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ZhenggangZhu

@zhenggang.bsky.social
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Sanford Fellow @UCSDCompassion Alumni @HHMI, Identifying 🧬 for self/social motivation with 3D spatial omics

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Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience @mpfneuro.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We had a fantastic talk today with @ZhenggangZhu on "The Dopamine Pedal"! He presented fascinating research on how our brains drive us to overeat. Thank you for the insightful presentation! #Neuroscience #Dopamine #BrainResearch
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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Join us next Thursday (10/23) for #SYNAPSES, a senior postdoc symposium @yaleneuro.bsky.social @kavliatyale.bsky.social Talks will be given by: - @annrosebright.bsky.social, PhD👩‍🔬 - Peter Hasenhuetl, PhD 🔬 - Minhyeok Chang, PhD 🧑‍🔬 - @zhenggang.bsky.social, PhD 🥼 Register Today! Yale only.
Flyer for SYNAPSES Symposium (Thursday October 23rd at Room 116 at 100 College Street) with talks by Ann Rose Bright, PhD at 9:00am, Peter Hasenhuetl, PhD at 10:00am, Minhyeok Chang, PhD at 11:15am, and Zhenggang Zhu, PhD at 12:15pm. Registration QR code at top right.
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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We’re hiring! My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease. 🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Finally out: our recent work with Nick Betley is a view into how the brain reshapes its behavior in the face of competing survival needs- and also a potential angle on treatment targets for enduring pain. A brief rundown... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A parabrachial hub for need-state control of enduring pain - Nature
Activity in a set of parabranchial neurons in the mouse brain is increased during chronic pain, predicts coping behaviour, and can be modulated by circuits activated by survival threats.
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Ofer Yizhar @oyiz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀 Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 09/06/2025
The firing of neural populations is high-dim even if their subthreshold activity is low-dim! This work by @bio-emergent.bsky.social and @haydari.bsky.social shows how, with a solvable model, a data analysis technique, and data from mouse visual cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model
Computation in recurrent networks of neurons has been hypothesized to occur at the level of low-dimensional latent dynamics, both in artificial systems and in the brain. This hypothesis seems at odds ...
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Yulong Li Lab @yulonglilab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Excited to share our Science paper on HaloDA1.0-the first genetically encoded far-red dopamine sensor! 🥳It enables powerful multiplex imaging in neurons, brain slices, and live animals.🧠🔬 #GRABsensors #Dopamine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In vivo multiplex imaging of dynamic neurochemical networks with designed far-red dopamine sensors
Dopamine (DA) plays a crucial role in a variety of brain functions through intricate interactions with other neuromodulators and intracellular signaling pathways. However, studying these complex netwo...
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Alex Chen @alexbchen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excited to share that the astrocyte-centered half of my thesis work is now out @science.org ! With @mishaahrens.bsky.social and @marcduque.bsky.social science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/8
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Norepinephrine changes behavioral state through astroglial purinergic signaling
Both neurons and glia communicate through diffusible neuromodulators; however, how neuron-glial interactions in such neuromodulatory networks influence circuit computation and behavior is unclear. Dur...
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Yifeng Cheng @yfcheng.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thrilled to share our work in ScienceAdvances: “Chronic ethanol exposure produces sex-dependent impairments in value computations in the striatum.” Huge thanks to Tricia @janaklab.bsky.social, Daeyeol @ungteoriz.bsky.social, Angela, and my friend Robin! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Chronic ethanol exposure produces sex-dependent impairments in value computations in the striatum
Chronic ethanol exposure disrupts adaptive decision-making and striatal neurocomputations in a sex-dependent manner.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/04/2025
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D! Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy by @haydari.bsky.social & team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ZhenggangZhu @zhenggang.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
(1/n) Why is it so hard to stop eating when something tastes amazing? Our new @ science.org paper reveals that dopamine helps sustain our drive for tasty treats—and may explain how anti-obesity Ozempic tames those urges. doi.org/10.1126/science.adt0773
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New @science.org Hedonic eating (eating for pleasure, not need) is mediated by dopamine neurons (in the brain ventral segmental area, VTA) and they are antagonized by GLP-1 drugs, such as semaglutide, leading to weight loss www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hedonic eating is controlled by dopamine neurons that oppose GLP-1R satiety
Hedonic eating is defined as food consumption driven by palatability without physiological need. However, neural control of palatable food intake is poorly understood. We discovered that hedonic eatin...
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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our paper from Junchol Park and collaborators that has been brewing for a while. Trying to capture our thinking about what action specification in striatum means and what would constitute evidence for such a model. Longer thread soon, but it’s online now. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Conjoint specification of action by neocortex and striatum
Park et al. show that motor cortex and subcortical striatum act in concert to specify the movement parameters of a reach-to-pull action in mice.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
HCN1 channels in GABAergic amygdalar neurons underpin male-biased aggressive behaviors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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