Kwon_Lab@JHU

@yongsookimlab Congratulations!!

Promoted to full professor! Big thanks to all mentors, colleagues, and trainees for helping me to get here.

See the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC grc.org/catecholamines… & GRS grc.org/catecholamines…. In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contribution… & GRS my.grc.org/p/contribution…

@k_hammer_1001 @ELSneuroscience Thanks for your tremendous effort! Congrats!

Happy to share our latest review paper in Current Opinion in Neurobiology @ELSneuroscience! We overview “current” activity-dependent tagging systems in neuroscience and discuss the future perspectives. Feel free to download the PDF until April 27! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🧠 Curious about neuromodulator interactions or how sleep works its magic? Apply to our lab @WashUMedNeuro as a postdoc to bridge cellular & systems neuroscience by decoding biochemical signaling dynamics in the brain! Please RT. #Neuroscience #PostdocOpportunity #BrainResearch

AstroLight: Cal-Light for Astrocytes🔥

@iamhans @NatureNeuro Congratulations!!

Excited to share our story about a top-down slow breathing circuit just published in @NatureNeuro! Congrats to all co-authors for their hard work, especially Jinho Jhang for his incredible contributions!! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Happy to share the lab’s latest research tagging psychedelic-activated neurons in mice. See the post below from first author @jessie_muir for a tweeprint on the work. Thanks to wonderful collaborators @DEOlsonLab @LinTianPhD and to our reviewers/editor! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Hyungbae Kwon, Ph.D., and colleagues have successfully used optogenetics to artificially reactivate a spatial-memory, prompting shelter-seeking behavior in mice without the original threatening stimuli that were present during the formation of the memory circuit. Their study advances our understanding of mammalian spatial-memory structure and formation. “If we understand the macro-level structure of memory, then we may be able to develop more effective strategies to prevent or slow down neurodegenerative diseases using this method,” says Hyungbae Kwon, Ph.D. Full article: oneneurojhu.org/2024/10/07/new…

Our behavioural time scale plasticity paper is out in @Nature ! Congrats @neuroAnant , Yoshi, and others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Ryohei_Neuro @Nature @neuroAnant RYOHEI YASUDA!!!!!

@JohnsHopkins Can't wait to see it!!

The latest designs of a new Life Sciences Building on the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus were recently shared with city planners. bit.ly/3XVkHA4 Groundbreaking on the Life Sciences Building is anticipated for the summer of 2025.

@rhuganir Looks really beautiful!!😀

Why are some neurons more selective than others? We report now in @Nature how calcium permeable-AMPA receptors in PV neurons make them less selective to sensory features nature.com/articles/s4158… Long live the geniuses behind this🧠🔍juhyun.kim @thainmueller @rhuganir

Although further investigation is needed, the results also suggest that dopamine encodes safety or novelty in the environment, facilitating subsequent spatial learning even in the absence of rewards.

New publication alert! In this paper, we demonstrate causal evidence linking memory to behavior, even in complex, high-level cognitive navigation tasks. Huge congrats to a former postdoc @KanghoonJung, and collaborators @Sethblackshaw and @ruimcosta. nature.com/articles/s4159…

We found that dopamine signals to the nucleus accumbens help form goal-location memories in mice, guiding navigation under threat. This task was made possible by the Cal-Light technique, which enables the tagging and control of individual cognitive modules.

@synapsepark @KanghoonJung @SethBlackshaw @ruimcosta thanks 😊

@Hyungbae_Kwon @KanghoonJung @SethBlackshaw @ruimcosta Amazing work!! Huge congratulations!!😎

@iamhans @KanghoonJung @SethBlackshaw @ruimcosta thanks 🙏

@Hyungbae_Kwon @KanghoonJung @SethBlackshaw @ruimcosta Beautiful work! Congrats, Hyungbae and team!!! 🎊🎉

@k_hammer_1001 yayy~

Huge congrats, Kanghoon and the team!!!!