Professor-@IUSMPharmTox-@IUSMneuro. My my laboratory aims to elucidate the functional organization of circuit pathways involved in pain modulation.

Indianapolis, IN
Joined April 2019
went 1-2 today with a nice barrel to score one @IndianaNsr @MasonTh37185920 @perry_nadreau @PrepBaseINScout @PrimeMidwest
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Huge thanks to @SheetsLabIUSM Patrick Sheets from @IUSM for a great @CAPToR_UF Seminar Series talk, “Reverse engineering mPFC circuits implicated in pain.” 🧠 It was a pleasure to host you - thank you for the inspiring insights & engaging discussion on mapping pain circuits!
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Regan Hines (@reganhines18) in the @SheetsLabIUSM received an American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Graduate Student Award for her proposal, “Examining Effects of Pain on Sphingosine-1-Phosphate and Neurons.”
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“I STILL OWN YOU!” Aaron Rodgers to Bears fans 🍿 (via @NFL)
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Post-doctoral fellowship position -- cellular circuit analysis using ephys, optogenetics, and more. If interested please DM or email me at [email protected]. More info at shepherdlab.net. (Please RT!)
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Dr. Sullivan explains why chloroquine, an old drug used for malaria, is back in the news as a potential treatment for #coronavirus @IUMedSchool
Potentially exciting news on the COVID-19 front: oddly, the old malaria drug chloroquine may find a new purpose in treating this virus. Here's my explainer... #COVID19 medium.com/@billsullivanjr/c…
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Potentially exciting news on the COVID-19 front: oddly, the old malaria drug chloroquine may find a new purpose in treating this virus. Here's my explainer... #COVID19 medium.com/@billsullivanjr/c…
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Dopamine sensors (AAV9-113050, AAV9-113049) and Norepinephrine sensor (AAV9-123308) from the @yulonglilab are now available from the viral service! #AAV #biosensor #neuroscience hubs.ly/H0lXNDD0
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Save the date for our 2020 meeting! April 3, 2020 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
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Effective pain management is a moral imperative, a professional responsibility, and the duty of people in the healing professions.
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We have postdoc openings! Email or DM me if you are interested in joining our team to help us tease out the circuits (inputs & outputs) and cellular mechanisms (synaptic & intrinsic) for this pain "switch" in the CeA.
1/4 So, what's our story in this paper? We show that the central amygdala functions as a pain rheostat that can exacerbate or attenuate pain-like responses. This "switch" is controlled by the activity of two cell types: CeA-Som and CeA-PKCd. marlin-prod.literatumonline.…
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Please check out our most recent article that examines how computation in prefrontal cortex is altered in a rodent model of alcohol use disorder. @NIAAAnews @IUPUIScience
Prefrontal cortex activity that reflects the intention to drink alcohol is blunted in rats with a family history of excessive drinking, says an #eNeuro study from @davidlinsenbard @CC_Lapish @NicholasTimme What this means for treating #alcohol abuse: bit.ly/2OwjFdm
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I am looking for a postdoc to work on our newly funded grant from @NIH_NIAMS to study basic science mechanisms for how the immune system mediates activity-induced pain and activity-induced analgesia. Job posting below. Contact me if interested. Retweet. jobs.uiowa.edu/content/temp/… – at Virginia, USA
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“The periaqueductal gray (PAG) is a midbrain area surrounding the cerebral aqueduct of Sylvius. The PAG is strategically located at the interface between the forebrain and brainstem and it integrates physiological and emotional responses that are essential for survival. ....1/2
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Don’t miss Taste of Science next week in Indianapolis - lots of cool presentations lined up! Get your tickets now and go have fun and learn! tasteofscience.org/indianapo…
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Congratulations to Kylie Jacobs (@kyliexnicole), IBMG PhD candidate (Arrizabalaga Lab @GAArrizabalaga), who won an IUPUI Travel Fellowship Award to attend the 15th biennial meeting on Toxoplasma Biology and Toxoplasmosis in Columbia.
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Mark your calendars for 5/20! Journalist Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, will be in Bloomington to share his experiences writing the book & the lessons he learned. Learn more: ow.ly/cWeF30ooMcH #IUGrandChallenges
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A good mentor will: 1. push you harder than you expect 2. guide you to ask better questions 3. expect continuous improvement 4. dare you to dream big 5. challenge assumptions 6. be a lifelong student 7. appreciate self-taught mentees 8. teach you how to think, not what to think
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