PhD candidate @NeuronRoot lab | NIMH F31 NRSA Fellow | Former postbac @HurdLab | @Middlebury '16 | she/her

Boulder, CO
Joined January 2019
Can we design allosteric modulators that change a GPCR's preferred G protein? Yes!💥 BAMs at the GPCR-transducer interface change G protein subtype selectivity in predictable ways, enabling rational drug design. The lab's 1st preprint! Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.20.6… 🧵👇
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I'm excited to share with you all our new paper (co-authors the twitterless Anna Lally and @Healeylab) out in @CommsBio!! I've made a tweet thread abstract below, spooky halloween style.🎃 Open access at the following link: doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0… 1/14
New preprint with twitterless Anna Lally and @HealeyLab ! 📰doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.08.5… Mystery! Intrigue! Auditory pallium! Social behavioral control? Birds?? Brains?! 1/2
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It's peak spooky season- but imagine not feeling any fear at all! This week, @PennNGG student Omer Zeliger discusses Patient S.M., a woman with a rare neurological disorder that quite literally made her fearless. Learn more here: pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/29… #scicomm #spookyscience
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Ever wanted to explore the driving forces underlying inhibitory neuronal signalling? We did! So, for my MSc in @JosephRaimondo lab, we developed the all-optical approach ORCHID - all-Optical Reporting of CHloride Ion Driving force. Now out in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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26 years after Larry Swanson emphasized “the amygdala is neither a structural or functional unit” we used sn-RNAseq to answer the question: “What is the [primate] amygdala?” Check out the preprint 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Neuroscientists care about the causes of behavior, while ethologists care about the consequences. These approaches need to merge for us to understand human behavior and its associated suffering. Dorian Battivelli, Fan Zhengxiao, Hu Hailan, and I lay out the why and what.
The study of behavior requires a combination of the ethology and neuroscience approaches. The latest publication from the Gross group outlines the tools needed to optimise this holistic approach to study fear, aggression and dominance behaviours: nature.com/articles/s41583-0…
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Shoutout to @_TheTransmitter for some excellent recent articles! Highly recommend these recent pieces: thetransmitter.org/the-big-p… And this one on what defines a neural mechanism (a key topic we cover in my first-year PhD systems neuroscience class): thetransmitter.org/the-big-p…
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Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d42859-… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
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One week from today, the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology will be announced. Here are the 79 most likely awardees, each of whom has won two or more pre-Nobel “predictor” prizes:
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We're thrilled to share the lab's first preprint- on CRF neurons, hypocretin/orexin signaling, and BNST neurophysiology in excess alcohol drinking and withdrawal-enhanced anxiety behavior! A collaborative effort with @JulieKauer75377 and @AnneVassalli, led by postdoc Dr. Yihe Ma
Sex-Specific Roles of Hypocretin Receptor Signaling in CRF Neurons on Alcohol Drinking, Anxiety, and BNST Neuronal Excitability biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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We are hiring 3+ Neuroscience faculty at CU Boulder! Seeking applicants with outstanding research programs in cell/molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and integrative physiology. #academicjobs @FuturePI_Slack @NeuroRumblr jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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