Steve Ramirez
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3 years full of gratitude and with a full heart today 🙏🏽
today i'm 500 days sober 🦾
there are so many moments, memories, & life lessons in my journey towards inner peace, which i talk about👇🏽
TLDL: discovery is what i do as a scientist & recovery is what i do as a person. i hope to help ppl by sharing both🙂
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calling on all men: go to a workshop on promoting women in science, sit there quietly, LISTEN, acknowledge your biases, & change
#natgeofest
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overheard undergrad:
"as a kid science was magic. now i realize it's not just magic. it's real magic"
lets never lose sight of that vision
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being a professor is a chance to put my education in action & teach it forward - ideals my parents taught me, and i dedicate this to them 🙏🏽
im over the moon to be this year's recipient of BU's highest teaching honor! let's 👏🏽 GO 👏🏽
@BU_Tweets
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the engram meeting is a safe space where we support each other's careers and openly brainstorm ideas on pushing memory forward
meanwhile
@DrChristineAnnD
woke up and chose violence
#engramensemble
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🚨 new lab paper alert!! 🚨
"Reactivating hippocampal-mediated memories during reconsolidation to disrupt fear" by
@S_Grella
@Amanda_4_10
evan ruesch john bladon
@leanna0008
abby gross
@ShpokM
@c_cincotta
@mysteriousjoe_
link and thread 👇🏽
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my full grant proposals, personal statements, lab item lists, funding / grad tips, classes, freely at
#OpenScience
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one of my parents' mottos is that there are no boundaries on 🌎 and that science teaches us we're all star-stuff ✨
despite coming to the states "illegally," we're a family full of scientists, lawyers, doctors... and above all, of good people ❤️
this is for you mamá y papá.
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🚨 new lab paper hot off the press! 🚨
"Hippocampal cells segregate positive and negative engrams" by
@ShpokM
@chanelrhodopsin
et al., in collab with
@JohnAWhitePhD
&
@ShawnLiu_Lab
🧵👇🏽
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running a lab has been an amazing gift full of people who enrich my daily routines with camaraderie and laughter, and who i admire as scientists, colleagues, and, today, AS AUTHORS OF OUR FIRST PAPER.
LEGGO 👇
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🚨 NEW preprint from the lab 🚨
"Hippocampus cells multiplex positive and negative engrams" by
@ShpokM
et al!
we combined activity-dependent tags, ephys, RNA-seq, & opto, to find engrams defined by molecular, cellular, & projection-specific features
👇🏾
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neuroscience for *all*
it's an honor to be selected for this award alongside so many stellar researchers i look up to - i can't wait to brainstorm out loud with ya'll, to mentor the next gen of scientists together, and to transform science from within!
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im a professor and dedicate my life to my lab. my siblings are lawyers w families. my parents are american citizens. but first, my dad illegally crossed the border to escape civil war to unite us.
there are no borders when we're all citizens of humankind
#KeepFamiliesTogether
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🚨 new paper from the lab alert! 🚨
"Hippocampus and amygdala fear memory engrams re-emerge after contextual fear relapse" by
@mysteriousjoe_
@MauseWhisperer
@c_cincotta
and team!
🧵👇🏽
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2 years and with a full heart today 🙏🏽
today i'm 500 days sober 🦾
there are so many moments, memories, & life lessons in my journey towards inner peace, which i talk about👇🏽
TLDL: discovery is what i do as a scientist & recovery is what i do as a person. i hope to help ppl by sharing both🙂
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🚨 new lab preprint alert! 🚨
"Hippocampal engrams generate flexible behavioral responses and brain-wide network states"
by
@KaitlynDorst
@ryan_senne
@mia_diep
et al. ✨
🧵👇🏽
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the lab's first paper: ACCEPTED 🌟!
second paper: out to review 🤞🏽
the rest: ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽
to the team: thank you for your endless hard work and support. LET US NOMS 🍕🎉🥂!
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our socially modulated engrams made it to the PNAS cover today!
special shoutout to our remarkable scientists
@abbybasyoosha
@heloise_leblanc
@Beccaaa_57
@geneticexpns
@mysteriousjoe_
🙌🏽
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today i'm 500 days sober 🦾
there are so many moments, memories, & life lessons in my journey towards inner peace, which i talk about👇🏽
TLDL: discovery is what i do as a scientist & recovery is what i do as a person. i hope to help ppl by sharing both🙂
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🚨 new lab paper alert! 🚨
"Basolateral amygdala astrocytes are engaged by the acquisition and expression of a contextual fear memory"
by
@rebeccalauren88
@ryan_senne
et al.
