eli Mrug, received both a Trainee Professional Development Award from the @sfn.org and a poster award at the meeting of the Alabama Psychological Association! The #TPDA will help him present his exciting new work at #SFN - preprint out soon! 😃

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 29/07/2026

I am super grateful and honored to have been selected for an ACNP travel award! This will have an important impact for me and my lab. Looking forward to exciting conversartions in San Diego next year! @uabneuro.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 13/05/2026

I'm so happy to have my work featured as cover article in the Journal of Neuroscience!!! It is a fantastic honor! Big thanks to all the co-authors, especially Tamara Müller, and the journal editors. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... @sfnjournals.bsky.social @sfn.org @uabneuro.bsky.social

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 13/04/2026

Late announcement (due to distraction), but I am happy to share that the lab, together with our great collaborator Nuria Vendrell-Llopis, was awarded an NIMH R21! We are super excited to test some new ideas about how dopamine drives learning in brain computer interfaces! 🧠🖥️ @uabneuro.bsky.social

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 14/01/2026

Big News! I am beyond honored to have received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology in animal learning and behavior! I am so grateful to my lab, mentors, colleagues, and institutions for all the support over the years!

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 26/08/2025

The lab has received a Parkinson's Foundation Impact Award! Together with @poonamthakur.bsky.social, we will explore how dopamine signaling changes in early PD impacts cognition. We are honored and grateful for this opportunity! proposalcentral.com/Insights/E_E... @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 29/05/2025

This one is special - through my collaborator Anderson Herculano, we received a special grant from Brazil for collaborations with expat Brazilian PIs like me. I am beyond thrilled to start working with my alma mater @ufpa.bsky.social on Amazonian research applied to the brain and mental health🥳

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 18/12/2024

Lab Christmas party! Seemed appropriate to celebrate a great year (and our first successful surgeries!) with tasty treats, hot cocoa with marshmallows, and a Secret Santa 😁 I hope the building and learning we all did this year will bear fruit in 2025!

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 17/11/2024

With all the recent commotion, I ended up never sharing the lab's first picnic/hiking trip. We had a blast! 😄 It may seem like a cliche, but having the chance to guide sharp, dedicated, and enthusiastic people is truly one of the best parts of being a PI. So happy to celebrate our fledgling team!

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 09/01/2024

Someone once told me that every lab is a journey that starts in an empty room(s). Yesterday I got mine. So it begins 🧠🐀

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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 10/11/2023

I'm excited to present two different stories this SFN, one in a Sunday PM mini-symposium chaired by the great @purely_science, and another in a Tuesday PM poster. Hop by to talk some science, and if you'd like to join my new lab! - kmcostalab.com

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