Congratulations to Patrick Sheehan Pat Sheehan in my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School for his Marian Kies award from AmSocietyNeurochem for his outstanding graduate work in Erik Musiek lab. Well deserved and many great things for Pat ahead! Also congrats to other awardees.

Read this interesting new piece in Current Biology on our multi-talented Dr. Yemini! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very nice piece in Current Biology on my colleague in UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School Ev Yemini. We are so lucky to have him in our department. A star for sure!

📢So happy to see this out! 👇Here we explored #dopamine signatures of social novelty and how they are regulated by an interpeduncular circuit. Many thanks to all the co-authors that made this work possible! UMass Chan Medical School IBG CU Boulder Psychology and Neuroscience

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Congratulations, Erica Erica Kwiatkowski, on successfully defending your PhD thesis! Your dedication and hard work have truly paid off, and We are thrilled to see your remarkable achievement. Wishing you continued success in your future endeavors!

Congrats to SchaferLabUMassChan on this well deserved award!

Such an amazing review from SchaferLabUMassChan and Violeta Durán on activity-dependent functions of microglia within neural circuits

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Well done Kasturi Biswas on a fantastic #3minutethesis presentation!

Stress Wars: Neurons Strike Back

Congratulations to Schafer Lab postdoc, Rebecca Beiter, on receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship. umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… UMass Chan Medical School SchaferLabUMassChan

Teasing out the cause and effect of bacteria or nutrients on brain function has been challenging. A new Nature Cell Biology study published by Mark Alkema, PhD, establishes a molecular link between gut bacteria and excitatory brain signaling: direc.to/knWH UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology

Inspired by his father, a Boston Municipal Court judge, MD/PhD student studies addiction umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School

Andrew Tapper, PhD, is a corresponding author on a new paper published today in Science Advances. Tapper and his colleagues IDed a mechanism in the brain to explain why some people, when stressed, turn to sugary foods when they are anxious: direc.to/kiu4 UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology

Congratulations to Rebecca Beiter Becca Beiter in my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School. She just received the NOA from NINDSfunding for her postdoctoral F32! Many exciting things to come from this superstar.

Congratulations to the Thomson lab on their latest paper being published. You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UMass Chan Medical School

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Congratulations to Pablo Gimenez postdoc in the Martin lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology for being awarded a Society for Neuroscience (SfN) trainee professional development award. Well deserved!!!

Congratulations to Pablo Gimenez Gomez from the Martin Lab for being selected as a recipient of a Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2023 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA)! UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

A terrific effort by Travis Faust and Philip A Feinberg UMass Chan Medical School UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology to compare all the major microglia inducible Cre lines. I am very proud of you. Thanks to Schaefer Lab and the Prinz lab for the collaboration.