Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
Neural circuits supporting emotion, motivation, and learning.
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Zach Pennington
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Woo!!!!!! PenningtonLab.com is live!
Full band in the studio this summer! LP coming soon.
New preprint from the lab. @markgergues.bsky.social and crew show that the PVT gates ventral hippocampal salience coding, shifting output between threat- and reward-weighted representations during associative learning and anxiety-related behavior.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Join us in Paris this summer for our #Miniscope Workshop 🔬
We'll teach you everything you need to know about miniscopes and have a blast while we're at it!
Applications close on May 22, so don't wait 👇
'The subiculum: cell-type-specific composition, computation, and function'
by Adrienne Kinman @adriennekinman.bsky.social, Larissa Kraus & Mark Cembrowski @markcembrowski.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...
🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2.
We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨
🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture
Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lineup, including trainee talks, is all set for this year's Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite at @canacn.bsky.social, co-hosted with @franklandlab.bsky.social . One week away, with a few tickets remaining for anyone interested! www.eventbrite.com/e/neural-cir...
We’re really excited to announce our next international, hands-on #Miniscope workshop covering everything from microscope design to experiments to analysis!
Applications are now open for the 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop (July 1–3, ESPCI).
Apply by May 22: forms.gle/4CWh7MeMchLS...
www.biorxiv.org
Zach Pennington
Zach Pennington
The Research Technician will assist with lab management operations and assist the Principal Investigator and members of the laboratory with experiments involving molecular biology, behavior, biochemis...
Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-depende...
