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Yvette Fisher @yvetteefisher.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️

Schematic of how ER-EPG plasticity enables the bump of activity in EPGs to accurately track visual cues. As a fly makes a counter-clockwise turn (top to bottom) it will view visual cues (e.g. the sun) from a new angle and the EPG activity bump (red) will swing clockwise around the network by integrating self motion signals with these visual inputs. When the fly faces a different angle, distinct visual ER neurons are active. Plasticity forms a trough of weak synapses (large circles - strong synapses, small circles - weak synapses) that allow ER neurons with distinct visual tuning to move the EPG bump via disinhibition.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Come do a joint postdoc with me and @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social, splitting your time between Princeton and Columbia. Come design new activity-dependent labeling enzymes and transcriptional reporters optimized for application in the peripheral nervous system. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Postdoctoral Scientist- Kim and Abdus-Saboor Lab

Primary Work Address: Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton, NJ, 08544 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Kim Lab at Princeton University and Abdus-Saboor Lab at ...

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We’ve thought a lot about how 💊 drugs act on dendrites of neurons, but what about when it is a 🧬 mutation that affects dendrites? PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/6

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Autism-associated Scn2a haploinsufficiency disrupts in vivo dendritic signaling and impairs flexible decision-making | PNAS

SCN2A is a high-confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder. Loss-of-function mutations in Scn2a reduce dendritic excitability in neocortical...

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Travis Faust @travisfaust.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social: “Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.” This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Faust et al., Cell 2025

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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD @sciria.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Honored to be selected to speak at this symposium. Please tune in on Sept. 10th if you’re interested in hearing what I’ve learned while mapping HGT in the gut microbiome! www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com

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Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium

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Melanie McReynolds @drohsopretty.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator. Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

BWF is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to postdoctoral researchers pursuing careers in biomedical and medical research. www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpdep

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BWF Announces 2025 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Recipients - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Research Triangle Park, N.C. — The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to…

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

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Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ya’el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This is why science funding matters. We uncovered a hidden signaling system in the brain—one that responds to maternal environment, even to drugs like LSD during pregnancy. It took 5 years, a brilliant team, and public funding to get here. Out today in @NatureNeuro: 🧵👇

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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience! The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

After last week publication from the lab on circuits of social isolation/satiety, today we publish a different line of research by @harriskaplan.bsky.social et al., on the development trajectories of hypothalamic POA cell types driving survival and social behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sensory input, sex and function shape hypothalamic cell type development - Nature

Paired transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling are used to examine the developmental trajectories of neuronal populations in the hypothalamic preoptic region, including cell types with ke...

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Couldn’t make it to the #HannaGrayFellows Program informational webinar? 📆 Don’t worry—you can still access the recorded session and get all your questions answered! Watch now and apply by February 26, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. ET. hhmi.news/40ymhuq 👈

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠 The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭 #BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.

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Brielle Ferguson @brielleryan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

And just like that, the lab is two years old 🥹🥹🥳🎉 This was such a big year for growth, and I’m so so proud of all of us. I’m grateful for their trust and to have found each and every one of them. Looking forward to a great year. Stay tuned! 🤩

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Brielle is standing in front of the lab bench with four other team members laughing. They're standing around a pumpkin carving inside of a behavior box.

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

ATTN: #Postdocs - Your opportunity to lead the future of #science starts now! Applications for the 2025 #HannaGrayFellows Program are OPEN. 📢 Take your first step toward joining a community of changemakers in science. Applications are due 2.26.25, @ 3:00 p.m. ET. 💫 Apply today! hhmi.news/48n2lfh 👈

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Thrilled to share the most recent pub from the Griffith Lab! We show that sodium channels play unique roles in proprioceptive encoding. We also found some really cool effects on skeletal muscle, and a dev dependent role for Nav1.6 in proprioceptive spinal circuits www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage-gated sodium channels

Voltage-gated sodium channels differentially encode mammalian proprioception via distinct cellular localization patterns.

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Sasha L. Fulton, Ph.D. @sashalfulton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Beyond thrilled to be named a 2025 @hhmi.bsky.social HG Fellow!Grateful for the mentorship/support from @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social every step of the way. Excited to make the most of this unbelievable opportunity to push my work forward and join this inspiring community! www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-na...

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HHMI Names the 2024 Hanna Gray Fellows | HHMI

The cohort includes early career scientists working in research areas ranging from treatment-resistant cancers to how animals evolved to live on land. The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides e...

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Victoria Watson-Zink, PhD @watsonzink.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I was selected as one of the 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! 🎉🍾🎊🥳🦀 The support from this fellowship will be transformative for my career, and I am so excited to meet and learn from all the other fellows in my cohort and from previous years!!

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Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am thrilled to share that I am an HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow! 🥳🎉 I'm excited to join the outstanding @hhmi.bsky.social community. 🙌🏾 I am grateful to all the mentors who have inspired me and to all the friends and family who have supported me throughout my academic career. THANK YOU! 1/2

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Steven Sloan @sloanlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

First 🦋 post! Very excited to share our lab's latest work exploring the shared and divergent aspects of human astrocyte development and glioblastoma. This effort spans many fields from developmental #glial biology to #stem cells and #tumor biology. rdcu.be/d5ADz A 🧵

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Mapping the developmental trajectory of human astrocytes reveals divergence in glioblastoma

Nature Cell Biology - Sojka et al. analyse the transcriptomic and epigenomic landscape of human astrocyte maturation and identify an epigenetically regulated intermediate state associated with...

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