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Our review (aka our quarantine project) is out today! If you are interested in mPFC development and/or emotional memory and cognitive flexibility, give it a read!

Thrilled and honored to have been selected as a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow this year!

New #preprint! Meet BehaviorDEPOT, our free and very easy to use software that fills the gap between pose tracking and behavioral analysis (1/n) @cjgabrie28 Zachary Zeidler, PhD SAWilke @DanielBAharoni Dr. Melissa Sharpe OpenBehavior DeepLabCut 🦄 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

BSC, AMEBA, and UCLA Life Sciences are hosting a town hall for graduate students to discuss racial diversity and inclusion in academia. Hope to see you there on Thursday! Also follow our new BSC Twitter, UCLA Biological Sciences Council, curated by the wonderful Megan Chappell!

Annnnd no one in my lab can login to the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) poster discussion. Please check out the posters in Threat/Fear Neural Circuits V and message us with any questions/comments!

Congratulations to Roy McReynolds, graduate researcher of Jason Hinman, on receiving the Black Men's Brain Health Fellowship Black Men's Brain Health Conference! This transformative award will support Roy's work on genes driving astrocyte morphology in tauopathy Alzheimer's Diversity.

BREAKING: UC agrees to recognize SRU-UAW in its entirety! This historic victory was brought about by the tireless efforts of thousands of SRs who organized to win a union & a direct response to our massive Strike Authorization Vote. Now let’s win a strong contract for all SRs!

Our paper is finally out online in Neuron! Oxytocin normalizes altered circuit connectivity for social rescue of the Cntnap2 knockout mouse. authors.elsevier.com/c/1eHF63BtfGzl… A thread🧵

For UCLA grad students in neuro labs - Join us on Tuesday, March 1st @ 6pm to learn about CELL Scholars, our new Brain Research Institute outreach program! Register here: forms.gle/qWRVk25LMM3Dxx…

Are you a grad student in a UCLA neuro lab? Apply to become a Mentor for CELL Scholars, a Brain Research Institute outreach program for URM high school students to conduct lab research! Send us your app at [email protected] by April 4th (+ follow us CELL Scholars) t.ly/RVkM

Prefrontal neurons collateralize... a lot! Excited to share this preprint on prefrontal axon anatomy with Laura DeNardo and Cassie Klune!

New preprint ! Developmental bio/neurobiology crisis ?! Still, I am pleased to share my postdoctoral work deciphering neonatal interneuron alterations in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome - Portera-Cailliau lab, UCLA. Thread 1/10 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New review together with De Biase Lab! This represents the beginning of an exciting collaboration between authors Sara Blagburn and Megan Chappell. Looking forward to seeing what they go on to discover about how microglia regulate developing mPFC circuits! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New paper from the lab! @cjgabrie28, Zachary Zeidler, PhD and Benita Jin developed BehaviorDEPOT, an open source software program for behavioral analysis based on markerless pose tracking (1/n) elifesciences.org/articles/74314

Do you do behavior? Do you use markerless pose tracking? (eg DeepLabCut 🦄) Do you want to reliably reproduce and automate your analysis (especially freezing)? New no-code MATLAB app just dropped 🔥 My first postdoc paper from Laura DeNardo lab, with lead @cjgabrie28 and many others!

Real talk. Say what you want about our unions’ demands but University of California showed up an hour late to the bargaining table today after fully canceling bargaining sessions yesterday. When they say they are bargaining in good faith, that’s a *bold face lie* #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike

Social interaction difficulties is a key characteristic of Autism Spectrum Condition… But really hard to reliably assess in mice. Here’s a novel assay in head-fixed mice from Portera-Cailliau lab and talented Phd candidate Trishala Chari biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Updated preprint! How does our prefrontal cortex help us avoid threats? Here Michael Gongwer and Cassie Klune show that three classes of mPFC projection neurons have specialized roles in threat avoidance. 1/n🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…