Chen Ran
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Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor at Scripps Research.
https://www.ran-lab.org
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
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Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.
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A beautiful paper on the role of Piezos in uterine biology. I have known first author Yunxiao Zhang since 2012. Yunxiao is rare talent (and a wonderfully kind human being) now on the job market!
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Ye Lab
23 days ago
Deeply honored to receive this year's Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Young Investigator Award from
@sfn.org
Grateful to all lab members and my mentors.
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Xin Jin
about 2 months ago
Actively hiring! Video made by Sora-2 but the job post is 100% real. Apply here:
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1.5 years in the making, only two weeks to go! Can’t wait to see everyone here at Scripps!
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Current Biology
27 days ago
This great primer from our
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special by
@dulaclab.bsky.social
explores the many ways in which the brain and the immune system interact in the diseased state. đź§
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Sickness and the brain
Zuri Sullivan and Catherine Dulac discuss the reciprocal communication between the brain and the immune system in sickness behavior.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01116-9
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Scripps is a wonderful place to do science. Hard to imagine better colleagues and students…
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Ann Kennedy
about 2 months ago
Finally out: our recent work with Nick Betley is a view into how the brain reshapes its behavior in the face of competing survival needs- and also a potential angle on treatment targets for enduring pain. A brief rundown...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A parabrachial hub for need-state control of enduring pain - Nature
Activity in a set of parabranchial neurons in the mouse brain is increased during chronic pain, predicts coping behaviour, and can be modulated by circuits activated by survival threats.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09602-x
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Rocio Servin
about 2 months ago
We’re hiring! My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease. 🔬 Apply here:
myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
2 months ago
Submedius Thalamus Modulates Orbitofrontal Cortex Representations During Maternal Behavior in Mice
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677207v1
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Very interesting paper—>must read- and the first author will be looking for a job soon: one of the strongest scientists I could imagine. I learned so much from Yunxiao since my graduate school days.
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Ardem Patapoutian
2 months ago
New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by
@yunxiao-dr.bsky.social
, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition
Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676899v1
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Mark Rossi
2 months ago
🚨 New preprint from an ongoing collaboration with the Pang lab. Project led by rising stars
@rohansavani.bsky.social
and
@lewang1.bsky.social
showing how individual GLP-1R neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus track ingestion across energy states. Preprint:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Individual Paraventricular Hypothalamic GLP-1R Neurons Track Ingestion Across Energy States
Energy homeostasis is tightly regulated to ensure metabolic health in the face of uncertain environments. Changes in energy states or circulating hormonal signa
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5472369
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Lots of interesting data there!
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Virginie M. S. Ruetten
3 months ago
Thanks Misha for the shout-out! It has been a truly mind-opening journey. WHOLISTIC is one step towards whole-organism neuroscience and a true physiological observatory - with extensions on the way! I am continually amazed by what the data reveals - so much remains to be discovered and mined.
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Andrew Lutas
4 months ago
We are looking for a postdoc fellow to join the group. Focus on studying feeding-relevant slow dynamics in the brain using invivo microscopy approaches. Please share with anyone interested. Thank you.
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Ann Kennedy
3 months ago
I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it! Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-00965-8.epdf?sharing_token=Vv_dTCdqVQid092mEumTqtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OYxbleeyUaomEFNMTDzwXyIgMDT-OpOB8cASARvDUrJBBwSctjElnMOMY9l6yVUtZDt8tnWw7JP0q1rN1gq19Kc0_TfjMbZblsugJ3JwEv-xyed4XsTP7EyDwaWvBzqW4%3D
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Lisa Beutler
3 months ago
Amid lots of uncertainty, anger, and exhaustion I am excited to share this work from my incredibly talented MSTP and
@nuincomm.bsky.social
student Haley Province. In it we explore the fascinating and powerful anti-aversive properties of GIPR agonists
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Ardem Patapoutian
3 months ago
UCSD is holding a town hall with
@repscottpeters.bsky.social
this Wednesday to urge him to oppose proposed research funding cuts in the FY2026 budget, set for a vote in September. Please RSVP below and share widely. Everyone is welcome.
form.laborbase.org/251675765832...
