Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org

Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025

🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL

Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/phd-programme

#PhD #Neuroscience

“We need to understand interorgan communication if we want to understand the aging process,”https://www.science.org/content/article/faulty-communication-organs-make-us-old?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35074937&et_cid=5223300

Sounds familiar to me: teh challenge of being an interdisciplinary academic https://www.science.org/content/article/why-pursued-interdisciplinary-research-as-aspiring-academic-despite-career-risks?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35074937&et_cid=5223300

How do neural circuits generate flexible, cognitive behaviours? The Duan and @jerlich labs are looking for 2️⃣ excellent postdoctoral research fellows to join the team. Check out the vacancies and apply by 25 May: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/current-vacancies#research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-two-posts

!! come join us as a group leader !! we have 2 lectureships just opened for applications in our department at UCL! Join one of the best, the most exciting and most friendly neuroscience departments! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=8470&nPostingTargetId=20780&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext #neuroscience #jobs #london

Someone got mad at me for using CC-BY-NC because it was a "nonfree license." Not like it stops them in practice, but now that all CC-BY are being harvested for LLMs i think I was right.

There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN

Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!

#datascience #neuroscience #PhdStudentship

In press! 📣 The surprising result that basolateral amygdala has a more crucial role in learning meaningful changes in the reward environment than orbitofrontal cortex. Check our paper to find out how! 🤓 #neuroscience #CompNeuro https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/11/13/JNEUROSCI.0622-23.2023

Anyone coming to #sfn? Come along to our @brainglobe poster on Wednesday afternoon, or get in touch to chat about BrainGlobe or any of our other projects (neuroinformatics.dev).

#SfN2023 #Neuroscience

#Nature Neural signal propagation atlas of Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06683-4 "23,433 pairs of neurons across the head of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Signal propagation differs from model predictions that are based on anatomy. Extrasynaptic signalling not visible from anatomy contributes to this difference. Extrasynaptically released neuropeptides serve a similar function to that of classical neurotransmitters. Both synaptic and extrasynaptic signalling drive neural dynamics on short timescales."

Jonny Lovelace, Jingrui Ma, ... and Vinny Augustine discovered the vagal pathway underlying fainting, really exciting work, summarized here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03450-3 , full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06680-7 (I helped a little w/ neural analyses)

When the mouse faints, its eyes roll back and most neurons across the brain *shut off completely* (at yellow line in first figure, shows one example #neuropixels recording). But neurons in the hypothalamic PVZ increased their firing during this time period (first group in the second figure). These neurons were causally implicated: inhibition increased fainting duration while excitation increased arousal.

#neuroscience #syncope #fainting #vagal #discovery

Hi everyone!

The BrainGlobe Initiative exists to facilitate the development of interoperable Python-based tools for computational neuroanatomy, particularly in model organisms.

For more details please see https://brainglobe.info or chat with us at https://brainglobe.zulipchat.com.

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