Some days ago, together with the group of Manu Valero from @HMar_research, we enjoyed a fantastic Retreat in my hometown Camprodon. We spent 3 days full of scientific discussions about our research projects, good moments and nature with autumn colors.

When you start your lab, nobody has taught you how to supervise or overcome multiple difficulties of a PhD. I am happy that today the first PhD from my lab was well defended. Congrats Laura! Many thanks to @CarlesSaura, Ester Aso and Miriam Melis for an inspiring discussion.

Tomorrow, I will be in Zaragoza participating to a new edition of the Research Career Course organized by the @academia_joven. During this course we will discuss about research funding, evaluation, dissemination, ethics, emotional management, among other important topics.

In addition, I will be giving a talk in an interesting symposium organized by @carmensandi10 explaining some ongoing projects of the lab regarding the behavioral effects of cannabinoid drugs.

We are at the @EurBehavPharm meeting in Cabo de Gata⛵️ Tomorrow @IreneGManzanar1 (Poster #1.7) and @CarlaRDuaso (Poster #1.34) are presenting interesting posters regarding the link between Cannabinoid drugs and Psychosis and Cannabinoid drugs and Alzheimer Disease, respectively.

Together with @MarsicanoLab, @bolanosjuanp and @IreneGManzanar1, we took profit of the #SENC2025 in Gran Canaria to have an exciting meeting with updates and interesting findings from our @CaixaResearch project, in which we are investigating the psychotic effects of cannabis.

📢 Visit this afternoon the last poster session at #SENC2025! Check out S05-125 by @ConchiLillo ,@BGarcialab , and@JorgeVaGL to discover the @Braining_Club : an Erasmus+ project uniting European universities and institutes to train young neuroscientists.

Tomorrow, our PhD student @AirinFerreres will be presenting the poster "Impact of adolescent stress on behaviour and neuroimmune function" (num. 116). Come to see our posters and discuss our research.

Today, our PhD student @IreneGManzanar1 will be presenting the poster entitled "Studying the psychotic-like states induced by Delta-9-Tetrahidrocannabinol (THC): new behavioral strategies to tackle the complexity of psychosis in mouse models" (num. 305)

Our group is in the #senc2025 meeting in Gran Canaria where we will show two different stories from the lab through the presentation of two posters.

This study suggest that data-driven analysis reveals nuances missed by traditional measures to measure mouse behavior representing a step toward richer, data-driven profiling of mouse behavior.

The main findings are briefly summarized here: ➡️ Indirect associated cues through second-order conditioning triggers distinct behavioral responses compared to cues directly associated with reinforcer. ➡️ Older mice struggle with second-order conditioning

We developed a pipeline combining DeepLabCut, Keypoint-MoSeq & DeepOF to study age- and sex-dependent differences in light-tone second-order conditioning in mice.

🚨 New paper from our lab published in @CellRepMethods and performed in the @HMar_research led by our PhD student @mrc_canela ! 📄

Potentiation of mitochondrial function by mitoDREADD-Gs reverses pharmacological and neurodegenerative cognitive impairment in mice https://t.co/j8GJXVrkDT

Our contribution, led by our postdoc @CarlaRDuaso , has been to infuse MitoDREADD in the hippocampus of APP/PS1 mice, a mouse model of amyloidosis accompanied by cognitive decline, and show how the enhancement of mitochondrial activity reverse memory deficits in this mouse model.

Our group is proud to have contributed to a new paper published in @NatureNeuro led by @MarsicanoLab , in which MitoDREADD, a new tool to enhance mitochondrial activity, show promising effects against the cognitive decline in neurodegenerative disorders. https://t.co/UDFkuAx6iJ

This week, our PhD student @mrc_canela has led a on-site course on @DeepLabCut in the @HMar_research and @the_prbb where students from different institutions could learn why and how to use DLC for behavioral analysis. A good way to close before the summer break!

Arnau Busquets’ group (@HMar_research) has shown how the amygdala controls the process of association between different stimuli 🗨️"Understanding the brain circuits of these cognitive processes can help us to design therapeutic approaches in humans” ℹ️ https://t.co/pykel3uZYV

Very happy and honored that our ERASE project has been proposed to be funded by the @AgEInves. 3 exciting years ahead to further investigate the brain substrates of emotion recognition in normal and pathological aging. #PID2024