A new role for my favorite neuronal population ❤️ Food perception increases the activity of MS glutamatergic neurons, independent of palatability. Amazing work from the @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social lab! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Excited to share our Science paper on HaloDA1.0-the first genetically encoded far-red dopamine sensor! 🥳It enables powerful multiplex imaging in neurons, brain slices, and live animals.🧠🔬 #GRABsensors #Dopamine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Too excited not to share this beauty! #fluorescenceFriday (but a day earlier) TH staining in cyan Virus injection in magenta Zona Incerta is definitely a tough cookie 🍪 but getting there!

Thrilled to see this part of my PhD work with @rcbagot.bsky.social now out in @natcomms.nature.com! (1/14) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don’t miss @handejong.bsky.social latest work at #cosyne2025 this Saturday! Featuring wireless fiber photometry in a brand new foraging task 🪤 and discounted future value modeling in different accumbens subregions!

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...

This looks so so cool, cannot wait to read it! 🤯 “Dopaminergic mechanisms of dynamical social specialization in mouse microsocieties” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

Day 5 at #wcbr2025 – don’t miss our panel! Join us at 4:30 PM for a session fully dedicated to the medial #septum : inputs, outputs, and role in #motivation & #cognition. 🧠 Excited to share the stage with @smikulovic.bsky.social, @eliftuncozcan.bsky.social, and Dave Bortz. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Day 3 at #wcbr2025 - lots of dopamine, acetylcholine, dorsal and ventral striatum, midbrain circuits and motivated behaviors. Learning so much from such a diverse group of scientists from single dendrite in vivo 2P imaging to high density recordings and modeling 🧠🤯 the field is moving so fast!

Kicked off the first day at #WCBR with an amazing plenary from Suzanne Dickson on #ghrelin, #hunger signaling and its effect on #hypothalamic and #midbrain circuits 🧠 Amazing science in an amazing venue! 🤩

Is #Fluorescence Tuesday a thing? Still trying to improve the staining protocol, but love this pic of SN #neurons 🔬🧠🐭

Useful resource for 2025 neuro meetings!

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to study nigrostriatal axon regeneration and Parkinson’s disease in the Lammel lab at UC Berkeley 🧠🔬 Grateful for this amazing opportunity and excited to join the EMBO fellows community! 🤩

Help #neurosky #neuroskyence Are you (or do you know) someone studying the transcription factor Ascl4/Mash4? 🧠 #neurodevelopment #differentiation #neurons #wiring N.b. This is not the same as the acyl CoA synthetase protein ASCL4 I have some questions 💡 Please share! 🙏

🦋 Excited to share our newest preprint! 🧠 In this study, we explored the neuronal heterogeneity of the mouse medial septum and diagonal band of Broca using scRNA-Seq + validated our findings by comparing them to a MERFISH dataset from the Allen Brain Atlas. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoying #ABRCMS? Interested in zona incerta & VTA? 🧠🐭 Don’t miss @youlef.bsky.social e-poster VB-71 tomorrow at 11 am ET 😁 he’s gonna present our data on mice novelty seeking and exploratory behavior 🗺️🔎

I guess it’s time for an introduction✨ I’m a system #neuroscientist at UCBerkeley working on #VTA and #SN in both physiological and pathological conditions #Parkinson Electrophysiologist by training, I use opto, pharmacology, and fiber photometry to study the brain during motivated #behavior 🐭🧠🔎

The day has come! I successfully defended my PhD thesis last week 🎓🇩🇪🎊 Thanks to my PhD supervisor, to the committee members, and to all the beautiful people that joined me in this incredible journey ❤️ Now, call me Dr. Mocellin!

First post on BlueSky! 💙 I finally took the time to read @neurograce.bsky.social's book and it was a real pleasure! Amazingly written, it spans a century of neuroscience experiments and highlights how other fields have contributed to our understanding of the brain. I really loved it!