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🩺 Attention first-year Pre-Health students (Pre-med, Pre-PT, Pre-PA, etc.) and those considering applying to health programs after undergrad! Join the Academic Advising Center for Pre-Health 101 on Tuesday, October 8th at 5 PM in W151 Pappajohn 📚

Are you attending #SfN24 and interested in brain development? Please join us for the cortical development nano symposium on October 8 at 8:00 AM!

Attention all LC lovers, this is a pre-print you won't want to skip! We combined over 1800 single unit LC recordings across 20 labs to ask whether LC firing is different across various conditions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Many of my papers focus on Tau and not Amyloid-beta. But I could not stand not to report that there is an A-beta predominant form of Alzheimer’s without Tau…maybe they have protective genes against tau pathology? academic.oup.com/brain/advance-…

We are happy to announce this year's postdoc Max Planck NeuroMEETS speakers. We look forward to meeting them and hearing their exciting science! Do you have an exciting story to share? Our graduate student NeuroMEETS series is currently accepting applications. Apply by Dec 1st!

I've noticed a troubling trend among PhD+Postdocs: fear of openly sharing research or seeking help due to worries that it'll lead to co-authorship & stolen credit. This distrust, fueled by toxic leadership/PIs, threatens the essence & collab spirit needed for scientific progress

Recording synaptic minis (mEPSCs)? We have a new paper trying to better understand how recorded datasets match synaptic changes. In short, they don't.. More info and the preprint below:

1/7) New Mechanism (Published Yesterday) on How Ketones Clean a Messy Brain in Alzheimer's Disease 🧐From the paper: "Ketone bodies are janitors of damaged proteins, chaperoning away molecular waste so organisms can operate at peak molecular fitness." I'm going to break it down

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoc in the Spotlight: Ruixiang Wang

We are at ACNP. Please stop by our postdoc posters. Lakshmi (W23) is presenting her recent work on CART peptide and serotonin circuit in anxiet/stress. Louis (W179) is presenting his recent work on subcortical DRN-5HT projecting neurons role in sleep dysregulation in early AD.

(1/7) Far-red dopamine sensor is coming! Excited to introduce our chemigenetic DA sensor, HaloDA1.0! #Dopamine #FarRedSensors, #GRAB biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New in #JNeurosci from Nagalakshmi Balasubramanian, Marcinkiewcz Lab, and colleagues: CART peptide reduces serotonin release from the dorsal raphe nucleus and promotes anxiety in a sex-specific manner. University of Iowa UIowaNeuroPharm jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

Brain cancer leverages the same tools as the developing brain 🧠! In our new study, published today in nature, we mapped neocortical development to explore brain cancer and neuropsychiatric risks. #stemcells #brainresearch nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’m pumped to share that our new paper in Biological Psychiatry is out! We dissected a novel astrocyte-neuron interaction in the ventral periaqueductal gray (vPAG) that maintains wakefulness involving norepinephrine and dopamine neurons🧵: biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

Almost all neurons co-release peptides and small transmitters. Thrilled to share our latest research where new GRAB sensor promotes better understanding of the dynamics and molecular regulation between neuropeptide and neurotransmitter release in vivo. nature.com/articles/s4146…

The ketamine metabolite HNK facilitates synaptic transmission to drive acute and sustained antidepressant effects, with nuanced roles of NDMA receptors and PKA activity across timescales. Check out this recent paper below for more details: nature.com/articles/s4138…

Do you want to join our team? 🙌 Then submit your application to be the 2026 NPP Editorial Intern! See link below for more information on the position and application process👇 Applications are due July 30, 2025 acnp.org/digital-librar…

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! I wrote an article outlining this in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News genengnews.com/topics/transla…

Scientist, speak now or forever hold your peace. link below, deadline monday, July 14th my comment: While new alternative methods (NAMs) have contributed useful tools for mechanistic studies and early-stage toxicology, and some efficacy in predicting efficacy in a narrow area

Not studying animal models would halt basic neuroscience. We don’t have good AI models of animal brains to study and we can’t study human brains at single spike single neuron resolution. Studying the brain using fMRI is like studying the economy from a telescope on the moon.