Maria Tickerhoof

Super excited to share the second paper utilizing our repeated social defeat model in prairie voles! This time we looked at how SSRI or oxytocin (OXT) treatment affected social behavior and neurobiology following defeat in BOTH sexes. A short thread... (1/7)

I am extremely excited to share our Feature Review in @TrendsNeuro : "Epigenetic mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain and behavior" cell.com/trends/neurosc…

Exciting mail received today. 🥺

Dissertation accepted by ProQuest, hooding ceremony this Saturday, and a one-way ticket to NYC for next Saturday. Big changes happening but it seems that I am finally #PhDone

Running a western blot while non-weight bearing, not an experience I'd recommend.

Under acute #stress some get demotivated, while others full of energy. It depends on our trait #anxiety and CRHR1 system New paper out from the lab, led by @zalachoras with great contributions from all authors & collab with J Deussing @mpi_psychiatry science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@SmithLabKU @JeffFre60476802 And eliminates bubbles for higher volumes that are going straight into the plate reader like this!

@JeffFre60476802 @mariatickerhoof It reduces the evaporation of low volumes while in the tip. You should see the CVs. 👀

"Sometimes science does actually look like the mysterious chemical color changes they have on tv!" 💛💙 -@mariatickerhoof 2022 #WhatScienceLooksLike

@SmithLabKU Takes quite a bit of practice to be able to pull that off while recording with the other hand.

Better than TV!!! Maria is actually pipetting correctly. 😂😂😂

Our new research about sex differences in fear processing in the BNST and amygdala is online ! And yes, males and females process fear and threats differently @SfNJournals eneuro.org/content/early/…

@trainorlab @wmkenkel Definitely some species differences, as our voles use cob bedding and we don't see any sex differences in social approach following defeat with the test we use, at least. This work has been on my radar though and it's something I always try to keep in mind.

Rodent bedding and phytoestrogen issue: I currently use Beta Chips (wood) and my vet staff would like to switch to Corn Cob. I was worried about phytoE so I asked for a profile. Turns out cob actually has less?

@lawrencelibrary I don't use the library as often as I'd like to, but it really warms my heart knowing there's kids in my area that are growing up under difficult circumstances but still get to use the library. ♥️

@lawrencelibrary There aren't words to describe how happy this move has made me. Growing up I loved books, but never got to go to the library because my single mother returned a stack of books very late and racked up $30 in late fees, and couldn't afford to pay it back.

It's true! "The percentage of materials returned on time was 87% in 2019 compared to 90% in 2020."

@MEOrive @UnivOfKansas Oh great. I thought I heard that kick on. Bad news is I think our -80 isn't on backup so hopefully it gets resolved sooner rather than later...

@mariatickerhoof @UnivOfKansas Haworth went dark, and Malott looked dark from the parking lot behind Haworth. The emergency generator was going, though.

A power outage is impacting parts of the Lawrence Campus. Updates will be posted at alerts.ku.edu.

@HeatherDSnell using pipette tips horizontally from the box when our multi-channel pipettes are 8-channel. 😔

Do you guys have any lab pet peeves? Mine is people putting random trash in the biohazard bin. Like you are not covered in chemicals...your napkins go in the trash!!!

@wmkenkel individual incubators for all your cell culture needs. or something.

Hm, which does the lab *really* need, precise injection volumes or... breakfast sandwiches?

Me, after five years of studying social bonding, and now working on my dissertation:

@tallguyinlab stop omg. glad at least that I'm not the only one 😅

Grad student camera rolls be like

@wmkenkel if this applies to voles as well (as I imagine it would) it definitely would explain a lot.

1.5 yrs of 24/7 home-cage activity recording in 60 mice revealed a circannual oscillation in spontaneous activity, 65% higher during peak than trough, with a season-like periodicity, in C57 mice kept under constant conditions. Could explain a lot 👀 nature.com/articles/s4159…

@CharlesWMcKinn2 just do what I did and bookmark them all in a folder. my browser is happier, the tabs still sort of exist, I can continue to ignore them. I mean get to them later.

Beloved - Go on ahead and close those 318 tabs. You're not going to read a single one of them.

@BenSaunders @Memery_87 I don't know, according to them it was based on "feedback from poster presenters to improve networking." So did the feedback ask for this kind of format... or did they ask for better networking opportunity? Because this absolutely does not accomplish that, imo.