Our new paper showcasing molecular connectomics with pan-expansion microscopy is out in @natbiotech.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This wonderful collaboration with @bewersdorflab.bsky.social was led by Ons M'Saad (now founder/CEO of Panluminate) and @allisonphysics.bsky.social. (1/5)

📢In 2027, Yale New Haven Hospital will open the ✨Adams Neurosciences Center✨—a cutting-edge hub for innovative neurological & neurosurgical care 🧠 serving patients nationwide! 🌎 Read more about this new center here👇 www.ynhh.org/services/neu...

In a new study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers found that people with autism have fewer glutamate receptors 🧬, potentially causing an imbalance of excitatory & inhibitory signaling in the brain. 🔬✨ More 👇 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

In a new @nature.com com study, @gocastelobranco.bsky.social and @yale.edu's Di Zhang used spatial tri-omics to uncover shared molecular programs active during both brain development 🧠 and neuroinflammation! Read More Here👇 engineering.yale.edu/news-and-eve...

🚨Applications for 2026's @kavliatyale.bsky.social Fellowships and Awards are officially open! 🚨 For more information on eligibility, application, and funding details 👇 medicine.yale.edu/kavli/initia...

In a new study, @yale.edu's Shane Elliott, Paul Ready, and the @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social identified 2 genes🧬that control how cells assemble & dismantle cilia—pointing to new strategies for treating diseases linked to ciliary breakdown! Read More Here👇 news.yale.edu/2025/10/29/n...

In a new study led by @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Adam de Havenon, researchers found a surprising rise📈in the percentage of young adults 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 reporting cognitive impairments🧠⬇️ Read more about their findings & the potential public health implications here 👇 news.yale.edu/2025/09/24/g...

In a new article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Dr. John Krystal discusses treatment-resistant depression: what it is, how it is diagnosed, and how new therapies are offering hope beyond traditional treatments! 🧠 Read More 👇 www.everydayhealth.com/depression/t...

Join us tomorrow (10/28) for an ✨#Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Seminar✨ by @heatherdsnell.bsky.social, PhD This event is open to the @yale.edu community only. 📩 The Zoom link is available via email. We hope to see you there! See flyer for more 👇

In a new @natcomms.nature.com study led by @georgedragoi.bsky.social and Yuchen Zhou 🥼, researchers reveal how the hippocampus builds and updates internal maps 🗺️ of our surroundings—helping us navigate new & unexpected spaces! Read More 👇 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

Join us next Thursday (10/23) for #SYNAPSES, a senior postdoc symposium @yaleneuro.bsky.social @kavliatyale.bsky.social Talks will be given by: - @annrosebright.bsky.social, PhD👩‍🔬 - Peter Hasenhuetl, PhD 🔬 - Minhyeok Chang, PhD 🧑‍🔬 - @zhenggang.bsky.social, PhD 🥼 Register Today! Yale only.

Excited to share our new paper entitled Multisystem Environmental Factors Elucidate Shared and Distinct Associations With Brain and Behavior in Adolescents. Link: www.jaacap.org/article/S089.... @kavliatyale.bsky.social

Happy Monday! 🍁🍂 Kick off your week to a great start by registering for THIS FRIDAY's (10/17) ✨ @kavliatyale.bsky.social Networking Hour✨ Food & drinks will be provided. Thank you to the @mhigley.bsky.social lab for hosting! Open to all Yale neuroscientists - registration required & limited.

Thank you to everyone who joined this year’s @kavliatyale.bsky.social Chalk Talk - there were many of you! And a big thank you to our incredible speakers @schandralab.bsky.social and @trevorsorrells.bsky.social, and all the faculty who gave feedback to postdocs during their mock chalk talks.

I thought we would never work on gamma oscillations again, but I was wrong 🤷‍♀️ So happy to see this work out in @nature.com! This was a truly epic project spearheaded by @q-perrenoud.bsky.social. Gamma isn't always an oscillation, but it's critical for sensory encoding and perceptual performance 🧠

Music might be keeping your mind sharp! 🎶🧠 In a new @buzzfeed.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Fesharaki-Zadeh, MD, PhD, explains how making music can help build your brain’s cognitive reserve, keeping it resilient 🛡️ against aging & disease.

WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

In a recent @cp-neuron.bsky.social study, @dscheinost.bsky.social and @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jean Ye found that neural variability 🧠—brain fluctuations that support flexible behavior—increases 📈 through childhood 👶before stabilizing in adolescence🧍

In a new @natcomms.nature.com study, Yale's @schandralab.bsky.social found that mutations in the GBA gene 🧬 may drive the cognitive decline 🧠 seen in individuals with #Parkinsons, as opposed to a buildup of alpha-synuclein as previously thought. Read More 👇

In a new @usatoday.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's John Krystal, MD, both advocates for and cautions the use of ketamine therapy in teenagers suffering from depression.

Supported by a $5M @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Depts of Neurosurgery & Psychiatry have launched a study to uncover the neural & genomic mechanisms driving anxiety. Initial pilot work was funded by Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health + @kavliatyale.bsky.social

A new @journalofnucmed.bsky.social study shows how a novel PET radiotracer (SV2A) can track synaptic changes in a rat's spinal cord & brain post-injury. @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jason Cai, PhD: "Our work has potential to revolutionize the way spinal cord injury is diagnosed."

🚨 Only 3 days left to register! 🚨 Yale postdocs, don’t miss the Oct 9th @kavliatyale.bsky.social Chalk Talk event, featuring tips by @schandralab.bsky.social & a mock talk by @trevorsorrells.bsky.social! Register Today!👇 yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wonder why social needs differ from childhood to adulthood? 🤱➡️🧑 In a new @currentbiology.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers, led by Marcelo Dietrich, found that Agrp neurons in the hypothalamus 🧠 drive social needs during youth but slowly lose this role in adulthood.

In a new study led by @kavliatyale.bsky.social graduate student @kathy-ayala.bsky.social 👩‍🔬, researchers studied 51 pregnant women in their third trimester🤰 and found that higher fetal movement was linked to stronger maternal-fetal attachment.🤱✨ Read more here 👇

📅 Mark your calendars and join us Thursday, Oct 9, for the 2025 edition of the Kavli Chalk Talk! 🧠 Learn from @schandralab.bsky.social & @trevorsorrells.bsky.social about what makes a great chalk talk 👩‍🏫🗣️ and senior postdocs can practice their own. Register by Sept 25! (Yale only) 👇

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for last Friday’s @kavliatyale.bsky.social Networking Hour, hosted by @colon-ramos-lab.bsky.social! 🙌 Missed it? No worries—you’ll have another chance at the next one! 😉🎉

🚨LAST CHANCE TO APPLY🚨 Senior postdocs — the deadline to apply for #SYNAPSES is THIS SUNDAY! Don’t miss this chance to showcase your latest work at our in-person symposium 🧠✨ on Oct 23, 2025. @yaleneuro.bsky.social Apply Today! 👇

Fantastic work from the labs of ‪@stevewcchang.bsky.social, @neuralnandy.bsky.social, and Monika Jadi, led by Olivia Meisner & Weikang Shi. Our Kavli Institute is proud to have supported this research through our neurotechnology core (marmoset apparatus for automated pulling).

It is great to welcome @shariwiseman.bsky.social (back) to Yale along with the Yale Neuro Postdoc Committee [YNPC], @kavliatyale.bsky.social, and @yaleneuro.bsky.social ! Pictures are of her first talk to a packed room of trainees, about scientific publishing and related careers

Excited to share my first-author paper in Early Human Development! Using objective monitoring, we found more frequent fetal movement is associated with stronger maternal–fetal attachment, offering new insight into bonding during pregnancy. #MaternalHealth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

This week's #TraineeTuesday is Aya Khalaf, PhD! Aya is a postdoc in the Blumenfeld lab in #Yale Neurology. She recently published an article in NeuroImage showing how different senses—vision, hearing, touch, and taste—activate the same deep brain regions during transitions in attention [1/5]

Meet this week's #TraineeTuesday, Michael Hanna, PhD, @mike-hanna.bsky.social‬! Mike is a postdoc in the @pdc-lab.bsky.social & will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University in January 2026. Congratulations! [1/5]

In a recent @natneuro.nature.com article, a team led by @yifeicai.bsky.social &‪ @jgrutzendler.bsky.social used protein tagging, mass spectrometry, & expansion microscopy 🔬to explore how the protein composition at the myelin-axon interface differs in Alzheimer's 🧪

Mark your calendars 🗓️ for June 23 for a Kavli Awards Research in Progress!🧠 Hear from Drs. Bhaskar (@krishnaswamylab.bsky.social‬), @lashaeneuroxp.bsky.social‬, Chen (@emonetlab.bsky.social)‬, Martinez-Magaña (@janitzamontalvo.bsky.social), @kuanawanda.bsky.social‬, Teefe, & ‪‪@haohy.bsky.social‬.