🧵👇🏽
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BREAKING:
the lab is undergoing civil war bc no one agrees on how to eat a kit kat
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my parents immigrated to escape civil war. they work in labs, my brother & sister are lawyers, & i run a lab
@Harvard
#immigrantexcellence
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yesterday, someone i will never meet passed away.
their ❤️ made a journey to a boston hospital, where it was transplanted. the recipient just woke up. thank you to the doctors and nurses. thank you to the donor family. and thank you to the individual that saved my aunt's life
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science is beautiful. today,
@Mshpokay
was successfully able to combine a fos-Cre transgenic line (red) with a fos-tTa virus (green) to label two memories in the hippocampus of the same animal.
#2FOS2FURIOUS
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the dentate gyrus in all its glory!
check out the review below led by the extraordinary
@miaborz
@laramrangel
& hippocampus-loving team -- it was a true tour-de-dentate working with ya'll 🥳!
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congratulations to our lab's first PhD🥳: Dr. Shpokayte
@ShpokM
!
and w unreal timing, her paper on positive and negative engrams was accepted LITERALLY mid-defense 🎤🫳🏽
(preprint:)
#PhDONE
#2Fos2Furious
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WOOO im beyond stoked to finallyyy admire the san diego sunset 🌅 before my talk at
@UCSDNeuro
tonight!
cheers from boston 😳
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🚨 new lab preprint! 🚨
"Engram Reactivation Mimics Cellular Signatures of Fear" by
@rebeccalauren88
@ryan_senne
and team
🧵👇🏽
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🚨 our new
#engram
review is out today at j neuro
@SfNJournals
! 🚨
"linking social cognition to learning and memory"
led by heloise leblanc: a once-in-a-decade, brilliant md/phd student in the lab
👇🏾
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hey
@BU_Tweets
ive been waiting 7yrs to say this: im coming back home - just accepted a neuro professorship 🙌 LETS GO!
<3,
the ramirez lab
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🚨 to everyone attending
#SfN23
...
the engram social is BACK!
join us for an evening of ping pong, food & bevs, and savoring all things memory
details 👇🏽
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ive literally dreamt of this opportunity since grad school and now it's HERE -- today i get to start teaching a course i designed on memory engrams for the first time, and that "first day of school" feeling is REAL
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a promise:
i will do everything in my power to be a shield & sword against harassment of any form, and to make science a place where we make discoveries in a healthy & empathetic manner - not a place where ppl get hurt. we can do this.
my heart & ears are always open for ya'll
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🚨 our latest results on reactivating engrams while measuring neuronal-astrocytic dynamics is out!
led by
@rebeccalauren88
@ryan_senne
@buzharskym
@mia_diep
@angelapyo
thread 👇🏽
🚨 new lab preprint! 🚨
"Engram Reactivation Mimics Cellular Signatures of Fear" by
@rebeccalauren88
@ryan_senne
and team
🧵👇🏽
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on behalf of mr. ramirez, mrs. moreno, and the rest of the family back in el salvador, theyd like me to quote some classic poetry:
STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WE HEAAA 💪🏽
#PECASE
@NIH
@BU_Tweets
@buCSNneuro
@Harvard
@WHOSTP
#STEM
🧠
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🚨 new engram preprint 🚨
"CA1 Engram Cell Dynamics Before and After Learning"
by
@ameswithabrain
, Caitlin Lienkaemper, Siria Coello,
@gkochocker
,
@gehirnkarte
🧵👇🏽
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this is the first grant we've gotten based solely on the lab's new data. thank you for the camaraderie & giving me the best job in the world
@eadouce
@emily_merfeld
@Mshpokay
@nathenmurawski
@geneticexpns
@S_Grella
@abbybasyoosha
@mysteriousjoe_
@0ooolivia
@Amanda_4_10
@crc11797
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what a day for memory: reactivating engrams to facilitate extinction, and multi-synaptic modulation of engrams, w commentaries by
@Franklandlab
@sjo09
& one i was lucky to write too!
