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.

Alsoooo I may have other copies of some prints to give away in my bag if you come by my poster at the early career poster session right now! Poster Z5

First day of SfN and I've already made new friends and done an art exchange with the lovely @christineliu.art ☺️

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

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

@sbn-bsky.bsky.social has released a statement on current events. SBN DEI comm, of which I'm chair, wrote this statement to be people-first focused on the human impacts. I want to thank Peg McCarthy & the Exec Comm in quickly approving the document w/ few edits. This is why SBN is my "home" society.

For my AL science peeps: Senator Britt DC office 202-224-5744 Senator Tuberville DC office 202-224-4124 Call it in today folks! All hands on deck! Please repost.

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!

🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10) Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This relief print of a brainbow dentate gyrus was a true labor of love with 8(!) layers of hand printing but it was so worth it in the end. #neuroskyence #sciart

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

@ewhizabeth.bsky.social just walked by my desk saying "Nina I made a cringe post about you" but then it was this sweet post making me tear up in the staff office 😭

Having recently recovered from a stomach ulcer, I got to use my current favorite joke in my guest lecture on the HPA axis and stress for the grad neuroanatomy class today

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

Recently remembered I enjoy printmaking #neuroskyence

The sex binary is dead! Long live sex diversity & variability! Sex is one of the greatest sources of variation seen in life. How do we advance the scientific study of sex across the animal kingdom? Read our latest article in Hormones & Behavior to find out! 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence

Baby's first RNAscope! (Its me, baby!)