Neuroscientist/PhD. Postdoc in the Elya lab at Harvard MCB department. Excited about brains, behavior, and zombie (flies)! also cats! Opinions are my own.
Cambridge, MA
Joined June 2012
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Incredibly excited to finally be able to share this portion of my dissertation work! It wouldn't have been possible without the support of @AubreyMKelly and @muruganmalu!
The latest from the lab is out now in @CurrentBiology! Led by the amazing @BrandonFricker, with help from @muruganmalu, we identified a neural circuit that facilitates affiliative peer-group preferences in spiny mice. @EmoryUniversity
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My signed deluxe edition of @IslingtonJames “The Will of the Many” finally arrived! It was definitely my favorite read of 2024.
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1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! How do dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains? Turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all!
Comparing CD1 & C57 mice, we found strain-specific behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
ALT behavioral assays for mice
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Fresh off the press! Check out this review article @jennisisaac and I wrote on neural circuits mediating social-reward related behaviors in @TrendsNeuro. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I am excited to share our new paper published today @CellCellPress (link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jw%7…). This is one of my favorite studies and took ~7 years to complete. In early 2018, we started the project, aiming at understanding the neural plasticity of the Winner effect. 1/6
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My PhD work is finally out in @NeuroCellPress! "Heightened lateral habenula activity during stress produces brainwide and behavioral substrates of susceptibility" w/ amazing team @IlanaWitten @ZimmermanNeuro @lindsaywillmore @Neurrriot @alexpan_neuro cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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If you are going to be at SFN and want to see what we have been up to, we have five posters and a talk. All unpublished data, so come give us feedback! Feel free to retweet! Thanks!
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This paper is now published in Cell Reports! Our study investigates how the sugar circuit diverges into different pathways that mediate different behaviors. The revision has a ton of new data and circuit simulations (thanks to the model by @Philip_Shiu!)
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Just in time for #cshldros23, we have a new preprint on how sweet taste elicits different behavioral responses. Are different behaviors coordinately regulated? At what point does the sweet-sensing circuit diverge into different behavioral pathways?
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Insanely impressive work!!!
First first-author publication of my PhD in the @muruganmalu lab finally out in @NatureComms! Huge shoutout to @sonia_karkare and @HymavathyB for all their help! And the rest of the team Nick, @jarildy, and @MahaRashidNeuro too. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Does being pair-bonded keep you young ?
@LindsaySailer et al explored this question in #PrairieVoles in our recent paper in @SciReports
In short: Not really. BUT we did establish a VoleClock and found several genes strongly associated with bonding!
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Check it out! A preprint of my latest paper is now available on BioRxiv! 🧠 nam11.safelinks.protection.o…
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Hello - just wanted to give a shout out to an amazingly creative grad student in my lab and her new Etsy shop. Some super fun neurosci stickers for sale. More to come. @Morgan_Goeden @GSUBnB @Bangasser_Lab
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I wore my @StrictScrutiny_ "I dissent" shirt today.
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How do patterns of gene expression in parts of the social brain change during the life-history transition to motherhood in pairbonded female #PrairieVoles?
#oxytocin receptor, #dopamine receptors, #opioid receptors
New paper by @SantiAndForero onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…