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Catherine Dulac

@DulacLab

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Identifying the neural basis of innate social behaviors using molecular and genetic tools @Harvard @HHMINEWS and at DulacLab at mstdn dot science

Cambridge, MA
Joined September 2017
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@DulacLab
Catherine Dulac
2 years
I am thrilled to share new work from the lab led by @harris_kaplan investigating the emergence of hypothalamic cell types involved in social behavior and homeostatic control. 1/9 Sensory Input, Sex, and Function Shape Hypothalamic Cell Type Development
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Mammalian behavior and physiology undergo dramatic changes in early life. Young animals rely on conspecifics to meet their homeostatic needs, until weaning and puberty initiate nutritional independ...
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@ScienceinBoston
Science in Boston
7 months
Big congrats to postdocs Drs. @MMostafizur_R and @seo_changwoo from the @DulacLab at @MCB_Harvard! ๐Ÿง  They were awarded prestigious grants from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and @NIH, respectively, to support cutting-edge work in #neuroscience: https://t.co/ZK8JUBiVbA
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@DulacLab
Catherine Dulac
8 months
Excellent article par @beauantoine de @lexpress sur les circuits du cerveau regissant le besoin dโ€™interactions sociales. Excellent article by @beauantoine on brain circuits of sociality. Please note: I am very rarely on this site and now spend more time where the sky is blue!โ€ฆ
@LEXPRESS
L'Express
8 months
๐Ÿง  Des scientifiques ont dรฉcouvert des neurones semblables ร  ceux qui rรฉgulent la faim ou la soif et qui poussent les souris en manque de relations ร  sociabiliser ๐Ÿ‘‡ Notre entretien avec @DulacLab, ร  lโ€™origine de cette avancรฉe, par @beauantoine https://t.co/uTXtEdcMUy
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Catherine Dulac
8 months
Welcome to the better sky! @MCB_Harvard ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿง  #Science #Neuroscience
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@HillmanLab
Elizabeth M. C. Hillman
10 months
Beyond excited to share my big @StJude news! Weโ€™re going to build an amazing hub for imaging technology development and deployment - driven by St Judeโ€™s mission to transform the way the world understands and treats pediatric catastrophic diseases. Imaging innovators come join us!
@StJudeResearch
St. Jude Research
10 months
St. Jude welcomes @HillmanLab as the founding chair of the new Department of Imaging Sciences. Her team will develop innovative tools to accelerate discovery and improve patient care. https://t.co/mb9o7SSqPs
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@mlgredler
Marissa Gredler
10 months
The Gredler Lab @Harvard @MCB_Harvard is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows! If you are interested in using high-resolution imaging of live embryos to ask how cells build tissues, please apply at the link below. #DevBio #sciencenews https://t.co/KlRwdAPN2y
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@thinking_cortex
Bivas Nag
10 months
Today, I had the opportunity to attend an insightful talk by @DulacLab from @HarvardUniv and wow it turns out that ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ž ๐๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง, ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐.
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@RachelleGaudet
Rachelle Gaudet
10 months
So cool! Watching ions movin in a channel! Congratulations Doeke @HekstraLab
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@MCB_Harvard
MCB_Harvard
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@DulacLab
Catherine Dulac
10 months
Welcome Marissa @mlgredler for your new exciting projects @MCB_Harvard
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@MPFNeuro
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
11 months
Thanks @harris_kaplan from @DulacLab @Harvard for an inspiring NeuroMEETS talk! Grad Students and PostDocs! Interested in presenting at MPFI? Learn more at https://t.co/CiKHb1tXjg #NeuroMEETS #MPFI #NeuroscienceResearch #sciencetalk
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@physiolrev
Physiological Reviews
11 months
๐Ÿ†• @PhysiolRev Podcast Dr. Sadis Matalon interviews Dr. Catherine Dulac about the neural basis of the complex social behavior of #parenting, as well as genetic & environmental factors affecting control of parenting behavior. https://t.co/IVfD5inLwb @UAB_Anesthesia @DulacLab
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@RachelleGaudet
Rachelle Gaudet
11 months
Two Harvard seniors concentrating in Neuroscience named Rhodes Scholars! Congratulations Aneesh Muppidi and Ayush Noori!
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@vijayiyer312
Vijay Iyer PhD
11 months
@Andrew_C_Payne Potentially also amazing: if you accelerate a sub goal to map the lower ๐Ÿง  (smaller volume but same cell type diversity per Allen atlas), I predict you can start moving needle on #chronicillness over next 4 years. As we know from @DulacLab & others, illness rears its ugly head in
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@steve47285
Steven Byrnes
1 year
@oliverai_music @AdamMarblestone Thereโ€™s a great paper from @dulaclab that finds that lonely mice are comforted by the soft touch of a conspecific. But the brain heuristic for that seems to be really just โ€œsoft touchโ€. Squeezing through a cloth-lined tunnel triggers the same system! :)
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@michelle_monje
Michelle Monje๐ŸŽ—๏ธ ๐ŸŸฆ
1 year
1/ This is the next chapter of a story about courageous patients and their families, of multidisciplinary teamwork, and hard-fought steps forward to effective therapy for #DIPG #DMG, a universally lethal cancer of the brain and spinal cord. ๐Ÿงต https://t.co/hMe0XYplKz
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nature.com
Nature - We evaluated the use of chimeric antigen receptor-modified Tโ€‰cells targeting GD2 (GD2-CART) for H3K27M+ diffuse midline glioma (DMG), finding that intravenous administration of...
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@harvardbrainsci
HarvardBrainScience
1 year
Meet @harris_kaplan on #HumansofHBI "I explore the infant-specific brain mechanisms that underlie these behaviors, using mouse models and combining tools from molecular and systems neuroscience... @DulacLab https://t.co/xqn2lRU7ZA
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@MCB_Harvard
MCB_Harvard
1 year
MCBโ€™s Takao Hensch Receives Japanese National Honor @BostonChildrens @riken_en @RachelleGaudet @Harvard https://t.co/5AUY6txNlJ
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