#OptoGRC2026 has officially come to a close!
Thank you to our incredible lineup of speakers, discussion leaders, and poster presenters – and to everyone who joined us and made this a meeting we won’t forget.
Stay tuned for more on #OptoGRC2028!
From cells to behavior, this #OptoGRC2026 session explores how neural activity shapes behavioral outputs 🧠⚡
Featuring @j9kwapis.bsky.social, Catherine Peña, @nicoleferrara.bsky.social, Kevin Franks, Priya Rajasethupathy, Jennifer Lawlor & Yasmine Ayman, you won't want to miss this lineup!
Please join us in welcoming incoming chairs @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social & @gisellavetere.bsky.social, and newly elected vice-chairs @tristanshuman.bsky.social & @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social.
We can’t wait to see what this team has in store for #OptoGRC2028!
In 1 week: The Lake Conference on The Neurobiology of Mental Health. Excited!
There, Tony Liu from the @deisseroth.bsky.social group and I will be speaking about the same challenge: getting high res brain activity measures of emotion/mood.
Why so hard? /1
lakeconferences.org/conf/1ed63fd...
To learn more,
Link to Tony et al's work:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Link to my et al work:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Emotional responses to sensory experience are central to the human condition in health and disease. We hypothesized that principles governing the emergence of emotion from sensation might be discovera...
www.science.org
Together this approach and these results may provide translational as well as basic-science insight...
I'm so grateful to all our collaborators, and honored to work with all the outstanding students, postdocs, and staff who worked together to develop and apply this approach...