Excited to share the latest work from the lab—a true tour de force led by @nbaumgar.bsky.social. TLDR: We report a novel endogenous mechanism whereby cycling ovarian hormones alter threat memory expression through state-dependent recruitment of the lateral septum to the memory ensemble. 🧵⬇️

In the emotional rollercoaster that was the last year, writing up this manuscript with @ewhizabeth.bsky.social has been a bright spot. I'm thrilled to share the bulk of my postdoctoral work in this preprint.

Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Alexa Jo will be giving her ✨very first✨ conference presentation from the lab at this morning's poster session - go say hi and check out her super cool project! Then, pop over to Nina's talk at the "Circuit Regulation of Fear and Extinction Learning" Nanosymposium this afternoon. #SfN25

Be sure to check out Nina's poster at the Early Career Poster Session today! She was awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award, generously supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social! She's got a 🔥🔥🔥 scientific story that we are sending off for publication soon. #SfN2025

Come by my poster and nanosymposium talk if you'll be at SfN this week!

🎉 Join us on Monday for the best party of the year! The Cai-Tye Collective is throwing a bash at #SfN25 and everyone is invited! 🎉 November 17, 9pm at Parq Nightclub in San Diego. See you all there!

The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

My lab trainees are excited to present at the SBN Online Research Symposium - hope to see you other hormone enthusiasts there too!

My promotion is officially official today! Many thanks my trainees who make science so fun and rewarding, to my colleagues for their mentorship and camaraderie, to my letters writers for their time and support, and to my husband for continuous support in this often crazy career.

Someone at the power hour brought up peak science twitter. I miss that too. Towards building/maintaining the GRC-Amygdala community, here is a starter pack with attendees. Please add folks who are attending!! go.bsky.app/13BbBW9

Everything Abby says here is spot on. It is hard to explain to people outside science how deeply existential this all is for us, what it feels like to have your whole world turned inside out. Check on your friends and colleagues, folks. We are not OK.

We have been conducting calcium imaging in Rspo2+ neurons in the amygdala, which are reported to encode negative valence. I am totally obsessed with the Rspo2-Cre mouse line! Look at the stream of axons leaving the amygdala to their final destinations! #FluorescenceFriday #Neuroskyence

So happy (and relieved!) to receive funding for a new project investigating estradiol regulation of inhibitory microcircuits for valence processing in the amygdala! Difficult to share when many of my colleagues' grants are being terminated, but maybe this news will bring some folks hope ✨

New paper from the lab! Do you pay close attention to what your research animals are eating? If you are interested in behavior, development, or reproductive physiology – you should! 🧵 ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc356mpr

Come see us this morning #ACNP2024 - We have a 🔥 line up!

Using #FluorescenceFriday to highlight a specialized population of neurons in the lateral septum that may comprise a hormone-sensitive memory engram to suppress conditioned fear responses when females are in the high hormone phase of the reproductive cycle. Interested? Come see my talk at #ACNP2024!

In honor of this place livening up I'm going to do something scary and share some of my more recent #neuroskyence themed lino prints! This is a personal fave based off of a pun of mushroom dendritic spines I've had in my head for ages

I have begun to curate a list of #neuroendocrinologists (and allied research areas) on this site so we can begin to link up and form a community with critical mass. Let me know if you have any suggestions for additions or would like to be removed from the list. 🤓🧠 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Lotta scientists moving over here today! Welcome! 🧪

Legal is making me take down this graphic from my website and also delete the words "our laboratory is committed to diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance" to comply with the new DEI ban going into effect October 1. Crestfallen - should I just delete the website? Feels like a no-win situation.

I could not let #PostdocAppreciationWeek conclude without giving due praise to @nbaumgar.bsky.social. She is a creative and rigorous scientist, patient mentor, and beautiful person. She makes the lab a better place, and I am so grateful that she chose me as her mentor.

Our most amazing summer student not only gathered exciting new data for a new research direction in the lab but also made this graphic about our lab’s research 😍

Celebrating our 2 year anniversary at UAB! 🥳

Fun fact: estrogen-havers experience migraines at about twice to 4 times the rate of people not running on estrogen. Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who experience migraines, just like auto-immune disorders, and this explains why migraines are not considered a disability. SSDI does not list it

Every day the gap widens between the profound dignity and worthiness of women’s lives and the contempt and indifference with which the law treats them.

OK buddies! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ This is the year!: hoping to publish (preprints soon!), and I’ll be hitting the faculty job market! 🧠🔥   To help, I made a website. 🙃🙃🙃 Please consider me for a talk/presentation, and maybe even hire me…? 😬🔬😬🔬😬 www.travisgoode.com

This week's #FluorescenceFriday is brought to you by undergrads May and Molly, who are investigating sex differences in activation of lateral septum circuits. #Neuroskyence

Job Alert 📣 Tenure-track assistant professor positions available in the UAB Dept of Psychology - which will be moving to a brand new building with multiple basic science departments. Come be my colleague and join the fantastic neuro community at UAB! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/20213

Hi Everyone 👋 I'm here for the (neuro)science. Happy Fluorescence Friday from the Lucas Lab! We finally have RNAscope up and running to validate our snSEQ results from the lateral septum. Image courtesy postdoc Nina Baumgartner, who got this to work on the first trial 💪