Ana González Rueda

🚨2 Funded PhD studentship 🐭 available in my lab!! Deadlines 4th and 12th of Jan

We’ll combine genetic manipulations, behaviour and Neuropixels to study
1. the neurobiology of motivation, and
2. how sensorimotor circuits are affected in depression.

#Neuroskyence Pls share

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The 2nd PhD opportunity is co-supervised by Prof. Jonathan Cavanagh and will investigate the neuronal mechanisms of brain fog in a mouse model of depression.

DEADLINE 12th JAN

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The 1st PhD opportunity, co-supervised by @mickcraig.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB, we’ll use a mouse’s innate drive to predate crickets to study the neurobiology of motivational behaviour

DEADLINE 4th JAN
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🚨2 Funded PhD studentship 🐭 available in my lab!! Deadlines 4th and 12th of Jan

We’ll combine genetic manipulations, behaviour and Neuropixels to study
1. the neurobiology of motivation, and
2. how sensorimotor circuits are affected in depression.

#Neuroskyence Pls share

See below for more info!

Fully funded #FindAPhD! We'll be studying neurobiology of motivation in mice hunting crickets, using a combination of genetic manipulations, behaviour and in vivo ephys. Co-suprvised by the amazing @agonru.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB. #Neuroskyence Pls share

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Do inhibitory interneurons encode information or just keep the rhythm? Inhibitory interneurons may help encode the brain’s internal representation of space

There's a very cool Buzsaki #neuroskyence paper out in Science this week, looking at hippocampal spatial information encoding by multiple interneuron subtypes in parallel. The brilliant @agonru.bsky.social and I wrote a wee perspective to go alongside it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ

Liftoff: New lab alerts Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.

In this month’s “Liftoff,” ‪ @agonru.bsky.social talks about the importance of taking care of the little things, and Andrew Kesner says that the real key to success lies in your collaborator community.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social

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Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨Funded PhD studentship co-supervised by me and @matthewwself.bsky.social. Using neuropixels, behaviour, viral tracing and optogenetics you’ll study how visual areas enhance target representations vs background to support goal-oriented actions.

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Dynamic basal ganglia output signals license and suppress forelimb movements - Nature Basal ganglia output neurons fire dynamically in bidirectional and movement-specific patterns to license forelimb movements. 

Forelimb movement control at the basal ganglia - brainstem interface!

Happy to finally share this work from me and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social with Silvia Arber!

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @fmiscience.bsky.social

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Hello #AcademicSky, particularly those in the UK! I have been tasked with coming up with a workload model that accounts for the various things we do in research as well as teaching. Do you work at an insitution that does workloading particularly well? Or badly? Fancy chatting? Please repost.

📢 We have FIVE open-ended positions available and are looking for people who are committed to both excellence in research and excellence in teaching in cognitive Neuroscience and psychology on our RT track 🔥

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📢 🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 📢 🚨
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗!
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...

Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵

Do a PhD in Neurobiology at SISSA! 4years paid scholarship in a beautiful place, from molecular, cellular to behaviour and systems neuro. Applications until March 13 through the portal - open to all nationalities www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss.... Check here too: www.sissa.it/research/neu... #neurojobs

🚨fully-funded PhD position🚨 to study cognitive effects of neuroinflammation using neuropixels and behaviour in mice 🐁

Deadline 12 Jan 2025

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Contact for more info: Ana.Gonzalez-Rueda@glasgow.ac.uk

Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory Human hippocampal CA3 networks use sparse and broad synaptic connectivity, and their recurrent synapses employ reliability, precision, and long integration times to enhance memory capacity. Thus, the human hippocampus is distinct from both rodent counterparts and human neocortical circuits.

Is neuroscience research really working to understand the human brain? Or do we get lost in mouse cognition? I’ve asked myself this a lot since starting to work with human tissue. Our first Jonas Lab foray into untangling human hippocampal circuits is now online! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/a few