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Excited to post the lab's next paper where we developed an open-source and relatively low-cost behavior controller for associative learning and memory (i.e., B-CALM). Work led by Mingkang Zhou Brenda and helped by Huijeong Jeong and Dennis Burke link.springer.com/article/10.375…

My lab is looking for postdocs - if you are interested, check out the opportunity below!

Happy to contribute to this special issue on the Hypothalamus and share my thoughts on neurocircuits for motivation. Lots of great reviews in this issue on the diversity of physiological and behavioral functions orchestrated by these critical brain structures!

If you want to know a bit more about Corey, please check this interesting piece in Nature Neuroscience, where he discusses his background and career path with Shari Wiseman: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Pleased to share the first preprint from the Opendak Lab! We identified the infant lateral habenula as a site promoting developmental transitions in social behavior and a locus of dysfunction following early adversity. Congrats team!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share that my graduate dissertation work is now finally live on bioarxiv! Take a look if you're interested in learning more about the lateral septum's role in opioid withdrawal: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please apply to join my lab at Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina! We are seeking Ph.D. level scientists to join our team to work on mitochondrial mechanisms in substance use disorders. Apply here (or please RT/share): careers.rti.org/jobs/11456?lan…

We are currently hiring postdocs with experience in rodent models. Ephys and viral techniques a plus. Please DM me or email [email protected] if interested!

Please check our newest study on bioRxiv - a tour de force led by the phenomenal Chris Reid, describing the diversity of neurons in the lateral septum in terms of transcriptomics, anatomical distribution, connectivity and electrophysiology: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We sequenced ventral pallidum and found: - Neuronal heterogeneity (14 GABA subtypes, 2 glut, 1 chol) - Shared cell types with neighboring regions (accumbens, BNST, preoptic area) - Homology between mouse and rat - Transcriptional impact of high-fat diet biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our methods work out in #Neurophotonics today! We coupled a new microprism design with a long working distance objective to track thousands of cells across days in the striatum. doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.…

Thrilled to show my recent work about the regulation of dorsolateral septum GLP-1R neurons on feeding behavior. In this work, we showed that dLS-GLP-1R neurons and the inhibitory pathway to LHA can regulate feeding behavior. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredibly thankful to have had an opportunity to work on this project. I learned so much from Marta Soden and had a great time picking apart the VTA! Check out this thread to learn more about input specific regulation of VTA cell types 👇

Chk out our newest collab paper co-led w/ tommaso patriarchi, & others. We developed & characterized a nociceptin opioid peptide sensor. Congrats to Xuehan, Carrie Stine (student in my lab) who co-led effort. DM to try. @NIMH NIDAnews NAPE Center Link: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited about our minisymposium at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) ! Join us Wednesday afternoon to hear about the functional organization of lateral septum - from molecules to circuits and computations! Session details here: abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20433/s… #sfn2024

I am thrilled to announce that I have been selected as an A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Fellow! 🥳 Feeling fortunate to have received funding for my work on neurodevelopment of the lateral septum

Want to compare social and nonsocial reward seeking behavior? On STAR Protocols, we provide instructions for the assembly of a 2 choice operant chamber with an easy to use GUI-based acquisition system. Low cost and fully automated STAR Protocols sciencedirect.com/science/articl…