Ekaterina Likhtik

Celebrating new work by Carolina Henriques and team, where we show the role of the IL-ventral pallidum pathway in fear extinction and compare it to the IL-BLA pathway: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…

Despite the madness of academic research this year, there are many trainees whose careers are still progressing. There are faculty jobs out there and here we put together some advice targeted to those sending faculty job apps. Please help share!!

A fascinating paper from the Kazama lab draws upon the fly connectome and large scale recordings to show how olfactory valence is encoded in distinct neurons in the lateral horn (drosophila amygdala) through labeled lines and biased feedforward inhibition sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@dr_alexharris Sounds like cooking while granting is a solid strategy. 📜👩🏻‍🍳

Posting again because I am so genuinely relieved. Didn’t know if it was going to happen last week. Now I feel alike it’s one of the better constructed grants I’ve written.

@NeuroTejeda @Miigii13 Awesome!

Happy to share the latest preprint from the lab. Work examining the role of somatostatin neuropeptide transmission in the PFC in regulating associative learning underlying discrimination between salient and neutral outcomes. Led by @Miigii13 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Due to NIH cuts I’m on the job market. Computational biologist, data scientist, human geneticist targeting industry in Seattle or remote. Python, R, SQL, Linux cluster computing, command line, data viz plus deep genetics and bio expertise. PhD from Columbia University. Please RT!

Check out the new Handbook of Electrophysiology that covers all kinds of ways to record activity! Great working with @DrewBHeadley on standard equipment you need for in vivo physiology.

This is a bittersweet celebration as Carolina passed away in the summer of 2024 due to health complications. We dedicate this work to her.

Celebrating new work by Carolina Henriques and team, where we show the role of the IL-ventral pallidum pathway in fear extinction and compare it to the IL-BLA pathway: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…

Cutting off funding for research with the pretext of antisemitism is insane #StandUpForScience

If you or someone you know is 1) being impacted by govt firings, grants being pulled, etc, 2) is in AZ, NM, or MI, and 3) willing to go on record with your story, please DM me. We will put you in touch with AGs from these states that are working on legal action.

Physicians who go into research have to be dreamers. Only 1.5% of doctors work as scientists & they earn about 60% what they would make as clinicians. medscape.com/viewarticle/99… 5/6

The ruthless and baseless purge of NIH staff is continuing through the weekend. Please publicize as much as possible. …-nbcwashington-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcwas…

@dr_alexharris Coherent messaging from the administration would help

As we try to figure out what the administration’s recent orders mean for the future of US research, it might be helpful to distinguish between what has actually happened (a 1 week pause in communication, a hiring freeze, a travel freeze) and our concerns about what will happen.

Officially checking out all the action via @elikhtik.bsky.social as well as here

"Secret holiday lab mate" Yay and Nay list is up on the big board! Somehow pickles have made it to the Nay category for several ppl.

@andrewlwolfe @NY_RaMP Do you know if neurobio folks fit this call?

Do you love science and want research experience before your next step? @NY_RaMP is a 1 year paid opportunity for recent college graduates to do research in my lab or another lab at Hunter College. Learn more at a free webinar on Wed Dec 11 at 3 PM EST nyramp.org/webinars

New findings: We track visual sequences yet the brain's process is unclear. We discovered the sequence-tracking area in monkey's lateral prefrontal cortex is distinct from an adjacent subregion that reacts to other stimulus changes. #neuroscience 🧠 🧪 👩‍🔬 buff.ly/4fC3pzB

@DrewBHeadley 🤣

Lab office whiteboard is close to criticality

26 years after Larry Swanson emphasized “the amygdala is neither a structural or functional unit” we used sn-RNAseq to answer the question: “What is the [primate] amygdala?” Check out the preprint 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We had a fabulous whirlwind of an #SfN24. Lots of interesting science and great people, as always! Exhausted but happy, we're back in NYC.