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Patricia Monteiro

@patmont-bsky

Principal investigator | Neuroscientist | @UPorto FMUP, Portugal | Alumni @MIT | @mcgovernmit | Basal ganglia and ASD. The brain trying to understand the brain.

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Tenured! πŸ₯³

Feeling deeply grateful for everyone who has been part of this journey (both past and present): my incredible team, mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family, who support us every day.

…what better time to be thankful than Thanksgiving?

Thank you all πŸ’›

#FMUP #RISE-Health

14.11.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Designing allosteric modulators to change GPCR G protein subtype selectivity - Nature Studies of the G-protein-coupled receptor NTSR1 show that the G protein selectivity of this receptor can be modified by small molecules, enabling the design of drugs that work by switching receptor su...

Excited to share that my co–first author paper has been accepted in @nature.com πŸŽ‰

We show that small molecules binding at the GPCR-transducer interface can predictably switch G protein selectivity - paving the way for structure-guided, pathway-selective drug design.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.10.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my scientific heroes. She left on impact on many lives

01.10.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing news πŸ₯³ Congrats Sanja πŸ₯‚πŸΎ

06.09.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠. Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback! Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.

10.07.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

I’m looking for a Postdoc to join my new lab @pdncambridge.bsky.social on an MRC-funded project and explore maternal inter-organ communication with a focus on the mammary gland, using a novel mouse model.

πŸ“ Tenure: 3 years
⏳ Deadline: 15 August 2025

Please RT πŸ™
πŸ‘‰ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/

14.07.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details πŸ‘‡πŸΎ
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt

09.07.2025 12:05 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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🚨Join us! We're soon opening 3 postdoctoral positions in #AIDrivenBiology. Seeking biologists (especially microbiology and infection biology), computer scientists, and microscopy developers. Ideal candidates are those eager to use or develop next-gen tech for cell biology. Get in touch (DM/email)

10.07.2025 08:34 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Biology is surprising 🀯

06.06.2025 08:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 We're hiring! A Research Project Manager position is open in our lab at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH, Alicante)! Join us in exploring how spontaneous activity shapes sensory circuits 🧠✨ @glb-lab.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Jobs #ResearchManager
πŸ“… Deadline: May 25

06.05.2025 09:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are hiring! β€” Semantic memory Lab

We are hiring! PostDoc position on my ERC for wire-less electrophysiology in our 9mX5m rat HexMaze! Experience with tetrodes or silicone probes required. Contact me for questions! www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

06.05.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Europe’s choice is clear.

To put science at the heart of its economy.

To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.

And to welcome talent from all over the world.

I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.

β†’ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

05.05.2025 10:00 πŸ‘ 4056 πŸ” 974 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 138

🎈Our latest πŸͺ…

We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior.

We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

18.04.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by non-classically responsive cortical neurons The ability to flexibly respond to sensory cues in dynamic environments is essential to adaptive auditory-guided behaviors. Cortical spiking responses during behavior are highly diverse, ranging from ...

Was just pointed to this important preprint from @minsanally.bsky.social :

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.

So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!

πŸ§ πŸ“ˆ πŸ§ͺ

17.04.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
2026 Basal Ganglia Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli...

Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!

17.04.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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Today on #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, our lab dressed in blue to celebrate diversity and show our support for the autism community, ensuring that neurodivergent individuals and their families feel seen, supported, and included. #BeInclusive #DressBlue #AutismAwareness

02.04.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neuroscience methods - YouTube Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago GonΓ§alves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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13.12.2024 11:32 πŸ‘ 424 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 17
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please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high.

Join us!

19.02.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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So many new #BluSci users πŸ’™βœ¨β„οΈ, welcome!

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31.12.2024 12:43 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Sending this to the journal editor who has emailed me 4 times since Christmas day about a manuscript review

30.12.2024 14:31 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
movement β€” movement

We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience.

Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev

Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind...

GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...

21.03.2024 15:59 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Help bluesky neurohivemind!

If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it πŸ™ if you don't, please retweet!

07.12.2024 18:06 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0

Super Erdinc! Congratulations πŸ₯‚

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Women in Neuroscience

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add to feeds/follow/suggest πŸ˜„

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