Froemke Lab
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Science stuff at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Neuroplasticity, maternal behavior/physiology, oxytocin, cochlear implants, how brains sort of work! BLM
Joined August 2021
🤯Wow really interesting work!!! Congratulations @ardemp and coauthors!! PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition | Science
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Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. We identified mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 and...
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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Early Career awards & Promotion of Women in Neuroscience awards! These researchers are advancing neuroscience through groundbreaking discoveries, mentorship, & scientific excellence Hear their remarks: https://t.co/YZbXutusJ3
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Excited to start my lab in 2026 in Switzerland🇨🇭 @unibern to study the hippocampal basis of social fear with a @snsf_ch Starting Grant. Hiring on all levels! Please share: 1p & 2p calcium imaging, computational & experimental approaches in 🐭 1/2 https://t.co/fFKcq8AZ8f
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In its SNSF Starting Grants call, the SNSF is funding outstanding researchers with approx. 70 million Swiss francs and a bequest.
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Congratulations to @IshmailSaboor on receiving the @NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡See https://t.co/rv8V7mFrJT
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We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Stacie Bloom as the next President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, effective January 2026! Bloom will join the Foundation from @nyuniversity, where she is currently the Chief Research Officer, Vice Provost, and Vice
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Huge shoutout to every NIH official grinding non-stop to support researchers and pushing through to meet that Sept 30 award deadline to ensure 100% of the funds are sent. You're the heroes keeping biomedical research alive. Unfortunately politicians are not as good as you are.
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Sam O’Rourke & colleagues found the speech recognition of CI users with UHL was significantly associated with tonotopic mismatch & daily CI use. New 📄: https://t.co/6X4aonSt89
@UNC_ENT #CochlearImplant #SingleSidedDeafness 🐏🦻🏿
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Cochlear implant users with unilateral hearing loss experience better speech recognition with consistent device use and when listening to maps with minimal or no tonotopic mismatch. Device use and...
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We are excited to share our latest work in @ScienceMagazine studying cooperative behavior in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — fantastic work by @JanineJiang22, Linfan Gu, and wonderful collaboration with @JonathanCKao! https://t.co/nVxe3E3fGA
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This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: https://t.co/XbIP6na42d
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📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to info@wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊
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Peggy Mason, who helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field with the trapped rat paradigm in 2011, is now changing course and pursuing other scientific interests. By @sydney_elise44
https://t.co/wTuZC58n6R
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Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course.
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Congratulations to @bjmarlin on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar @pewtrusts! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟 https://t.co/yYEITMHOzE
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🎉Congrats to our 2025 biomedical scholars and fellows! These 37 early-career scientists are embarking on innovative research projects in neuroscience, microbiology, cancer research, and more. https://t.co/W5zNjPA0fh
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I am happy to share that I’ve been awarded tenure here at Columbia University. Alhamdulillah. I thank my wife, parents, mentors, colleagues, friends, & family. I thank my lab members, present and past, for entrusting their careers in my hands and making this a thrilling journey.
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As of today I am a tenured professor in the dept of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University. First and foremost: our lab- thank you!!! I am so honored to be working alongside you everyday. Mentors, family and friends: thank you! It takes a village!!! Now…. Onwards!
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#JNeurosci: Fernandes-Henriques, Guetta, Sclar, @ELikhtik et al. show that L5 IL→SI/VP pathway in rats constrains defensive fear expression during active extinction learning. https://t.co/n5ZVAPn1Lz
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Here is my OpEd about the impacts of restructuring the NIH
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Merging smaller institutes into larger ones would increase bureaucracy, not reduce it.
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📆Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026! We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues. More details coming soon👇🏽 https://t.co/LsNG89FzBI
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Thrilled to share that our paper is published! We reveal calcium dynamics of PVN oxytocin neurons and astrocytes in mice during social investigation 🐭🤝 and looming shadow threat 🦅⚫️, simultaneously imaged using two-colour fiber photometry. 🧠 🟢 🔴
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Activation of hypothalamic paraventricular oxytocin (OXTPVN) neurons by social or stress stimuli triggers OXT release to promote social investigation and buffer adverse effects of stress, respectiv...
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