Neuroscientist in Utah | https://zimmerman-lab.org
Chris Zimmerman
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Very happy to share our new preprint (with Alex Pan-Vazquez) about how dopamine generates representations of value in the striatum!
Looking forward to this!
This is a great opportunity for aspiring neuroscientists! Recent RAs in the Witten lab have gone on to fantastic PhD programs (Pitt, Penn, Colorado, Princeton, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon).
📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️
Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions
I’m especially grateful to my wonderful mentors — @ilanawitten.bsky.social @princetonneuro.bsky.social and @zknight.bsky.social — for all of their support and guidance over the past twelve (!) years. And looking forward, I’m thrilled to be joining the incredible neuroscience community at Utah! 😃
I’m very excited to share that I will join the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!! 🎉🏔️🏜️
My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?
Research in our lab will bring together tools and perspectives — from systems and computational neuroscience, physiology, genomics, and biochemistry — to study how animals learn from feedback from the gut (and other organ systems). I will be recruiting lab members at all levels!
How do the basal ganglia turn what you see into what you do?
New preprint w/ @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @flickerfusion.bsky.social & @carandinilab.net: we recorded across striatum, GPe & SNr in a Go/NoGo task. Striatum encodes which stimulus, GPe & SNr encode action. 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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One bad oyster, lasting brain change 🧠 Princeton neuroscientist @czimmerman.bsky.social reveals how a bad meal creates a lasting foul food memory.
📰: pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/ho...
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Neuro grad students! Applications for the 6th annual - Rising Stars in Neuroscience - due Jan 9!
Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah!
medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...
