Chris Zimmerman
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Neuroscientist in Utah |
https://zimmerman-lab.org
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I’m very excited to share that I will join the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!! 🎉🏔️🏜️ My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?
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Neuro grad students! Applications for the 6th annual - Rising Stars in Neuroscience - due Jan 9! Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah!
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Very happy to share our new preprint (with Alex Pan-Vazquez) about how dopamine generates representations of value in the striatum!
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Looking forward to this!
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This is a great opportunity for aspiring neuroscientists! Recent RAs in the Witten lab have gone on to fantastic PhD programs (Pitt, Penn, Colorado, Princeton, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon).
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I’m very excited to share that I will join the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!! 🎉🏔️🏜️ My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute
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One bad oyster, lasting brain change 🧠 Princeton neuroscientist
@czimmerman.bsky.social
reveals how a bad meal creates a lasting foul food memory. 📰:
pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/ho...
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How the brain remembers what gave you food poisoning
We've all been there: one bad oyster ruins seafood forever. Now, Princeton neuroscientists have pinpointed how the brain stores memories for these powerful food aversions in mice. The new results reve...
https://pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/how-brain-remembers-what-gave-you-food-poisoning
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How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in
@nature.com
this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄:
nature.com/articles/s41...
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A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback - Nature
Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08828-z
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
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Ever sworn off a food after a bad experience? Your brain knows what made you sick, even many hours later.
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studies how the brain learns from delayed post-ingestive feedback. Read more in our Q&A:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/it-mu...
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