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excited to have helped with this! Primer led by Charles Zhou with Adam Gordon-Fennell and Spencer LaVere Smith, Na Ji, mbruchas, and Stuber Lab labs. We share our thoughts on best practices and considerations for deep brain imaging during behavior. authors.elsevier.com/c/1htVZ3BtfH5M…

Looking for a birds eye view of the implementation of optical approaches for investigating GPCR signaling? Check out this review from mbruchas and myself published today in Pharm Rev (ASPET) ! Hope it proves to be a useful resource for GPCR researchers. pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/75/6/1…

Beautiful night to have Seattle Kraken back in town, let’s get this win! #SeaKraken #whereiroot

New biosensors have helped reveal the activity of neuropeptides in the brain, researchers report in Science, providing novel tools for studying the release, function, and regulation of these crucial signaling molecules in vivo. scim.ag/4Um; scim.ag/4Un

Thanks to UW Medicine for the excellent write-up about our new work mbruchas! We're excited to use this technology to explore neural circuit mechanisms related to chronic pain (UW Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine), drug dependence (NIDAnews), and aversion (National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)). newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/…

Happy to share my mbruchas lab work in Cell Reports & be a new PI at Seattle Children's. Probing limitations in catecholamine signaling w/ newer generation biosensors. W/ Yulong Li Lab, NAPE Center, UW Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine. Thx National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) NIDAnews FAER. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

We developed a palatable THC formulation that enables voluntary consumption of high-dose THC and an optimized access paradigm in mice that results in cannabimimetic response.

Had a great time giving a neuroscience demonstration at the Boys and Girls Club of King County with Brandy Briones , Carrie Stine , and Kentaro Ishii , other than getting absolutely roasted by a few 5-7 year olds.

First MPA meeting in beautiful Big Island! Come check out my poster #27 tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. for neuropeptide regulation for stress induced binge eating.

I had a great time presenting with these folks in our symposium at #MPA2024. Getting to share some of the cross-species work our P50 Conte Center has been doing with approach/avoidance behavior was so rewarding! Thanks also to our attendees for the insightful discussion.

Excited to share our work in the mbruchas lab on how endogenous opioids promote goal-directed behavior, funded by NIDAnews. I am currently on the job market and this work will form the basis of my research program. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new sensor for the neuropeptide #nociceptin is now out in Nature Communications Fantastic teamwork with the mbruchas lab and many other super collabs! Very proud of our student Xuehan for her PhD work! Check it out: rdcu.be/dLO3m 😉

Thanks Michael! Excited to share that my work on the nociceptin opioid sensor is now published in Nature Communications. Thanks to the tommaso patriarchi lab (and especially my co-first author Xuehan) for all of the hard work on this collaboration!

Excited to share our preprint “Noradrenergic tuning of arousal is coupled to coordinated movements” from mbruchas' lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… How does an animal coordinate arousal and movement?

Second all of this, SWDB 2024 was an incredible experience!

Just got back from the Allen Institute ‘s SWDB’24. It was intense, challenging & absolutely worth it! Truly amazed by how much can be uncovered when brilliant minds come together. Cracking the brain’s code was never a solo gig. A big thanks to the incredible organizers & TAs! 🧠

Out today ! Work co-lead by Joanna Ciatti, Abraham Vazquez-Guardado and Vicki Brings in John Rodgers’s , Rob Gereau and Jose Moron-Concepcion. lab Happy to have participated in developing this new device. Hope we can truly help people with this. Please share science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The final paper of my PhD is up on BioRxiv!! I’m so excited to see this out in the world! We conducted multiple genetic manipulations to uncover which NAc cell pop is necessary for opioid receptor modulation of social behavior. *spoiler* it’s not the population you expect!

Excited to share work from Twitter less Juan Enriquez-Traba, grad student from the lab. Juan and the team demonstrate that dopamine regulates differential aspects of reward, motivation vs reinforcement, via co-expressed D3 and D1 receptors nature.com/articles/s4159…

I’m excited to share the most recent study from the mbruchas lab, which represents the culmination of my postdoctoral work, and serves as the platform for my future research programs investigating the in vivo role of the endocannabinoid signaling system! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…