Hofmann Lab
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Interested in the mechanistic basis of variation in social behavior at evolutionary and life history time scales. Neuroscience and genomics: NeuroEtho-EvoDevo
Austin, TX
Joined June 2012
Check out our new paper on how extinction training suppresses activity of hippocampal fear memory and alters transcriptomes of fear-encoding granule cells, by Alfredo Zuniga, Jiawei Han, @imillercrews, Laura Agee, a great collaboration w/ @TheDrewLab
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US biomedical science is way too self-congratulatory. Yes, we've made amazing progress in many areas. But after receiving nearly a TRILLION DOLLARS in federal funds this century, significant progress is a MINIMAL EXPECTATION - not some miraculous gift to society. The field in so
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Meet Emily Lessig! She is one of our 2024 Stengl-Wyer Fellows. Her research integrates animal behavior and neuroscience to understand how animals make decisions in dynamic social environments. https://t.co/e0rBwklWjP
#animalbehavior
#biology #graduateschool
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I’m excited to share our publication from @Dulac_lab in @Nature, where we illuminate the development of hypothalamic cell types involved in a broad range of functions, from social behaviors to thirst, thermoregulation, and sleep. Highlights below! 🧵 https://t.co/cxL7xBupQk
nature.com
Nature - Paired transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling are used to examine the developmental trajectories of neuronal populations in the hypothalamic preoptic region, including cell...
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It’s not easy at the top. New @UTAustin research finds those at the top of a social hierarchy experience more stress when they drop in social rank & experience more changes in the brain than those that climb the social ladder. @HofmannLab #TexasScience
https://t.co/5ex20Wdf14
cns.utexas.edu
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin found that mice at the top of the social hierarchy experienced more stress when they dropped social rank.
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Are testosterone pulses a physiological mechanism for expanding activity beyond territories? | Royal Society Open Science https://t.co/T7VKJ4z2AE Congratulations Rada and Matina! Magnificent field work by Rada. T-effects are context dependent.
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We ask whether artificially induced testosterone pulses (T-pulses), administered to males in the wild at the territory boundary, adjust location preferences within the territory. Multiple transient...
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🚨 80th Anniversary November 1, 1944: The sign reads, "Ex-Servicemen! We fought for freedom. Are we losing it to homegrown fascism?" @UTAustin student World War II veterans protest against the firing of President Homer Rainey in one of UT's most challenging times. 🧵 (1/6) ->
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Engaging tweetorial on a very cool study that functionally connects socially salient sensory input in the auditory pallium to a neural substrate in the ventromedial hypothalamus that regulates subsequent context-appropriate behavior! Kudos, really well done!
I'm excited to share with you all our new paper (co-authors the twitterless Anna Lally and @Healeylab) out in @CommsBio!! I've made a tweet thread abstract below, spooky halloween style.🎃 Open access at the following link: https://t.co/PZFlOz1lpp 1/14
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Applications are now open for NS&B 2025! We will run from June 8- July 21. Applications are due FEB 1st. For more info:
mbl.edu
This course provides broad training in modern approaches to the study of neural mechanisms underlying behavior, perception, and cognition.
Excited to announce that our 2025 Advanced Research Training Course schedule is up and applications are open! 🎉🎉🎉 See you in Woods Hole! https://t.co/9cAcnqoAfG
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Excited to announce that our 2025 Advanced Research Training Course schedule is up and applications are open! 🎉🎉🎉 See you in Woods Hole! https://t.co/9cAcnqoAfG
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I will be looking for PhD and/or Int PhD students starting in 2025, so if you're interested in joining my lab (or any others in the TIFR system) as a graduate student please apply!
To apply for PhD & Int MSc-PhD programmes @TIFRH_buzz, one of the qualifying written examinations is TIFR GS 2025 (for Physics and Chemistry) / JGEEBILS 2025 (for Biology). These examinations will be held on Dec 08, 2024 (Sunday). Apply here: https://t.co/iLjnA6QOLE
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Sarah Muh is kicking off Day 2 of the SBN Online Research Symposium! Sarah is a graduate student in the @HofmannLab at @UTAustin who studies the neuro-molecular mechanisms of social behavior in cichlid fish. 🐟🧠🧬
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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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Such a great paper! Bravo!
Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! https://t.co/zERnYwgwVn
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Elated to announce that I’m starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too!
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As some of you may know, my journey has been different. I am grateful for and proud of those experiences and I look forward to sharing them with trainees as we work towards our mutual research and professional goals.
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We are pleased to welcome the 2024 Grad Cohorts in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior as well as Plant Biology! Learn about their exciting and diverse research here: https://t.co/0HGg0QsZU8
#ecology #evolution #Biology #Science #botany #plantbiology
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Applications for the 2025 Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program are open! It provides up to 3 yrs support for talented postdocts in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments. https://t.co/A9lKyx49D4
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🗣️I’ll be at #Evol2024 as part of UDE: poster board A4 session 1 on Sat. July 27th I pop-gen’d populations of Icelandic sticklebacks revealing their diversification history. Do we see their sensory transcriptomes reflect the population structure and/or ecology?
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The Department of Psychology @UTPsychology at the University of Texas at Austin is hiring in Natural Behavior and Computation! https://t.co/or750qpulO
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The last speaker in the symposium is @HofmannLab on how transcriptome variation within the social brain network reflects variation in ecology, demography, and life history across vertebrate species 🐀🐠🐦🦎🐸 #SBN2024 Next will be the poster session!
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