Zayd Khaliq

@ava_neuro @BrownUNeuro @NIH Congrats!!!!!! Great job !!

It’s official… I am now a PhD Candidate! Today was the biggest hurdle of my career so far and I passed my prelim exam! I am so grateful for the science I am doing (it is insanely cool) and for my incredible mentor and labmates @KhaliqLab ! Life is so good 🤓 @BrownUNeuro @NIH

Congratulations to the #NIH_IRP's newest recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers: Drs. Sadhana Jackson, @NIH_NINDS ; Yogen Kanthi, @nih_nhlbi; Hugo Tejeda, @NIMHgov; Sonja Scholz, NINDS; Nirali Shah, @theNCI; and Benedict Anchang, @NIEHS. This is the highest honor awarded by the U.S. Government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers: go.nih.gov/Q0sKM1s

@IRPatNIH @NIH_NINDS @nih_nhlbi @NIMHgov @theNCI @NIEHS @NeuroTejeda @DrSadhanaJ NIH IRP representing on this list! Congrats to Hugo, and my NINDS colleagues/friends Sadhana, Sonja. Well deserved!

New trend for this year? #Absolute_Neurophysiology This year, I'll post classic neurophysiology stories you might not have ever heard of, but probably inform a lot about how we think about 2020s neuro... We start with the coolest patch clamp figure, maybe ever...

@pfapostolides @newrochemist @cellularscale @e_twedell Thanks Pierre! Hope you like it!

@KhaliqLab @newrochemist @cellularscale @e_twedell Welcome to auditory cortex Zayd! Hope you stick around, it will definitely move the field forward!

Exciting work from the lab on unique DA subpopulation! SN pars lateralis DAN firing differs from SNc in super interesting ways. We find robust auditory CTX input and test in threat behavior. Congrats to Lorenzo Sansalone (@newrochemist), @cellularscale @e_twedell, Sherry Zhang!

New work from @Hamid_DiRE_lab!

Now online! The TMEM132B-GABAA receptor complex controls alcohol actions in the brain dlvr.it/TDtjDF

@sschamiloglu @KSmithLab Selin and Dean, congrats on a great GRS! It was really one of the highlights of the meeting. cheers!

This is us 🤓@aa_fenton @KhaliqLab @annacaputovoice. We may have been a few, but the presence of Black Neuroscientists at the Synaptic @GordonConf was powerful! Thrilled to be together in Italy, and excited to present our work. #RepresentationMatters #BlackInNeuro

New preprint led by @sambrillweil. Axonal GABA-AR control of nicotinic input to DA axons. Careful analysis of picrotoxin off-target inhibition of nAChRs (a6 and non-a6). Huge congrats to Sam, special thanks to @XOanAxon and coauthors @neurochapin, @FayeClever, & Sherry Zhang

It's official! We are thrilled to share that@iaahmed123 Ismail Ahmed will join us as faculty on 09/01. He will launch his program developing novel chemical tools to determine how neuropeptide signaling modulates behavior and physiology in the context of health and disease.

We’re happy to announce that Dr. Yarimar Carrasquillo (@YarCarLab) of our Division of Intramural Research has been granted tenure! Dr. Carrasquillo studies the brain mechanisms underlying the complex experience of pain. Join us in celebrating this momentous milestone!

Delighted to see @AnnMGraybiel from @mcgovernmit @MIT inducted into the Royal Irish Academy @RIAdawson today as an Honorary Member- A true pioneer of circuit neuroscience and whose mother was Irish. ☘️

I am honored to announce that today, @POTUS @WhiteHouse @WHOSTP announced my pending appointment to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Truly never imagined that I would have an opportunity to help inform our nation's cancer research program. @NBTStweets whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Interested in doing a PhD or postdoc at @NIH? Three virtual info sessions here including June 5. Feel free to attend, ask questions and meet current students and postdocs. @NIMHgov @IRPatNIH @ngfriedman138

@arifahamid @BrunoAverbeck @NeuroTejeda @VAAlvarez_NIH @LovingerDavid @andrewlutas Fun conversation discussing the new work! Great catching up!!

Happy to see this out in @NeuroCellPress. Huikun Wang, a staff scientist in our lab, demonstrates that ventromedial prefrontal cortical dynorphin signaling constrains threat-driven passive defensive behavior and switches in network states. Thread below. cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

Biggest congratulations to Anthony Yáñez @neurochapin for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship #NSFGRFP ! Starting off with bang, the only way to do it! Great news indeed, we are super excited for this accomplishment!

BRAIN-funded research allows scientists to embrace the complexity of the brain. @NINDSdirector Dr. Walter Koroshetz explores what makes the BRAIN Initiative unique in this new blog post series: braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/bl… #studyBRAIN #NIH