Such a pleasure capturing Ann’s really inspiring story for @storiesofwin.bsky.social. Check it out!!
Excited to share our latest work with @antihebbiann.bsky.social, revealing a top-down mechanism regulating the fragmentation of feeding, led by Tianbo Qi.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
So grateful to be a part of the Leading Edge community!! Having this network of such kind and inspiring people who are so generous with their time and support is truly an honor!
Meenakshi Asokan
Ye Lab
What has changed in mama bear brain (well, actually mice) to make her risk her life to attack a potential threat and protect her young? Oxytocin is the key! Happy to share our new study led by two awesome postdocs: Takashi Yamaguchi and Rongzhen Yan.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I had a great time talking to Meenakshi about my trajectory through neuroscience!
Tune in for electric fish, imaging the hypothalamus, and trying to find a path in theory that stays relevant to the brain. Also, my early phd experiences of trying to do science when real life rears its head.
Excited to share a new paper from our lab, just in time for Easter, where we characterize how arousal modulates different excitatory cell-types in the auditory cortex! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Check out our new profile! Dr. Anila D'Mello (@aniladmello.bsky.social) studies language and cognition, and how the underlying brain circuits are altered in neurodevelopmental disorders. Follow the link below to learn more!
#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
Meenakshi Asokan
Hiring! Please share!
Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers.
Details & applications:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:
Nature-inspired neuroscience
We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨
tinyurl.com/y5y9du27
In mice, female aggression is governed by an amygdala–to–medial hypothalamus circuit that is strengthened during pregnancy and is dynamically amplified by oxytocin during lactation.
Job opening at MIT for a research methodologist to facilitate open science practices and data management across all areas of neuroscience and cognitive science. PhD and some postdoctoral experience required. Please circulate to your networks.
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level
syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different
brain areas. Prefrontal...
We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (@antihebbiann.bsky.social) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics.
Follow the link to learn more!
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
MIT - Neuroscience Research Methodologist - Cambridge MA 02139
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences.
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
