Tara LeGates
@neurolg.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, Assistant Professor at UMBC
https://legateslab.umbc.edu/
Its official! Excited to share this and grateful to the amazing team that came together to see this project through!
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about 1 month ago
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Thrilled to announce our new work is out at
#JNeurosci
! This one was truly a team effort! Undergrads and graduate students whose hard work and collaboration made it possible!
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Heterosynaptic interactions between dorsal and ventral hippocampus in individual medium spiny neurons of the nucleus accumbens ventromedial shell
Establishing learned associations between rewarding stimuli and the context under which those rewards are encountered is critical for survival. Hippocampal input to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) provide...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2026/02/10/JNEUROSCI.1225-25.2026
about 2 months ago
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So grateful for a January highlighted by ACNP and Winter Brain. It was a privilege to learn from incredible colleagues, exchange ideas, and connect with so many amazing people. Thank you to
@kundakoviclab.bsky.social
and Jinye Dai for organizing amazing panels and inviting me to share our work!
2 months ago
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Thank you so much to the organizers of
#GBSfN2025
for inviting me to present at this year's meeting on the JHU Homewood campus. It was a huge honor to be able to go back to the place my greater Baltimore neuroscience journey began as a PhD student and share some of the latest findings from my lab!
4 months ago
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A little late posting but super excited for and proud of Ashley who successfully defended her thesis!
12 months ago
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Jeremy Koster
about 1 year ago
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Dr. Wendy Bohon
about 1 year ago
Inside the lobby at NSF…
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her)
about 1 year ago
This is amazing 😍😍
@500womensci.bsky.social
has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download
bit.ly/NSF_bystate
&
bit.ly/NIH_bystate
if they are helpful for folks
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NSF state cards - Google Drive
https://bit.ly/NSF_bystate
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Big congrats to rock star grad student Ashley Copenhaver who has been selected for the Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium!
about 2 years ago
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Preprint is up! Check out our latest work on sex differences (and some similarities) in synaptic plasticity!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
about 2 years ago
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We won the Biology department ornament contest bringing together neuroscience and holiday cheer!
over 2 years ago
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We had a great time at
#SfN23
! Love being able to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and see a lot of great science!
over 2 years ago
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If you're at
#SfN23
tomorrow morning, stop by poster D30 to see a cool project that rockstar grad student Ashley Copenhaver has been working on!
over 2 years ago
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Amazing lecture by Rick Huganir at
#SfN23
over 2 years ago
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