
Kevin Coffey
@mrcoffey_phd
Neuroscientist at the University of Washington
NIDA K99 Awardee
Competitive Pinball Player
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22-01-2020 00:11:29
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Excited to share our RNA-seq experiment of post-mortem OCD tissue go.nature.com/3lSd2zk! Thanks to the patients & family for their selfless donation, to Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD π¦π and co-authors Britt Chamberlain, @saraaspringer, Lora McClain, Bert Klei, Jiebiao Wang, David Lewis, & Bernie Devlin.



Excited to see a little COVID elbow grease come to life. Here is the latest pre-print from my lab, coming to you with a little help from some friends, including Kevin Coffey and the twitterless Dr. Mark West: biorxiv.org/content/10.110β¦ A nice short read for your holiday Monday.



Really glad David Barker proposed this collaboration, it was really great to work together again! It is a short communication, so there is no excuse not to check it out π


Want to conveniently explore USV data generated in DeepSqueak? Check out SqueakR: a free, open-source experiment superstructure created by Simon Ogundare SqueakR also has an #rshiny dashboard to create visualizations without any code! osimon81.github.io/SqueakR



Excited for my 1st postdoc paper! While [18F]FE-DPN and [3H]DPN are thought of as non-selective opioid radiotracers, they preferentially bind to mu opioid receptors in vivo. Thanks to mike michaelides jordi bonaventura Gomez, Juan @eventrig Reece Budinich Carlos Zarate, MD rdcu.be/cUd7X

Great article on animal communication efforts out today in the The New York Times with a shoutout to DeepSqueak

Check out the latest Neuropsychopharmacology BrainPod at bit.ly/3UoUjMw - @GoldenNeuron from University of Washington discusses sex differences in appetitive and reactive aggression. The full manuscript can be found at rdcu.be/cVX9e @cjoseph_burnett Nastacia Goodwin @ScottRusso_CAN


So excited to have this finally out! Our SIP system is open source and allows for group housed rodents to self-administer multiple substances with continuous monitoring and measurement. Great work by Katrina Wong Christina Wang Makenzie Patarino Dr. Britahny Baskin and Janet Lee!!!


The era of automated home cage maternal behavior is here! Using DeepLabCut π¦ and SimBA @GoldenNeuron, we generated models to track rat dams and pups and score seven maternal behaviors with high accuracy. π§΅

Our work with @Cate_cholamine by my all-star grad student Svetlana and Cate's all-star postdoc Julie-Anne Balouek is finally in press: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11β¦ We surveyed the limbic system in chronic pain and found that there was a general decrease in epigenetic modifications.


Ventral tegmental area glutamate neurons mediate nonassociative consequences of stress -- now published in molecularpsychiatry rdcu.be/c0vVB



π§΅I'm happy to share our latest publication is out now in Biological Psychiatry! Quite the holiday present. Thanks to mike michaelides jordi bonaventura @eventrig Reece Budinich Gomez, Juan @diianni_t Carlos Zarate, MD Yavin Shaham and all other coauthors! biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-β¦