Cool Nature Communications study by Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳 Alexander Ophir! Activating the lateral septum in male prairie voles turns up the 'friend dial' with other males without losing bond to partner. Fascinating as bonded voles don’t usually make friends. 🤝#MicrotusMonday rdcu.be/dc8hA

H&B June 2023: "A test of the social behavior network reveals differential patterns of neural responses to social novelty in bonded, but not non-bonded, male prairie voles" History > context?? by Dr. Aubrey Kelly Alexander Ophir Kelly Wallace @eileen_chun sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

DEI social SBN Tweets #SBN2023 by the river! Jeremy Spool @FarrahNMadison Dr Lisa Hiura @trainorlab

We have an exciting lineup of Ophir lab members this year at #ABS2023! (1/5)

Cool and important research on epigenetic clocks and aging published in Science Magazine and Nature Aging by Prof Steve Horvath et al nature.com/articles/s4358… and science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Peromyscus is part of it!

I'm excited to be a postdoc speaker at the 2024 Stress Neurobiology Workshop next June!

Excited to share new long-brewing work from the lab! Is the world feeling…..at bit too aggressive? Maybe it would be good to just take it down a notch? We have thoughts about this! rdcu.be/dyqAn

What if you lesion the hippocampus of male #PrairieVoles and put them in the field? Caitlyn Finton, PhD Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳 Will they bond (yes) Will homerange size change (no) Will it affect monogamous males (not really) Will it affect non-monogamous males (yup!) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

It is with an unbelievably heavy heart that I write that my husband, best friend, and partner in crime for 20 years, Larry Young, passed away unexpectedly. I will share details regarding a memorial service once I know something. Please share with those who knew Larry Larry Young

Our morning panel on adolescence as a period of both vulnerability and opportunity was SO thought provoking, and also our most species-diverse of the meeting (rats, mice, voles, and monkeys!)

The last speaker of our first symposium is @katietschida.bsky.social, who is sharing her lab’s research on how short-term isolation acts via hypothalamic neurons to modulate social behavior in mice! 🐁🧠 #SBN2024

Our last speaker for Symposium #4 is Marlen Gonzalez, who is discussing her lab’s work on developmental calibration of adult neural reward sensitivity via the oxytocin receptor in humans! 👧🧠 #SBN2024

Our Lyn Clemons Travel Awardee is Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳--talking about the impacts of paternal deprivation and social stress on patterns of neural activation in the social brain [no prairie vole emoji yet?!] 🐭🐭🧠 #SBN2024

Sex-naive individuals (incels) do NOT age differently from pair-bonded ones in monogamous species according to epigenetic clocks. 🧬 Large (n=330) multi-tissue study in voles. 💑 Implications for human romantic relationships? Lindsay Sailer, Alex Ophir. Epigenetic aging studies

Review of the week: excellent 2008 review on social stress and addiction to commemorate the career of Klaus Miczek, who died this week. Klaus published many exceptional papers on aggression, stress, and addiction, and his work has inspired many of us pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18789966/

I'm happy to share our recent work with Alexander Ophir! This was a fun one to get out the door, as it began as a collaboration between two honors students in our labs. Turns out, prairie voles don't respond to social isolation in the same ways as mice. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Does being pair-bonded keep you young ? Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳 et al explored this question in #PrairieVoles in our recent paper in Scientific Reports In short: Not really. BUT we did establish a VoleClock and found several genes strongly associated with bonding! nature.com/articles/s4159….

When you get to work with fun people! 🤣 Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 #Halloween2024

"Paternal absence and increased caregiving independently and interactively shape the development of male prairie voles at subadult and adult life stages" ⬆️ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 causes ⬆️ exploration, 🧠 OXT by Dr Lisa Hiura, 🥭Vanessa Lazaro 🍉, Alexander Ophir tinyurl.com/35h8rmha

Hold your head up. Keep doing good. Compartmentalize. Don’t spin out worrying😵‍💫about things you cannot control. Do what you can. Let yourself be loved. I love you🥰 You matter. Take care of yourself & each other & this world God lent us🌎. Be kind. One step at a time. Breathe.