Joongkyu Park
@synapsepark
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Asst prof at WSU🔬 Interested in learning & memory🧠 and Alzheimer’s disease #ENDALZ Also interested in music recording, arrangement & production🎸🎹
Joined September 2018
Early postnatal developmental atlas (epDevAtlas) for the mouse brain has been published. https://t.co/TZ18ljRtRB High definition brain growth charts with GABAergic neurons and microglia highlight spatially distinct emergency of key cell types.
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Nature Communications - The developmental dynamics of distinct cell types across brain regions remain poorly understood. Here authors generate DevAtlas, a high-resolution developmental 3D atlas,...
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👇🏼Fantastic neuroscience faculty opportunity here at @UTSWBrain @UTSWMedCenter !
A terrific new opportunity for new or early career faculty to join the outstanding and rapidly growing faculty of @UTSWBrain. Spread the word!
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Our department @UTSW_Psychiatry is hiring TT faculty! Our Neuroscience Research Division has diverse research programs, from genes to neural circuits to human brain imaging. @UTSWMedCenter has a vibrant/growing neuroscience community @UTSWBrain
https://t.co/MUUfqemOOA
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The Psychiatry Department at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is seeking outstanding neuroscientists.
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Cool! Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress https://t.co/DIux1wIJvE
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Proximity-specific ribosome profiling using LOV-BirA reveals two distinct strategies for mitochondrially-localized translation: one for long coding sequences and one for short. It was a pleasure to contribute to this beautiful work from Jonathan Weissman @JswLab and @JingchuanLuo
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We’re hiring! Join us @UNIGEnews as a Full/Associate Prof. in Neuroscience (Chair of Excellence). Focus: development, molecular & cellular evolution of brain circuits. Great team, top science, Geneva 🇨🇭 🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025
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Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep | Science
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Prolonged wakefulness leads to persistent, deep recovery sleep (RS). However, the neuronal circuits that mediate this process remain elusive. From a circuit screen in mice, we identified a group of...
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Synaptic potentiation of engram cells is necessary and sufficient for context fear memory https://t.co/oh1xMl4gLB
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Communications Biology - Long-term synaptic potentiation in engram cells of the basolateral amygdala underlies the formation of context fear memory.
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A postdoc job posting from my close collaborator; Dr. Anirban Paul's lab, for a SSPSyGene Consortium Project using Mouse models of autism, Please apply.
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Postdoc for an NIH SSPsyGene consortium project to uncover novel insights into the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurodevelopmental disorders
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We are hiring a new lab manager! Our wonderful lab manager Albert is headed off to grad school and we are looking to fill his position this summer. This is a great opportunity for a new graduate to spend a couple years immersed in research before applying to PhD or MD programs.
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My department keeps the faculty hiring process (synaptic mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders), so please apply by 4/3/2025 for full consideration. Please repost to spread the words.
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Axonal RNA localization is essential for long-term memory:
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Nature Communications - Axonal transcriptomes have been characterized, but their regulation and role in neuronal circuits remain unclear. Here authors uncover activity-dependent RNA localization in...
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The tool used to create this 10-micrometer logo allows us to prepare cells for imaging, enabling transmission electron microscopes to capture details of cellular structures #cryoET
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🚨 Funded postdoc opportunities in the U.S. and Japan—spend time abroad! 🚨 The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and the Stellar Science Foundation are inviting postdoctoral fellows to apply for the new Global Science Scholars fellowship! This 2-yr fellowship supports your next
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Apply for the new international postdoctoral fellowship program from the CZ Biohub Network and Stellar Science Foundation.
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Prof Liqun Luo from @Stanford will give the Gordon M. Shepherd Lecture 🗣️ on his groundbreaking work: "Wiring Specificity of Neural Circuits!" 🧠 You won’t want to miss this—mark your calendars for April 3! 🗓️ We hope to see you there! See flyer for more 👇
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An #astrocytic ensemble that emerges in the nucleus accumbens upon activity during cue-motivated behaviors and is essential for modulating cue-reward associations @llinas_marta @Irene_ish @crismonteagudo @CSIC @InstitutoCajal
https://t.co/PiTQtqFNUG
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Nature Neuroscience - Using the AstroLight system, the authors reveal that astrocytic ensembles in the nucleus accumbens regulate cue-motivated reward behavior, demonstrating that selective...
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We are building tools to accelerate progress in biomedicine. Now, select researchers can access 1,024 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Proposals open:
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Apply to build large-scale AI/ML models using compute power on CZI’s high-performance computing cluster to power new approaches to biological discovery.
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Highly recommended!!
New NIH R01 grant to examine anatomy and function of the dorsal endopiriform nucleus as part of the claustrum complex. https://t.co/PkgKI7SmGi. Looking for team members (e.g., postdoc, tech) to join the journey.
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We're looking for a postdoc with a strong interest in the structure, function and cell biology of glutamate receptors and excitatory synapses. https://t.co/kcEDwMEYOy
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Excited to be at the organization meeting for the 2026 World Parkinson Congress- save the dates! @WorldPDCongress #WPC2026
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