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our new lab website is live!
check out our lab philosophy, new resources (e.g. grants, templates), papers, our team, and take a trip down our many memory lanes together
huge shoutout to
@caitvw
@heyyfernanda
and the whole
@StellateComms
team 🙌🏽!
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today i got my 1st big grant, told the lab thank you, &
#Amsterdam
. i feel over the moon ☺️ to neuro. cheers tweeps!
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🚨 our new biorxiv paper by
@c_cincotta
et al. is up! 🚨
"Chronic activation of fear engrams induces extinction-like behavior in ethanol-exposed mice"
check it:
and thread 👇🏽
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three lessons for scientists from howard eichenbaum:
1) do what you love
2) read the classics
3) challenge orthodoxy
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in today's classic episode of YEAH SCIENCE:
here we have combined some transgenics (TRAP2) and virus-based (DIO) strategies to achieve activity-dependent expression of GCaMP6f in the ventral hippocampus 🧠
📸
@ShpokM
and her
#TeamEngram
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omg THEYRE HERE!
to celebrate the holiday season this year we got the entire lab some 🔥
#SWAG
--
@eadouce
@c_cincotta
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our first social engram paper = ACCEPTED 🥳
"Social Reactivation of Fear Engrams Enhances Memory Recall"
by
@abbybasyoosha
, heloise leblanc,
@Beccaaa_57
, troy gallerani,
@geneticexpns
, &
@mysteriousjoe_
updated preprint 👇🏽 & 🧵
amidst this chaotic week (to WILDLY put it lightly), we're humbled, empowered, to find a semblance of solace in each other & in our science
🚨preprint
"Social Reactivation of Fear Engrams Enhances Recall and Reinstatement" by
@abbybasyoosha
et al.
🧵👇🏾
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thank you SO much
@pewtrusts
@pewhealth
for supporting our work on using engrams to control neurodegeneration🧠!
and a very personal thank you to the lab for supporting each other *especially* these past years & for y'alls unbounded scientific visions 🚀
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🚨 new lab paper! 🚨
"Hippocampal engrams generate variable behavioral responses and brain-wide network states"
by
@KaitlynDorst
@ryan_senne
and team ✨
🧵👇🏽
🚨 new lab preprint alert! 🚨
"Hippocampal engrams generate flexible behavioral responses and brain-wide network states"
by
@KaitlynDorst
@ryan_senne
@mia_diep
et al. ✨
🧵👇🏽
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in honor of
#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlInScience
, here's to our lab's stellar 👏🏽 bad 👏🏽 ass 👏🏽 neuroscientists, past and present!
happy
#WomenInScience
from our team to yours 👩🏽🔬🧠!
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ahhhh 😭😭😭 celebrating our first paper with the brilliant
@BriKChen
CC
@DrChristineAnnD
😭😭😭
#DefendTheEngram
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aaaand we're done! 🥳
im so, SO incredibly proud of the lab and theyre amazing engram work. ya'll are legit the badass shoulders we all stand on 🙌🏽
#SfN19
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HURRAH! our work led by
@c_cincotta
on using engrams to modulate addiction-related states is finally out in hippocampus 🧠
peep the thread below for a gif-friendly summary ya'll 🥳
🚨 our new biorxiv paper by
@c_cincotta
et al. is up! 🚨
"Chronic activation of fear engrams induces extinction-like behavior in ethanol-exposed mice"
check it:
and thread 👇🏽
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🚨 new lab paper alert! 🚨
"Chronic Gq activation of ventral hippocampal neurons and astrocytes differentially affects memory and behavior" by
@rebeccalauren88
et al.
updated 🧵👇🏽!
led by rebecca and an extraordinary (dare i say) *ensemble* team in the lab, the group began by asking two questions:
1) what happens to the brain and behavior when we repeatedly activate neurons for long periods of time?
2) and, ditto, for activating astrocytes?
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amidst this chaotic week (to WILDLY put it lightly), we're humbled, empowered, to find a semblance of solace in each other & in our science
🚨preprint
"Social Reactivation of Fear Engrams Enhances Recall and Reinstatement" by
@abbybasyoosha
et al.
