Thrilled to share my PhD work showing dopamine and serotonin form a gas-brake system for reward has won Stanford's Sammy Kuo Paper of the Year Award! I'm at #sfn25 presenting new work that uncovers a key circuit mechanism underlying this opponency. Stop by poster AA3 Monday morning to learn more!

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

If anyone here is using Doric's new FluoPulse system for fluorescence lifetime photometry, can you please get in touch? Would love to hear about your experience with the product. Thanks!

Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning 🧠🧪 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social

www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social (postdoc, @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social) and Wendy Valencia Montoya (graduate student, labs of Nick Bellono and Naomi Pierce) named as Harvard Junior Fellows.

Opponent regulation of striatal output pathways by dopamine and serotonin https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649431v1

New preprint! 🧠 "Opponent regulation of striatal output pathways by dopamine and serotonin" Here, we mapped serotonin receptor expression in the striatum and showed serotonin modulates MSNs in a manner ~opposite to their canonical regulation by dopamine. Co-led with Michaela Guo. 1/n 🧵 ⬇️

Thrilled to share that I've been elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows! I will collaborate with Nao Uchida on a new direction investigating neural mechanisms of addiction. It's such a privilege to pursue curiosity driven science in this environment - very excited and so, so grateful.

The latest work from the Lammel lab is out today! Discover how changes in neurotensin signaling from the NAc Lat to the VTA lead to food devaluation in a mouse model of obesity 🧀🐭 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to @avaskham.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent work!

Grateful for this spotlight from @PsyPost News, check out their coverage of our recent @Nature paper below! 🧠

The study demonstrates for the first time exactly how dopamine and serotonin work together -- or more precisely, in opposition -- to shape our learning behavior. #Nature Read more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to Nick Weiler @ Stanford Wu Tsai Institute for the very nice write up of our work! neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/dopamin...

My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", @Nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain THREAD ⬇️ 1/n

Hi all! I'm a neuroscientist studying dopamine and serotonin circuits 🧠 Currently a postdoc in Rob Malenka and Neir Eshel's labs at Stanford, soon to share some exciting news about my work and next moves #neuroscience #dopamine #serotonin #reward #learning