grad student at ucsf and big, slow primate who works with small, fast rodents
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Feels like a good time for a little reminder: Countries aren't supposed to be run like businesses. Countries are supposed to spend money to support and serve their people. This means spending to support those living below the poverty line, the disabled and historically 1/
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Everyone says “Today’s PhD students are so accomplished I wouldn’t have gotten in today” as if it’s a good thing. It’s not. There are amazing young scientists out there today. But grad admissions is ignoring wide swaths of them because it’s been infected with the same credentialist bullshit of faculty hiring and grants.
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Excited to share our new paper out now @Nature, where we identified neural signatures of stress susceptibility and resilience in the amygdala-ventral hippocampal network to enable control of anhedonia! <nature.com/articles/s41586-0…>
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Programming worm behavior with optogenetic stimulation sheds light on working memory and has evolutionary implications.
Wait, C elegans’ 185 neuron brains have working memory? Crazy. Check out the preprint by Raymond Dunn, Saul Kato and others.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The UCSF Palestine Solidarity Encampment is launched!
Health students & workers demand that @UCSF divest from genocide.
UCSF worse than silent while over 35,000 Palestinians killed, over 450 healthcare workers murdered, & HCW kidnapped & tortured.
@ucsf4palestine on IG
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New article out our from our lab on Angular Head Velocity cells in brainstem areas that project into the head direction circuit. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.05…
Also congratulations to Patrick LaChance for winning this year's SFN's Lindsley Prize for best thesis in behavioral neurosci.
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Interested in pursuing a STEM graduate degree? Join us next week virtually to learn more! @SACNAS chapters at UC Berkeley and UCSF will be hosting this information session/panel on 11/9 from 4-5pm PST! RSVP at the QR code on the flyer. We hope to see you there 🧬🔬🧠
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Check out our new preprint on neural signatures of stress susceptibility and resilience in the amygdala-ventral hippocampal network! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Guess who!
Honored to spend a summer writing at @SmithsonianMag as an @AAASMassMedia Fellow. Every scientific finding has a story waiting to be told.
Victoria Sayo Turner will be writing for @SmithsonianMag! @VS_Turner is a Neuroscience PhD student at @UCSF and follow along as she uses her background to introduce and explain interesting #SciComm topics this summer!
Learn more: aaas.org/programs/mass-media…
ALT Victoria Sayo Turner smiles in a grey shirt in front of nature
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Phew! It took a while, but this "beast" is out now in @NatureNeuro
rdcu.be/c83t3
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New paper from the lab out today! @jeremy_biane, @max_ladow and team describe how neural population dynamics in dorsal and ventral CA1 evolve with associative learning and outcome expectation. Full text here: rdcu.be/c83t3
Tracking the same hippocampal dorsal CA1 and ventral CA1 neurons during odor–outcome learning shows that initially odors elicited responses in dCA1, whereas odor responses in vCA1 emerged later and represented the outcome
New from @mazen_kheirbek et al.
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…