In #SanDiego for @sfn.org's #SfN2025? The #ShumanLab's Paul Philipsberg & @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social are! CATCH UP with them & LEARN ABOUT their EXCITING WORK! #FriedmanBrainInstitute #NashNeuroscience #FBIatSfN CHECK OUT the #FBIatSfN Itinerary ➡️ files.constantcontact.com/d41ee115401/...
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
Announcing our 9 new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows! These awards help senior postdoctoral researchers with fresh perspectives on autism & neuroscience transition to tenure-track faculty positions: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-announces-recipients-of-2025-fellows-to-faculty-awards/
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The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 class of Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows.
Amazing! Congratulation Zoe 💪🥳this great application of #BiPOLES and a really cool paper👍
We're brewing up some Halloween fun in the Cai & Shuman Labs! ⚗️🎃
Just look at all the creativity everyone poured into their costumes! We have the coolest crew 👩🔬🧪
Check out new work from our lab! We developed a new way to directly control the precise timing of interneurons during behavior and found that theta phase locking is a causal mediator of seizure susceptibility in both healthy and epileptic mice.
🧠 The Cai Lab will be at #SfN25!
Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓
Reunion with past and present Cai lab & Shuman lab members (and collaborators). Spending time with you guys is easily the best part of my job.
@tristanshuman.bsky.social
@sinaibrain.bsky.social
@sfn.org
We're looking forward to the first annual New York Memory Hub conference later this week! Can't wait for all the talks and discussion about all things learning and memory 🧠
Denise J. Cai, Ph.D.
Denise J. Cai, Ph.D.
Denise J. Cai, Ph.D.
The Friedman Brain Institute
Johannes Vierock
Tristan Shuman
Interested in studying how neural circuits underlying mental health disorders are shaped by experience (e.g., stress)? Also interested in being trained by an amazing, thoughtful, and rigorous scientist? Also interested in living in a beautiful Canadian city? See below!
🚨New preprint alert🚨
We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)
I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
