Neuroscientist 👨🏾🔬 | Assistant Professor @UCLA 🐻 | @SCglobalbrain TTI Fellow | @NIH DSPAN F99/K00 scholar
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2018
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Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
We're ranked the #1 public university in the nation! This is a win for every Bruin who makes UCLA extraordinary. We couldn’t have done it without you. 💙💛 ucla.in/4he2HL2 #1UCLA
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Great question, we showed ketamine administration reverses anhedonia in subjects exposed to chronic stress. Ketamine enhanced cortical firing in response to rewards and improved behavior. Also, we showed prefrontal activity and facial features can predict susceptibility.
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
What happens when the brain loses its ability to experience pleasure? At @dgsomucla Austin Coley studies anhedonia: the inability to feel pleasure, a debilitating symptom of depression, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders. By uncovering how stress and brain circuits alter our capacity for reward, his work could help pave the way for more precise treatments for mental illness. neurobio.ucla.edu/people/aus…
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Neuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that, @AustinAColey explains.
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Special lab meeting this week. A mixture of science, team building and awards.
2-Photon imaging lecture ✅: 2P calcium teaching session.
Professional Development workshop ✅: get to know the team.
Trophy Ceremony ✅: Team showing elite mini golf skills.
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
In these difficult times (all grants frozen) it is good to recognize the good that science can do. Very proud of our new paper on open-source 2P miniscopes! They can image dendrites in cortex and dentate granule neurons through an intact CA1. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The best part of the job is designing creating/implementing new ideas 💡 with the team during our project development and technical development meetings, as well as establishing a new culture for next generation of scientists.
Year 1 as an Assistant Professor is officially complete! This has been a dream of mine, and I feel fortunate to have landed in such a supportive environment, surrounded by amazing senior faculty mentors and an exceptional multidisciplinary team. 🏆
Congrats Assaf and Takaki! 🥳🥳
Thrilled to share my postdoc work from @takaki_komiyama lab, showing how motor learning reshapes thalamic influence on motor cortex to enable learned movements. Hats off to our collaborators and co-authors for their incredible contributions!
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Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Applications are now open for the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–26 academic year. The SURFiN program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research opportunities. The paid fellowships will run from Sept 2025 - May 2026. Deadline to apply: May 1. For more info: bit.ly/4l2YAlY
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See the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC grc.org/catecholamines-confe… & GRS grc.org/catecholamines-grs-c…. In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contributions/1… & GRS my.grc.org/p/contributions/1…
