The Cai & Shuman Labs threw an EPIC White Elephant party! So much holiday cheer packed into one room. We did not have a partridge in a pear tree, but we did have: 👥 25 members laughing 🥔 6 chip-bags-a-gifting 🪴 5 plants-afloating 🦫...and a capybara in a knit hat!

Wow, such an insightful and substantive open floor discussion at last night's Memory Hub meeting! 🤓 Do we need ANY of the same synapses that were active during learning to be reactivated to recall a memory? Lines have been drawn and sides taken!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Cai-Tye Collective party at #SfN25 🎉 You all brought your amazing energy from the poster floor to the dance floor. I'm still smiling from what a great time it was!

🎉 We had a great time at #MCCS25 and can't wait to see everyone at next year's meeting! Don't forget to join our mailing list for information about #MCCS26 in the coming year: bit.ly/4r1YApk

Thank you to everyone who came out to #MCCS25 last week! It was great to hear all the exciting research happening in the field of molecular and cellular cognition 🧠 🤓 A special thank you to all our incredible speakers for sharing their work! Don't forget to join our mailing list: bit.ly/4r1YApk

I'll be at Zoé and Zach's posters today, giving out VIP access bracelets for the Cai-Tye Collective event tonight! If you're at #SfN25, come check out Zoé and Zach's work and snag a bracelet before we run out!

Reunion with past and present Cai lab & Shuman lab members (and collaborators). Spending time with you guys is easily the best part of my job. @tristanshuman.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sfn.org

Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.

Come pregame with some serotonin! :)

Pretty special dinner @sfn.org with these glorious women last night 🤩 ❤️ How do I have a job where I travel around the world and hang out with awesome people? @moriel-z.bsky.social @denisejcai.bsky.social @ladenardo.bsky.social @neurrriot.bsky.social @bjmarlin.bsky.social @debiaselm.bsky.social

I'll be at Hailey's poster today, giving out VIP access bracelets for the Cai-Tye Collective party on Monday! If you're at #SfN25, come check out Hailey's work and snag a bracelet before we run out!

Are you at #SfN25 and want VIP access to the Cai-Tye Collective event on Nov 17? Come by my lab members' posters for a bracelet! Hailey Rosenblum: Nov 15, 1-5pm PSTR040.05/BB6 Zoé Christenson Wick: Nov 17, 8am-12pm PSTR192.01/RR13 Zach Pennington: Nov 17, 1-5pm PSTR234.05/CC7

🎉 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 Cai Lab will be at #SfN25! Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓

📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition. More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14! Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠 Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

We're brewing up some Halloween fun in the Cai & Shuman Labs! ⚗️🎃 Just look at all the creativity everyone poured into their costumes! We have the coolest crew 👩‍🔬🧪

For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social

See you on the dance floor! @tristanshuman.bsky.social

I can’t stop replaying the #memories from our first-ever New York Memory Hub conference! So grateful to everyone who made it a success and inspired us with their research 🧠

It has been an immense honor to learn & grow with two of the greatest scientists I know: @zachtpennington.bsky.social & @joezaki.bsky.social 🧑‍🔬 Listen in on our conversation about mentorship, building trust and creating a safe space to disagree: neuronline.sfn.org/professional...

I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆

Interested in studying how neural circuits underlying mental health disorders are shaped by experience (e.g., stress)? Also interested in being trained by an amazing, thoughtful, and rigorous scientist? Also interested in living in a beautiful Canadian city? See below!

Congrats Zach! 🎉 Our lab would not have gotten where it is without you. If you're looking for a mentor who is supportive, innovative and deeply invested in helping trainees grow, consider joining his lab! 👇

That's a wrap! So many incredible talks at our Memory Hub Conference today! 🧠

This morning's Memory Hub talks were fantastic! And the trainee data blitzes were 🔥

We kicked off the first annual New York Memory Hub conference this morning 🧠 Talks are in full swing!

So excited for this! Can't wait to see everyone there!

Looking forward to tomorrow's "Perspectives Across Biology" panel at the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Imaging the Future meeting! If you're at CZI this week, come check it out and join the conversation 🧑‍🔬

Had such a great time in Napa Valley at the @onemindorg.bsky.social Summit on the Future of Mental Health Research 🧠 As a past One Mind Rising Star Awardee, it was so inspiring to connect with other awardees and see the incredible research being done by this year’s winners ⭐️

🚨New preprint alert🚨 We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)

Check out the meeting lineup for #MCCS25! It's going to be an incredible day. Don't miss out, register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Working with trainees is a highlight of my own research and a main goal of the New York Memory Hub. I'm looking forward to a great afternoon of discussion with a group of brilliant trainees. Space is limited, register soon!

Don't forget to submit your Data Blitz abstract by September 5! There will be a $500 prize for the winner!

🎨 Not only are we excellent scientists, but it looks like we're also quite talented artists, too! Had a blast hanging out and painting with the Cai and Shuman Labs 🖌️

Meet the #MCCS25 officers! Dr. @tjryan.bsky.social is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His lab studies how memory is coded in the brain as information by finding & understanding memory engrams 🧠 Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Thank you to all of the speakers who will be joining us for the first annual New York Memory Hub conference in September! It's going to be a fantastic day! Register now 👇

Excited for MCCS this year! Join us in November 🤓🧠

Memory researchers in New York, check this out 👇 I'm so excited for this conference! It's going to be a fantastic day of collaborative learning and discussion about all things memory 🧠

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/10)

I'm delighted to be in Verona for this year's Spring Hippocampal Research Conference. So many inspiring talks and exciting #Neuroscience research being done! I have some pretty cool colleagues 🧠 #Neuroskyence @tjryan.bsky.social, @okaysteve.bsky.social, @gisellavetere.bsky.social

Hello, Dublin! Thrilled to be a part of #EngramsandEnsembles2025 to talk all things #Learning and #Memory at @tcddublin.bsky.social! 🧠 #Neuroskyence So much fun catching up with friends and colleagues!

One of the most epic trips of my life! Joshua Tree retreat with 11 of the most inspirational neuroscientists I know! Thx to Moriel Z and Bianca JM for organizing. And featuring Michelin star chef and yoga instructor @denisejcai.bsky.social Forever grateful for this crew Until next year ❤️ 🧪🧠

The Cai Lab is at @mpfneuro.bsky.social's Emerging Neurotechnology course this week, running a #Miniscope workshop. The course kicked off Monday with an AMAZING keynote by Nobel Laureate @stefanhelllabs.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the week’s activities! 🤓 #Neuroskyence

On my way to #COSYNE2025 and excited for the Mentoring and Networking Luncheon today! Drs. @sueyeonchung.bsky.social and Stephanie Miller will be talking about how our identities shape our experiences in #neuroscience. Looking forward to an insightful discussion! #Neuroskyence

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Dendrite specific linking of memories over time - a cool extension of the work from @sjo09.bsky.social, @denisejcai.bsky.social, and others: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

Hope to see you there! #StandUpForScience

Interview with me about impact of NIH budget cuts on the American people. It will have ripple effects not only our health but also on state economies across the country. March in support of science tomorrow! apnews.com/article/trum...

Scientific innovations are all around us, directly impacting EACH of us, including our ever-advancing understanding of the brain 🧠 That's why it's so important that we #StandUpForScience The New York rally is 12pm Friday, Washington Square Park! #ScienceForAll