David Smith

meeting logo

📣Register now for the 50th Anniversary Park City Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory parkcitywinterconf.org/register/
Deadline tomorrow, Friday, the 12th! Spread the word. 🧠🔬👩‍🔬

➡️Top 5 reasons to attend:

1/6

The published version of our study on the early-life transition from isolation USVs to adult-like USVs in juvenile mice is out in Animal Behaviour!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1YDmjMA4GP

bsky.app/profile/kati...

Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner A population of neurons in the hypothalamus promotes social behaviors in female mice following a period of short-term social isolation.

Very happy to share the newest work from our lab, led by postdoc @xinzhao322.bsky.social, with help from many past and present undergrad RAs.

elifesciences.org/articles/94924

Understanding the Real Costs of Research YouTube video by AAMCtoday

Institutions already subsidize IDCs at a high rate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNc...

And in a lot more depth:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

Sincerely some of the best years of my life! I know not everybody has that experience, but I loved it. Loved my postdoc years too.

Kind of an old school behavioral neuroscience study. Retrosplenial lesions cause a delay dependent impairment in alternation and retrosplenial neurons fire throughout the delay period, selectively for left or right trials (a potential working memory signal).

For my first post, I'll share The Retrosplenial Cortical Role in Delayed Spatial Alternation from my student Dev Subramanian (not here yet).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...