🧵👇🏾
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✋🏿✋🏾✋🏽 diversity builds a better neuroscience ✋🏼✋🏻✋
come join our panel featuring
@FutureDrDukes
@DrJKhokhar
lisa savage and myself tomorrow from 115pm-2pm as we have a candid and forward-thinking discussion on diversity in STEM
lets. GO.
@SfNtweets
#SfNConnectome21
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happy birthday, i miss you and love you so much -- you live in all of our memories pal
@xuliu99
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happy
#FluorescenceFriday
everyone! lets have ourselves a slice of hippocampus:
green = cells with GCaMP🔬
red = a subset of cells processing a fear memory 🧠
goal: to record from both populations in real-time using multiphoton microscopy!
📸:
@ameswithabrain
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a friend, an inspiration, a husband, a father, & a titan of neuroscience: howard eichenbaum i miss you so much. you changed science, forever
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ramirez lab update: all my new grants (funded, unfunded, pending), lab budgets, protocols, posters, and a FUN page!
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📢 to all at
#SfN2023
swing by our engram lane to meet the lab's outstanding researchers and hear about their work on all things memory 👨🏽🔬👩🏽🔬!
monday november 13th from 1-5pm -- deets👇🏽!
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alright tweeps, it's that time again to play the classic game called, holy crap look at that hippocampus projection to the retrosplenial cortex
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so a couple overheard me talking about memory and, on their way out from dinner, leaned in and said:
"you know, memory is actually like a broken record that plays on repeat. it sorta sounds the same, but the vinyl never is"
that 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 beautiful
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and just like THAT, my first class on engrams 🧠 has reached its last day!
it's a privilege to be a student of memory & to be able to discuss & predict all things brain with our remarkable neuro community 👩🏽🔬👨🏽🔬.
👇🏽papers covered & recommended, yet only a slice of the engram 🥧!
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👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 🌎! I'm Steve and I'm an
#actuallivingscientist
studying how to artificially activate and erase memories in the brain
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🚨 new lab preprint alert! 🚨
"Chronic Gq activation of ventral hippocampal neurons and astrocytes differentially affects memory and behavior" by
@rebeccalauren88
et al.
🧵👇🏽
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a year ago, i started working with a team full of grit, heart, brilliance, engram jokes, ping pong duels, solidarity, and a great taste in doughnuts — im endlessly thankful to science away together and learn from each other daily.
tl;dr: AHH HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lab! 🎉
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somewhere between today's DACA decision 💪🏽, fighting against racism ✊🏿, and championing LGBTQ+🏳️🌈, together we continue to reinvent and redefine the american dream as a human dream, with justice for all
#HereToStay
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come check out the lab's work on memory engrams in health and disease tonight
@pewtrusts
!
and to this year's latin american, biomedical, and graduating scholars: congratulations and thank you for bringing your whole selves to science 🦾
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to my fellow black friends, families, colleagues, and community in general: i stand tall with you, fight racism with you, grieve injustice with you, and with you we change the world -- the time is always right to do what is right.
#BlackLivesMatter
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there's only one human family made up of the same star-stuff, and we happen to share the same 🌎
let's keep lifting each other up, helping out every chance we get, and fighting as one 💪🏽!
#coronavirus
#COVID19
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🚨new lab preprint alert! 🚨
"Erasable Hippocampal Neural Signatures Predict Memory Discrimination"
by
@kinsky_nat
,
@DanielOrlin1
, evan ruesch, & kamran diba
🧵👇🏽
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🚨 new preprint alert from the lab! 🚨
"Hippocampal fear engrams modulate ethanol-induced maladaptive contextual generalization in mice" led by
@c_cincotta
evan ruesch &
@ryan_senne
a thread 👇🏽
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tbh, this is the best advice i've heard from a fellow panelist on choosing a
#STEM
career: "Work with nice people, and be a nice person."
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dear trainees
when you discuss data, present at lab meeting, or give a talk, there is an incredibly proud PI cheering you on
<3
a proud PI
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we're hiring!
come join
@gehirnkarte
, me, and our labs at
@buCSNneuro
as a joint post-doc to bridge the gap between immediate early gene expression and cellular calcium dynamics involved in memory and cognition 🧠
more info 👇🏽
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BREAKING. if you're at
#sfn19
and like:
engrams 🧠
food 🍕🍔
beverages 🥤🥂
rooftops 🌇
friendship 👩🏽🔬👨🏽🔬
and celebrating science 🥳
then ya'll are ALL welcome to our 4th annual engram social on Oct. 21st from 730-10pm at vu rooftop!
