George Mountoufaris, PhD

Interested in how emotions are regulated in both healthy and disordered states of mind? The mountoulab.com at UT Southwestern is hiring! Please spread the word!

Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund. Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars). Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science. To what end?

Important news for North Texas. bit.ly/3YFwDXw

@AmitVinograd I’ll update once the eagle has landed!

@GeorgeMountou It will only be interesting after you land there 🤩

Controversial opinion: Dallas is one of the most overlooked U.S. cities— There is a lot of potential here!

at a conference where you don’t have to present

48 years old and carried a full size piano up Lombard St in San Francisco to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy. (Still now: video > metric claims every time. (Movie: retrobayarea).

Well done Texas 👏 michaeljfox.org/news/texas-vot…

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d4158… This is why federal investment in research is the best use of taxpayer money.

Congrats to Joshua Mendell, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology, and Duojia Pan, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Physiology, on being elected to National Academy of Medicine. #UTSW now has 25 members of @theNAMedicine, most in Texas. bit.ly/4o0Xzw4 @Mendell_lab

@moriel_z @JasonSynaptic Congrats! 💪

@JasonSynaptic Thank you Jason! 🩵

Love seeing our dept faculty kill it…Moriel thoroughly deserves this award! 🙌🏼

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

The physiology department at @UTSWMedCenter is hiring! Please spread the word! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675461/ten…

Congratulations to Eric Olson, Ph.D., founding Chair and Professor of Molecular Biology @UTSWMedCenter, on being selected to receive the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for groundbreaking research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy. bit.ly/46lL9Z8

Columbia will award the 2025 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Kevin Campbell, Louis Kunkel, and Eric Olson for discoveries that revealed that revealed the causes of muscular dystrophies. Read more: columbiamed.link/41CjReo

Nice to see a brilliant, unconventional mind being recognized!

A terrific new opportunity for new or early career faculty to join the outstanding and rapidly growing faculty of @UTSWBrain. Spread the word!

👇🏼Fantastic neuroscience faculty opportunity here at @UTSWBrain @UTSWMedCenter !

Remarkable detective work by Lindsey Salay at Caltech. She discovered a thalamic nucleus, SPFp, with neurons that selectively respond to touch *when an animal is sexually aroused*, triggering release of mounting behavior. Inhibition of this tiny group of neurons causes complete elimination of consummatory mating actions! (In case you're wondering how I got involved in a paper on mouse mating: David Anderson told me about a phenomenon of 'object craving' that could be triggered by stimulation of a specific mouse hypothalamic pathway...I thought this could be a powerful entrypoint to study object vision in mice...I was wrong, the behavior turned out to be purely driven by touch, but it was amazing to watch Lindsey figure out all the pieces of the actual circuit that enables a sensory stimulus to trigger a powerful behavior.)