Beth Doncheck, PhD

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

Excited to share another #opensource tool from the lab! We have been using this set up to do awake head-fixed scans without the need for any anesthesia on the day of the scans! Now working on integrating licking behaviour and linear treadmill operandum!

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks, Aaron!

Thanks, Luke!

I know that I will be recruiting, and am happy to hear interests may align. Could I reach out to you directly?

Thank you! Very happy to be here.

Thank you, Joe! I appreciate it— and wholeheartedly agree!

Thanks, John! Couldn’t have gotten here without you!

Thank you!!

Thank you! Happy to be here.

Thank you!!

Thanks, Jeremy! Excited for all the collabs ahead!

Thank you!

I am thrilled to announce that I am joining the awesome UAB Dept. of Neurobiology this Fall as an Assistant Professor! 🍾🥂👩‍🔬

My lab will resolve how hormones sway neural activity dynamics & drug seeking, and subpopulation differences therein. Excited for what the future holds! @uabneuro.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Really interesting results— congrats!

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

Donate to Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire, organized by Patrick Mulholland A graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience (Kathy L.) at MUSC … Patrick Mulholland needs your support for Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire

Dear science community, an amazing grad student with @drjrink.bsky.social and I lost her belongings in an apartment fire this morning. She and her dog are safe but needs your help. Please consider donating

www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...

As we hear the narrative that the opioid overdose numbers are going down, keep in mind that many are being left behind. First paper in 2025 from our public health team highlights racialized disparities in overdose mortality. rdcu.be/d6F3p
We still have much work to do!

A novel method for estrous cycle staging using supervised object detection - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience This study presents a new machine learning tool called ODES (Object Detection for Estrous Staging) to determine the estrogen-related cycle stage in female mice. Unlike traditional models that classify...

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@rossenator.bsky.social & co @einsteinmededu.bsky.social developed an object detection machine learning tool to identify cell types of the estrous cycle in mice, providing a fast & reliable method for estrous cycle monitoring in neuroscience studies!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I just sent this link to our trainees— thanks for sharing!