RT @UWPharmacology: Please RT! We are officially accepting applications to the @UW Pharmacology PhD program!. Are you excited about doing a….

Fantastic new preprint out from Mi-Seon Kong and the Zweifel Lab. Dopamine release in the CeA, triggered by reward-associated cues, can modify fear memories and enhance extinction. Incredible work! .

RT @outRaajeous: Happy to have contributed to the development of novel endogenous opioid biosensors. Thank you @JasonCDong1 for being an am….

Last but not least, we’re looking for a postdoc to study neural circuits that influence dopamine neuron firing. If this could be you, please reach out!.

I can’t say enough about how great it was to collaborate with Rhiana Simon @mouse_braind on this project. I learned so much from her! Check out her thesis work here:

We also used FISH to characterize the spatial expression of genes marking subsets of dopamine, GABA, glutamate, and multi-transmitter neurons. And we were able to correlate the expression of specific ion channels with high- or low-excitability dopamine neurons.

We looked at immediate early genes as markers of neuronal activity, and found different IEG patterns induced in different cell types, and (in the case of dopamine neurons) different IEGs induced by different inputs.

Very excited for this paper to be out in @NeuroCellPress . We opto stimulated specific inputs to the VTA and used snRNAseq to identify which neuronal subclusters were activated by each input. A fantastic collaboration with @mouse_braind and @gstuber .

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