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🚨 new science alert 🚨
here's my submission for a high res anatomical map of the amgydala ex vivo
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ahhh i'm BEYOND elated to congratulate our very own
@KaitlynDorst
for straight up acing her quals and being our lab's first official PhD candidate after 🥳!
she's an all-star, an exceptional student and mentor, and the shoulders our engram field will stand on 🧠!
LFG
#TeamKD
💪🏽
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im over the moon and beyond proud of
@BriKChen
, PhD, on her successful thesis defense today 🎉!
the field is legit so SO lucky to have you in it, and thank you for bringing out the best in all around you too 🦾!
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within 1hr
@NatGeo
i met 3 other hispanic explorers who champion this: science matters; people matter. we need earth for both
#natgeofest
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recapping
#sfn17
:
1) our field is in the best hands possible, i.e. all incoming generations of researchers
2) science is a wonderful thing to do
3) together we can shine bright like a diamond 💎
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HAPPY
#BrainAwarenessWeek2019
🧠 👩🏽🔬👨🏽🔬!
the different colors 🌈 in this image show neurons involved in processing negative memories at different time points in the prefrontal cortex
follow us on insta 📸
@2fos2furious
for an update each this week on all things BRAIN!
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i always tell my lab that theyre my friends 1st & my colleagues 2nd. this has only helps us empathize over our triumphs / anxieties as a fam
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my family came to the states from el salvador for two reasons:
1) to give my siblings and me a shot at an education ☑️
2) to change the 🌎 for the better every chance we get
the second one is in the best hands possible ya'll: our own💪🏽
#Vote
LFG
#Elections2020
#ElectionDay
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brooklyn half ✅
thank you so SO much to all who donated!! have a great weekend everyone 🙏🏽
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"optogenetic reactivation of prefrontal social neural ensembles mimics social buffering of fear" 🔥
HUGEEEE congrats to
@vagutzeit
@DrChristineAnnD
@DrZoePhD
and the team 🎉🎉🎉!
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"what a memory looks like" 🧠
thanks
@NIHDirector
for the writeup on the lab's work! the idea of creating 3D maps of memories is just one transformative step away amirite
@DrChristineAnnD
💪🏽
#WeGotThis
#TeamEngram
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🎉
im SO honored and excited to co-🪑
@OptoGRC
with this extraordinary team
@bjmarlin
&
@OferYizhar
!
thank you all for the opportunity -- let's grow and transform neuroscience together and for all 🦾
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my mom just now:
"all ive wanted in life is to be happy. and for you and your siblings to be happy. and for our family to be happy."
dad: "so have all 3 happened?"
mom: "well im retiring in 2 weeks & we're all at the :stops and laughs: cheesecake factory together, so yes."
❤️
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new engram stain just dropped 🎨🧠
have a delicious holiday week ya'll!
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what. a. day.
im beyond stoked to celebrate the opening of
@StanfordBrain
& all things brain today by speaking alongside
@MayBrittMoser
@aliceyting
Tony Wyss-Coray and Kevin Shokay! let the celebrations and science BEGIN 🧠🎉
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happy eve of
#SfN22
everyone!
if you're interested in all things engrams🧠 and getting to know the lab👨🏽🔬👩🏽🔬, please join us at the following memory lanes:
saturday 1-5pm (posters OO7 - OO15)
saturday 630-830pm (halls B-H for
@FUNfaculty
)
wednesday 1-5pm (poster WW17)
details👇🏽
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engrams 👏 are 👏 COOL.
here's a snapshot of amygdala cells processing fear and their monosynaptic connections with hippocampus cells processing the same experience 🧠
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uh so WOWZA it's official 🥳!
an experimental course i made last year on "imaging and manipulating memory engrams" 🧠 was just approved by
@BU_Tweets
to be offered officially!
#EngramsAreRealTho
updated syllabus and presentations incoming soon at !!
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we're 4wks away from writing the lab's 1st paper SO lets
#openscience
the shit out of it now 😁. our data on suppressing & enhancing engrams!
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i laughed. i cried. thank you to the mysterious lab member who left this on my comp!
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