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Kazunari Miyamichi
5 months ago
Happy to share our new work in Sci Adv!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
 We found a robust representation of pup retrieval in the orbitofrontal cortex of female mice, which positively regulates VTA dopamine neurons during the acquisition of maternal behavior. Congrats to Gen-ichi and the team!
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Orbitofrontal cortex influences dopamine dynamics associated with alloparental behavioral acquisition in female mice
Orbitofrontal cortex neurons facilitate alloparental behaviors in virgin female mice by modulating the dopamine system.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr4620
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Weizhe Hong
5 months ago
Thrilled to share our latest work in
@nature.com
studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by
@nobrainxz.bsky.social
and Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with Jonathan Kao! Read the full article here:
rdcu.be/euu5Z
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Justus Kebschull
5 months ago
Excited to share the first 2(!) preprints from the Kebschull Lab. The amazing
@hyopilkim.bsky.social
developed MAPseq2 & POINTseq and used them to map the dopaminergic cells of VTA and SNc. tl;dr MAPseq2=10x cheaper, 4x better; POINTseq=easy cell type specific barcoding; DA neurons=very cool.
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Takaki Komiyama
5 months ago
Our new paper is out in Science. We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change. Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cholinergic feedback for modality- and context-specific modulation of sensory representations
The brain’s ability to prioritize sensory information is crucial for adaptive behavior, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated basal forebrain cholinergic neurons modulating olfactory bulb...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9152
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Ye Lab
5 months ago
Congrats to
@xinjin.bsky.social
@tinakim-neuro.bsky.social
and many others!
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Ardem Patapoutian
5 months ago
I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of
@kpbssandiego.bsky.social
Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness.
www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
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Nobel laureate on how Trump's cuts are hurting science
Neuroscientist, biologist and 2021 Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapoutian joined Midday Edition to talk about how the Trump administration's effort to cut back on science spending is impacting researche...
https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpbs-midday-edition/nobel-laureate-on-how-trumps-cuts-are-hurting-science
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Ardem Patapoutian
6 months ago
Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S. “Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.” Read the article here. No subscription required:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.3jjH.HvyxcdgtxpRw
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Mark Andermann
6 months ago
Wild! Stephen, Praneel and their team use fluorescence lifetime imaging and various manipulations to show that, in male mice, both mating drive and hypothalamic tonic dopamine release drop after a successful mating and gradually recover over the next week, paralleling the recovery in sperm count.
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Mark Andermann
6 months ago
We previously showed that specific hypothalamic neurons get more and more activated by each bite of food until they put a brake on homeostatic feeding. Here, we find that this brake is already on at the start of a meal in obese mice on a high-fat diet. Congrats to Marta, Stephen and the whole team!
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Xin Jin
7 months ago
Thrilled to share 2 reviews from the lab: 🧬Annual Review Functional Neurogenomics
annualreviews.org/content/jour...
đź§ Current Opinion high-throughput analysis of corticogenesis
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Thanks to my labbies and the field—we were honored to showcase your work!
#WeAreHiring
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https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-genom-120823-125811
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Ann Kennedy
7 months ago
Shared by Carlos Brody at SCGB:
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
- a crowdsourced effort to tell folks about the products of US research funding. Please share, and submit!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
https://publicusaresearchbenefits.com/
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Mark Andermann
7 months ago
A drop of milkshake takes a wild ride as it passes through the body. Rachel and Kiersten and the team came up with cool strategies for visualizing food passing through the mouse GI tract and mapping the activity of the same 100s of brainstem neurons across weeks during feeding and other behaviors.
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Alex Chesler
7 months ago
co-author
@dimacd.bsky.social
pointed out that the link was truncated in my post. Hope this works:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A distributed coding logic for thermosensation and inflammatory pain - Nature
Functional imaging and multiplexed in situ hybridization were combined to investigate how trigeminal neurons encode heat and mechanical stimuli, revealing distinct cellular mechanisms for continuing p...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08875-6
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Tim Behrens
7 months ago
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Lots of recent papers discuss the nucleus of the solitary tract in interoception. In this review, we take a sensory processing perspective on how interoceptive signals are encoded in the NTS:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interoceptive processing in the nucleus of the solitary tract
The interoceptive nervous system continuously monitors the status of visceral organs to synthesize internal perceptions and regulate behavioral and ph…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438825000522
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