Austin A Coley, PhD
@AustinAColey
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Neuroscientist 👨🏾🔬 | Assistant Professor @UCLA 🐻 | @SCglobalbrain TTI Fellow | @NIH DSPAN F99/K00 scholar
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2018
Year 1 as an Assistant Professor is officially complete! This has been a dream of mine, and I feel fortunate to have landed in such a supportive environment, surrounded by amazing senior faculty mentors and an exceptional multidisciplinary team. 🏆
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In these difficult times (all grants frozen) it is good to recognize the good that science can do. Very proud of our new paper on open-source 2P miniscopes! They can image dendrites in cortex and dentate granule neurons through an intact CA1.
nature.com
Nature Communications - Madruga and colleagues present an open-source, miniature 2-photon microscope that can fit on a mouse’s head. Using this system, the authors perform high-resolution...
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The best part of the job is designing creating/implementing new ideas 💡 with the team during our project development and technical development meetings, as well as establishing a new culture for next generation of scientists.
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Congrats Assaf and Takaki! 🥳🥳
Thrilled to share my postdoc work from @takaki_komiyama lab, showing how motor learning reshapes thalamic influence on motor cortex to enable learned movements. Hats off to our collaborators and co-authors for their incredible contributions! https://t.co/CvU6DkPtz7
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Applications are now open for the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–26 academic year. The SURFiN program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research
simonsfoundation.org
The Simons Foundation is accepting applications from undergraduate students for its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience program.
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See the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC https://t.co/Q9NL4ECZ7M & GRS https://t.co/hujWjNb7W4. In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC https://t.co/TeH1vGbA9M & GRS https://t.co/0IRaVNOAba
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It has been incredibly rewarding to build the lab with my team. We got 2 new lasers installed and beaming! 😎🔦
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The NIH has been at the forefront for funding critical scientific discoveries, especially for the prevention and treatment of disorders. Hoping it remains strong through the current turmoil. #ProtecttheNIH 🙏🏾
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Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham @claulopezneuro @callimcflurry
https://t.co/oqzK0ZQWnc
thetransmitter.org
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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As the world’s leading public research institution, UC depends on @NIH funding for scientific advances that save lives and improve healthcare. UC has submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit to block NIH cuts.
universityofcalifornia.edu
UC today (Feb. 10) submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit against the federal government in response to new guidance issued by the National Institutes of Health...
President Trump is unlawfully decimating funding for medical and public health research that helps to develop new cures and treatments for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. We’re suing. https://t.co/ODvb4HA4JD
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The winner of the 2025 Pradel Research Award is Anne Churchland of @UCLA! She is being honored for expanding understanding of the neural circuits that support decision making. Learn more about her discoveries: https://t.co/P49knhXV38
#NASaward #neuroscience
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And a super big shout out to my funding for supporting this research over the years @NIH DSPAN award, @NIH_LRP , and @SimonsFdn
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We aligned facial expression features with mPFC neural population firing
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Lastly, we showed susceptibility and resilience can be decoded and predicted from facial expression dynamics.
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We showed mPFC population dynamics predicts future resilience or susceptibility before stress exposure 🤯
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We used longitudinal 2-Photon imaging to track mPFC valence populations, and PCA to measure cortical dynamics during chronic stress. Chronic mild stress blunts population dynamics and is reversed after Ketamine application.
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First, we used unsupervised k-means clustering to classify susceptibility to unpredictable chronic mild stress, and showed anhedonia classification predicts associative learning performance.
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Check out my new preprint: Predicting Future Development of Stress-induced Anhedonia From Cortical Dynamics and Facial Expression 🫠 New study out of the @kaymtye Lab. With my super team @BatraKanha @science_is_hard L. Keyes @rvpamintu @AssafRamot et al https://t.co/Bgs55rm0VZ
biorxiv.org
The current state of mental health treatment for individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder leaves billions of individuals with first-line therapies that are ineffective or burdened with...
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