Very proud of our new #SingleCell work on #PTSD and #MDD out in @nature.com today. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and views: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Press: medicine.yale.edu/news-article... Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Code: github.com/mjgirgenti/P...

It's on Monday, see you there!

Meet this week's✨ #TraineeTuesday: Soraya Scuderi, PhD!👩‍🔬✨ Soraya is an Associate Research Scientist in the Vaccarino Lab & recently published a @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social study introducing DuoMAPS —a revolutionary brain-on-a-chip platform 🧠💻 that better models neural tube regionalization. [1/5]

In a new @natmicrobiol.nature.com study, @yale.edu researchers showed that contrary to popular belief, typhoid toxin (leading to typhoid fever) damages the blood-brain barrier endothelial cells —not neurons— paving the way for new therapies. 🧪

In our most recent paper, we uncover the myelin-axon interactome in human brains and reveal molecular perturbations and structural disruptions at the myelin-axon interface in Alzheimer’s disease @jgrutzendler.bsky.social @epetsalaki.bsky.social @reimand.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent pair of @natgenet.nature.com studies co-led by @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's @roelverhaak.bsky.social & ‪‪ @kevin-johnson.bsky.social sheds light on glioblastoma 👁️, the heterogeneity of its cellular composition, and how these cells evolve with time 🧬🔬 #BrainCancer @yalecancer.bsky.social

Congrats to @yale.edu senior Parisa Vaziri on winning the 2025 Kavli at Yale Undergraduate Thesis Prize 🏆! Working with @mcdb-yale.bsky.social's Damon Clark, her thesis uncovered a novel auditory illusion👂& the algorithms underlying it. Next, she'll pursue a PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard.

Congrats to @yale.edu Neuroscience senior Zach Moynihan on winning the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Undergraduate Thesis Prize! 🧠 During his thesis, titled “Application of predictive score to identify novel microcephaly genes”, Zach was mentored by Drs. Tanyeri Barak & Adife Gülhan Ercan-Sencicek.

In a new @nature.com study, a team of @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers led by Tomomi Yoshida, Andrew Wang & David Hafler, found evidence of T cells in the brains of healthy mice and humans —not only as a response to infection— uncovering a new form of gut-brain communication.

In a new @plosone.org study, a @yale.edu team of researchers led by Laura Manuelidis, MD, developed the first cellular model of a latent Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease infection —similar to mad cow disease— revealing how specific conditions can switch the infection on and off.

In a new @elife.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social’s Anthony Koleske, Amanda Jeng, & Yevheniia Ishchenko revealed how 3 variants of the gene TRIO 🧬 drive distinct neurodevelopmental disorders 🧠 by altering communication between neurons.

Join us THIS FRIDAY 🗓️, June 6, for @yale.edu's ✨NextGen in #STEM Conference✨ to learn from scientists who took different career trajectories, and connect with faculty and industry professionals. Organized by grad student and Kavli scholar April Pruitt and faculty member @ehoffmanlab.bsky.social.

In a new study, @yale.edu's Hirsch lab used neuroimaging & real-time eye contact 👁️ to study the social brain 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧠 and found that people with First Episode Psychosis showed comparatively less brain activity in a key area related to social cognition.

Mark your calendars 🗓️ for June 23 for a Kavli Awards Research in Progress!🧠 Hear from Drs. Bhaskar (@krishnaswamylab.bsky.social‬), @lashaeneuroxp.bsky.social‬, Chen (@emonetlab.bsky.social)‬, Martinez-Magaña (@janitzamontalvo.bsky.social), @kuanawanda.bsky.social‬, Teefe, & ‪‪@haohy.bsky.social‬.