Brandon Fricker
@BrandonFricker
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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
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
https://t.co/dOkUAytQXM
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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: https://t.co/iw1hBNXT0z
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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. https://t.co/bDL9cKqYya
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I am excited to share our new paper published today @CellCellPress (link: https://t.co/6H65Nit1CI). 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
Zhukovskaya et al. show that during social defeat, stress-susceptible mice have higher initial activity in LHb. Closed-loop LHb activation during defeat produces lasting behavioral and neural...
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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 All unpublished data, so come give us feedback!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!) https://t.co/YMvz0wEs7r
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? https://t.co/ECMexsWcQG
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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:
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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! https://t.co/2Lq1QzW2NH.
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Epigenetic aging studies of pair bonding in prairie voles
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Check it out! A preprint of my latest paper is now available on BioRxiv! 🧠
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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
https://t.co/jBNnnShkz5
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Shop Science stickers and art by TheAngryMicroglia located in Atlanta, Georgia.
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I do not care about the golf handicap of presidential candidates.
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I’m so tired.
Pretty clear that we are witnessing the worst presidential debate on style and substance in the history of our nation tonight.
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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
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